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☆ A video captured a Carnival cruise passenger climbing between balconies. Other people on board cheered him on.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A male passenger was seen on video climbing between balconies on a Carnival cruise. A video shows a passenger climbing in between balconies on a Carnival cruise as several people cheer him on. In a video posted by the industry website Cruise Hive, a male passenger is shown struggling to climb on a ledge on Carnival's Mardi Gras cruise ship. It's not the first time passengers were caught on video flouting the rules on a Carnival cruise. In April, Carnival banned at least two passengers for life after a TikTok showed them fishing from their room's balcony.

☆ Stock Market Today: Dow Rises 400 Points as Debt Ceiling Deal in Focus
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

Regional-bank shares are jumping after Western Alliance—a lender investors have worried about—gave a positive update on deposit growth. Its shares gained, along with those of PacWest, Comerica and Zions. On the housing front: Housing starts for April rose 2.2% on a monthly basis, beating expectations for a decline. The WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.3%, on pace to finish higher for the sixth session in the last eight trading days. Indexes in China fell, while Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.8% to top 30000 for the first time since 2021.

☆ I went from working on cruise ships to taking more than 20 a year as a guest. Here's my biggest advice to cruise passengers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

J. Alexander, who used to work for cruise ships, took more than 20 cruises last year. He said his favorite cruise was to Antarctica and that Royal Caribbean is his favorite cruise line. Every cruise line does something better than another cruise line. Treat the cruise crew members with respectOne six-month contract aboard a cruise ship, you will see it all. One time I was working on board a cruise ship and me and the rest of the entertainment went out.

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☆ Opinion | Trump Is Mainstream, Whether We Like It or Not
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Michelle Cottle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But on Wednesday evening, Donald Trump will elbow his way back into the campaign mainstream. At a town hall event in New Hampshire hosted by CNN, the former president will field questions from audience members and the network anchor Kaitlan Collins. The event will be live, leaving Mr. Trump more or less free to inject his lies straight into viewers’ veins. Short answer: We have in fact learned much about Mr. Trump and the threat he poses to American democracy. Nothing that Mr. Trump has done so far legally prevents him from pursuing, or serving, another term in the White House.

☆ New York Is Full of Empty Offices After Covid. Make Way for the Playground City. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Edward L. Glaeser | Carlo Ratti | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

We are witnessing the dawn of a new kind of urban area: the Playground City. The transformation toward the Playground City will not happen on its own. To draw people into the Playground City, we need to show, not tell. 6.Engage citizensGovernments should empower citizens to participate directly in making the Playground City. The Playground City sees people as both a means and an end, and it should involve them in the process of its creation.

☆ A cruise ship passenger found a hidden camera that had filmed over 150 people changing or using the bathroom. A man was arrested after the FBI said video showed him setting it up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A passenger on a Royal Caribbean cruise spotted a hidden camera in a public bathroom. The FBI said the video showed adults and minors as young as 4 years old changing. A man was arrested Wednesday after officials say he set up a hidden camera in a public cruise ship bathroom and recorded more than 150 people, including minors, before another passenger spotted it, court records showed. The camera was placed in a public bathroom on the top deck of the Harmony of the Seas. In 2018, a couple from Florida said they found a hidden camera pointing at the bed of their cabin on a Carnival cruise ship.

☆ Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway just hosted its legendary annual investor weekend. Here's what to know.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Before we get to the news, we've got a dispatch from Theron — our in-house Warren Buffett expert — on the legendary conference. That's how Todd Finkle, the author of a new biography on Buffett, described the investor's yearly bash. There were also investment panels, cocktail parties, steak dinners, fun runs, and shopping events during the weekend. The stock market could become "untouchable" if the bank crisis keeps spiraling. Four of the world's top investors agree on the biggest risks that will cause the next recession.

☆ These stocks are breaking out to the upside and may be poised for further gains
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The market may be trading in a tight range, but some stocks are breaking out of the sideways action to the upside, according to a closely watched technical indicator. Some stocks, however, are bucking this trend, and showing some momentum to the upside by closing above their 50-day moving averages. Cruise stocks dominated the list of names that punched above their 50-day averages last week. Other cruise and entertainment stocks also closed above their 50-day last week, including Norwegian Cruise Line , Carnival Cruise and Live Nation Entertainment . The stocks gained 6% and 1.9% for the week to close above their 50-day moving averages of $60.24 and $40.20, respectively.

☆ Mario Gabelli, John Rogers, and 3 other Warren Buffett experts just weighed in on the banking turmoil, pressure on house prices, and some of the investor's biggest bets. Here are their 10 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Five experts on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway spoke ahead of this year's annual meeting. Mario Gabelli, John Rogers, Chris Bloomstran, Adam Mead, and Todd Finkle discussed the conglomerate. Todd Finkle, the author of "Warren Buffett: Investor and Entrepreneur," emphasized the unique nature of Berkshire's yearly gathering, which attracts tens of thousands of people from around the world. Meanwhile, Adam Mead, the author of "The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway," touted the underlying value of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, and the savvy structure of Buffett's conglomerate. "Berkshire Hathaway Energy is going to become a powerhouse over the next decade.

☆ Crazy videos show a Coast Guard helicopter nearly crashing into the ocean after abandoning a rescue attempt on a Carnival cruise ship during a storm
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The helicopter came close to the water, but the Coast Guard said "superb piloting" helped save it. Videos shared online showed the helicopter hovering over the cruise ship, appearing very shaky and making sudden, jerking movements. The helicopter then turns away from the cruise ship but takes a sharp dive down toward the ocean. The Jayhawk helicopter and the Ocean Sentry were able to return safely to base. In December, the Coast Guard rescued a cruise ship passenger who spent over 20 hours in open water after going overboard.

☆ Opinion | Tucker Carlson, ‘White Men’ and the Lynch Mob Mentality
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How did the people in these mobs — made up mostly of white men in the American accounts I’ve read — rev themselves up to peak barbarity? I have stared at the pictures of glassy-eyed men and boys (and sometimes women) standing beneath dangling bodies or standing above charred ones. I have read the histories of communities consumed by the desire to not only kill, but to mutilate. In 1893, Henry Smith, a Black man accused of killing a white girl, was lynched in Paris, Texas, before a crowd estimated at 10,000 people. His body was burned with “red-hot” irons “inch by inch until they were thrust against the face.” His eyes were burned out and the hot irons shoved down his throat.

☆ Factbox: The 'Ndrangheta: Italy's most powerful mafia group
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

May 3 (Reuters) - Italy's 'Ndrangheta has supplanted Sicily's Cosa Nostra as the country's most powerful mafia organisation, and has spread across Europe and the rest of the world. ORIGIN, CELEBRITY KIDNAPPING AND COCAINEThe 'Ndrangheta originates from Calabria, the impoverished southern region at the tip of Italy's boot. Its name is believed to come from the ancient Greek words "andros" and "agathos", meaning brave or valiant man. POWER AND WEALTHIn its latest six-monthly report, Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (DIA) calls the 'Ndrangheta "the absolute dominant force in the criminal world" well beyond its home turf of Calabria. In 2008, Italian research group Eurispes valued the 'Ndrangheta's annual turnover at a staggering 44 billion euros ($48.54 billion), about 3% of Italy's gross domestic product at the time.

☆ Norwegian Cruise lifts profit forecast on higher ticket prices, steady demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Ananya Mariam Rajesh Anne Florentyna Gnanaraja Sekar | Ananya Mariam Rajesh | Anne Florentyna Gnanaraja Sekar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

loss per share of 30 cents vs loss est. of 41 centsCompany says it sees "strong consumer demand"May 1(Reuters) - Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NCLH.N) raised its annual profit forecast and sailed past first-quarter estimates on Monday, betting on higher ticket pricing, pent-up demand and robust on-board spending from wealthy customers. Norwegian, which mostly caters to the affluent, has also been raising prices of its tickets to offset the impact from higher costs of fuel and food due to supply chain snags worsened by the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The company expects 2023 adjusted profit of 75 cents per share, compared with its earlier forecast of about 70 cents per share. Shares in the company were up about 1% in premarket trade, paring some gains after it forecast second-quarter adjusted earnings per share below estimates.

☆ Cruise workers reveal what happens if you quit your job in the middle of the ocean
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

If a cruise worker quits they have to pay for their flight home, current and former employees say. On a cruise ship, quitting your job is a luxury not all workers can afford. "What will happen is the cruise line will fly you home, but will deduct from your wages what you owe," Jim Walker, a Miami-based maritime lawyer who represents cruise workers and passengers, told Insider. What happens when you try to quit your job on a cruise shipFor the most part, resigning on a cruise ship looks logistically similar to any other job, except for the fact that you might be hundreds of miles away from home (or from any land, for that matter). Do you work on a cruise ship?

☆ Morningstar's chief U.S. market strategist shares his outlook for the economy and ways to play the market turbulence ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

But even in a turbulent environment, there are value opportunities for investors who look carefully, according to Dave Sekera, Morningstar's chief U.S. market strategist. "We think the stock market is undervalued," Sekera told CNBC during an interview at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago. "However, I'd say at this point, the easy returns have already been made thus far this year, and I do see a rough road ahead for the next couple of quarters for the stock market in general." For regional bank stocks, Morningstar expects earnings to slowly decline through 2023. Today, Morningstar views many of those names, in areas such as energy, healthcare and consumer defensives, as fully valued.

Inside them were oranges. Oranges, the fruit. Over the next three days, 8,000 people in Ivrea would throw 900 tons of oranges at one another, one orange at a time, while tens of thousands of other people watched. They would throw the oranges very hard, very viciously, often while screaming profanities at their targets or yowling like Braveheart. And on that day in February, three years of constrained energy was due to explode all at once.

☆ Carnival cruise passengers said other cruisers cheered — and jeered —when their ship rescued 24 migrants adrift at sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Carnival cruise ship rescued 24 migrants lost at sea last week, two passengers told Insider. A spokesperson for the company said cruise ships often come to the aid of boats in distress. "It makes your heart sad when you know these people are so desperate," Senn told Insider. A Carnival spokesperson told Insider that the ship's medical team found all 24 people to be in good condition. Though primarily designed as vacation vessels, large cruise ships often come to the aid of those in peril on the sea.

☆ Opinion: How Sudan went from revolution to civil war
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Justin Lynch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Four years ago, almost to the day, the people of Sudan were celebrating a revolution after overthrowing longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir. On one side are the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. On the other side are the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti. Hamdok found that the legacy of 30 years of dictatorship meant that Sudan’s political and economic models were dilapidated. The lesson from Sudan is that a revolution is only the start of change, not the end.

☆ From one of Britain's most popular toys to the target of police raids: how a children's doll became a symbol of racism
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A police raid on a bar just outside of London renewed a debate over racist dolls. But despite the long history of the racist trope, the debate over the doll's place in British culture continues. Revellers take part in the Children's Parade at Notting Hill Carnival in London, Britain, August 28, 2022. But it does appear that there is some gradual shift in public opinion happening with the dolls. Nevertheless, the enduring popularity of the blackface doll creates the impression "that we live in a post-racial society," Scott said.

☆ Some cars, including the Toyota Corolla and Ford Bronco, are worth up to $8,000 more used than if they were new
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Alexa St. John | Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But there are 14 used cars that cost more than their new versions, per a new iSeeCars analysis. A lightly used Toyota Sienna or Kia Carnival could cost thousands more than they do new. ToyotaToyota Corolla HybridUsed price: $27,809Difference used over new: $2,038Toyota SiennaUsed price: $50,978Difference used over new: $1,806The 2022 Toyota RAV4 Prime XSE. Tim Levin/InsiderToyota RAV4 PrimeUsed price: $51,298Difference used over new: $1,726Toyota Corolla CrossUsed price: $30,636Difference used over new: $853The Kia Carnival. HondaHonda Accord HybridUsed price: $34,704Difference used over new: $152Chevrolet CorvetteUsed price: $84,827Difference used over new: $324Kia RioUsed price: $20,135Difference used over new: $27Honda AccordUsed price: $30,404Difference used over new: $16

☆ After fatal Greek train crash, a campus simmers with rage
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Karolina Tagaris | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/6] A man stands next to flowers and messages for the victims of a fatal train crash, at the closed train station of Thessaloniki, Greece, March 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandros AvramidisTHESSALONIKI, Greece, April 4 (Reuters) - A month after 12 students at Greece's largest university were killed in a train crash, messages of grief across the campus are tinged with rage. "This crime will not be forgotten," a note on a makeshift memorial at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reads. Fifty-seven people died in the country's deadliest rail disaster on Feb. 28, when a passenger train and a cargo train travelling on the same track collided head-on. "This sadness, this anger, we tried - as students - to turn it into a fight," said Evangelia Grigoriou, a civil engineering student.

☆ Stocks making the biggest premarket moves: RH, Charles Schwab, Walmart and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Philip Morris International — The tobacco maker gained 1.8% following an upgrade by JPMorgan to overweight from neutral. Walmart — Shares of the retail giant rose about 1.5% in premarket trading after Evercore ISI upgraded Walmart to outperform from in-line. Fluence Energy — The energy storage company popped 5.7% following an upgrade by Goldman Sachs to buy from neutral. Peabody Energy — Shares of the major coal producer slid 0.8% after the company confirmed a fire at its Shoal Creek Mine. UBS — U.S.-listed shares of the Swiss bank rose more than 2% in premarket trading, a day after UBS announced Sergio Ermotti would return as CEO to oversee the takeover of Credit Suisse.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Bed Bath & Beyond, EVgo, UBS and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A Bed Bath & Beyond store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. said it would shutter another 87 stores in addition to the 150 closures it announced in August. Juniper Networks — The cloud computing network provider added 1.3% on the back of an upgrade to outperform from in line by Evercore ISI. Crocs — Shares rose 3% after B. Riley initiated coverage of the stock as a buy, saying the shoe company is underappreciated. Interpublic Group of Companies — The advertising agency gained 3% following an upgrade to buy from neutral by Bank of America.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Lululemon, Paychex, Micron Technology and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Lululemon – Lululemon shares surged more than 16% before the Wednesday open after posting a strong holiday quarter and sharing upbeat guidance for the current fiscal year. The athleisure wear company reported adjusted earnings of $4.40 a share on $2.77 billion in revenue and said same-store sales climbed by 27%. Carnival Corp — Shares of the cruise line climbed 2.5% in premarket trading after Susquehanna upgraded Carnival to positive from neutral. Micron fiscal second quarter results missed analyst expectations on both the top and bottom lines, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates. Paychex Inc. — Shares of the payroll services company were up nearly 3% premarket ahead of fiscal third-quarter earnings due after the close on Wednesday.

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