The new agency in charge of regulating name, image, likeness (NIL) deals in college sports sent a letter to schools Thursday saying it had rejected deals between players and donor-backed collectives formed over the past several years to funnel money to athletes or their schools. Those arrangements hold no “valid business purpose,” the memo said,…
K-pop boy group sensation BTS, having seen all its members return from South Korea’s mandatory military service, has announced a new album and world tour in spring 2026 — their first group performance in over three years. K-pop girl group Blackpink returned to the stage to entertain 78,000 fans last weekend, marking the start of…
Construction work around the Federal Reserve building on Sept. 17, 2024 in Washington, DC, U.S. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images News | Getty Images Homo economicus, or the “economic man,” is an idea that depicts humans as rational beings. This assumption has been used to construct models of the economy and, more broadly, society. The…
Anthony Volpe scored the winning run with an acrobatic slide on Aaron Judge’s shallow sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, and the New York Yankees rallied past Seattle 6-5 on Thursday night after Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo took a no-hitter into the eighth. Jazz Chisholm Jr. singled leading off the eighth for New York’s first…
UK economy unexpectedly contracts again in May European markets head for lower open, with tariffs in focus The pan-European Stoxx 600 index notched a fourth daily gain on Thursday, but IG futures are pointing to a broadly negative open for major bourses on Friday. The big news overnight is that U.S. President Donald Trump will…
London. Dukas | Universal Images Group | Getty Images The U.K. economy shrank again in May, data showed Friday. The latest monthly growth figures from the Office for National Statistics showed U.K. gross domestic product (GDP) contracted 0.1% month-on-month in May. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected a 0.1% expansion. The latest data follows a…
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It’s all aboard for Microsoft investors as the company rides the next train towards another major win. The news Microsoft will be the next megacap to hit a $4 trillion stock market value, according to Wedbush, which predicts it will happen “this summer.” Larger-scale artificial intelligence deals are accelerating, lead analyst Dan Ives wrote in…
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Caesar Sengupta, co-founder and CEO of Arta Finance. Courtesy of Arta Finance Given the ups and downs of the startup journey, the biggest “superpower” that entrepreneurs can have is the ability to ground themselves, said Caesar Sengupta, co-founder and CEO of fintech startup Arta Finance. “There’s so much noise in the world,” Sengupta told CNBC…
