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☆ Breaking Up With Diet Soda? Here Are 11 Aspartame-Free Alternatives.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Melissa Clark | More About Melissa Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The World Health Organization declared Thursday that the artificial sweetener aspartame is “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” adding it to the same risk category as breathing in engine exhaust, working in dry-cleaning and consuming certain pickled vegetables. suggests you’d have to chug quite a bit of diet soda to enter the danger zone. Its new guidance for safe consumption is 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight, meaning that a committed diet-cola fan weighing 150 pounds could drink as many as two dozen cans a day. Still, the news may give the jitters (caffeinated or not) to diet-drink die-hards. If you’re ready to swear off the stuff, or at least moderate your habit, here are 11 aspartame-free alternatives to reach for instead.

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☆ US consumer spending hits speed bump; inflation picture mixed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Lucia Mutikani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, rising 0.2%. When adjusted for inflation, consumer spending was unchanged. Data for April was revised lower to show the so-called real consumer spending rising only 0.2% instead of 0.5% as previously reported. With consumer spending softening, inflation subsided. The so-called core PCE price index increased 4.6% on a year-on-year basis in May after advancing 4.7% in April.

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☆ The most overbought S&P 500 stocks include one fast food giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Fred Imbert | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The S & P 500 rose about 0.8% this week, notching its fourth weekly advance in five weeks. However, the S & P 500's steady run of late made several stocks overbought. CNBC Pro screened for S & P 500 stocks in overbought territory, based on their relative strength index. Too oversold CNBC Pro also searched for oversold S & P 500 stocks that could be due for a bounce. Qorvo shares have lagged the S & P 500 this year, advancing just 3.2%.

☆ Wall St Week Ahead: U.S. economic resilience could add luster to semiconductor shares
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Lewis Krauskopf | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index (.SOX) is up about 16% so far this year, dwarfing the 3% year-to-date gain for the S&P 500 (.SPX) and the Nasdaq Composite’s (.IXIC) 8.5% rise. With semiconductors a key component in countless products, some investors are betting economic strength could help the shares outperform. "If that’s the case, then I think semiconductors can do very well.”Of course, economic strength has been a double-edged sword for stocks lately. Semiconductor shares have pulled back recently along with broader markets on worries of a "no landing" economic scenario in which strong growth keeps inflation elevated and prompts the Fed to raise interest rates higher for longer. And if tighter Fed policy eventually brings on a recession in the second half of the year, as some fear, semis could suffer.

☆ Wall St Week Ahead U.S. economic resilience could add luster to semiconductor shares
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Lewis Krauskopf | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

☆ The Wild World Inside Your Gut
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Alice Callahan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

The Wild World Inside Your GutWe tackled everything from heartburn, stress, spicy foods and colon cleanses to antibiotics and more. So grab a kombucha, get comfortable and read on for everything you’ve wanted to know about the wild world inside your gut. 3 What are some simple things I can do to improve my gut health? That “really is going to have the strongest impact on our health, including gut health,” she said. (Though for general gut health, Dr. Rao said, most people living in the United States could benefit from eating fewer refined carbohydrates and more fiber.)

☆ I followed Nancy Pelosi's diet of breakfast ice cream and hot dogs for a week, and I ping-ponged between euphoria and the depths of despair
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Sophie Kleeman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

My research found that Pelosi eats ice cream for breakfast, hot dogs for lunch, pasta, and chocolate. Chocolate ice cream for breakfast, rich and creamy pasta, and lots of snacking chocolate. She claims she does not exercise; her daughter once arrived home to find her mother eating chocolate ice cream while using a stationary bike. I save the ice cream for later to avoid a massive sugar crash and start out with a cup of black tea instead. However, I don't want to slack off after the ice cream episode, so I slather it on.

☆ Divided America will unite under economic duress
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Ben Winck | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

That will happen when a new term begins in 2023, making it difficult for American legislators to accomplish goals. But one thing needs to happen: Congress must raise the debt ceiling so the U.S. government can continue to chug along. The debt ceiling, currently at $31.4 trillion, needs to go higher for government employees to get paid and welfare checks to be delivered, among other things. If only because they are all vying for a win in the presidential election in 2024, Congress could unite under high inflation and economic duress. Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives in 2023, making a bipartisan solution necessary to lifting the limit.

☆ The man who hit Ted Cruz with a can of White Claw implied he wanted the senator to catch the beverage and chug it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The man who threw a White Claw at Sen. Ted Cruz said he wanted the politician to chug it. Arcidiacono apologized to Cruz, his family, and his security detail, asking the senator "for grace" and to decline charges against him. Cruz was filmed being hit by the beverage while he attended an Astros victory parade on Monday. Police said Cruz was struck by a beer can, but the senator later said the beverage was a White Claw seltzer. Cruz told Insider's Lauren Frias in a statement that he was thankful the man who threw the beverage had a "noodle for an arm."

☆ Former students of Ron DeSantis said he was a 'total jock' who partied with students and thought it was 'very special' that he graduated from Yale: NYT
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ron DeSantis spent a year after college teaching at a private school in Georgia, per The New York Times. Former students said he had a "smug" air about him and was a "total jock" who partied with students. Some students recalled DeSantis fondly while others remembered "unthinkable" pranks he pulled on students. "He was a total jock; that was his personality," Gates Minis, a 2003 graduate of the school, told the Times. Some other students recalled the Florida governor differently, telling the Times he had a bit of a superiority complex.

☆ 10 ‘babies in the bathwater’ to buy from Evercore ISI, down 40% from pandemic highs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Patti Domm | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Investors will be clearing out their losers as year end approaches, and Evercore ISI says it's time to buy some of these stocks that are being tossed like "babies in the bathwater." "2022 is likely to be a year in which tax loss selling, both at the 10/31 mutual fund year-end and into the 12/31 calendar year end, dominates flows," Evercore ISI strategists write. "As is often the case when hope is all but abandoned, particularly as so many stocks have declined so much from their Pandemic peaks, opportunity awaits." The criteria included stocks in the bottom 50 percentile of the Russell 3000 that were down 24.4% year-to-date and 40.8% from pandemic highs. The companies also have positive earnings growth in the upper 50 percentile for 2022 and 2023, as well as positive 2023 earnings revisions.

☆ Wall Street is completely delusional about the pain that's about to hit the stock market
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Despite this clear warning, Wall Street is still delusionally optimistic about how the stock market will perform in 2023. According to Bloomberg, Wall Street analysts expect S&P 500 companies' earnings per share to hit $229 in 2023 — a steady increase from their initial 2023 estimate of $211 at the start of this year. Pretend it's the end of 2019 — not a terrible time for the stock market and the US economy. Even if corporate profits sink back down to that healthy level, it's still a long way down from where the stock market sits right now. All the visuals you've seen of a screaming-red stock market and sweaty traders doing the sign of the cross — those are just the beginning.

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☆ The best investing stories of May: Advice from top-tier money managers, tips from Wall Street royalty, and stock picks for a post-coronavirus world
▼ + stars: | 2020-06-02 | by ( Business Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In an exclusive interview, the Gamco chairman shared the investing themes he's tracking, including what he's doing in media, healthcare, and utilities. David Dudding's mutual fund has consistently dominated peers, and it's one of the best global stock funds in 2020. He detailed for us the major themes in his portfolio, what he's done since the pandemic started, and his top picks for the future. Commentary/outlooks from top-tier investors and Wall Street firmsBusiness Insider surveyed 10 fund and portfolio managers on various aspects of their strategies in a post-pandemic world. The attractiveness of US assets relative to the rest of the world is brewing a bubble in the stock market, according to equity-derivatives strategists at Bank of America.

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