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Q3 earnings reporting, which kicks off in October, looks set to be another solid season for the market. While factors including geopolitics, oil, inflation, and the FOMC point to volatility, earnings trends and seasonal trends suggest a robust rally will follow. Seasonally, Q4 is typically the strongest of the year, often starting off slow and then ending with a bang, usually capped off by a Santa Claus Rally. This year, the stage is set for significant outperformance and an affirmation of next year’s results that may lead to a substantial market reset. The S&P 500 historically outperforms its consensus estimates,…

Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app that takes advantage of Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data. The changes deliver a new Insights tab that includes a summary of the most timely information, plus personalized guidance, assessments, a new “readiness” score, and a computation of your “Health Age.” The latter is a way to understand how your various health metrics compare with your actual age and uses data like your VO2 max, sleep, and more, including biomarkers from your blood. Image Credits:Apple The additions…

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Los Angeles Rams will play the first-ever regular-season NFL game Down Under this week, but the team has been quietly building its profile in the country for the past five years. “We basically have full activation rights here in many ways that we would … in Los Angeles,” Kevin Demoff, president of the Rams, told CNBC. “We consider this an extension of our city, our market, our brand.” In 2021, the Rams purchased NFL marketing rights for the Australian market as part of the league’s Global Markets Program. It allows the team to use logos and…

A technical failure of the UK’s air traffic control system that has caused widespread flight chaos was avoidable, according to the Transport Secretary. Heidi Alexander told the Commons she had ordered an independent investigation by the aviation watchdog into the system operated by Nats, which went down for four hours on Tuesday.More than 2,000 flights have been cancelled as disruption continued for a second day with passengers stuggling to fly out of and into the UK.After meeting with the boss of Nats, Martin Rolfe, Alexander said a cyberattack could be ruled out, but she added: “I do not believe this…

This summer, my new AI investment advisor, Mezzi, discovered roughly $300,000 of hidden stock exposure in Google I didn’t know I had. It sounds a little absurd, given the amount. But I’ve been investing in Google for over 15 years, and with a complicated net worth it’s hard to track everything accurately when your mind anchors to old price points. Weeks after I trimmed the position, Google sold off about 10%. I sidestepped over $20,000 in losses. As an AI maximalist, I’m always hunting for new AI products that help build wealth, and for promising private AI companies to invest in. Mezzi…

“Over the last two years, the energy market has faced one external shock after another,” Wilson said.”Throughout that period, we’ve worked hard to shield our customers from the full impact, absorbing costs where we could and delaying increases for as long as it was responsible to do so.”Unfortunately, we have now reached the point where the combined impact of wholesale energy costs and regulated network and system costs is simply too significant for us to continue absorbing.”Wilson added that when the costs of electricity fall the company will “look to reflect that in the prices our customers pay”.Share Energy, which…

The average price of unleaded petrol has risen by 5p a litre in the space of a week, according to the RAC, which warned there was “no sign of any relief” for drivers.The motoring organisation said a litre of unleaded now costs 167.17p – the biggest weekly increase since April – while diesel has also risen by 5p to 188.63p.Fuel prices have soared since the US-Israel war with Iran began at the end of February, with the fighting severely disrupting supplies of crude oil – a key ingredient in petrol and diesel – across the Middle East.The price of Brent…

When flights are delayed or cancelled, UK and EU airlines, and other carriers when you are departing a UK or EU airport, have a duty to look after you.The reason for the delay or cancellation does not matter. So anyone affected by the air transport delays will be eligible.That includes providing meals and accommodation, if necessary, and getting you to your destination. The airline should organise putting you on an alternative flight, at no extra cost.Additional losses, such as unused accommodation, might require a claim to a credit card provider, if that was the payment option used.After that, a claim…

A top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly there is a greater than 10% chance it “could kill all humans” within the next decade.Evan Hubinger said in a post on X, external that the risk from the models which currently exist was “low” but he was “worried” the technology may become able to improve itself soon to the point where it poses an existential risk to humanity.It comes after the Financial Times reported, external Anthropic withheld its latest model from the UK’s AI Safety Institute, one of the leading bodies in the world for assessing…

Learner drivers have to wait an average 20 weeks before booking a practical test, according to new figures, despite attempts to reduce delays. The data from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for August is only a marginal improvement from an 20.2 weeks in July.The average wait time between booking and sitting a test is unchanged at 11.1 weeks.The DVSA initially had a target of reducing the average waiting time to seven weeks by the end of last year. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander pushed the target back to summer 2026, but admitted even that would not be possible.