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☆ Lindsey Vonn to make World Cup skiing return in St. Moritz
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Skiing great Lindsey Vonn has announced that she will make her World Cup return at St Moritz, Switzerland next weekend. My body is finally put back together and I hear St Moritz is pretty nice this time of year.”Vonn announced her retirement from competitive skiing in 2019 after 18 years on the World Cup circuit. In that time, she recorded 82 World Cup race wins, eight world championship medals and three Winter Olympic medals. According to The Associated Press, she will race in two super-G events in St. Moritz, where she has previously won five World Cup titles. There’s nothing that I love more than ski racing.”Vonn’s haul of 82 World Cup wins puts her third on the all-time list behind Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark on 86 and compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin on 99.

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☆ HYROX: These two women are at the forefront of a ‘body-breaking’ fitness race with Olympic aspirations
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Despite admitting to some errors during her first race, Jacoby delivered an impressive time in New York. Despite somewhat stumbling upon HYROX, Jacoby had unknowingly been preparing for the sport for years. It’s repetitive.”Despite being in gladiator-like shape, even Jacoby struggles to describe what a HYROX race feels like. That’s the key to HYROX.”The 70-year-old athlete from England is a HYROX world champion in her age group. “To be an Olympic athlete is the absolute highest level you could ever reach.”

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High funding needs and central banks removing support are increasing pricing uncertainty for investors, Sophia Drossos, hedge fund Point72 Asset Management's chief economist, said. Spending plans lacking credibility were seen as most likely to spark market turmoil. I suspect not by default, but when markets start reflecting their worries in Treasury prices, by a political crisis and a potentially ugly adjustment," the former IMF chief economist said. Italy's 2.4 trillion-euro debt pile is the focus in Europe, where the IMF has said high debt leaves governments vulnerable to crisis. "We need more investment, not less," said King's College London professor Jonathan Portes, Britain's cabinet office chief economist during the financial crisis.

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High funding needs and central banks removing support are increasing pricing uncertainty for investors, Sophia Drossos, hedge fund Point72 Asset Management's chief economist, said. Spending plans lacking credibility were seen as most likely to spark market turmoil. I suspect not by default, but when markets start reflecting their worries in Treasury prices, by a political crisis and a potentially ugly adjustment," the former IMF chief economist said. "We need more investment, not less," said King's College London professor Jonathan Portes, Britain's cabinet office chief economist during the financial crisis. Not enough reforms are being implemented, OECD chief economist Clare Lombardelli warned.

☆ EU debt’s credibility problem is worsening
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Rebecca Christie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

BRUSSELS, May 9 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The European Union’s debt credibility is suffering from rising doubts, as well as rising rates. Relative to initial projections, EU borrowing costs are on course to go up by tens of billions of euros. Even so, as of Tuesday, two-year EU bonds were yielding 3.02% compared to 2.79% for France and 2.94% for Spain , with five-year EU bonds at 2.87% against 2.63% for France . EU debt trades as a supranational institution, not a country. Financially, the EU general budget will be able to manage the increase in debt costs using existing measures.

☆ Canada's Crawford wins super-G gold by slimmest of margins
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

COURCHEVEL, France, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Canada's James Crawford won the men's super-G by the slimmest of margins in a stunning upset at the Alpine skiing world championships on Thursday. Switzerland's World Cup overall leader Marco Odermatt was fourth and surprisingly out of the medals on a course set by the Swiss coach. The 25-year-old is the first Canadian super-G world champion since Erik Guay in St Moritz in 2017. Austria's 2021 super-G champion Vincent Kriechmayr finished 12th. Italy's Dominik Paris, the 2019 super-G world champion, crashed heavily at speed after pushing too aggressively and catching a ski edge on a gate.

☆ Crypto exchange Binance plans 15%-30% hiring spree in 2023 even as rivals slash jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Zhao said Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said the company increased head count in 2022 from 3,000 people to "almost" 8,000. In 2023, Binance plans to increase the number of staff by between 15% and 30%, Zhao said at the Crypto Finance Conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Zhao said Binance needs to get the company "well-organized" ahead of the next crypto bull run and admitted the exchange is "not super efficient." The industry was plagued last year by collapses of major projects, liquidity issues, bankruptcies and the high-profile failure of crypto exchange FTX. Binance had a big role to play in FTX's collapse.

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