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Reuters — Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov submitted his government’s resignation on Thursday following weeks of street protests over the failure of economic policies and anti-corruption measures. Zhelyaskov announced his resignation in a televised statement minutes before parliament was scheduled to vote on the no-confidence motion. The resignation came just before Bulgaria joined the eurozone on January 1. “Our coalition government met and discussed the current situation, the challenges we face and what responsible decisions need to be taken,” Zhelyazkov said in announcing his government’s decision to resign. “Our hope is to reach the level that society expects,” he said.…
Liverpool manager Arne Slott spoke with Mo Salah on Friday and his availability for Saturday’s game against Brighton “will depend on the result”.Slott said earlier this week that he “doesn’t know” whether Salah played his last game for Liverpool, but he appears to have softened his stance ahead of this weekend’s game after revealing that Salah and the club had been in talks with him and his agents throughout the week. Salah has not started in Liverpool’s last four games and after coming off the bench against Leeds last weekend, he claimed in a bombshell interview that he had been…
lululemon Shares rose more than 9% in premarket trading Friday after the company announced Chief Executive Officer Calvin McDonald would step down. McDonald’s will leave the company on January 31st after suffering poor business performance for more than a year. The athletic giant’s New York-listed shares were most recently trading at around $204.50, up 9.35%. Shares rose about 10% in extended trading Thursday. Lululemon’s board of directors is working with a “major executive search firm” to identify its next CEO, the company said in a news release. Mr. MacDonald will remain a senior advisor until March 31. “It’s the right…
U.S. artificial intelligence stocks fell into negative territory in pre-market trading on Friday, extending losses into a third day. oracle Shares fell 0.9% in pre-market trading, offsetting an earlier loss of 1.3%. Nvidia 0.7% decrease, micron down 0.9%, coreweave The stock was down 1.3% as of 5:16 a.m. ET. broadcomreported a strong quarter on Thursday, but was last seen down 5%.Shares of cloud computing and database software maker Oracle fell sharply on Thursday, closing about 11% lower after Wednesday’s revenue fell short of analysts’ expectations.Other AI stocks also lagged, despite record gains elsewhere on Wall Street, suggesting investors are shifting…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin has enough capital to finance the war in Ukraine in the coming years despite mounting economic pressure, the country’s former central bank chief told CNBC on Friday. “The Russian economy is approaching stagnation,” Sergei Alexashenko, a former deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, told CNBC’s “Europe Early Edition.”Alexashenko said on Friday that the Bank of Russia expects the country’s economy…
As the United States ramps up pressure on Caracas, the Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on Venezuela targeting three nephews of President Nicolás Maduro’s wife, Syria Flores, and six oil tanker and shipping companies associated with them.Two of the sanctioned nephews had been convicted of drug trafficking in the United States before being released as part of a prisoner exchange.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe United States has also targeted Venezuela’s oil sector by sanctioning Panamanian businessman Ramon Carretero Napolitano and several shipping companies for facilitating the shipment of petroleum products on behalf of the Venezuelan government.The…
The United States announced new sanctions against shipping companies and vessels it says help transport Venezuelan oil, putting further pressure on key pillars of President Nicolas Maduro’s government a day after it seized a tanker believed to be carrying millions of dollars worth of oil off the coast of Venezuela. The sanctions list released Thursday by the U.S. Treasury Department also includes three nephews of President Maduro’s wife, Syria Flores, and another pro-Maduro businessman. Two of the sanctioned nephews had been convicted of drug trafficking in the United States before being released in a prisoner exchange. The Treasury Department said…
A customer walks in the parking lot outside a Costco store on December 2, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Imagescostco Sales on Thursday beat Wall Street’s quarterly expectations, posting 8.2% year-over-year sales growth as the retailer captured more digital sales and opened new stores.Warehouse Club did not share its full-year outlook. On the company’s earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip said e-commerce growth was one of the company’s strengths this quarter. Digital sales increased 20.5% year over year. Website traffic increased 24% year over year, and app traffic jumped 48%. We offer same-day delivery service instacart…
On Wednesday, the United States hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This is the latest move in the ongoing invasion of the South American country by the administration of US President Donald Trump.In recent months, the United States has been recklessly blowing up small boats in the Caribbean with passengers who President Trump telepathically predicted were drug traffickers.Displaying his passion for ridiculous hyperbole, President Trump declared Wednesday that the seized vessel was “a large tanker, in fact a very large, largest tanker that has ever been captured.”Asked at a press conference about the ship’s diversion, President Trump…
Nico Rosberg says Lewis Hamilton is in an “incredibly tough” situation after a difficult first season at Ferrari, but a major overhaul of Formula 1 rules in 2026 still offers “huge hope” of turning things around.Hamilton’s first year driving with early expectations for F1’s most famous team ultimately yielded few on-track highlights, with the 40-year-old finishing the season without a podium for the first time in his 19-year career. Rosberg, Hamilton’s former teammate and Mercedes title rival, has known Hamilton since childhood and described the Ferrari driver’s year as “painful”. “He’s already faced all the challenges in the world. This…