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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to records after data suggested the job market remains solid enough to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about inflation. The S&P 500 climbed 0.2%, just enough top the all-time high set on Wednesday, as it closed a third straight winning week in what looks to be one of its best years since the 2000 dot-com bust. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.3%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.8% to set its own record. Treasury yields eased after the jobs report showed stronger hiring than expected but also an uptick in the unemployment rate. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records Friday after data suggested the to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about . The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and was just above its all-time high set on Wednesday. It’s rolling toward the close of a third straight winning week in what’s likely to be since the 2000 dot-com bust. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 108 points, or 0.2%, as of 1:51 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%. Stocks held relatively steady as the latest jobs report strengthened expectations among traders that the Federal Reserve will at its next meeting in two weeks. While the report showed U.S. employers hired more workers than expected last month, it also said the unemployment rate unexpectedly ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1%. “This print doesn’t kill the holiday spirit and the Fed remains on track to deliver a cut in December,” according to Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The Fed from a two-decade high in September to offer more help for the slowing job market, after bringing inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower interest rates can ease the brakes off the economy, but they can also offer more fuel for inflation. Expectations for a series of cuts from the Fed have been a major reason the S&P 500 has set so far this year. And the Fed is part of a global surge: 62 central banks have lowered rates in the past three months, the most since 2020, according to Michael Hartnett and other strategists at Bank of America. Still, the jobs report may have included some notes of caution for Fed officials underneath the surface. Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, pointed to average wages for workers last month, which were a touch stronger than economists expected. While that’s good news for workers who would always like to make more, it could also keep upward pressure on inflation. “This report tells the Fed that they still need to be careful as sticky housing/shelter/wage data shows that it won’t be easy to engineer meaningfully lower inflation from here in the nearer term,” Wren said. So, while traders are betting on a nearly 90% probability the Fed will ease its main rate in two weeks, they’re much less certain about how many more cuts it will deliver next year, according to data from CME Group. For now, the hope is that the job market can help U.S. shoppers continue to spend and keep the that had earlier seemed after the Fed began hiking interest rates swiftly to crush inflation. Several retailers offered encouragement after delivering better-than-expected results for the latest quarter. Ulta Beauty rallied 10.4% after topping expectations for both profit and revenue. The opening of new stores helped it boost its revenue, and it raised the bottom end of its forecasted range for sales over this full year. Lululemon stretched 17.9% higher following its own profit report. It said stronger sales outside the United States helped it in particular, and its earnings topped analysts’ expectations. Retailers overall have been offering mixed signals on how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain amid the slowing job market and still-high prices. gave a dour forecast for the holiday shopping season, for example, while gave a much more encouraging outlook. A report on Friday suggested sentiment among U.S. consumers may be improving more than economists expected. The preliminary reading from the University of Michigan's survey hit its highest level in seven months. The survey found a surge in buying for some products as consumers tried to get ahead of possible increases in price due to that President-elect Donald Trump has threatened. In tech, Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped 10.8% for one of the S&P 500's larger gains after reporting stronger profit and revenue than expected. Tech stocks broadly were one of the main reasons the S&P 500 climbed this past week, as Salesforce and other big companies talked up how much of a boost they’re getting from the boom. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury yield slipped to 4.16% from 4.18% late Thursday. In stock markets abroad, France’s CAC 40 rose 1.3% after French President Emmanuel Macron plans to stay in office until the end of his term and to name a new prime minister within days. Earlier this week, far-right and left-wing lawmakers approved a due to budget disputes, forcing Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his cabinet to resign. In Asia, stock indexes were mixed. They rallied 1.6% in Hong Kong and 1% in Shanghai ahead of an annual economic policy meeting scheduled for next week. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.6% as South Korea’s ruling party chief for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and then revoked that earlier this week. Yoon is facing calls to resign and may be impeached. Bitcoin was sitting a little above $101,000 after $103,000 to a record the day before. ___ AP Writers Matt Ott and Zimo Zhong contributed. Stan Choe, The Associated Press
Department of Commerce announces preliminary terms with SkyWater Technologies, solidifying ...By BEN FINLEY, The Associated Press The military’s tradition of tracking Santa Claus on his gravity-defying sweep across the globe will carry on this Christmas Eve, even if the U.S. government shuts down , officials said Friday. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location . Millions more follow online — in nine languages — as St. Nick swoops along the earth’s meridians. “We fully expect for Santa to take flight on Dec. 24 and NORAD will track him,” the U.S.-Canadian agency said in a statement. On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats, such as last year’s Chinese spy balloon. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, are fielding questions like, “When is Santa coming to my house?” and, “Am I on the naughty or nice list?” The endeavor is supported by local and corporate sponsors, who also help shield the tradition from Washington dysfunction. Bob Sommers, 63, a civilian contractor and NORAD volunteer, told The Associated Press that there are “screams and giggles and laughter” when families call in, usually on speakerphone. Sommers often says on the call that everyone must be asleep before Santa arrives, prompting parents to say, “Do you hear what he said? We got to go to bed early.” NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured since the Cold War, predating ugly sweater parties and Mariah Carey classics. Here’s how it began and why the phones keep ringing. Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Burgess, standing, and Maj. Bonnie Bosworth of the New York Air National Guard’s 224th Air Defense Squadron train for Santa-tracking operations on Dec. 16, 2022, at the Eastern Air Defense Sector headquarters in Rome, New York. (Master Sgt. Kim Dagata, 224th Air Defense Group, New York National Guard, file) Photo by Master Sgt. Kim Dagata, 224th Air Defense Group, New York National Guard The origin story is Hollywood-esque It started with a child’s accidental phone call in 1955 . The Colorado Springs newspaper printed a Sears advertisement that encouraged children to call Santa, listing a phone number. A boy called. But he reached the Continental Air Defense Command, now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, along with anxieties about nuclear war. Air Force Col. Harry W. Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list. “He went on a little bit, and he takes a breath, then says, ‘Hey, you’re not Santa,’” Shoup told The Associated Press in 1999. Realizing an explanation would be lost on the youngster, Shoup summoned a deep, jolly voice and replied, “Ho, ho, ho! Yes, I am Santa Claus. Have you been a good boy?” Shoup said he learned from the boy’s mother that Sears mistakenly printed the top-secret number. He hung up, but the phone soon rang again with a young girl reciting her Christmas list. Fifty calls a day followed, he said. In the pre-digital age, the agency used a 60-by-80-foot plexiglass map of North America to track unidentified objects. A staff member jokingly drew Santa and his sleigh over the North Pole. The tradition was born. “Note to the kiddies,” began an AP story from Colorado Springs on Dec. 23, 1955. “Santa Claus Friday was assured safe passage into the United States by the Continental Air Defense Command.” In a likely reference to the Soviets, the article noted that Santa was guarded against possible attack from “those who do not believe in Christmas.” Is the origin story humbug? Some grinchy journalists have nitpicked Shoup’s story, questioning whether a misprint or a misdial prompted the boy’s call. In 2014, tech news site Gizmodo cited an International News Service story from Dec. 1, 1955, about a child’s call to Shoup. Published in the Pasadena Independent, the article said the child reversed two digits in the Sears number. “When a childish voice asked COC commander Col. Harry Shoup, if there was a Santa Claus at the North Pole, he answered much more roughly than he should — considering the season: ‘There may be a guy called Santa Claus at the North Pole, but he’s not the one I worry about coming from that direction,’” Shoup said in the brief piece. In 2015, The Atlantic magazine doubted the flood of calls to the secret line, while noting that Shoup had a flair for public relations. Phone calls aside, Shoup was indeed media savvy. In 1986, he told the Scripps Howard News Service that he recognized an opportunity when a staff member drew Santa on the glass map in 1955. A lieutenant colonel promised to have it erased. But Shoup said, “You leave it right there,” and summoned public affairs. Shoup wanted to boost morale for the troops and public alike. “Why, it made the military look good — like we’re not all a bunch of snobs who don’t care about Santa Claus,” he said. Shoup died in 2009. His children told the StoryCorps podcast in 2014 that it was a misprinted Sears ad that prompted the phone calls. “And later in life he got letters from all over the world,” said Terri Van Keuren, a daughter. “People saying ‘Thank you, Colonel, for having, you know, this sense of humor.’” A rare addition to Santa’s story NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010. Ad campaigns or movies try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, said Bowler, who wrote “Santa Claus: A Biography.” NORAD, by contrast, takes an essential element of Santa’s story and views it through a technological lens. In a recent interview with the AP, Air Force Lt. Gen. Case Cunningham explained that NORAD radars in Alaska and Canada — known as the northern warning system — are the first to detect Santa. He leaves the North Pole and typically heads for the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean. From there he moves west, following the night. “That’s when the satellite systems we use to track and identify targets of interest every single day start to kick in,” Cunningham said. “A probably little-known fact is that Rudolph’s nose that glows red emanates a lot of heat. And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org , that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, mountain standard time. People can call 1-877-HI-NORAD to ask live operators about Santa’s location from 6 a.m. to midnight, mountain time. 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Why Was Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Package Of $56 Billion Rejected Again By Delaware Judge?CNN Reveals "Troubling" Poll: American Trust In Vaccines Is PlummetingPakistan, EU show concern on HR situation in IIOJK Pakistan and EU stress need to find peaceful solutions to conflicts, in full respect of principles of international law ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, at the 14th Pakistan-European Union (EU) Joint Commission meeting in Islamabad, underlined its deep concern on the human rights and humanitarian situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and also called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied Arab territories. Both Pakistan and the EU also stressed the need to find peaceful solutions to all conflicts, in full respect of the principles of international law and the UN Charter. According to the joint press release issued by the Foreign Office, the EU reiterated its call for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza; the unconditional release of all hostages; and the urgent and unimpeded humanitarian access and distribution at scale of humanitarian assistance; as well as an enduring end to hostilities in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2735. The EU further restated its position concerning Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine (at a time when Pakistan has chosen to remain neutral and not take sides in the Ukraine war). The joint press release noted that discussions between the two sides took stock of recent political developments, including electoral processes in both Pakistan (parliamentary elections of February 8) and the EU (elections to the European Parliament of June 6-9 and the ongoing formation of the new College of Commissioners). “Pakistan and the EU recognised the importance of their cooperation and sustained engagement, particularly in areas such as trade, migration, human rights, political, economic and development cooperation with a focus on the Global Gateway strategy. The sides agreed to continue cooperation on emerging challenges of food, energy security, and climate change,” added the joint statement. The Joint Commission was preceded by the Pakistan-EU Sub-Group meeting on Democracy, Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights. While reviewing the post-elections political developments in Pakistan and the EU, both sides agreed on the need for continued efforts to strengthen the electoral process. “The EU reiterated the importance of political pluralism, democratic values, independent media, vibrant civil society, judicial independence, and international human rights standards, which are key for democratic elections,” noted the joint press release. Both sides also reaffirmed their commitment to the protection of all human rights, including women and children’s rights, labour and migrant rights, as well as fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression and opinion, including growing problem of disinformation. Views were also exchanged on freedom of religion or belief and the rights of persons belonging to minorities and vulnerable groups and concerns about anti-Muslim hatred. Both sides reiterated the importance of continued dialogue on these shared concerns. The EU, as in the past, also reiterated its position on the abolishment of death penalty and emphasised the need to pursue the reform process of the mercy petition. At the meeting of the Pakistan-EU Sub-group on Trade it was pointed out that the EU is Pakistan’s second-largest trading partner, with the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) arrangement contributing significantly to the growth of bilateral trade. “The EU remains committed to providing information on its upcoming legislative developments to facilitate Pakistan’s compliance with EU’s regulatory framework. Pakistan and the EU reiterated the importance of continued collaboration to promote sustainable growth and trade development,” said the joint press release.Veeva Systems SVP sells $390,128 in stock
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Ancient meets modern as a new subway in Greece showcases archaeological treasuresWhen I wake up, the first thing I lay eyes on is . I shoot off a text reply here and there. I browse the headlines. or signup to continue reading Like , I also scroll through TikTok. Many of the videos suggested to me by the "For You" page are silly or interesting. A dance trend, perhaps, or maybe a day-in-the-life of a CEO. Though sometimes more malign content pops up. "Colonisation was the best thing to happen to the Aboriginals," a GB News video informs me while I brush my teeth one morning. Soon after, a clip of appears. Later, while I'm waiting for the tram, the influencer Candace Owens pops up and claims that Kamala Harris "slept her way to the top". My habit is to skip past videos like this. After all, they're enough to make one a climate-denying, woman-hating conspiracy theorist by breakfast time. (They do this quite successfully, actually: a fifth of UK males aged 16-29 who know of the self-proclaimed misogynist approve of him, for example). This system, which governs what you see on social media, is known as the algorithm. It serves up personalised, suggested content and pushes certain creators, videos and themes. Seeing as inflammatory stuff is usually the most engaging, the algorithms often prioritise the incendiary at the expense of the thoughtful, the bombastic at the expense of the accurate. Hence, conspiracy theories, populism and division are enjoying a well-documented golden age. The algorithm goes deeper than this, however - it plays to archetypes. As a 19-year-old male, I'm part of a demographic more likely to be actively recommended . On the other hand, my sisters and female friends are part of the cohort more likely to be pushed . It's not so easy to dodge. TikTok's "algorithm in particular is so aggressive that you only need to pause for a few moments before it will begin to recommend similar content to you again and again," reports the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The Center found that changing a TikTok username from "Sarah" to "Sarah Lose Weight" could result in the algorithm pushing 12 times more self-harm content. My generation is especially vulnerable to the influence of algorithms. Not just because we're young, but because we spend a significant amount of time on social media, and because we don't really go elsewhere for news or information. For us, therefore, "serious" topics like politics have been reduced by the confines of the medium. Politicians are forced to chase after viral moments just like all the other content creators. During the recent Queensland election, for instance, our exposure to Steven Miles and David Crisafulli was watching them on the For You page trying to combine TikTok trends with political messaging. (Hardly scintillating viewing, if you were wondering.) The pre-eminence of social media algorithms - the detailed workings of which are often still unclear - should be cause for serious concern. "So-called 'neutral' algorithms," said US Judge Ronald Gould of Google's content suggestion system, can be "transformed into deadly missiles of destruction by ISIS." Gould was referring to a case brought against Google wherein the plaintiff alleged that YouTube had breached the Anti-Terrorism Act by recommending terrorist content. In a similar 2019 case against Facebook, Chief Judge Robert Katzmann suggested that the social media company stop using algorithms. "Short of that, Facebook could modify its algorithms to stop them introducing terrorists to one another," he said. The encouragement of terrorism is an extreme example of the impacts which algorithms present. But more quotidian examples - promoting eating disorders and echo chambers, for example - are still highly destructive. Legislation was passed recently to ban social media for under-sixteens. Fine. But our lawmakers are far from the stage where they can wash their hands of this issue. Take it from a young person who, like his peers, has spent an adolescence at the whim of the algorithm. : We need more transparency from social media companies regarding how their recommendation systems work. More than that, we must enforce a duty of care. If apps like TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are actively pushing certain content, then it's surely up to them to make sure that content is above board. In 1995, Carl Sagan made a dark prediction. "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time," he wrote, "... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and... our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." It seems Sagan's prediction, which doesn't apply to America alone, is coming true. Funnily enough, I found that quote on TikTok. Advertisement Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date. We care about the protection of your data. Read our . Advertisement
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