In this articleGSFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTDavid Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, during a Bloomberg Television at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference in New York on Dec. 6, 2022.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoldman Sachs said Wednesday that it agreed to sell its fintech lending platform GreenSky to a group of investors led by private equity firm Sixth Street.The deal, which includes a book of loans created by Goldman, will result in a 19 cents per share reduction to third-quarter earnings, Goldman said in the statement. The New York-based bank is scheduled to disclose results Tuesday.The move…
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The National Association of Theatre Owners has expanded the purview of its government relations chief Todd Halstead to include a new position, director of Independent Exhibitor Engagement. In the role, which is dedicated to indie theater owners, Halstead will collaborate with NATO’s Independent Theatre Owners Coalition (ITOC) “to help the group thrive.” The indie theater marketplace was getting tougher before Covid and has been slow to recover after. Halstead will continue to serve as NATO’s Director of Government Relations and Strategy Development, a role he took on in 2021. “NATO is committed to the independent theatre owners across this country,…
WASHINGTON — A startup has raised a seed round of funding to develop customized satellites with the assistance of artificial intelligence as an alternative to standardized buses. Los Angeles-based Proteus Space announced Oct. 10 that it raised a $4.2 million seed round led by Moonshots Capital. Other investors participating in the round included Lavrock Ventures, The Veteran Fund, Mana Ventures, AIN Ventures, Capital Factory and Industrious Ventures. Proteus will use the funding to advance its technology to enable rapid development of customized small satellites using AI, which the company argues can rapidly shorten the time to develop those satellites without…
The Amazon Great Indian Festival sale is into its fourth day, bringing discounts on a wide range of products and devices. The e-commerce giant is also offering an additional discount of 10 percent on SBI credit and debit card transactions. The Amazon sale features deals on smartphones, tablets, laptops, electrical appliances, and more. Your gaming needs are also taken care of, with offers on accessories, consoles, and gaming laptops.We’ve already covered the best deals on gaming consoles, gaming laptops, and smartphones earlier. Here, we’ll take a look at the best deals on video games during the Great Indian Festival sale.Amazon…
People carry their belongings around destroyed buildings and debris at the Al-Karama neighborhood after an Israeli airstrike that has been going on for five days in Gaza City, Gaza on October 11, 2023.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesSatellite images depict the scale of the devastation in Gaza following a barrage of Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas’ unprecedented assault.U.S. space technology firm Maxar Technologies on Tuesday published a fresh batch of satellite images that show the aftermath of recent airstrikes in and around the enclosed territory of Gaza.The update comes as Israel’s military says it is amassing hundreds…
A house for sale in Arlington, Virginia, in July of 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose to the highest level since 2000 last week, but rates on adjustable-rate mortgages fell. That caused a run on these so-called ARMs, pushing total mortgage application volume very slightly higher, up 0.6% from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index.The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($726,200 or less) increased to 7.67% from 7.53%, for loans with a 20% down payment. But the average…
NewsHotline TNT Announce 2024 Tour Dates, Share New Song “Out Of Town”: ListenWednesday and They Hate Change will join the Brooklyn-based band on its North American dates next year By Hattie LindertOctober 11, 2023FacebookXHotline TNT, photo by Wes KnollFacebookXHotline TNT are heading back out on the road next year. The Brooklyn-based band has announced a new set of 2024 tour dates in support of its new album Cartwheel, due out November 7. They’ve also shared a new song, “Out Of Town.” The song was previewed this week in a desktop platform game called Kaxtyn. Listen to it below. Singer-songwriter Will Anderson said…
A worker prints a label for a fire hose at the NewView Oklahoma facility in Oklahoma City, Sept. 16, 2021.Nick Oxford | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA measure of wholesale prices rose more than expected in September, indicating simmering inflation pressures for the U.S. economy.The producer price index, which measures costs for finished goods that producers pay, increased 0.5% for the month, against the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.3% rise, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. That was less than the 0.7% increase in August.Excluding food and energy, the core PPI was up 0.3%, versus the forecast for 0.2%. Excluding food,…
Grab your wallets and head to Amazon, because amongst the massive discounts on skincare and hair tools (including the Dyson flat iron, no biggie), fashion brand JW PEI has marked down the prices on so many purses–including the viral Gabbi Bag, which has been spotted on the arms of A-listers like Hailey Bieber, EmRata, and Gigi Hadid, to name a few.JW PEI Gabbi Ruched Hobo HandbagJW PEI Gabbi Ruched Hobo HandbagNow 20% OffThis ruched design is reminiscent of so many luxury styles, minus the massive price point. Normally, you can buy this purse for $80, but thanks to Amazon’s Prime…
Have you been enjoying FOX’s latest reality competition, Snake Oil? The David Spade-hosted series has been testing people’s ability to call a sham and scam out when they see and hear it. The ability to make some money off of the ordeal for the contestants with the assistance of celebrity guests adds an extra layer of entertainment and fun to the series. TV Fanatic scored an exclusive sneak peek at tonight’s new episode, and if we had one word to describe what’s transpiring, it’s “ruthless!” On Snake Oil, contestants have the, at times, shockingly difficult task of figuring out which…
Cotton is a fantastic material for shirts, but there are plenty of benefits to be found in other materials out there–for example, merino wool. That’s why the Merino wool shirt is a fall and winter staple for many men across the globe.Merino wool is an incredibly robust fabric that offers a ton of natural benefits while making you look sharp in the process. The best merino wool shirts are moisture-wicking, odor-resistant, and can even regulate temperature. It’s simple things like these that make your life so much easier when you throw on a Merino wool shirt. Not to mention, wool…
Stars and Stripes and Racist Imperialism No History Is Immune From Ends, but the Americans Were Infinite To the times that call for candor, hunger. Mr. President, what was the sound before surrender? It’s almost summer. I sit across from a white woman in the student union cafe who wants to adopt a child from a third-world country. She says “the Philippines” in a thick, midwestern accent. To feel small in the presence of a lighter people. To be a specter, speaking. To drown my anger, I gulp down tea that scalds my tongue, the ghost of taste gargling inside…
Top result: An artist’s impression of top-quark entanglement. The line between the particles emphasizes the non-separability of the top-quark pair, which is produced by LHC collisions and recorded by ATLAS. (Courtesy: Daniel Dominguez/CERN) Physicists working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN have observed entanglement between pairs of top quarks for the first time. The finding demonstrates that entanglement can occur at energies more than 12 orders of magnitude higher than is typical for laboratory entanglement experiments. They also show that particle-physics facilities such as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be used to study quantum mechanics and quantum information. Entanglement…
A woman waits on her bicycle to cross an intersection outside a new shopping mall in Beijing, China, on Sept. 13, 2023.Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China’s consumer spending still isn’t growing as fast as it did before the pandemic, analysts said.Retail sales for the Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 holiday period rose by 9% from a year ago, according to state media reports of Ministry of Commerce data. The figures did not include Oct. 6, the final and eighth day of the Golden Week holiday.While that marked a pickup in pace from August, the…
EXCLUSIVE: Heading into the Swift snowfall this weekend at the box office, here’s what we can tell you about the AMC-distributed film. As has already been reported, a $100M+ projection per distribution sources is in store and another $50M+ overseas (for $150M WW debut); but part of the stats indicating this come from box office analytics firm EntTelligence which is observing sellouts for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour significantly outstripping Barbie and percent-wise that of Spider-Man: No Way Home compared to each movie’s first evenings. Another big indicator of big business: 99% of the presales activity for the entire weekend…
WASHINGTON — A year after acquiring the assets of Masten Space Systems, Astrobotic has resumed flights of that company’s suborbital vehicle and plans to continue development of a larger rocket. Astrobotic announced Oct. 10 that it completed the first campaign of test flights by Xodiac, a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing vehicle, since acquiring it and other Masten Space Systems assets last year. Xodiac conducted four flights from Mojave, California, hovering just off the ground to test plume-surface interactions ahead of future lunar landing missions, supporting research by the University of Central Florida. Xodiac was built several years ago by Masten Space Systems,…
WhatsApp introduced Chat Lock functionality that lets users lock specific chats using their fingerprint, facelock or passcodes back in May this year. Now, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform is reportedly testing a new secret code feature that will give users even more control over their locked chats. This would reportedly allow users to choose a custom password for their protected chat folder. The upcoming security feature has been spotted in WhatsApp for Android beta v2.23.21.9, which is available via the Google Play Beta program. According to a report by WhatsApp features tracker WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will soon allow people to choose a…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden denounced Hamas’ attacks as terrorism and said the United States stands with Israel.”There are moments in this life, I mean this literally, when a pure unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world. People of Israel lived through one such moment this weekend,” Biden said.”This was an act of sheer evil: More than 1,000 civilians slaughtered, not just killed, slaughtered in Israel. Among them at least 14 American citizens were killed,” he added.The militant group Hamas over the weekend launched a surprise land, air and sea attack on Israeli civilians, sparking retaliatory airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. Israeli…