Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday Monday: Credit Suisse — Shares of Credit Suisse rose 1.7%, reversing an earlier slump that sent the stock to a record low, after the bank over the weekend made a series of calls to calm investor fears about its financial health. In addition, the cost to insure the bank's debt against default jumped to a new high. Read More

United Airlines is halting flights in and out of John F. Kennedy International Airport at the end of the month. The Chicago-based United said it warned weeks ago that it might suspend service if the Federal Aviation Administration did not grant the airline additional flights at JFK. On Friday, it followed through, telling its employees in an internal memo that it would suspend flights from JFK on October 29 with the last inbound flights. Read More

A trial began Monday for the leaders of the anti-government militia Oath Keepers for their involvement in the January 6 riots, with prosecutors alleging the group intentionally “concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy” in one of the highest-profile Capitol insurrection cases to date. Key Facts Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler said during an opening statement Monday that the goal of the defendants—including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates—was to “stop by whatever means necessary the lawful transfer of presidential power,” including by “taking up arms” against the government. Read More

During the 2010s, interest rates seemed trapped within a historically low range. Then the COVID pandemic pinned them at previously unimagined depths. Inflation has reversed all of that. And Wall Street is having a hard time adjusting to the old normal. That's created rare opportunities in the stock market. Some have actually never been seen before. Rock-solid dividend payer Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA 1.91%) is more than 40% from its high and could be offering a unique buying opportunity for long-term investors. Not only does it sport a massive dividend yield, but it has also consistently raised that payout for 47 consecutive years. And it has the cash -- and growth plan -- to keep it up for the foreseeable future. Read More

Liu Jingyao launched civil proceedings in 2019 against retail billionaire Liu Qiangdong. One of China’s biggest and most divisive #MeToo cases, which had been set to play out with extraordinary transparency because of its US location and was closely watched by millions inside China, has been settled out of court. Liu Qiangdong, a 49-year-old online retail billionaire who also goes by Richard Liu and is known as China’s Jeff Bezos, had been accused of sexually assaulting a then 21-year-old Chinese graduate when she was studying at the University of Minnesota and he was visiting on a business trip. Liu has always denied the assault accusations, saying it was consensual. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support for rape and sexual abuse on 0808 802 9999 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, or 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html. Read More

Katie Janner, 28, works 15 to 30 hours per week doing freelance podcast editing and voiceovers. It's allows her to pursue her interests, travel the world, and avoid "endless Zoom meetings." She says "faking it till you make it" can work for new freelancers. In 2019, Katie Janner was struggling to make ends meet in New York City as a cater waiter, brand ambassador, babysitter, and a freelancer specializing in voiceover work. Read More

At a conference in Colorado Springs last month, John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, reflected on what he said had been an “unfortunate” year for the Supreme Court. He hadn’t liked driving to work past “barricades,” he said, an allusion to the angry marches and rallies that accompanied a number of the Court’s cases last term. Many of the protests were directed at Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. And he didn’t appreciate hearing people say that the Court, with its radical right swerve, had in any way undermined its legitimacy. “They are certainly free to criticize the Supreme Court if they want to,” he said, which is good to know. “But I don’t understand the connection between opinions that people disagree with and the legitimacy of the Court. If the Court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the Constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle.” There’s an element of denialism in Roberts’s words that does not bode well for the Court’s new term, which begins on Monday and includes another set of potential landmark cases. He’s correct that, in our system, the Court is the institution designed to insure that our laws align with our rights. But the lack of alternatives just shows how much is at stake—we could end up with no arbiter that is seen as legitimate at all. Fears about the Court’s direction are not irrational, and they are widely shared. Every year since 1972, Gallup has asked Americans whether they trust “the judicial branch headed by the U.S. Supreme Court.” In the latest survey, released last week, the portion who do is at a record low: forty-seven per cent. Just forty per cent approve of the job that the Court itself is doing. An Associated Press/ NORC Center poll this summer... Read More

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov insisted he was “not joking” about sending his teenage sons, aged between 14 and 16, to fight and “prove themselves” in battle in Ukraine, which could be prohibited under international law and be considered a war crime. Read More

This market is taking no prisoners. Whether you own shares of a newly public company or one of the world's most dominant technology enterprises like Alphabet (GOOG 2.01%), it's been a rough year. Specifically, Alphabet is down 35% from its high, its largest decline since the Great Recession. But it's not just a market issue. Companies that advertise to make money, like Alphabet, are pointing out economic turbulence on the horizon and bracing for a more challenging operating environment. It can sound cliched, but leaning into the fear and buying Alphabet could be a decision you're bragging to your friends about when things eventually turn around. Here is why. Read More

Who knew that a packet of ramen could be used to fight the forces of evil? The cheap and filling meal choice of broke college students the world over ingeniously becomes the new holy water and crucifix in writer-director William Bagley’s auspicious feature debut — The Murder Podcast. The love child of Fright Night, Hot Fuzz, Napoleon Dynamite, and The Lonely Island’s Hot Rod, the offbeat comedy follows two stoner podcasters — Chad (Andrew McDermott) and Eddie (Cooper Bucha) — hoping to strike it big in the true crime genre by investigating a string of local homicides that may involve the supernatural. Read More

Retailers were burned during the pandemic when they didn’t have what stuck-at-home consumers were looking for. Couches, bread flour, bicycles and many other things soared in demand and retailers' shelves emptied out faster than they could replenish. As the pandemic wore on, merchants adjusted but they never got ahead of consumers’ changing tastes. They repeatedly boomeranged, either stocked out or caught with an oversupply. Read More

Reality TV star failed to disclose that she was paid to promote a crypto asset in an Instagram post. Kim Kardashian has paid US regulators more than $1m to settle charges for failing to disclose that she was paid to promote a crypto asset in a post on her Instagram page. The reality TV star, social media influencer and entrepreneur, who is estimated to be worth $1.8bn (£1.6bn), has agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $1.26m to settle the charges. Read More

Kim Kardashian is paying $1.26 million in a settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission amid charges that she unlawfully touted a cryptocurrency without disclosing she was being paid for the promotion. Kardashian is paying the settlement without admitting to or denying the SEC's findings, the agency said on Monday. She also agreed to not promote any crypto asset securities for three years. Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has for years been the most popular bellwether by which investors measure the performance of the stock market. While the S&P 500 might be more representative of the market, tracking the 500 largest stocks in the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is more selective, representing just 30 large, blue-chip companies across the various sectors of the economy. They are not necessarily the 30 largest. Rather, they are selected by a committee based on a variety of factors, but all are well-known, stable, and influential companies. Case in point: The seventh largest company in the world by market cap, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A -0.06%) (BRK.B -0.95%), is not in the Dow, but insurer Travelers Companies is. So, if you wanted to invest in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that included Warren Buffett's company, you would have to look elsewhere. Or you could invest in the stock on its own. Read More

In 2021, several reports produced by experts found that the Uyghurs are subjected to genocide in Xinjiang, China. This finding was followed by several determinations of the atrocities as genocide by Parliaments and the U.S. State Department and by calls for action to address the atrocities. However, no real action followed. On August 31, 2022, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published its report concluding that “serious human rights violations” against the Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities have been committed in Xinjiang. The report added that the atrocities may amount to international crimes, and in particular, crimes against humanity. However, also this report was not followed by any decisive steps to address the atrocities. China continues to deny the allegations and brands then propaganda. However, the tables may turn after all as several States work on a resolution (so-called draft decision) to ensure that the U.N. debates the High Commissioner’s report. End of September 2022, the United States filed the draft decision with the U.N. If successful, the report and the situation of Uyghurs would be debated at the next U.N. Human Rights Council. The vote is expected just before the end of the 51st session of the Human Rights Council, before October 7, 2022. A simple majority is needed for the draft decision to pass. The Chinese delegation is said to be exercising pressure on States to oppose the resolution to prevent further engagement with the critical report. Read More

Goldman Sachs said it's still bullish on oil but slashed its price target on Brent crude to $100 a barrel from $125. The surging US dollar and weakening global demand are headwinds to oil prices, according to a note. But low levels of investment, spare production capacity, and inventories point to supply-side tailwinds. Goldman Sachs cut its forecast for oil prices as demand falls and the US dollar strengthens, according to a note published Tuesday. Read More

Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Michigan on Saturday night. A video shows her accusing Democrats of murdering Republicans, saying the "killings" have already begun. She referenced two local stories, neither of which appear to back the claim that Republicans are being hunted down. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene deceptively claimed at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Warren, Michigan, on Saturday that Democrats are murdering Republicans. Read More

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Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed AR, VR, and more in a new interview with Dutch media outlet Bright. He said Apple avoids using the term "metaverse" because the average person doesn't know what it is.  The tech giant's approach is a stark contrast to Mark Zuckerberg's obsession with the metaverse.  Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed in an exclusive interview with Dutch media outlet Bright that the tech giant's hesitancy toward joining the metaverse hype is intentional. Read More

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has seen its Apple stake drop in value by $36 billion this year. The decline in worth exceeds Berkshire's $31 billion cost base for the position. Apple stock has tumbled 24% this year on fears of an economic downturn and flagging iPhone demand. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has seen $36 billion wiped off the value of its Apple stake this year, or about $5 billion more than it spent on the iPhone maker's shares. Read More

The role of influencers and the creator economy remains high on every CMO’s ‘To-do’ list going into 2023 and beyond. According to Crunchbase data, funding to venture-backed start-ups focused on content creators so far this year has reached $637 million. With millions of professional content creators producing hundreds of millions of impressions every day and with more and more entertainment, FinTech, and Esports brands topping the charts in revenue growth and beginning public trades, brands are increasingly hoping to leverage influencers' ability to turn views into real customers. Read More

Incidents of fraud and scams are occurring more often on the popular peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, according to a report issued Monday by the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, giving the public its first glimpse into the growing problems at Zelle. The report also found that the large banks that partly own Zelle have been reluctant to compensate customers who have been victims of fraud or scams. For instance, less than half of the money customers reported being sent via Zelle without authorization was being reimbursed. Read More

Until this year, aerospace fledglings had their best chance in well over a decade to secure outside investment. In today's economic climate, they now must fight for survival. Read More

Nobody’s perfect. Certainly not her character in the new series, Rookie: Feds, says Niecy Nash Betts. In the series, Nash-Betts plays Special Agent Simone Clark, who is the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy and has just been assigned to support the LA field office. Read More

Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, Accenture’s Julie Sweet And More Than 30 Others Are Bringing Private Sector Muscle To A Very American (Yet Controversial) Cause. Read More

The semiconductor industry has experienced shortages and rapid increases in demand amid the explosion of new tech applications. However, one chip company that continues to struggle is industry pioneer Intel (INTC 4.30%). While it led the industry for decades, other chip designers and manufacturers eclipsed it due to its development struggles. Current CEO Pat Gelsinger seeks to get Intel back on top with initiatives to retake the technical lead and invest heavily in new foundries. While it is too early to know if or how well Gelsinger will succeed, patient investors may want to consider the semiconductor stock for three reasons. Read More

annals-of-inquiry How the War in Ukraine Might End In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. They see reason to fear the possible outcomes in Ukraine. Read More

Eli Lilly (LLY -0.20%) was already having a great year in the stock market, but on Sept. 28, the company's shares jumped by about 7%. The move happened after biotech giant Biogen and its partner Esai reported positive top-line results from a phase 3 clinical trial for an Alzheimer's disease (AD) therapy candidate, lecanemab. Eli Lilly is working on its own AD treatment, donanemab, and the market counted Biogen's win as Eli Lilly's too. Still, a 7% jump for a company the size of Eli Lilly is huge. Was it justified? Here's what could be in the cards for Eli Lilly's AD program following these recent developments. Read More

Select Social Security beneficiaries will receive their monthly payment, worth an average of $1,546 per check, in nine days. Social Security recipients born from the 1st through 10th of their birth month will receive their regular monthly payments on Oct. 12, per the Social Security Administration. Read More

With the S&P 500 down more than 25% so far in 2022, investors are looking for places to stash their cash that offer some stability and income which can help get them through the turbulent times. Ultra-high-yielding dividend stocks often also have a higher risk profile to go along with their juicy yields, and that keeps some from investing. There are, however, some high-yielding dividend stocks that have a lot to offer long-term investors with regard to stability and growth, as well as yields of 6% or more at the time of this writing. Read More

Eligible Californians can expect tax refunds of up to $1,050, aimed at helping combat rising costs caused by high inflation, arriving as soon as five days. Read More

Figures to end of December come as tech firm gave almost £1bn in share-based payments. Google UK’s staff earned an average of more than £385,000 each in the 18 months to the end of December, as the tech company gave almost £1bn in share-based payments. Google, which like other tech firms is looking at budget and potential job cuts as global economic conditions become tougher, reported £3.4bn in turnover and £1.1bn in pre-tax profits in the 18 months to the end of December 2021. Read More

One of the first things dividend investors look at, invariably, is dividend yield. That makes sense, but yield alone doesn't always tell the entire story. And sometimes large dividend yields can lure you into an investment that isn't a good fit for your actual income needs. A review of what happened to $10,000 invested in AGNC Investment (AGNC 1.54%) over the past decade is a warning you need to keep in mind. What a difference! Ten years ago AGNC's dividend yield was hovering around 15%. That compared very favorably to the low-single-digit yield on offer from an S&P 500 index fund. Over the following decade, mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) AGNC's yield bounced around a little, but it was always fairly large. The lowest point came in 2021 when the yield dropped into the 8% range. Most of that span, however, it was in the 10%-plus range. If you are an income-focused investor, AGNC's huge yield very likely put this stock on your radar screen. Read More

Low-income residents in New Mexico can apply to receive a fourth round of economic stimulus checks worth at least $400, with the deadline to submit an application on Oct. 7. Read More

Sterling has recovered its mini-budget losses, but traders and economists warn debacle has hurt UK.Politics Live: Truss abandons plan to abolish 45% top rate of income tax The UK government still has ‘a lot to do’ to recover its credibility, warns Jane Foley, head of FX Strategy at Rabobank. “Clearly sterling has performed better on the news, but there are still a lot of questions, ultimately the 45 pence tax rate was only a small part of the unfunded tax cuts announced. The question remains is this enough? The answer will be clear in a few weeks’ time when the bank of emergency measures end. She has been manipulated into this U-turn after senior Conservatives yesterday came out in open revolt at the Treasury’s decision to scrap the 45p tax band for the wealthy while refusing to rule out cuts to welfare for the poorest. Admitting to a communication mistake rather than a serious policy mishap didn’t cut it. Now this embarrassing climb down, taking unfunded tax cuts off the table, which Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has called a distraction, will help reassure the markets a little that the more reckless nature of this new administration can be reined in by the Conservative party. Read More

In “american (tele)visions,” a family from Mexico spends more time at Walmart than in their trailer, and Little Amal, a twelve-foot-tall puppet of a ten-year-old Syrian refugee, roams Harlem. Read More

thank you,Adam I sent the e-mail late in the afternoon, while working at my family’s antiques store. An hour later, a reply arrived in my in-box: You need to simply ask for help and give people an out. Read More

“Grant had been through this kind of thing with Rufus before, climbing things, sliding down things, and getting a truck onto two wheels while exiting a Tulsa off-ramp.” Read More

“To look without fear,” the immense, flabbergastingly installed retrospective of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, at the Museum of Modern Art, persuades me that the man is a genius. There’s a downside to the concession—it dampens my quarrels of taste with certain items, among the show’s predominantly brilliant several hundred, that I do not like. Geniuses alter the basic terms of the fields of art or science which happen to engage them. Criteria that once applied no longer compel. The ground zero at MOMA is “art photography,” its former autonomy diluted in a tsunami of images from Tillmans, in wildly varying sizes, mediums, and formats, which are often mounted from floor to ceiling, and may less risk than exalt banality. Almost violently sociable, the work retroactively mainstreams such precedents as the stark intimacies of love and loss in photographs by Nan Goldin—though the irrepressibly positive-minded Tillmans is never as downbeat as Goldin. Fifty-four years old, the third child of parents who ran an export business in a city near Cologne, Tillmans soared to fame in the early nineties for work that he had begun a few years earlier: an ostensibly scattershot but, in truth, acutely selective documentation of soulful youths whom he encountered on night-life outings, chiefly in Berlin and London, before and during his art-school studies at Bournemouth, in England. As with Goldin’s unhappy couples, his party scenes are like panes of glass dropped through the middle of symbioses. Beholding, you are at once viewer and viewed, at instants that are well served by fast, blurry takes. (Tillmans employed a 50-mm. S.L.R. until he went exclusively digital, in 2012.) His initial body of work put him on the art-world map, but he has somewhat downplayed it in his choices for the present show, perhaps from exasperation at being lazily identified with... Read More

Leezy, the bassist for the band Khruangbin, who appears publicly only in disguise, takes in a retrospective of her late friend’s work at the Brooklyn Museum. Read More

When it comes to high-performance chips, Nvidia (NVDA -0.66%) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD -1.22%) are at the forefront of the semiconductor industry. The companies' products aren't just used for video game hardware, they've also expanded to be crucial components for data centers, artificial intelligence, machine vision, and other applications. While the long-term demand outlook for both companies' products is promising, both stocks have gotten crushed this year amid volatility for the broader market and some industry-specific headwinds that are dampening semiconductor enthusiasm. Nvidia stock is down roughly 59% across this year's trading, while AMD is down approximately 55%. Read More

It's no exaggeration to say that Altria (MO -1.92%) might be the best dividend stock in history. The domestic tobacco company has raised its dividend 57 times in the last 53 years, most recently hiking the quarterly payout by 4.4% in August to $0.94 a share. Read More

It was a major reversal by the new British government. Reducing taxes for top earners while millions face soaring inflation was widely seen as politically toxic. Read More

Ulrich Körner says he is ‘confident we have what it takes to succeed’ and tells staff coverage of bank’s crisis contains ‘inaccurate statements’ The chief executive of Credit Suisse has attempted to reassure staff the globally significant Swiss bank has a solid balance sheet after credit markets rated its risk of default as the highest in a decade. In a memo to staff, Ulrich Körner said there were “many factually inaccurate statements being made” in media coverage of the bank’s crisis, which has seen its share price plunge by 60% this year. Shares were down 9% on Monday morning. Read More

“I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics,” says President Joe Biden. “It has never worked.” Of course it has never worked. It has never worked because it has never been tried or even proposed. Trickle-down economics is a myth — a left-wing parody of what conservative politicians are supposed to believe. Read More

Credit Suisse executives are in talks with its investors to reassure them amid rising concerns over the bank's financial health, the Financial Times reported. Read More

Bill Gates said only innovation can help solve the climate crisis.  He told Bloomberg Zero it's "unrealistic" to expect people to radically change how they live. Gates says he played a key role in the Inflation Reduction Act, which will help cut carbon emissions. Bill Gates said the climate crisis will not be solved by expecting people to radically change their lifestyle over concerns about the environment. Read More

A Hertz customer was arrested after being accused of stealing a rental car, a lawsuit stated. Antwanette Hill is one of hundreds of people suing Hertz for wrongful arrests over "stolen" cars. A father and his daughter faced armed police after the company reported their rental car as stolen.  A Hertz customer was accused of stealing a rental car despite booking and paying for the vehicle in an incident that has led to her being arrested a total of four times and being held in custody for days at a time, a lawsuit stated. Read More

A pro-Kremlin militia is advocating for the murder and torture of Ukrainian prisoners, per The Guardian. "Task Force Rusich" advocated for "removing body parts" of POWs in a Telegram message, the paper said. The group is described by the US Treasury as a "neo-Nazi paramilitary group." A pro-Kremlin, neo-Nazi militia group is advocating for the murder and torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to The Guardian. Read More

Camp Margaritaville Pigeon Forge is so popular was almost completely booked out during the summer travel season, its general manager told Insider Read More