A home with a “Sold” sign from a real estate company in North Patchogue, New York.Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty ImagesMortgage rates came down again last week, and with the expectation that they could fall further, mortgage demand suddenly jumped, especially for refinancing. The Federal Reserve is expected to make its first interest rate cut in four years on Wednesday, and while mortgage rates don’t follow the Fed exactly, they are influenced by policy. It is likely they will move on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks following the decision.”The most important takeaway is that lower mortgage rates are not only…
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Steven Cohen, founder of Point72 and majority owner of the New York Mets, attends a news conference at Citi Field, the home stadium of MLB’s New York Mets, in Queens, New York, on Feb. 10, 2021.Brendan McDermid | ReutersBillionaire investor Steve Cohen is retiring from the trading floor at his hedge fund Point72.The prominent hedge fund investor, who also owns the New York Mets, will continue his role as the co-chief investment officer at Point72, which Cohen converted from S.A.C. Capital Advisors in 2014 after lofty insider-trading settlements.”He is taking a break from trading his own book and he feels…
Bullet for My Valentine and Trivium have announced a North American co-headline tour for 2025. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Trivium’s Matt Heafy talks loving ‘Call Of Duty’ and ‘Final Fantasy’ in ‘Playback’ The ‘Poisoned Ascendancy’ run of dates will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bullet For My Valentine’s debut album ‘The Poisoned’, and Trivium’s second record ‘Ascendancy’. Both bands are set to play their respective LP in full, following a joint UK leg early next year. Kicking off in Vancouver on March 30, the trek also includes stop-offs in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New…
Vice President Kamala Harris, left, at the White House, Washington, July 22, 2024, and former President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, Aug. 15, 2024.Nathan Howard | Jeenah Moon | ReutersFor the first time in the 2024 election cycle, Vice President Kamala Harris is viewed as more likely than former President Donald Trump to win the U.S. presidential election, according to a CNBC Fed Survey released Tuesday.The 27 respondents to the survey include investment strategists, economists and fund managers. Among the group, 48% see a Harris victory as the most likely scenario, while 41% believe Trump will win.The survey was conducted…
17 Sep 2024 Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week including Rita Moreau, S.R. Webster, Jana DeLeon, and more. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. Happy reading! Related grant Read the original article here
There are few rituals a guy prizes as highly as his haircut. It’s a time to relax in the chair and emerge looking like the best version of yourself. It’s why so many guys go every month, like clockwork. But the pandemic threw that routine out of whack. Some let it grow (and grow, and grow). Others said “screw it” and shaved it all off, maintaining a buzzcut until they were allowed back into barbershops. The bravest among us started trimming their own hair. I was in that latter group. And you know what? It wasn’t so bad. Sure, it…
Halle Berry as Momma in ‘Never Let Go’. Photo Credit: Liane Hentscher.Opening in theaters on September 20th, ‘Never Let Go’ is the latest horror thriller from Alexandre Aja, who in recent years has brought us the likes of ‘Oxygen,’ ‘Crawl’ and ‘The 9th Life of Louis Drax.’Sadly, while ‘Never Let Go’ has some interesting initial ideas about faith, delusion, paranoia and suspicion, it wastes most of them in a predictable scare-a-thon that ends in disappointing fashion.Related Article: Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins Talk ‘Never Let Go’Does ‘Never Let Go’ hold on to you?(L to R) Anthony B.…
The Season 33 premiere of DWTS is finally here and the cast is ready to roll. There are Olympians, Bachelors/Bachelorettes, a Real Housewife, someone with an ankle monitor, 90s icons, and more. Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Derek Hough return as judges. Anything can and will happen during the premiere but the big question is who will be on the top of the leaderboard? Keep reading for all of the scores and excitement. DWTS Season 33 Premiere Night Before the new season of DWTS even began, fans had started a method to figure out who would go home first.…
Nothing is set to launch a new product later this month, the company announced on Tuesday. Over the past few weeks, the company has been teasing the arrival of a new product, without actually revealing any relevant information including what type of device will be launched or any of its specifications. The latest teaser posted by the company suggests that the UK startup led by OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei will soon introduce a new wireless audio headset with an open ear design.On Tuesday, Nothing’s account on X (formerly Twitter) posted a brief clip of two rounded cables bumping against each…
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses members of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 17, 2024. Piroschka Van De Wouw | ReutersVice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday laid out how her economic proposals could specifically help young Black men, a key Democratic voting bloc that polls show Republican former President Donald Trump gaining ground with in this election cycle.”I think it’s very important to not operate from the assumption that Black men are in anybody’s pocket,” Harris said in a sit-down interview with a panel from the National Association of Black…
Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines can go through with their planned merger, but they must maintain the value of their airline reward systems and preserve several key routes, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday.The two carriers’ $1.9 billion merger agreement cleared the U.S. Justice Department’s review last month. That put it in the hands of the Transportation Department, which must also review airline mergers.The DOT said the airlines must ensure that miles earned in the HawaiianMiles and Alaska Mileage Plan programs before the creation of a new, combined loyalty point system will not expire and that they can transfer…
The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files. ReutersGoogle had been in talks to acquire marketing software maker HubSpot earlier this year, but no deal took place. The company then made a run at cybersecurity startup Wiz. But that didn’t happen either.Google took a different tactic in closing its one notable transaction of late. Following a model pursued by Amazon and Microsoft to lure experts in artificial intelligence, Google announced last month it was hiring the founders of generative AI startup Character.AI. Rather than buying Character outright and shutting it down —…
In recent weeks, Morrissey has made numerous statements about his old band with Johnny Marr, the Smiths. In one instance, he claimed Marr “ignored” an offer for a 2025 tour. He later claimed that Marr “blocked” a Smiths greatest-hits album. And, most recently, he asserted that Marr obtained the trademark rights to the Smiths’ name “without any consultation to Morrissey, and without allowing Morrissey the standard opportunity of ‘objection.’”Marr, through his management, has now responded to Morrissey’s various allegations. Find it in full below.Regarding the Smiths trademark, Marr’s management said that, in 2018, “Marr reached out to Morrissey, via his…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesShares of Trump Media slid on Monday, one day after Donald Trump — the company’s majority shareholder — was unharmed in an apparent assassination attempt on a Florida golf course.The stock, which trades under the ticker “DJT,” closed down 3.8% at a price of $17.28 per share. Trump Media’s market capitalization stood at roughly $3.4 billion at the close.U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire on an individual shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday, after they spotted a rifle near the property line of Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, where the Republican nominee…
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Some shoes make styling easy, like how black is your safest bet if you just want to look clean, presentable, or even edgy. White, on the other hand, makes you appear classy and formal, and if worn in the wrong setting, you might stand out more than you’d want to. But what if you want to look manly, yet elegant? Modern, but still clean enough to appear sophisticated? That’s where brown sneakers come in. I searched the internet for the best brown sneakers for men, whether they have classic lace-up designs or functional fits. They can elevate your denim, give…
Miley Cyrus has been sued for allegedly ripping off Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man” for her Grammy-winning hit song “Flowers.” The lawsuit, filed in California federal court on Monday, was brought by Tempo Music Investments, which acquired in 2020 a share of the copyright to the Mars track from songwriter Philip Lawrence. It accuses Cyrus of “intentional copying” constituting infringement. Songwriters Gregory Hein and Michael Pollock, who cowrote the song with Cyrus, Sony Music Publishing, and distributors of the song, including Apple, Live Nation and Amazon, were also named in the complaint, which doesn’t involve Mars on either…
U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., speaks to members of the media outside the office of U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 3, 2023.Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesRep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., sharply criticized other politicians on Tuesday for making public comments about what the Federal Reserve should do with its interest rate policy.McHenry, the outgoing chair of the House Financial Services Committee, said it was an ‘”outrage” that some politicians are publicly lobbying the central bank about rate cuts.”The outrage to me is … for instance, if you’re on the right,…