Yahoo Finance

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures fall as Anthropic's AI warning spooks tech traders, oil prices jump

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Bloomberg Markets

China Passes Halfway Mark of US Soybean Pledge Ahead of Xi Visit

China has fulfilled more than half of its US soybean purchase pledge, offering a bright spot for trade between the world’s two largest economies ahead of President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to Washington.

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Yahoo Finance

Is CoStar Group Stock Underperforming the S&P 500?

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Hollywood Reporter

Netflix to Stream Lee Chang-dong’s Films Globally as ‘Possible Love’ Awards Campaign Heats Up

All six of the Korean auteur’s previous features, including ‘Burning,’ ‘Peppermint Candy’ and ‘Secret Sunshine,’ are rolling out across various territories ahead of the global streaming launch of ‘Possible Love’ on Nov. 6.

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The Guardian

Oil prices rise after drone attacks shut down Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline

Price spike comes as rebel Houthis in Yemen target oil infrastructure and capture strategic island in Bab al-Mandab straitBusiness news – live updatesOil prices have climbed above $107 a barrel after a series of drone attacks forced Saudi Arabia to close its east-west crude pipeline.Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, surged to as much as $108 a barrel at one point on Monday, later easing back to $107.7 – a 3% increase on the day. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Culture

Goody Goody review – intriguing natural childbirth horror lurches into demonic occult blowout

After Samantha Robinson decides a forest cabin in deep winter is the perfect spot to bear her child, it’s going to be a very bad shift for the doula and midwifeConception, pregnancy and childbirth are defining human experiences, and so remain perennial themes for horror, from Rosemary’s Baby to the Alien franchise to Prevenge. Occupying a no-woman’s-land between life and death, they’re innately anxiety-inducing, perhaps making it harder for film-makers to supply a truly individual take. Debut di

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The Guardian Culture

Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks review – conflict and compromise, from a veteran of the genre

A returning British soldier is haunted by his time in Palestine in this panoramic epic set after the second world warSebastian Faulks’s latest book focuses on the most irreconcilable geopolitical struggle of our age, the Israel-Palestine conflict. While “the sound of mortar and machine gun, the collision of flesh and metal” are integral to Faulks’s best known works, such as Birdsong, in his 17th novel the military presence is a peacekeeping one. It’s 1946 and infantry officer Philip De

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The Guardian

Thames Water redraws mega-reservoir plan amid local opposition

A new public consultation has opened on the 150bn-litre above-ground White Horse project in Abingdon, OxfordshireThames Water has amended the blueprint of a planned mega-reservoir in Oxfordshire as the struggling utility tries to convince regulators that construction should go ahead amid warnings of “catastrophic consequences”.The White Horse reservoir near Abingdon is scheduled to hold 150bn litresof water with a surface area of 6.7 sq km (2.6 sq miles) – almost the same size as Gatwick airport

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Yahoo Finance

Is Corning Stock Outperforming the Nasdaq?

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Bloomberg Markets

OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Doing Business in the Wake of Hugging Face

How the firm is thinking about pacing the frontier.

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BBC Sport

Episode 2: There's always a contender

There’s a new number one - but not everything is easy when you’re at the top.

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Yahoo Finance

Soaring Oil Prices Put Fed on Track for September Rate Hike

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Bloomberg Markets

Odd Lots: OpenAI’s Brockman on Pacing the AI Frontier (Podcast)

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Yahoo Finance

How Is LyondellBasell Industries’ Stock Performance Compared to Other Industrial Stocks?

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BBC Sport

How youth helped Nordqvist answer critics and deliver Solheim Cup win

Captain Anna Nordqvist's faith in Europe's young rookies paid off as they delivered crucial points in regaining the Solheim Cup with victory over the United States, writes Iain Carter.

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Yahoo Finance

Is Fair Isaac Stock Underperforming the Dow?

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BBC Sport

Former West Ham keeper Miklosko dies aged 64

Ludek Miklosko made almost 400 appearances for West Ham in the 1990s, and fans sang his name long after his exit.

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The Guardian

AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development

Shares in tech firms tumble across Asia with Nasdaq also likely to dip later after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back callAI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in “reckless” development citing fears the technology could soon run out of control.Shares in SoftBank, a Japanese investor that is a big backer of OpenAI, slumped 13%, while the South Korean Kospi stock index, which relies heavily on chip makers that supply AI com

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The Guardian

Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank

Report by Israeli human rights group says systematic and broad assault being waged on conditions required for Palestinians’ existenceIsrael is working towards the systematic “elimination” of the conditions that sustain Palestinian collective life in the occupied West Bank, according to a major report published by the human rights group B’Tselem.The Israeli organisation’s hard-hitting report, shared with the Guardian in advance of publication, says Israel is “dramatically intensifying its attacks

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BBC World

Bali police investigate after Australian man and children found dead in home

Police were called after the man's wife became concerned and asked neighbours to check on her family.

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