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Starbucks stock is a bright spot in Wednesday's bleak market. Here's why

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq were headed for back-to-back losses . A rise in oil prices Wednesday on renewed Iran war tensions pressured stocks.

Global supply chains keep workers poor: Three case studies show how the cycle can be broken

Global supply chains keep workers poor: Three case studies show how the cycle can be broken Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Globally, about 1 in 5 people in jobs live in poverty. A key reason lies in how global supply chains are organized.

‘Anything but normal’: Uncertainty as Iranians try to get by amid US war

‘Anything but normal’: Uncertainty as Iranians try to get by amid US war War damage and blockade have worsened economic conditions for many struggling Iranians. Tehran, Iran – Months into a war with the United States and after another flareup of fighting with Israel, daily conversations in Iran have been dominated by conflict and economic survival. Many residents of the capital, Tehran, went to work over the past two days with war and peace on their minds, as US President Donald Trump...

Food industries embrace AI sensors to improve efficiencies

Food industries embrace AI sensors to improve efficiencies Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Food waste is a nagging problem that weighs heavily on global food production, distribution and sales industries—but an emerging generation of AI sensors is providing a raft of fresh solutions. The embrace of AI in food industries has been swift, which is why Flinders University researchers have worked with an international research team to build the first comprehensive overview of...

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

⚡️ Built for agentic and long-context workloads. 💡 KVarN delivers 3-5x more KV-cache capacity and up to ~1.3x the throughput of FP16, so you fit far longer contexts and serve more concurrent requests, with FP16-level accuracy. 🔌 Calibration-free, plug-and-play with vLLM.

Trump’s 12.5% additional tariffs move under Section 301: What does it mean for India

Two days after Commerce minister Piyush Goyal said that the India-US trade deal was now down to finalising the ‘commas and full stops’, the Donald Trump administration has proposed to impose additional tariffs on countries under its Section 301 probe. India is one of the many countries that has been named. The Section 301 probe launched by the US in March 2026 is a known variable in India’s trade deal talks with America.

People with this blood pressure reading at 16% higher risk of dying from dementia

People with this blood pressure reading at 16% higher risk of dying from dementia Experts say there are other key ways to help reduce your risk of dementia too People with a genetic predisposition for elevated pulse pressure face a higher likelihood of dementia-related death, new research has revealed. The study discovered that this blood pressure measurement could heighten risk by 16 per cent. Pulse pressure, a key indicator of cardiovascular risk, is determined by subtracting the lower...

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Now, that's a lot of word processing. But under the hood it's still at least PDP-8 adjacent, even considering its oddities and incompatibilities, and you can make it do many of the things a full-size Eight can. We'll take this basic unit, convert the floppy drives to solid state, tap the video output, and put it through its paces.

Live: ASX tipped lower despite Wall St gains, AUD flat, oil retreats

live Markets live blog: ASX 200 tipped lower despite Wall St gains, AUD flat, oil retreats amid Iran war peace talks ASX futures are pointing to a slight decline to begin winter, with the Australian share market expected to open about 13 points lower. The weakness comes despite a solid finish on Wall Street on Friday, with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all ending higher. Investors are weighing easing inflation concerns, the outlook for interest rates, and hopes for a lasting peace in the...