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Shares of American Eagle Outfitters (AEO -13.97%) fell on Thursday after the apparel retailer issued a disappointing profit forecast. Image source: American Eagle Outfitters. New fashion trends are weighing on AEO’s results AEO’s total net revenue rose 8% year over year to $1.4 billion in its fiscal second quarter, which ended on Aug. 1. Yet the retailer’s performance was more bifurcated than it might appear at first glance. American Eagle OutfittersToday’s Change(-13.97%) $-2.36Current Price$14.53Key Data PointsMarket Cap$2.8BMarket cap calculated using publicly traded shares outstanding only. Does not include unlisted, private, or dual-class non-traded shares. Implied market cap may vary.Day’s Range$14.10…

Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,” multiple Emmy nominations as a producer (HBO’s “Entourage” among them), and a filmography that spans crime dramas, comedies, and action blockbusters. Right now, he’s back on screen in “By Any Means,” a manhunt thriller set during the 1966 Mississippi civil rights killings. He’s also signaling where he’s increasingly turning his…

JAPANMetaplanet’s executive stock pool sparks shareholder backlashJapanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet’s executive stock pool continues to draw shareholder backlash over stock dilution concerns. Multiple shareholders objected across social media to Metaplanet’s 10th Series executive option pool, which was designed as 20% of fully diluted shares and automatically expanded as the company issued new shares to fund its Bitcoin (BTC) accumulation.Some shareholders are now asking Metaplanet to cancel the additional 273 million shares created from the changes and to provide more transparency on future decisions.Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey defended Metaplanet and said that giving the team 20% of the cap table over five…

In brief OpenDesign Arena scored DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at 81.2 out of 100 on real-world design tasks, 98% of GPT-6 Astra’s 82.7, while charging $0.023 per finished design against Astra’s $1.61. Of the 13 models tested—including Claude Fable 5.1, Grok 4.6, and Qwen 3.8-Max—11 scored lower than DeepSeek’s model and cost more to run. Only GPT-6 Astra scored higher. DeepSeek’s technical paper for V4.1 Flash shows the model activates just 8 billion of its 552 billion parameters to read a prompt, the design choice behind its low price. OpenDesign, the company behind the benchmark site OpenDesign Arena, ran 13 AI…

Europe’s securities regulator has warned that growing links between crypto and traditional finance could increase the risk of shocks spreading across the broader financial system.In its latest risk monitoring report published Thursday, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) called for closer monitoring of the “growing linkage between increasingly vulnerable crypto-asset markets and the broader financial system.”ESMA pointed to growing adoption of tokenized equities and recent decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits as areas that could deepen links between crypto and traditional markets and increase the potential for financial spillovers.ESMA risk indicators for EU financial markets. Source: ESMAThe regulator said tokenized equities…

In brief Senate Republicans released an updated Clarity Act on Thursday. The draft would require non-decentralized trading protocols to register with the CFTC. A Senate procedural vote is scheduled for September 15. Senate Republicans released a revised Clarity Act on Thursday that targets “decentralized-in-name-only” crypto trading protocols.The new language would require non-decentralized protocols, that is those controlled by people or groups, to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Myriad: Will Congress pass the Clarity Act? Click to make your prediction.Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.) unveiled the 630-page updated legislation ahead of the September 15 procedural vote to pass the Clarity…

JAPANMetaplanet’s executive stock pool sparks shareholder backlashJapanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet’s executive stock pool continues to draw shareholder backlash over stock dilution concerns. Multiple shareholders objected across social media to Metaplanet’s 10th Series executive option pool, which was designed as 20% of fully diluted shares and automatically expanded as the company issued new shares to fund its Bitcoin (BTC) accumulation.Some shareholders are now asking Metaplanet to cancel the additional 273 million shares created from the changes and to provide more transparency on future decisions.Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey defended Metaplanet and said that giving the team 20% of the cap table over five…

Neither LeydenJar nor Powall are trying to build an entire battery, and both have commercial relationships with customers in Asia.But Christian Rood of LeydenJar says companies like his can fortify Europe’s position in what has become a global contest.”The easy comparison is with semiconductors, where there’s really a race for the best chip technology.”[Dutch tech giant] ASML is not producing chips; it focuses on a critical step in the production of chips, and in that way, has a seat at the table when it comes to the whole semiconductor battle.”This is our ambition as well – to have a position…

en English Politics Sep 9, 2026 Brahma Chellaney If the promise of the BRICS was to establish a monetary union, a single market, or a tightly integrated political alliance, it has not been fulfilled. But if it was to build a platform for emerging economies to cooperate while advancing their own strategic autonomy, the BRICS has exceeded expectations. NEW DELHI—Twenty years ago this month, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, and China held the first meeting of the BRICs. Since then, the grouping has been formalized—the…

Politics Sep 10, 2026 Timothy Snyder The point of terrorism is not to cause suffering, but to provoke the target into doing something that hurts it even more. In the quarter-century since the 9/11 attacks, the US has done just that, leaving the world and itself worse off. KHARKIV—On September 11, 2001, when I taught my third class as a professor of East European history at Yale, I knew what the subject had to be: provocation. The Russian imperial secret services, and then the Soviet secret services, had…