Trump orders probe of copper in first step to tariffs
Trump orders probe of copper in first step to tariffs
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US President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation of copper imports in what is a first step toward potential tariffs on the metal.
Administration officials said the White House wanted to find ways to boost US production of copper, a component used to make electric cars, ships and data centres that they said was vital to national security.
The move launches a process that Trump previously used to put tariffs on steel and aluminium, opening a new front in his trade war.
Trump has already raised tariffs on goods from China, while threatening a range of more sweeping trade actions, including a 25% border tax on goods from Canada and Mexico and new “reciprocal” tariffs set for each country.
The trade fights have drawn threats of retaliation, while raising alarm among consumers and businesses in the US about higher costs.
Concerns about the plans have contributed to a sharp drop in consumer confidence on recent surveys.
But administration officials said on Tuesday they believed this action was necessary to protect US copper companies from competition from China.
“China has long used industrial capacity and dumping as an economic weapon to dominate global markets, systematically undercutting competitors and driving rivals out of business,” Peter Navarro said.
“It’s time for copper to come home,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
Tariffs are taxes charged on goods imported from other countries, which are paid by the company that is bringing in the goods.
They are intended to support domestic production by making imports more expensive.
The US is already a major copper producer, while also importing the metal mainly from Chile, Canada and Mexico.
Last year, it exported more copper than it brought in from abroad, according to data from the census department.
But China’s global copper exports also rose, as domestic demand weakened, and authorities raced to curb production.
The so-called 232 investigation by the Commerce Department will look at copper imports, as well as imports of copper “derivatives”.
The timeline of the probe was not clear. On a background briefing about the action, a White House official said the results of the investigation would inform the level of possible tariffs.
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Mills details Swans' plan to avoid grand final scars
Mills details Swans' plan to avoid grand final scars
After a detailed review, Sydney have put last year’s grand final disaster behind them in pursuit AFL premiership success this season.
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Lucid CEO to step down, company expects vehicle production to more than double this year
Lucid CEO to step down, company expects vehicle production to more than double this year
(Reuters) -Electric-vehicle maker Lucid Group said on Tuesday its Chief Executive Officer Peter Rawlinson will step down from the role, and forecast that vehicle production will more than double this year, sending the company’s shares up 11% in extended trading.
The company’s operating chief, Marc Winterhoff, will take the position of interim CEO.
“Now that we have successfully launched the Lucid Gravity, I have decided it is finally the right time for me to step aside from my roles at Lucid,” Rawlinson said.
The firm also forecast vehicle production this year to be around 20,000, compared with around 9,000 cars it made in 2024.
The company hired veteran finance professional Taoufiq Boussaid as its chief financial officer last month. Boussaid was previously group CFO of Belgium-listed steel and coatings technology company NV Bekaert SA and contributed to reducing debt load.
As the EV demand in the United States remains uncertain, Lucid has been trying to diversify its product lineup and step into the SUV market with the Gravity model, going toe-to-toe with Tesla’s model X and Rivian’s R1S vehicles.
The company continues to lose tens of thousands of dollars per vehicle, while rivals such as Rivian move aggressively to cut costs in a bid to make profits.
Lucid reported revenue of $234.5 million, beating Wall Street expectations of $214.2 million, according to data compiled by LSEG.
It posted a loss of $397.2 million in the quarter ended December 31, compared with a loss of $653.8 million a year ago.
The company’s stock has fallen around 8% so far this year after dropping over 28% in 2024, as the firm faced challenges with selling its luxury sedans, forcing it to cut prices to attract consumers.
Demand for pure battery cars in the U.S. has been slow as people gravitate more towards cheaper hybrids owing to high interest rates and economic uncertainty.
(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)
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More traders turn bullish in first quarter, Schwab survey says
More traders turn bullish in first quarter, Schwab survey says
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor on Feb. 20, 2025.
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An expensive stock market did not prevent traders from getting more bullish as investors increasingly bet that the bull run could keep chugging along, according to Charles Schwab’s new quarterly client survey.
The bulls continue to outnumber the bears among traders 51% to 34%, according to Schwab’s survey, which polled 1,040 active traders last month. Young traders under the age of 40 especially showed a spike in optimism, with bullishness jumping to 59%. That compares to 47% in the fourth quarter. The positive sentiment came even as two-thirds of the traders believe the market is overvalued, the survey said.
“It’s clear that the majority of traders believe there’s some froth in the market but on balance they also feel like there’s still more room for the bulls to run,” said James Kostulias, head of trading services at Charles Schwab. “More than half of traders plan to move additional money into stocks in Q1,” Kostulias added.
While bullishness indicates positive views on the market, it can also be seen as a contrary indicator when there are signs of excess.
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After a booming two-year ******* in which the S&P 500 climbed more than 50%, the momentum has slowed as of late with rising concerns about an economic slowdown and heightened volatility from rapid policy changes from the new administration. The equity benchmark is only up 1.3% on the year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has dipped into negative territory for 2025.
In terms of sectors, traders are most bullish on energy, tech, finance and utilities. These sectors are typically beneficiaries under the Trump administration due to potential deregulation.
The survey also detected a significant drop in the number of traders who believe a recession will occur in the U.S. Only a third of the respondents called it “somewhat likely,” compared to 54% in the prior quarter.
The majority of traders also did not see a reacceleration in inflation, with two-thirds of them seeing price pressures holding steady.
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Trump Administration Moves More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay
Trump Administration Moves More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay
The military transported 17 immigration detainees from Texas to the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Sunday, bringing in new migrants who have been designated for deportation days after it cleared the base of its first group of deportees.
No new migrants had been sent to the base since the Homeland Security Department cleared it of 178 Venezuelans on Thursday.
A brief announcement did not identify the nationalities of the newest arrivals.
The 17 included seven men from Honduras, four from Colombia, three from El Salvador, two from Guatemala and one from Ecuador, according to a document seen by The New York Times. They ranged in age from 23 to 62.
Eight of them were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Trump took office.
A government official said they were in the category of “high-threat ******** aliens,” and therefore were being held in Camp 6, a prison that until last month housed detainees in the war on terrorism.
Last week, the Trump administration delivered 177 Venezuelan men who had been designated for deportation from Guantánamo to the Venezuelan government on an airstrip in Honduras.
It is unclear why those men had to be taken to Guantánamo on 13 military flights from El Paso from Feb. 4 to Feb. 17, and then shuttled to an air base in Honduras on two chartered U.S. aircraft. On Feb. 10, Venezuela sent one of its commercial airliners to El Paso for 190 other Venezuelan citizens the United States wanted to deport.
Juan E. Agudelo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who is based in Miami, said in a court filing on Thursday that the administration was using Guantánamo to “temporarily house aliens before they are removed to their home country or a safe third country.” Mr. Agudelo was unable to predict the length of the average stay for a migrant before deportation beyond “the time necessary to effect the removal orders.”
Sunday’s transfer happened without advanced notice. The U.S. government declined a request last week from a consortium of U.S. civil liberties lawyers that asked for 72 hours’ notice before more people in homeland security custody were sent there.
The government said in a filing that it had made arrangements for would-be deportees being held there to speak by phone with lawyers. Three of the men who were sent home on Thursday had one-hour calls with lawyers who had sued for access to the migrants and specifically named those three.
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RSF Announces Plans for Breakaway Government in Sudan
RSF Announces Plans for Breakaway Government in Sudan
The Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group battling for power in Sudan’s ruinous civil war, took a step toward forming its own breakaway government on Tuesday when it hosted a lavish political event in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The group’s deputy leader, Abdul Rahim Dagalo, who is under American sanctions, was greeted by hundreds of cheering people as he arrived at the elaborate event, held at a state-owned convention center in downtown Nairobi.
Mr. Dagalo did not speak at the event, and a promised charter meant to pave the way for a parallel government in R.S.F.-controlled areas was not signed. Officials said they needed another three days to negotiate the terms of the charter with Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, the leader of another Sudanese rebel faction, who sat beside Mr. Dagalo.
The meeting was a moment of striking symbolism for the R.S.F., which only last month was formally accused of genocide by the United States, and comes against the backdrop of shifting battlefields in Sudan as well as a torrent of American foreign policy changes and evolving alliances in the region.
Sudan’s army has scored a series of battlefield victories in recent months, pushing the R.S.F. out of key areas in Khartoum, the capital, and in central Sudan. The R.S.F. hopes to end that losing streak, and bolster its claim to rule, by forging a government for the considerable swath of the country it holds.
In an amphitheater bedecked with Sudanese flags, where cheering men in white turbans filled entire rows, speakers railed against the army and spoke of their desire to forge a “new Sudan.”
“We need a new constitution and to draw up a new social contract that will resolve the perennial question of how Sudan is governed,” said Mr. al-Hilu, who leads a faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North and has fought successive Sudanese governments for decades from his base in the Nuba Mountains, in southern Sudan.
Other speakers lauded the R.S.F. as a pro-democracy movement and flashed images of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the group’s leader, on a giant screen to loud cheers. Reports from Sudan, though, spoke of fresh atrocities by the group.
Activists and Sudanese officials accused R.S.F. fighters of killing over 200 people, including infants, during a brutal three-day assault on two villages in White Nile state, in the south of the country. Some were shot dead as they attempted to flee across the Nile River, according to Emergency Lawyers, a group that monitors the conflict.
In a statement, Sudan’s foreign ministry put the death toll at 433.
Last week in the Darfur region of western Sudan, R.S.F. fighters stormed a famine-stricken camp in the besieged city of El Fasher in an assault that killed dozens of civilians, aid groups said. The top United Nations official in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, said she was “shocked” by the violence.
Emergency Lawyers also accused Sudan’s army of “barbaric” assaults on civilians, including killings and forced disappearances, as allied fighters hunt for R.S.F. collaborators in Khartoum.
War broke out in April 2023 when Sudan’s army and the R.S.F., whose leaders had seized power in a coup, began fighting in Khartoum. The war has torn asunder one of Africa’s largest countries and led to suffering on a sweeping scale. Fighting has caused tens of thousands of deaths, forced over 12 million people from their homes and set off a rapidly spreading famine that is likely the world’s worst in decades.
President Trump’s foreign aid freeze has deepened the pain. Hundreds of volunteer-run soup kitchens that were feeding over 800,000 people in Khartoum have closed in recent weeks as American funding dried up.
On Monday, the United Nations appealed for $6 billion to respond to the crisis.
Whether the R.S.F. plan to create its own government can succeed is uncertain, as even speakers at Tuesday’s event acknowledged. Sudan has a long history of fragile peace deals that quickly “collapsed, then returned to war,” Mr. al-Hilu told the crowd.
Still, the R.S.F. retains staunch financial and military support from its principal foreign backer, the United Arab Emirates, which appears determined to ensure that its Sudanese proxy does not lose the war, said several foreign officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive assessments.
On Feb. 8 the army chief of the Sudanese military, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, told political leaders in Port Sudan that he also intended to create a new government. It would be composed of “independent people” and led by a new civilian prime minister, he said.
Sudan’s military chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at an event in Port Sudan on Monday.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
If the R.S.F. charter does come to pass, however, it could be a turning point in the war, hardening divisions and splitting the country into rival regions, much as Libya was divided after the ouster of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011.
A portrait of President William Ruto of Kenya hung over the R.S.F. deputy leader, Mr. Dagalo, at the convention center on Tuesday.
That the R.S.F. was able to launch its political project at a state-owned convention center in Nairobi reinforced suspicions among Sudanese officials that Kenya had effectively picked a side in the conflict.
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Google’s free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits – Ars Technica
Google’s free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits – Ars Technica
Google’s free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits Ars TechnicaGet coding help from Gemini Code Assist — now for free The KeywordGoogle Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual users The VergeGoogle just made AI coding assistance free for everyone – with very generous limits ZDNet
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Melbourne defence key to toppling Cotton-led Wildcats
Melbourne defence key to toppling Cotton-led Wildcats
Chris Goulding’s hot hand could be a decisive factor in the NBL finals but Melbourne United’s veteran sharpshooter believes his team’s defence holds the key to beating the Perth Wildcats.
The familiar foes square off in a best-of-three Playoffs series, starting at John Cain Arena on Thursday night.
Melbourne hold the edge this season, winning all three meetings to date, highlighted by Goulding’s remarkable 46-point haul in the November clash.
Blunting Wildcats legend Bryce Cotton is a focal point for United, who held the five-time NBL MVP to just 14 points in their latest meeting.
Two-time defensive player of the year Shea Ili was due most of the credit, but Goulding said keeping Cotton quiet will require a team effort this time around.
“We have guys across the board that do things on the defensive end that are inspirational and it’s not just Shea,” Goulding said.
“Shea is certainly one of those guys who can spur us on and he makes everyone want to defend a little bit better.
“But Bryce has had a remarkable year and he’s pretty tough to slow down.”
Cotton averages a career-high 28.5 points per game this season, having scored 40 points or more six times, while Keanu Pinder (15.8) and Kristian Doolittle (14.2) are also capable of tearing games apart.
“They’re a potent scoring team and they’ve really leaned into their scoring ability,” Goulding said.
“They want to put points on the board and put them on quick.
“We feel like when we’re really good we’re one of the best, if not the best, defensive teams in the league.
“It’s going to be a clash on those ends – whether our defence can hold up against a really talented offensive team.”
As well as winning three straight against the Wildcats this season, Melbourne have been victorious on 10 of their last 11 trips to Perth.
United, who finished second on the ladder behind Illawarra, have earned home-court advantage for the Playoff series and will start favourites.
Goulding has enjoyed a long-running battle against the Wildcats since spending the 2008/09 season – his second in the NBL – with the WA club.
“They have a great fanbase and they always have big crowds, and as a player they’re the games that you want to play in,” the 36-year-old said.
“Even when they come to Melbourne, I feel like they’ve got a lot of fans here that come into the arena and make a bit of noise.
“They’re one of those clubs that you like to compete against. They always play really hard and they’re always good games.”
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Bungie Lawsuit Had To Cite Destiny 2 Fan Videos Because In-Game Content No Longer Exists
Bungie Lawsuit Had To Cite Destiny 2 Fan Videos Because In-Game Content No Longer Exists
Bungie hasn’t been shy about deleting older content from Destiny 2 (a process it calls “vaulting”) in order to make room for new stuff, but it appears this controversial practice had some unintended consequences. As part of a lawsuit filed against them, Bungie had to cite fan videos from YouTube, because the content in question is no longer part of the game.
Per Game File, a sci-fi writer named Matthew Kelsey Martineau filed a lawsuit against Bungie last year, alleging that an enemy faction called the Red Legion was plagiarized from the author’s WordPress writing. In its response, Bungie dismissed the claims as baseless, but the company’s counsel was forced to cite fan YouTube compilations of cutscenes and gameplay from the vaulted original campaign of Destiny 2 in order to make their case. While the publisher would normally be able to simply submit a copy of the game as an exhibit, that’s not possible here for obvious reasons.
“Because (1) Destiny 2’s narrative is only available to players in the form of a live-service video game that has changed significantly over time, and (2) physical copies of Destiny 2, and any 2017 version of Destiny 2, are no longer available, the attached videos are the best possible way for the Court to review the accused work,” reads the explanation given to the Court in part. In lieu of this, Bungie linked two videos, including a ten hour “complete story of Destiny” compilation from YouTuber My Name is Byf.
It’s been some time since Bungie last vaulted content, although it has progressively reintroduced certain key content, including raids, that were rendered unplayable for an extended ******* of time.
There’s still no word on the outcome of the lawsuit.
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People Zoomed Into This Picture Of Donald Trump And Found A, Uhh, Scary Surprise
People Zoomed Into This Picture Of Donald Trump And Found A, Uhh, Scary Surprise
Donald Trump posed for a picture with some airplane model this man was selling.
A person in a suit holds an Overture One model jet in an office setting, surrounded by historical portraits
Well, @Jack_Frodo asked people to ZOOM IN.
Person holding a model airplane in a formal setting with portraits and flags in the background. Tweet text highlights the Overture One model availability
I spy with my little eye a Space Force flag…
Space Force flag displayed in a formal room with books and artwork in the background
There’s a bust of MLK Jr….
Bust of Martin Luther King Jr. on a mantle, with ornate wall and partial view of a chair in the background
I even see that the plane says “*****,” but that’s not it either…
Person in formal attire holds a model airplane with “*****” written on the wing
Oh! There it is.
A person with styled hair and a blue suit, featuring a U.S. flag pin, smiles indoors with a decorative background
Right under his little ear hairs.
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There’s Elon.
A man is partially visible with a prominent ear and smile in the foreground, while another person is reflected in a gold ornate mirror in the background
“Why is he EVERYWHERE,” this person asked.
Tweet by user @Asteromata saying, “Why is he EVERYWHERE.”
“Trump blink twice if he has your family hostage!” another person said.
Blurred reflection of a man’s face in a shiny, ornate surface, with a humorous text above about blinking if held hostage
And a bunch of people said something like, “this is a metaphor.”
Tweet with username “@ladidaix” and profile photo. Text says, “this is a metaphor” followed by multiple crying emojis
Sweet dreams!
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February consumer confidence posts biggest drop since 2021 in latest sign of slowing economy
February consumer confidence posts biggest drop since 2021 in latest sign of slowing economy
Consumers grew more pessimistic about the economic outlook in February as worries brewed about a slowing economy and rising inflation, the Conference Board reported Tuesday.
The board’s Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 98.3 for the month, down 7 points and below the Dow Jones forecast for 102.3. This was the lowest reading since June 2024 and the largest monthly drop since August 2021.
“Views of current labor market conditions weakened. Consumers became pessimistic about future business conditions and less optimistic about future income,” said Stephanie Guichard, the board’s senior economist for global indicators. “Pessimism about future employment prospects worsened and reached a ten-month high.”
The decline in consumer confidence comes with President Donald Trump threatening additional tariffs against U.S. trading partners. Trump said Monday that duties against Canada and Mexico “will go forward” in March after a delay in February.
Economists worry that the tariffs could spark another round of inflation at a time when the Federal Reserve is considering whether to lower interest rates further or hold steady as policymakers weigh the impact of Trump’s aggressive fiscal and trade policy moves.
Consumers are worried as well: 12-month inflation expectations jumped to 6%, up from 5.2% the prior month and well ahead of the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal.
“This increase likely reflected a mix of factors, including sticky inflation but also the recent jump in prices of key household staples like eggs and the expected impact of tariffs,” Guichard said. “There was a sharp increase in the mentions of trade and tariffs, back to a level unseen since 2019. Most notably, comments on the current Administration and its policies dominated the responses.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cautioned about the potential for slow growth and “sticky” inflation. He blamed the Biden administration for fostering an economy dependent too much on government spending and said the plan now is to build a more diverse economy through tax cuts, deregulation and tariffs.
“The previous administration’s over-reliance on excessive government spending and overbearing regulation left us with an economy that may have exhibited some reasonable metrics but ultimately was brittle underneath, and heading for an unstable equilibrium,” Bessent said .
Stocks briefly moved lower following the Conference Board release while Treasury yields added to a sharp slide on the day. The 10-year Treasury yield, a traditional barometer for growth expectations, fell nearly 10 basis points, or 0.1 percentage point, to 4.29%.
“We should expect some short-term behavioral shifts within the consumer,” wrote Jeffrey ******, chief U.S. economist at LPL Financial. “Consumers are increasingly nervous about the unknown impacts from potential tariffs and could pull forward consumer demand as they anticipate higher prices for imports in the near future.”
Though most economic indicators reflect continued growth, the Conference Board gauge matches other recent surveys showing waning confidence. Last week, the University of Michigan reported a larger-than-expected monthly decrease of nearly 10% in February while the five-year inflation outlook among respondents hit its highest level since 1995.
In the Conference Board survey, the decline came across age groups and income levels. The survey covered the time ******* up to Feb. 19.
Along with the overall drop in confidence, the Expectations Index tumbled 9.3 points to a 72.9 reading, the first time since June 2024 that the measure has fallen below the level consistent with recession. However, the current conditions measured improved somewhat, with 19.6% saying conditions are “good,” up 1.1 percentage points from January.
At the same time, a closely watched measure of the labor market saw a worsening, with 33.4% saying that jobs were “plentiful” while 16.3% said positions are “hard to get.” That compared to respective readings of 33.9% and 14.5% in January.
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China Defends South Africa’s G20 Ambitions as Rubio Snubs Meeting
China Defends South Africa’s G20 Ambitions as Rubio Snubs Meeting
With the United States’ top diplomat boycotting, foreign ministers from some of the world’s largest economies rallied together at a Group of 20 meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday and sought to push back against what they saw as President Trump’s attempt to upend the global order.
During the meeting, some of the United States’ once closest allies worked to hold the line against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and firm up commitments to fight climate change, issues for which the Trump administration has recently reversed America’s course.
Mr. Trump has expressed support for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia’s war effort, and this week called the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a dictator.
“When I heard this, I was like, ‘Oh, he must be mixing the two,’” said Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat. “Putin is the dictator.”
Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, was in attendance at the meeting and pressed his country’s case against Kyiv, according to Ms. Kallas and other diplomats. Ms. Kallas castigated Mr. Lavrov and Russia, accusing the country of “brutally attacking” Ukraine and saying that Moscow did not want peace.
Although the Trump administration appears to be drifting toward Moscow, European countries needed to remain united in their opposition to Russia, she said, and act as a counterweight to Washington’s unpredictable policy decisions.
“As a European Union, we see that a lot of partners are turning to us because we are the reliable and the predictable partner,” she said. “And so that has value in these current turbulent times.”
“For us right now, it’s more important to focus on what the Europeans do, not so much what the Americans say,” she added. “Because, of course, today we go to sleep here and then we wake up to some new statements.”
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he was boycotting this week’s Group of 20 meeting, accusing the host, South Africa, of “doing very bad things.”
Mr. Rubio said the country was using its hosting duties to promote diversity and climate change by choosing “solidarity, equality and sustainability” as the theme of this year’s summit.
Wang Yi, the ******** foreign minister, defended South Africa’s ambitions, saying in a brief interview on Thursday that the theme was agreed upon by the entire group.
“The very founding of the G20 was aimed at coordinating the macroeconomic policies of different countries,” he said. “Under the current circumstances, it is particularly important to respond to the needs of developing countries.”
This is the first time an African nation is hosting the summit, which consists of many meetings throughout the year. In addressing the meeting on Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa doubled down on his effort to focus on the needs of African nations — and those of developing countries more broadly.
He emphasized that wealthy nations are among the biggest polluters and urged them to provide more funding for climate change mitigation in Africa. He also called for help with debt relief for African nations and for better terms on loans.
“We’ve often been a continent that has been relegated to the back,” Mr. Ramaphosa said during a news conference. “The G20 gives us as Africans the moment to put our issues on the global agenda.”
Mr. Ramaphosa found himself in the awkward position of having to talk with restraint about the United States, even though Mr. Trump recently froze all U.S. funding to South Africa and signed an executive order attacking South African law.
The executive order accuses the South African government of discriminating against members of the country’s white Afrikaner ********* and offers them refugee status to come to the United States.
South African officials have responded angrily to the order, saying it is based on misinformation. Yet Mr. Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he believed the two nations would sort out their differences.
“The secretary of state not attending is, in the end, not a train smash because the United States is still represented here,” he said, referring to the U.S. delegation at the meeting. “We may not agree on everything, but we always find a way of relating to each other.”
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Best Clipping Software for Creating CS2 Highlights
Best Clipping Software for Creating CS2 Highlights
You’ve just hit a beautiful clip in Counter-Strike 2. A 1v4 or a 1v5 in the final rounds of regulation to give your team the win. Your voice chat crackles to life with the sounds of your jubilant teammates. But then reality sets in: you don’t have any program to clip it with.
So many CS2 players have lost clips to the void because they don’t have any clipping software. With all the choices, it can feel overwhelming to pick one, but most provide the same basic features while offering some neat additional ones. Here are our recommendations for the best clipping software to capture your CS2 highlights.
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Best CS2 Clipping Software
Medal
Medal is a popular choice for clipping highlights from CS2 and other titles. There are several features that Medal utilizes that are attractive to players, including built-in editor tools and an activity feed where you can share and view other clips. Medal lets players hit a shortcut key to save footage from the past 15 seconds up all the way to the past 20 minutes, or the entirety of the gameplay session. You can also use the editing tools on video that wasn’t captured through Medal.
Medal offers a premium the enables cloud sync and larger uploads to the feed, but it’s also a free-to-use application.
SteelSeries GG
The SteelSeries GG application, which is used for managing your SteelSeries devices, also features a Moments section for clipping highlights of CS2 and other games. What sets it apart from other pieces of software is an auto-clip feature that automatically slips specific moments. For CS2 in particular, it will automatically detect and clip 3-kill rounds, headshot kills, and knife kills, but you can adjust it to only include one or two of these events. Additionally, after your game closes, a window pops up of all the clips generated, letting you quickly delete ones not worth keeping.
Steam Game Recording
Steam introduced Steam Game Recording back in June 2024, giving players the option to sign up for the program beta and clip highlights through Steam. Steam Game Recording offers two recording options: manual recording that starts and stops with a keyboard recording, or automatic “background recording” that saves your most recent two hours of gameplay. After recording, players can use the built-in clip editor to trim down recordings into clips.
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Trump’s Ukraine Mineral Deal Is Seen as ‘Protection Racket’ Diplomacy
Trump’s Ukraine Mineral Deal Is Seen as ‘Protection Racket’ Diplomacy
Ukraine is nearing a deal to hand over a portion of its revenues from natural resources to the United States, under heavy pressure from the Trump administration.
The agreement, in its current form, would not include any explicit security guarantees to deter Russian aggression. The White House has argued that the mere existence of American economic interests should be sufficient for Ukraine, which is facing a harsh reality: The United States wants to be paid in exchange for helping the country fend off an invader.
“What better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States?” Mike Waltz, the U.S. national security adviser, said on Friday.
Mr. Trump has long demanded that NATO and other allies contribute more to their own defense. But the minerals agreement would represent a major escalation in his transactional approach to foreign policy. The United States was once seen as the world’s policeman, but to many analysts it now seems more like an extortionate ****** kingpin.
The explicit demand for Ukraine’s mineral wealth while the country is in dire straits has the “feel of a protection racket,” said Virginia Page Fortna, a political scientist at Columbia University who is a leading expert on peace agreements.
“The new security guarantee is essentially a shakedown,” said Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to the statement by Mr. Waltz that being in “economic partnership” with the United States would ensure Ukraine’s security.
Experts cannot recall a precedent for the United States, or any other country, extracting cash or resources from its own allies during a time of war. They say Mr. Trump’s transactional diplomacy sends a message to allies that the United States cannot be trusted to help its friends or honor its obligations. And it tells his adversaries that he is willing to give up long-term strategic interests for short-term wins, experts say.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Friday, Mr. Trump said, “We’re going to either sign a deal, or there’s going to be a lot of problems with them.”
Not just ‘the quiet part out loud’
During my reporting for this column, I spoke to six experts on peace negotiations. None of them were aware of any situation in which the United States or any other country demanded a formal payment agreement from its own partner during a war.
It might seem like the demand that Ukraine hand over its mineral wealth is just Mr. Trump being blunt about a diplomatic truth that is usually left unsaid: That security guarantees often have an implicit price. But in fact, experts say his approach represents a radical departure for American foreign policy.
There are plenty of cases in which the United States has used its military might to protect U.S. economic interests. For example, ensuring access to oil has been a central pillar of U.S. policy in the Middle East, most notably in the first Gulf War, when the U.S. defended Kuwait from an invasion by Iraq.
But the United States “never said to the Kuwaitis, ‘Hey, you gotta pay us for this,’” said Mr. Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations. Allies such as Saudi Arabia helped to fund the Gulf War, but not under duress. “It wasn’t like ***** Cheney showed up in Saudi Arabia in August and said, ‘Here’s our terms,’” Cook added.
The message to friendly nations: ‘Pay me’
The president’s latest tactics suggest that he is trying to apply the lessons of machine politics in New York City, where he built his real-estate career, to the world of international relations.
As my colleague Maggie Haberman has reported, Mr. Trump’s model of leadership seem to be based on figures like Meade Esposito, a boss of the Brooklyn Democratic machine who controlled patronage jobs and ruled with an “iron fist.” In machine politics, every decision is essentially an opportunity for political bosses to extract benefits for themselves and their supporters, and extracting more favors is a signal of more power.
But scholars of international relations say that foreign policy doesn’t work that way.
In international relations, credibility is a crucial element of power. Deterrence depends on whether a country keeps its promises. Without that credibility, hostile countries are more likely to test the limits.
It is no longer clear which countries the Trump administration sees as friends and which it sees as foes. But in either case, his actions also send a clear message that the United States is at best an unreliable and expensive partner — and at worst that it will treat any country’s dependence on the United States as a weakness to exploit, experts said.
“What we’re seeing is a successful short-run strategy and a disastrous long-run strategy,” said Joseph Nye, a political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School who coined the term ‘soft power.’
A coercive, adversarial approach like Mr. Trump’s can arguably be effective at extracting short-term concessions, Nye said. Canada and Mexico both promised to increase border security and pursue better fentanyl enforcement, which won them a 30-day reprieve on the tariffs that he threatened.
But in the long term, countries that are currently partners in U.S. trade and foreign policy now have a strong incentive to seek closer relationships with countries like China.
In Europe, there is already a push to increase military spending in order to be less reliant on the United States, which could have unpredictable consequences. Turkey, which has the second-largest military of any NATO country, could become a more important regional power.
The message to foes: ‘Let’s make a deal’
Analysts say Mr. Trump’s foreign policy sends a message to Russia and other hostile countries that may be even more consequential: that the United States is willing to prioritize short-term financial gain over its broader long-term interests.
Or perhaps the United States could simply be bought out with a better offer. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Monday that the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal was not a concern to him because Russia has “significantly more resources of this kind than Ukraine.” He is ready to “offer” mineral resources to American partners, he said, including from the ‘new territories’ Russia has occupied in eastern Ukraine.
President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo, perhaps sensing that U.S. support is now available to those who can pay, has recently offered to make a mineral deal with the United States, granting access to strategic minerals like coltan and cobalt in exchange for support against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group.
Diminished U.S. credibility could invite China to test the U.S. commitment to defending Taiwan or territories within the South China Sea. That could endanger longtime U.S. partners and increase the risk that the United States could be drawn into a devastating war with China.
Even if Mr. Trump walks back his provocations in Ukraine and elsewhere, as he has done with his plan for the United States to occupy Gaza, it may take a long time to rebuild what has been lost in the last few weeks.
“A lot of the damage to the credibility of the United States is already done,” Ms. Fortna said.
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Utah on the verge of being the first state to ban fluoride in public water The HillUtah Legislature approves ban on cities adding fluoride in public water Utah News DispatchUtah lawmakers vote to say farewell to fluoridated drinking water Deseret NewsFluoride will be banned from Utah’s water supplies — but only if Cox signs this bill Salt Lake Tribune
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Six babies have died from cold in two weeks, medics say
Six babies have died from cold in two weeks, medics say
At least six babies have died in the past two weeks in Gaza due to the cold weather and lack of adequate shelter and heating, ************ medics and health officials say.
Doctors at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society hospital in Gaza City, in the north, said nine newborn babies suffering from cold injuries had been admitted, five of whom had died, with one other in a critical condition.
The family of a two-month-old girl also said she had died due to the cold near the southern city of Khan Younis overnight.
The PFBS hospital called for the urgent delivery of caravans and fuel to improve conditions for the estimated 945,000 displaced Palestinians living in tents and makeshift shelters.
The ************ armed group ****** has accused Israel of failing to allow in agreed amounts of tents, caravans and other shelter supplies during a ceasefire that began five weeks ago. Israel has denied this.
Most of Gaza’s 2.1 million population has been displaced multiple times during the 16-month war between Israel and ****** and almost 70% of buildings in the territory are estimated to be damaged or destroyed.
The healthcare system has also collapsed, with only 18 of the 35 hospitals partially functional and shortages of essential medical equipment.
According to meteorological websites, the night-time temperature in Gaza has regularly fallen below 10C (50F) over the past two weeks.
It dropped to 3C (37F) on Monday night, after the PFBS hospital’s medical director Dr Saeed Salah had warned in a video that three babies suffering from cold injuries, including hypothermia, had died over the same *******.
He said the babies were only one or two days old, and had weighed between 1.7kg and 2kg (3.7-4.4lbs).
On Tuesday, Dr Salah and a paediatrician at the hospital, Dr Samer Lubad, reported that another two newborns had died.
“The last several weeks we [had] nine neonates in our hospital. And they came with case that they call ‘cold injury’ or hypothermia,” Dr Lubad told Al Jazeera TV.
“Three babies survived and were treated successfully and discharged home. There is still one baby in our neonatal ICU in a critical general condition.”
He added: “Of course, this condition is because of the cold weather and lack of safe shelters, lack of central heating, and lack of electricity in the Gaza Strip.”
Meanwhile, the head of the paediatric department at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told the Associated Press that it had received the body of a two-month-old girl who had died of hypothermia on Tuesday.
A video posted by a local journalist appeared to show the girl being buried by her father and uncle, who said she was named Sham Yousef al-Shambari.
He said she had been healthy and that her mother had found her “stiff as wood from the cold” when she tried to wake her for feeding during the night inside the family’s tent in the al-Mawasi area.
Dr Muneer al-Boursh, director general of the ******-run health ministry in Gaza, said in a statement a total of 15 children had died due to the cold since the start of the winter.
He also alleged that Israel had “failed to comply with humanitarian protocols, including allowing the entry of medical equipment, heating supplies, tents, and mobile homes” since the ceasefire began on 19 January.
****** has previously said that Israel was required to allow in about 300,000 tents and 60,000 caravans during the six-week-long first phase of the deal.
Israeli military body Cogat said Israel was “committed to and complies with the obligation to allow the entry of 4,200 humanitarian aid trucks per week” into Gaza, including those carrying tents and shelter supplies.
“Based on the data available to us, hundreds of thousands of tents have entered the Gaza Strip since the agreement came into effect,” it added.
It comes amid continued uncertainty over whether the ceasefire will continue past Saturday, when the deal’s first phase is set to expire.
On Sunday, Israel postponed the release of some 600 ************ prisoners and detainees in exchange for 10 hostages who had been handed over by ******, accusing the group of cynically using its hostages for propaganda purposes.
****** accused Israel of a “blatant” violation of the deal and said indirect talks about further steps, including on the deal’s second phase, were conditional on the prisoners being released.
The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy ****** in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
At least 48,348 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s health ministry.
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Residents out of their homes ‘for a year’
Residents out of their homes ‘for a year’
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Over 20 households in Godstone are still away from their homes due to the sinkholes
Residents of a Surrey village where two large sinkholes have opened up have been told it could be up to a year before they are all able to return to their properties.
Residents and businesses of Godstone are attending a meeting on Tuesday evening made up of a panel of Surrey Police, SES Water, Godstone Parish Council, Tandridge District Council and Surrey County Council.
Lloyd Allen, from Surrey Highways on behalf of SCC, told the meeting that work has already begun to investigate why the sinkhole has occurred and surveys of the land below will take place.
Two households who were evacuated due to the collapse in the road remain in emergency accommodation.
‘No response’
People who were at the meeting were angry at SES Water, who provide the supply to the east Surrey village.
After the sinkhole occurred, two of the three pipes that supplied the village were broken.
The water firm said that water supplies have now been restored to all the houses that currently have occupants in.
But some residents, who said they were on the SES Water emergency list, said they did not get a response.
One man in the meeting said he called the water company twice and could not get through.
He said he was fortunate enough to be able to drive to a water station but other people were not.
The water company also apologised for some incorrect communications which were put out.
The water company’s spokeswomen at the meeting said that “safety is our top priority”.
Over 20 households in the East Surrey village remain unable to return to their properties on the High Street.
The majority of them have now been relocated into more long-term accommodation.
Over the weekend, the council reported that the huge sinkhole was swallowing up even more road, threatening homes, cars and gardens.
The parish council said an operation by Surrey Highways to investigate the two holes had had to be delayed until next week due to safety concerns.
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******** warships re-enter Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone, Department of Defence says
******** warships re-enter Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone, Department of Defence says
Three ******** warships have re-entered Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone after recently completing live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) frigates and replenishment vessel have been tracked about 296km east of Hobart, Defence said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Task Group 107 re-entered Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the early hours of this morning,” it said.
Camera IconPLA-N’s Renhai-class cruiser Zunyi in the Solomon Sea. ADF Credit: Supplied
The department confirmed it was working with the New Zealand Defence Force in tracking the task group while it remained within Australia’s maritime borders.
“PLA-N Task Group 107, comprised of the Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang, the Renhai-class Cruiser Zunyi and the Fuchi-class replenishment vessel Weishanhu, is operating approximately 160 nautical miles (296 kilometres) east of Hobart,” it said.
“Australia expects all militaries operating in the region to engage transparently, maintain the highest standards of safety and professionalism, and we encourage all states to maintain open communication to ensure their actions support regional security and stability.
”We respect the right of all states under international law to exercise freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace, just as we expect others to respect our right to do the same.”
Camera IconThe PLA-N Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang here in the Tasman Sea. ADF Credit: Supplied
The government has formally protested the live military drills that occurred outside Australia’s economic zone, Anthony Albanese said on Monday.
“So we put in an official protest, if you like, that more notice should have been given if this activity was to occur,” the Prime Minister said.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that ******** authorities had not given a “satisfactory” explanation for live-fire drills conducted in the zone, the first of which forced 49 commercial flights to alter their courses at short notice.
In a statement, ******** defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian challenged the *********** government’s version of events, saying it had issued repeated safety notices.
Camera IconNews broke of the warships on Friday when a commercial pilot alerted authorities of the live military drills being conducted in the Tasman Sea. ADF Credit: Supplied
“China’s actions are in full compliance with international law and international practices and will not affect aviation flight safety,” Mr Wu said.
“Australia, knowing this well, made unreasonable accusations against China and deliberately hyped it up. We are deeply surprised and strongly dissatisfied with this.”
Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone is a maritime boundary established in 1994 that gives the nation sovereign rights within 12 to 200 nautical miles of the coastline.
Aviation officials first learnt of the live military exercises after a Virgin Australia pilot overheard chatter from the ships while flying nearby and alerted Airservices Australia on Friday.
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This is who the White House says is the DOGE acting administrator
This is who the White House says is the DOGE acting administrator
A White House official says Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, after the White House struggled to answer who is technically at the top of the organizational chart.
Gleason declined to comment on her appoint as acting DOGE administrator. Gleason’s LinkedIn lists her as a U.S. Digital Services senior adviser, and she has a background in consulting and the medical field.
When CBS News spoke to Gleason Tuesday morning ahead of her announcement as DOGE acting administrator, she said she was in Mexico and declined to comment further.
Last week, the White House said in a court filing that Elon Musk isn’t an employee of DOGE, and “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself,” after President Trump previously announced Musk would run the cost-cutting project. The White House hasn’t had a clear answer since who is in charge of DOGE.
During Tuesday’s White House briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she wouldn’t provide the name of the acting administrator from the podium, but would follow up.
“President tasked Elon Musk to oversee the DOGE effort,” Leavitt said. “There are career officials and there are political appointees who are helping run DOGE on a day-to-day basis. There are also individuals who have onboarded as political appointees at every agency across the board to work alongside President Trump’s cabinet to find and identify waste fraud and abuse, and they are working on that effort every day.”
Musk, a special government employee, will attend Mr. Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Leavitt confirmed earlier this week.
Over the weekend, federal workers received an email instructing them to list five things they accomplished in the week prior, and Musk said those who didn’t reply would lose their jobs. Multiple agencies told workers to ignore the request and not to reply. It’s not clear what will happen next.
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Japan’s ANA to purchase mega-order of 77 new jets
Japan’s ANA to purchase mega-order of 77 new jets
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) will have approximately 320 aircraft in its fleet by the financial year 2030 (Richard A. Brooks)
Japan’s biggest airline ANA Holdings announced Tuesday it will purchase 77 new aircraft from Boeing, Airbus and Embraer to replenish its fleet in order to serve growing passenger demand domestically and internationally.
The order will be valued at a total of 2.1 trillion yen (about $14 billion) at catalogue prices before discounts, the company said, adding in a separate statement that 68 orders have been confirmed, with nine options for small and medium-size aircraft.
This mega-order is done “in anticipation of future growth in passenger demand, including strong inbound demand”, it said.
“This will be achieved by renewing the fleet that was suspended due to the Covid-19 and placing additional orders for new aircraft.”
From Boeing, the company will purchase 18 widebody 787-9 aircraft — used for “international routes in anticipation of strong Asia-North America demand” — and a dozen 737-8 jets.
ANA, or All Nippon Airways, will also be purchasing a total of 27 Airbus aircraft — some of which would be used by Peach, a low-cost carrier owned by ANA.
For domestic routes, ANA will order 20 100-seat class Embraer E190-E2 aircraft, saying it was “the first time in Japan” for the Brazilian plane manufacturer.
“This order will be the catalyst for improving the profitability of domestic flights and the expansion of international flights which is an area of future growth of our airline business,” said ANA Holdings president and CEO Koji Shibata in the statement.
“We will fully utilize this opportunity in order to become an industry-leading airline with sustainable growth.”
With this massive buy, the total number of aircraft in the Group’s fleet — including those already ordered — will be approximately 320 by the financial year 2030.
More than half would be the Boeing 787 series aircraft, ANA said.
Boeing said it was “honored” that ANA selected the 787 Dreamliner and 737 MAX to expand its fleet.
“This order is a testament to the market-leading capabilities of Boeing’s wide-ranging family of airplanes. We look forward to working closely with ANA to finalize the agreement,” the US aviation giant said in a statement.
A spokesperson for Airbus said: “We are pleased that ANA has decided to grow its fleet with a new order for 24 A321neo and three A321XLR aircraft. We look forward to finalising the details.”
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Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson steps down; EV maker plans to double production
Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson steps down; EV maker plans to double production
Brand new Lucid electric cars sit parked in front of a Lucid Studio showroom in San Francisco on May 24, 2024.
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Electric vehicle maker Lucid Group on Tuesday said CEO Peter Rawlinson is stepping down as the company expects to more than double vehicle production in 2025 to 20,000 units.
Lucid reported production of 9,029 vehicles and deliveries of 10,241 cars in 2024. That included production of 3,386 units and delivery of 3,099 vehicles during the fourth quarter, the company said in January.
Lucid said Marc Winterhoff, currently the company’s chief operating officer, will step in as interim CEO. Rawlinson will serve as a “strategic technical advisor to the chairman of the board, stepping aside from his prior roles.”
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Workday (WDAY) Q4 earnings report 2025
Workday (WDAY) Q4 earnings report 2025
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Workday, the maker of human resources and finance software, reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday. The shares popped more than 7% in extended trading.
Here’s how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus:
Earnings per share: $1.92 adjusted vs. $1.78 expectedRevenue: $2.21 billion vs. $2.18 billion expected
Revenue increased 15% year over year in the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, according to a statement. Net income fell to $94 million, or 35 cents per share, from $1.19 billion, or $4.52 per share, in the same quarter a year earlier.
“The prior year ******* benefited from a $1.1 billion release of the valuation allowance related to U.S. federal and state deferred tax assets,” Workday said.
The company said it’s seeing greater demand for artificial intelligence tools.
“Workday’s unified platform gives customers the ultimate advantage — helping them unlock value faster, reduce total cost of ownership, and harness the power of AI across our best-in-class HR and finance solutions,” CEO Carl Eschenbach said in the statement.
During the quarter, Workday announced the hiring of former UiPath CEO Rob Enslin as its new president and chief commercial officer. Workday also said it would use AI to summarize employee feedback in its Peakon product.
The company called for a 28% adjusted operating margin on $2.05 billion in subscription revenue for the fiscal first quarter. Analysts polled by StreetAccount had expected an adjusted margin of 26.7% and $2.06 billion in revenue.
For the 2026 fiscal year, Workday now sees an adjusted margin of 28%, with $8.8 billion in subscription revenue, implying 14% growth. That’s slightly higher than the forecast that management gave in November.
As of Tuesday’s close, Workday shares were flat year over year, while the S&P 500 index was up 1%.
Executives will discuss the results with analysts on a conference call starting at 4:30 p.m. ET.
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Two Point Museum Review – You’ll Dig This Relaxing Museum Sim | COGconnected
Two Point Museum Review – You’ll Dig This Relaxing Museum Sim | COGconnected
Erickson from Sirus Gaming wrote: “The Two Point Games are known for their quirkiness and unique brand of humor. Two Point Hospital was an homage to one of my favorite classics: Theme Hospital. Two Point Campus took a different approach to handling a school curriculum but remained structurally similar to Hospital. Two Point Museum, on the other hand, fundamentally changed every aspect of its gameplay for the sake of its new Exhibits and Exploration systems. And it turned out way better than I expected.”
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