The Cardinals make the trip to Boston to face the Red Sox! The Cardinals played well to start the season, while the Red Sox were inconsistent. This is a big momentum game, and either team could win. It’s time to continue our MLB odds series with a Cardinals-Red Sox prediction and pick. Cardinals-Red Sox Projected […]
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The Magic City Classic football might face budget cuts by Alabama lawmakers, which has raised concern from Alabama Senator Rodger Smitherman. The Magic City Classic is an annual football game between longtime rivals Alabama State University and Alabama A&M University in Birmingham, Alabama. According to WBRC-TV, Birmingham city officials predicted that the game and accompanying […]
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One of the most disappointing teams relative to preseason expectations in college hoops was North Carolina basketball this season, and the Tar Heels are determined to ensure that doesn’t happen again. Hubert Davis and company are hard at work in the transfer portal, and they made a big-time pickup on Friday. Former Arizona big man […]
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PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff war has triggered a global market meltdown, with London and Wall Street suffering their biggest slide since the pandemic began.
Here we take a look at which companies have been worst hit…
BANKS: Typically safe financial institutions have been in free-fall. Barclays shares fell by up to 9 per cent yesterday, while America’s JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs tanked.
Banks with an exposure to Asia, such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, were even more badly hit.
TECH: Shares in the world’s biggest tech firms, including Apple, Amazon, Nvidia and Meta, all plunged.
These giants have trillion-dollar market values, so the heavy share falls have wiped off hundreds of billions of dollars. Apple lost $300billion on Thursday.
It relies on tariff-hit Asian manufacturers for its tech devices.
SPORT BRANDS: Nike, Adidas, Puma and JD Sports suffered heavy falls. Nike had $12billion wiped off its value on Thursday.
These firms have been hit hard as they make the bulk of their goods in Vietnam, China and Thailand — all facing the highest US import rates.
FASHION: Gap, H&M and Levi’s also suffered heavy falls due to the double whammy of Asian manufacturing and a huge US market.
Analysts reckon prices will have to rise by 20 per cent in the US to afford the 54 per cent rate of tariffs in China and protect firms’ profits.
LUXURY BRANDS: Britain’s biggest Rolex seller — Watches of Switzerland — took a heavy beating as it has a big market in the US and will face tariffs on watch imports from Europe.
Shares in Burberry plunged and European luxury brands LVMH and Richemont also saw big falls.
SALES of new vans have dropped for the fourth month running.
Registrations fell 3.2 per cent in March, with a 10 per cent slump for the biggest vehicles.
However new pickups surged by 40.6 per cent as businesses rushed to avoid a tax hit on “double cabs”, according to the Society of motor manufacturers and traders.
BP chairman Helge Lund has bowed to pressure from investors and is leaving the energy giant.
Analysts speculated on how much longer he would survive after BP ditched the ill-fated and costly push into renewables which he oversaw.
The Norwegian, 62, chairman since 2019, promised “an orderly and seamless handover” to his successor.
GOOD WEEK: ALEX Baldock, boss of Currys, which lifted profit forecasts for the second time in a week on the back of strong AI laptop sales.
BAD WEEK: LUKE Johnson of leisure firm Brighton Pier Group, which tanked 60 per cent over plans to quit the stock market.
THE parents of a boy killed by a driver who jumped a red light told her: “You may as well have killed all of us.”
Christopher Arnett’s dad Lee, 49, faced Evie Wiles in court yesterday to tell her that she had stolen his son’s future, adding: “I will never forgive you.”
And the boy’s chemistry teacher mum Claire, 52, told his killer: “I mourn the fact I won’t watch him grow into a man. He was one of my best friends.
“My family and I will never forgive you for putting us through a trial and this horrific ordeal.
“You not only killed Christopher, you may as well have killed all of us. Our lives will never be the same again.”
Wiles, now 25, had been texting her girlfriend as she drove her Seat Leon to pick her up to go to a football match.
She went through a red light and hit 14-year-old Christopher as he walked home from playing with pals after school.
Former mortgage company office worker Wiles showed no emotion when she was jailed for five and a half years at Luton crown court yesterday.
And she was similarly unmoved when her victim’s parents addressed the court. Claire railed at her: “You’ve not once said sorry. You never even called 999.”
The mum of two was unable to hold her Star Wars fan son’s hand as his life support was turned off a day after the crash in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, on February 2, 2023.
Claire said: “I wanted to hold him. I wanted to kiss his face. But they wouldn’t let us take the tubes out.
“It’s a very peaceful process and I’m honoured that I was there for it. I was there when he was born, I was there when he died.”
Wiles was found guilty in January of causing Christopher’s death by dangerous driving.
She had been messaging her partner — but claimed the lad had not used the crossing properly.
Judge Andrew Hatton told her: “You were distracted by your phone.”