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TORONTO — Strength in base metal stocks helped lift Canada's main stock index Tuesday, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. Markets took on a cautious tone Tuesday, said Greg Taylor, chief investment officer at Purpose Investments. “We had a super strong month of November across the board, and then yesterday was kind of a bit of a give back,” he said, noting that weakness in commodities held the TSX back on Monday. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 45.40 points on Tuesday at 25,635.73. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 76.47 points at 44,705.53. The S&P 500 index was up 2.73 points at 6,049.88, while the Nasdaq composite was up 76.96 points at 19,480.91. In Canada, Scotiabank was the first major bank to report earnings, with the rest to come in short order as the sector caps off earnings season. The bank saw its earnings rise year-over-year, and it set aside a smaller sum for loan losses than it did a year ago. However, its profit came in below analyst expectations, and Scotiabank said it expects continued pressure on loan growth in the coming months. Scotiabank’s share price fell more than three per cent, but Taylor said that was likely investors taking some profit after a strong several months for the stock. “There’s not a lot of expectations for any fireworks from the banks this week,” he said. In the U.S., a report showed U.S. employers advertised slightly more job openings at the end of October than they did the month before, ahead of the monthly jobs report at the end of the week. The U.S. Federal Reserve is set to make its last interest rate decision of the year later this month. “The payroll number Friday is going to be interesting to watch,” said Taylor. “It's certainly a case that if you did get a really strong number, you might get some people putting into question the need for another rate cut at this meeting.” But while economic strength and the promised policies of president-elect Donald Trump could mean fewer rate cuts than previously expected in 2025, Taylor said a cut from the Fed later this month is a “foregone conclusion.” In Canada, where the economy hasn’t weathered high rates as well, another cut is expected next week from the central bank, said Taylor. However, if the Fed does pull back on cuts in the coming year, Canada may have to move with more caution, he said, as the divergence could put further downward pressure on the loonie. The Canadian dollar traded for 71.14 cents US, compared with 71.14 cents US on Monday. The January crude oil contract was up US$1.84 at US$69.94 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was down 17 cents at US$3.04 per mmBTU. The February gold contract was up US$9.40 at US$2,667.90 an ounce and the March copper contract was up 13 cents at US$4.20 a pound. — With files from The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 3, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD) Rosa Saba, The Canadian PressThe atmosphere in the clinic was calm and serene, a stark contrast to the bustling city outside. Zhang Meng, with her gentle demeanor and radiant glow, looked every bit the picture of maternal bliss. Her pregnancy journey has been smooth so far, and she attributes much of her well-being to the love and companionship of those around her, especially Xiao Wu.
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As we delve deeper into the story of "The Lion King: Mufasa's Legacy," we are reminded of the timeless lessons it imparts – the importance of humility, the value of friendship, and the strength that comes from embracing our true selves. With every chapter we complete and every level we conquer, we grow closer to our own moment of kingship, where we will be called upon to lead with wisdom and compassion, just as Mufasa once did.In conclusion, the surge in car finance offerings with a loan disbursement ratio of up to 100% signifies a significant development in the banking sector as it aligns with the changing preferences and demands of consumers. By providing enhanced financing options, banks are not only empowering individuals to fulfill their aspirations of car ownership but also contributing to the growth and vibrancy of the automobile market. As we approach the end of the year, the collaboration between banks and the automotive industry is poised to create a win-win situation for all stakeholders involved.Lions CBs Terrion Arnold, Ennis Rakestraw Jr. out vs. Colts
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Sign up for The Brief , The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texans who worked with Jimmy Carter remembered him as a principled and compassionate leader — the last Democrat to win the state in a presidential election. Carter died Sunday afternoon at his Georgia home at age 100. The peanut farmer turned politician was praised for philanthropic efforts that continued well into his ninth decade after a single-term presidency that began with his 1976 defeat of Republican President Gerald Ford. “He’s exactly the kind of human being that needs to be president,” John Pouland, Carter’s state coordinator for the 1976 Democratic primary, said soon after learning that Carter would receive hospice care. “He lived the life that he felt was the right way to live as a Christian.” Born and raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter actively served in the Navy for eight years before returning to his home state to take over the family’s peanut-growing business after his father’s death in 1953. Carter went on to serve in the Georgia Senate and as governor before winning the 1976 presidential election. Texas’ 26 electoral votes helped put Carter over the top, a victory he couldn’t repeat in his landslide loss to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980. Carter became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Brownsville during a campaign stop in the closing days of the 1980 election season. He praised the area’s farmland, viewed during a low-altitude plane trip from Houston; extolled his record on education; and boasted about appointing more than 200 Hispanic Americans to senior positions, “more than any other previous administration in history.” With the polls pointing toward defeat, his speech in Brownsville also veered into the philosophical, with Carter speaking about the burden of making “the final judgment in the loneliness of the Oval Office.” “Sometimes it has been a lonely job, but with the involvement of the American people, it’s also a gratifying job,” he said in the Nov. 1, 1980, speech. He ended up losing Texas by nearly 14 percentage points, starting a losing streak for Democratic nominees that has lasted through the next 10 presidential elections. A pair of Texans may have played a part in that defeat. In 1980, former Texas Gov. John B. Connally Jr., ran for the Republican nomination to challenge Carter. When Connally lost, he threw his support behind GOP nominee Ronald Reagan. That summer, Connally and former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes took a trip to the Middle East, meeting with heads of state in various capitals. In the midst of the campaign, the Carter administration was embroiled in the Iranian Hostage Crisis, in which 52 Americans were held captive in Iran. Nightly news of the crisis strained Carter's support and left him vulnerable to charges of ineptitude. During the trip, according to Barnes, Connally told the Middle Eastern leaders to deliver a message to Iran that Reagan would give them a better deal if they waited to release the hostages until after the election. Barnes kept silent about the trip for decades, only revealing it to the New York Times in March after it was announced that Carter had entered hospice care. Connally died in 1993. Connally told an Arab leader in their first meeting, “‘Look, Ronald Reagan’s going to be elected president and you need to get the word to Iran that they’re going to make a better deal with Reagan than they are Carter,’” Barnes told the Times. “He said, ‘It would be very smart for you to pass the word to the Iranians to wait until after this general election is over.’ And boy, I tell you, I’m sitting there and I heard it and so now it dawns on me, I realize why we’re there.” Former Carter aides have speculated that they might have won if they had returned the hostages before the election. The 52 Americans were released on the day Reagan took office. Texans were introduced to Carter in the 1976 Democratic primary, when he faced U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, a politically established Texan. “The ‘Jimmy who?’ line was not made up,” Pouland said. “We probably heard that refrain more than anything.” Carter defeated Bentsen — the Georgian was established as the party’s standard bearer by the time Texas held its primary — and Pouland attributed Carter’s success to his Navy service and Christian values, characteristics that appealed to Texas voters. At the time, Texas was at the tail end of a century-long, post-Civil War era of domination by Democrats in state politics. There were 133 Democrats in the 150-member state House, and 28 in the 31-member state Senate. The most significant political divides were among liberal and conservative Democrats, not Democrats and Republicans. But in presidential politics, Republicans had made inroads. Richard Nixon had won the state by 33 percentage points four years earlier, breaking a streak for three straight Democratic victories. Carter won the state with 51% of the vote. But the state was changing fast as conservatives flocked to the GOP. The state elected its first Republican governor since Reconstruction, Bill Clements, two years after Carter was elected. Pouland said Carter served as a model for attracting moderate Southern Democrats, something former President Bill Clinton tried but failed to replicate. Garry Mauro, a former Texas land commissioner who worked for Carter’s 1976 presidential bid, remembered the candidate as genuine and earnest. Mauro said it never occurred to Carter to filter people out, and he didn’t restrict access to himself even as his campaign built momentum. Mauro recalled numerous occasions when he dialed a campaign number, only to have the candidate’s wife, Rosalynn Carter, answer the phone. “He really was the people’s president,” Mauro said. Carter’s influence on Texas Democrats was immense, reshaping the state party’s power base to accommodate new faces on his team, Mauro said. “Jimmy Carter empowered a whole new generation of leadership in Texas,” Mauro said. His many years in politics did not change Carter’s altruistic outlook, Pouland added, and Carter took an active role in advancing human rights through his nonprofit organization, the Carter Center, after leaving office. Carter, Pouland said, “went to his same church, worked on his same farm, kept his same friends and continued to live his life as an example for the very thing that he was an advocate of, and that was compassion.” Though Carter was the last Democrat presidential candidate to win Texas, his legacy is still evident in the party, said state Rep. John Bryant , D-Dallas. “He was committed to human rights and gave Democrats the confidence to be for human rights and for peace and for honesty in government,” said Bryant, who served as Carter’s campaign manager in Dallas County during Carter’s first presidential campaign. Bryant points to Carter’s post-presidential years as some of his most impactful. “Instead of serving on corporate boards, or making big speaking fees, or playing golf, he was going to Habitat for Humanity. He was at the [Carter Center]. And he wrote 30 books, the proceeds of which went to nonprofits,” Bryant said, adding that Carter was “just a great example for how to live a life devoted to the public interest. “He lived his faith. He practiced what he preached,” Bryant said. “That’s very important for the country to see that.” In August 2007, Carter joined South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu in calling Texas to stop the execution of Kenneth Foster, an inmate who was on death row for acting as the getaway driver during a killing. Then-Gov. Rick Perry commuted Foster’s sentence to life in prison hours before the execution was scheduled. After the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, Carter joined four other former presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton and George H.W. Bush — in appealing for donations to help in the recovery. The effort raised more than $41 million in response to the costliest natural disaster of 2017 , when extreme flooding in Houston and the surrounding area caused more than $125 billion in damage. Carter maintained his commitment to service through his life, helping to build and repair Dallas homes for Habitat for Humanity as a 90-year-old in 2014. “No matter what your faith may be, we are taught to share what we have with poor people,” he told The Dallas Morning News at the time. “It’s very difficult to cross that divide between people that have everything and people that have never had a decent house. Habitat makes it easy to cross that line.”Guan Zhiou's background and experience have equipped him well for this new responsibility. Born and raised in Shanxi Province, Guan has a deep understanding of the region's economic, social, and political landscape. His academic qualifications and work in various government positions have honed his leadership skills and policy-making expertise, making him a competent choice for the role of Vice Governor.
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Is it screening, is it rolling, is it passing, is it shooting, is it rebounding, is it playing defense? I think we should point (the thumb not the finger)." The Nuggets gave up 149 points on the loss on Friday, and their defensive effort was so poor that head coach Michael Malone had to call his team out for it after the game . Sadly, for the Nuggets, these kinds of games have become a habit for them this season and it's why they are just 3 games above .500 at 16-13 (7th in the West). Their current 2-game skid has put them half a game back from the Lakers and they might slide even further if they don't tighten up some of their sloppy play, particularly on defense. Thanks to the efforts of Nikola Jokic, who is averaging 30.5 points, 12.7 rebounds, and 9.5 assists per game this season, the Nuggets are a top-six offensive team with an averaging scoring record of 117.2 points per game. On defense, however, the Nuggets have almost nothing to offer. This season, they are 19th in the NBA on that end of the floor and give up a whopping 114.8 points per game. With the departures of Bruce Brown and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in back-to-back summers, the Nuggets lost several key defenders on the perimeter with nothing to make up for it. Now, not even the greatness of Nikola Jokic can keep the Nuggets afloat. In the Western Conference, being three games above .500 is just not good enough, and for a Nuggets team that's just a year and a half removed from their first championship, this is not a place where they wanted to be. This trade deadline, watch for the Nuggets to be aggressive in their pursuit of reinforcements defensively, and they might look to add some players on the wing who can bring both shot-making and defense to the three-point line. If not, the Nuggets will likely continue to struggle as they attempt to keep up with other contenders. With Nikola Jokic in his prime, the franchise owes it to him to go all-out and do whatever it takes to win. We will see soon enough what they are willing to do and if it's enough to get the Nuggets back on track. The Nuggets play tonight, December 28th, against the Detroit Pistons at Ball Arena (9:00 PM EST) and they play again on the 30th, against the Utah Jazz at Delta Center. Finally, the Nuggets will be defending home court on Wednesday, January 1st at 9:00 PM EST against Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks. This article first appeared on Fadeaway World and was syndicated with permission.The New Orleans Saints are in the middle of a frustrating season, firing head coach Dennis Allen earlier this month following the team's seventh straight loss at the hands of Carolina Panthers. The Saints aren't expected to make the playoffs this season, but they'll need to answer a lot of questions about the future over the next few months. Many of those questions are related to the salaries of several veteran players, as the team is currently set to enter 2025 several millions of dollars over the salary cap. One veteran player with an uncertain future? Longtime defensive back Tyrann Mathieu. The "Honey Badger," as he's affectionately known, is set to enter his 12th NFL season next year at the age of 33. With another big season on the way, Mathieu made it clear that he's planning to stick around. According to sports journalist Kay Adams , Mathieu is in it for the long haul with the Saints, his hometown team. “I wouldn’t want to play for any other team...The opportunity to be able to win for my home town..I mean, I think that kinda trumps me going anywhere else," said the veteran defensive back. "I’d rather do it for my people, down here.” Mathieu has been with the Saints for the last two seasons, as the New Orleans native joined his home quad following stints with the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs. He won a Super Bowl with the Chiefs back in the 2019 season, helping them defeat the San Francisco 49ers. In addition to his Super Bowl title, Mathieu is a three-time All-Pro and a three-time Pro Bowler. He was named to the NFL's All-Decade team in the 2010s, joining names like Tom Brady, Adrian Peterson, Joe Thomas, J.J. Watt and Aaron Donald. All of those players are either in or likely to enter the Hall of Fame, and Mathieu has a pretty good case to get there as well. We'll see if that happens in the future, but for now, it seems that Mathieu has no plans to retire any time soon. Fans can look forward to seeing him on the field next week with the Saints, as they take on the Los Angeles Rams at home following this week's late-season bye. Related: ESPN Host Elle Duncan Taking Heat On Social Media For 'Classless' Rant
The leak of the DJI Flip on Amazon has sparked discussions among drone enthusiasts about the potential impact of this new drone model on the market. With its compact size and lightweight design, the DJI Flip could become a popular choice for drone users looking for a portable and high-performance drone. The leak has also raised questions about the pricing and availability of the DJI Flip, with many eager to learn more about when it will be officially released and how much it will cost.NoneMusk's remarkable increase in net worth has made him a prominent figure in the global business landscape, with his influence extending far beyond the realms of technology and innovation. As a visionary entrepreneur, Musk has captured the world's attention with his bold vision for the future, including plans for manned missions to Mars and the development of sustainable energy solutions.
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