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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump used his image as a successful New York businessman to become a celebrity, a reality television star and eventually the president. Now he will get to revel in one of the most visible symbols of success in the city when he rings the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday as he's also named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Trump is expected to be on Wall Street to mark the ceremonial start of the day's trading, according to four people with knowledge of his plans. He will also be announced Thursday as Time's 2024 Person of the Year , according to a person familiar with the selection. The people who confirmed the stock exchange appearance and Time award were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. It will be a notable moment of twin recognitions for Trump, a born-and-bred New Yorker who at times has treated the stock market as a measure of public approval and has long-prized signifiers of his success in New York's business world and his appearances on the covers of magazines — especially Time. Trump was named the magazine's Person of the Year in 2016, when he was first elected to the White House. He had already been listed as a finalist for this year's award alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, X owner Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kate, the Princess of Wales. Time declined to confirm the selection ahead of Thursday morning's announcement. “Time does not comment on its annual choice for Person of the Year prior to publication,” a spokesperson for the magazine said Wednesday. The ringing of the bell is a powerful symbol of U.S. capitalism — and a good New York photo opportunity at that. Despite his decades as a New York businessman, Trump has never done it before. It was unclear whether Trump, a Republican, would meet with New York's embattled mayor, Democrat Eric Adams , who has warmed to Trump and has not ruled out changing his political party. Adams has been charged with federal corruption crimes and accused of selling influence to foreign nationals; he has denied wrongdoing. Trump himself was once a symbol of New York, but he gave up living full-time in his namesake Trump Tower in Manhattan and moved to Florida after leaving the White House. CNN first reported Wednesday Trump’s visit to the stock exchange and Politico reported that Trump was expected to be unveiled as Time's Person of the Year. The stock exchange regularly invites celebrities and business leaders to participate in the ceremonial opening and closing of trading. During Trump’s first term, his wife, Melania Trump, rang the bell to promote her “Be Best” initiative on children’s well-being. Last year, Time CEO Jessica Sibley rang the opening bell to unveil the magazine's 2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift . After the Nov. 5 election, the S&P 500 rallied 2.5% for its best day in nearly two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,508 points, or 3.6%, while the Nasdaq composite jumped 3%. All three indexes topped records they had set in recent weeks. The U.S. stock market has historically tended to rise regardless of which party wins the White House, with Democrats scoring bigger average gains since 1945. But Republican control could mean big shifts in the winning and losing industries underneath the surface, and investors are adding to bets built earlier on what the higher tariffs, lower tax rates and lighter regulation that Trump favors will mean. Trump has long courted the business community based on his own status as a wealthy real estate developer who gained additional fame as the star of the TV show “The Apprentice” in which competitors tried to impress him with their business skills. He won the election in part by tapping into Americans' deep anxieties about an economy that seemed unable to meet the needs of the middle class. The larger business community has applauded his promises to reduce corporate taxes and cut regulations. But there are also concerns about his stated plans to impose broad tariffs and possibly target companies that he sees as not aligning with his own political interests. Trump spends the bulk of his time at his Florida home but was in New York for weeks this spring during his hush money trial there. He was convicted, but his lawyers are pushing for the case to be thrown out in light of his election. While he spent hours in a Manhattan courthouse every day during his criminal trial, Trump took his presidential campaign to the streets of the heavily Democratic city, holding a rally in the Bronx and popping up at settings for working-class New Yorkers: a bodega, a construction site and a firehouse. Trump returned to the city in September to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Manhattan tower and again in the final stretch of the presidential campaign when he held a rally at Madison Square Garden that drew immediate blowback as speakers made rude and racist insults and incendiary remarks . At the stock exchange, the ringing of the bell has been a tradition since the 1800s. The first guest to do it was a 10-year-old boy named Leonard Ross, in 1956, who won a quiz show answering questions about the stock market. Many times, companies listing on the exchange would ring the bell at 9:30 a.m. to commemorate their initial offerings as trading began. But the appearances have become an important marker of culture and politics -- something that Trump hopes to seize as he’s promised historic levels of economic growth. The anti-apartheid advocate and South African President Nelson Mandela rang the bell, as has Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone with his castmates from the film “The Expendables.” So, too, have the actors Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner for an “Avengers” movie and the Olympians Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin. In 1985, Ronald Reagan became the first sitting U.S. president to ring the bell. “With tax reform and budget control, our economy will be free to expand to its full potential, driving the bears back into permanent hibernation,” Reagan said at the time. “We’re going to turn the bull loose.” The crowd of traders on the floor chanted, “Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie!” The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed in 1985 and 1986, but it suffered a decline in October 1987 in an event known as “Black Monday.” Long reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report.Live Nation stock hits all-time high of $139.61 amid robust growth54 jili slot 。

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Politics is the art of the possible. And more often than not, the gradual erosion of the political soil by the dirt and debris of decades makes the seemingly impossible also come to pass. That a sullen City and silent Chamber may realise that this shift in the plate tectonics of local politics was almost inevitable will make the transition to new, fresh, welcome modes of governance less painful for all stakeholders in the national interest. Especially the engines of growth that have so much to contribute to growth, development and progress (time to redefine ‘GDP’) in the land we love... Perhaps some perspectives of what has, will and may change on the path ahead might persuade detractors of the Transfiguration of Sri Lanka to put away the hermeneutics of suspicion, and interrogate ground realities with less animosity and possibly welcome support going forward. Despite the depredations of decades laid at the polity’s feet by the so-called mainstream parties, the electorate has repeatedly reverted to one of two major power blocs to meet their sociopolitical and economic needs. Though the then Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) was often touted and even fancied as a ‘third force’ to counterbalance the dominance of the left or right wing parties/coalitions, it was more often than not the perpetual bridesmaid or the bride left at the altar. People in urban and suburban centres and pocket boroughs traumatised by its brutality remained apprehensive, bitter, unforgiving. However even a cursory glance at the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2024 will amply demonstrate that the earth has well and truly moved under our feet. Kudos to AKD and his PR gang for reclaiming the high ground through genuine regret expressed and/or convincing distancing from the movement’s radical, violent past... Today, the JVP-led NPP is literally and metaphorically our once financially bankrupt nation’s (moral and ethical) compass. May a dream last. Therefore it behoves those of us who are prone to dismiss the JVP-led coalition’s landslide victory as a black swan event to consider that there may be more to what has come to pass than the natural or organic swing of the pendulum whereby the ‘floating continent’ of some 6.9 million voters – yes time or again a recurring statistic – run rat-like after some Pied Piper’s tune... whether ‘I won the war’ (2010) or ‘I am the state’ (2019). Especially given that Sri Lanka is far from being out of the economic doldrums into which COVID-19, endemic corruption, incompetent governance, abysmal policymaking, facile management of fiscal and fiduciary undertakings, and fatuous decisions leading to defaulting on sovereign debt repayments and subsequent bankruptcy brought us. It behoves us all to know there is more to national happiness than three meals a day and a guaranteed gas cylinder at home. Therefore again, the way we think about politics as traditionally being the art of the possible and the first refuge of the scoundrel can, must, could and should change – if we truly believe all the things we say in private confabs and on social media about loving Sri Lanka and wanting it to prosper. First we must disabuse ourselves of the notion that ‘the Great Man theory’ of leadership holds any water any longer. Far too many civilian and military-minded administrations have come a-cropper because of the popular notion that our island nation needs a benevolent tyrant to boost it into the developmental stratosphere. Then we must realise that autocrats are not always competent, as an evicted president dismally demonstrated before fleeing in ignominy before those voting with their feet. And many of us in the demographic of those reading Daily FT might do well to admit that authoritarian governments majoring on the legality of their leaders over their legitimacy often lack the compassion that is de rigueur for governing a nation that is democratic, socialist, and still a republic in more than merely name. And last not least, we would do well to welcome early enough the ostensibly humble ruler – hat in hand; any reference to race, religion and bogus patriotism refreshingly absent – who underlines his reliance on his team, a party of professionally competent advisors and the general public at large in a first national address on becoming the island’s ninth executive head of state. The super majority that the president enjoys in parliament may well be the silver bullet a nation that was once more than morally bankrupt needs to extricate itself from its present manifold predicaments – endemic/systemic corruption first and foremost among them... IF the endorsement of a subsequent (almost) 6.9 million voters doesn’t turn his head, or the realities of the realpolitik that may become necessary to run the republic cause the ship of state to founder. If it eventuates that AKD’s appeal was not much more than a savvy political manipulator’s attempt to deceive the electorate into accommodating a subversive project to dismantle the state and its ensconced political elites, so what... We have been gulled by worse crooks and charlatans (mass murderers, torturers, clinically certifiable megalomaniacs et al.). And it may be worth the fallout from seeing the regime swing from its present ‘moderate’ or merely ‘left-leaning’ orientation to see those entrenched elites evicted from their corrupting places of power and influence. That the erstwhile Aragalaya raised its clenched fist against those then un-broach-able bastions and failed, yet went underground to emerge two years later as a democratic groundswell that found the exercise of their franchise an irrefutable way to have their say, is but the beginnings of social justice. And it is a seismic wave that those who have proclaimed their allegiance to a better, brighter, cleaner Sri Lanka will do well to ride... It will take a willing suspension of disbelief and a voluntary cessation of one’s modus operandi in interpreting NPP policy with the hermeneutic of suspicion focusing on the JVP to achieve this. A seismic shift took place twice over in as many months with an un-ignorable segment of the voter base islandwide departing from custom and even seemingly throwing caution to the winds. It may be time for the last outposts of conservative myopia to abandon the safety of coffee-morning and cocktail-circuit and smell the kopi. For those who still cling to the vestiges of fear that the Marxists will burn City Hall and raze to ruins the beloved Republic we’ve built up – ahem! – there’s only the incontrovertible evidence of their eyes... that there’s more to the optics that the NPP are putting for show. And the sooner we get with the programme, the better for everyone but the stubbornly sentimental; yearning for the nostalgic days when elites of all types ruled the roost and swaggered about at state and taxpayers’ expense with no ‘Singapore’ to show for all the people’s pains! | Editor-at-large of LMD | The power of a vote |

Scientists say a new way of treating serious asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) attacks could be a “game-changer”. According to a new study giving patients an injection is more effective than the current steroid tablet treatment. It also cuts the need for further treatment by 30%, according to a study. The discovery is the new treatment for 50 years, researchers say. First author of the study, Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan, clinical senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia, said the findings were hopeful at moving the treatment of the common condition forward. He said: "Our study shows massive promise for asthma and COPD treatment. "COPD is the third leading cause of death worldwide but treatment for the condition is stuck in the 20th century. We need to provide these patients with life-saving options before their time runs out.” People who have asthma are often treated with Benralizumab - a monoclonal antibody that targets specific white blood cells, called eosinophils, aimed at reducing lung inflammation. It is currently used as a repeat treatment for severe asthma at a low dose, but a new clinical trial has found that a higher single dose can be very effective if injected at the time of a flare-up. The study, published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine, looked at 158 people who needed medical attention in A&E for their asthma or COPD attack. COPD is a group of lung conditions that cause breathing problems. Patients were given a blood test to check the type of attack they were having. Those suffering an “eosinophilic exacerbation” involving eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) were considered suitable for treatment. Around 50% of asthma attacks are eosinophilic exacerbations, as are 30% of COPD ones, according to the researchers. The clinical trial, led by King’s College London and carried out at Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, randomly split patients into three groups. One received the benralizumab injection and dummy tablets, another received standard care (prednisolone steroids 30mg daily for five days) and a dummy injection, and the third group received both the benralizumab injection and steroids. After 28 days, respiratory symptoms of cough, wheeze, breathlessness and sputum were found to be better in people on benralizumab. And after 90 days, there were four times fewer people in the benralizumab group who failed treatment compared with those receiving steroids. Treatment with the benralizumab injection also took longer to fail, meaning fewer visits to a GP or hospital for patients, researchers said. People also reported a better quality of life on the new regime. Scientists at King’s said steroids can have severe side-effects such as increasing the risk of diabetes and osteoporosis, meaning switching to benralizumab could provide huge benefits. Lead investigator Professor Mona Bafadhel, from King’s, said: “This could be a game-changer for people with asthma and COPD. Treatment for asthma and COPD exacerbations have not changed in 50 years, despite causing 3.8 million deaths worldwide a year combined. “Benralizumab is a safe and effective drug already used to manage severe asthma. We’ve used the drug in a different way – at the point of an exacerbation – to show that it’s more effective than steroid tablets, which is the only treatment currently available.” Researchers said benralizumab could also potentially be administered safely at home, in a GP practice or at A&E. Dr Samantha Walker, director of research and innovation at Asthma and Lung UK, welcomed the findings but said: “It’s appalling that this is the first new treatment for those suffering from asthma and COPD attacks in 50 years, indicating how desperately underfunded lung health research is.” AstraZeneca provided the drug for the study and funded the research, but had no input into trial design, delivery, analysis or interpretation.

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