AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Ahold Delhaize was woensdag na publicatie van de kwartaalcijfers een van de grote winnaars op de Amsterdamse beurs. De eigenaar van Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall en bol verlaagde zijn jaarprognose na de cyberaanval vorige maand. Beleggers hadden dit al voorzien, maar zagen ook dat de schade meeviel. Daarnaast hadden beleggers aandacht voor de uitslagen van de midterms in de Verenigde Staten. Na winst van de Democraten werden door heel Europa bedrijven gelinkt aan schone energie hoger gezet.
Ahold Delhaize won bijna 7 procent aan beurswaarde. Het bedrijf verwacht dat de omzet in het huidige kwartaal tussen de 200 miljoen en 250 miljoen euro lager uitvalt door de cyberaanval vorige maand, maar zag wel de omzet in het afgelopen kwartaal stijgen. Het concern behaalde in het afgelopen kwartaal namelijk een omzet van 23,1 miljard euro. Dat was 1,9 procent meer dan een jaar geleden en meer dan werd verwacht door de analisten. Ook de operationele winst was met 946 miljoen euro hoger dan verwacht.
Het algehele beurssentiment was positief. De AEX-index in Amsterdam sloot 1,3 procent hoger op 1136,29 punten. De MidKap, met daarin de middelgrote fondsen aan het Damrak, won 1,2 procent tot 1117,21 punten. De belangrijkste graadmeters in Londen, Parijs en Frankfurt stegen tot 2,2 procent.
De chipbedrijven waren bij de hoofdfondsen de dissidenten in een verder vooral groene AEX. ASMI, ASML en Besi waren de grootste dalers met minnen tot ruim 5 procent. Ook Shell en oliedienstverlener SBM Offshore verloren, tot bijna 2 procent, ingegeven door een forse daling van de olieprijzen. In de MidKap was Air France-KLM de winnaar met een stijging van bijna 4 procent. De luchtvaartcombinatie komt donderdag met kwartaalcijfers.
Met de winst van de Democratische Partij in de Verenigde Staten is de kans groot dat federale steun voor schone energie behouden blijft. Ook worden vergunningsprocedures voor energie- en infrastructuurprojecten mogelijk versneld. Democraten zijn daarnaast ook van plan om milieuregels van de regering van Donald Trump terug te draaien of onder de loep te nemen. In Kopenhagen gingen twee grote spelers in de windmolenbranche, Vestas en Ørsted, tot bijna 5 procent omhoog. Het Portugese EDP Renewables noteerde in Lissabon een stijging van dik 3 procent.
In Frankfurt won BMW daarnaast een kleine 6 procent. De autofabrikant verlaagde zijn winstverwachting voor de tweede keer in vijf maanden, maar liet wel weten zijn kostenreductieprogramma te versnellen.
When Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940-2015) was born, her family moved to Columbus, Ohio’s brand new Poindexter Village. The public housing estate, dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, was one of the first federally funded projects of its kind to specifically support African Americans. (In 2028, a new museum is slated to honor its history.)
Other than a few years’ stint in Boise, Idaho, while she was married to a man serving in the U.S. Air Force, Robinson spent her life in Columbus, where she had also studied art in college. The 1970s spurred a period of growth in the artist’s creative practice, during which she worked for the city’s recreation and parks department and often facilitated workshops. Then, during a study trip to Egypt in 1979, a holy man tendered the name “Aminah,” which she legally adopted and preferred to go by thereafter. In the early 1980s, she exhibited her work for the first time.
“Untitled [Man on horse]” (date unknown), beads, bells, wood, hair, found objects, thread, fabric, and hogmawg, 24 x 24 x 9 inches
In collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art, where Robinson’s work is a highlight of the collection, Fort Gansevoort presents 25 of the late artist’s works later this month in Beaded and Bound. Spanning a collection of mixed-media books and embellished textiles and dolls, the exhibition features embroidery, appliqué, writing, painting, and drawing in which “the artist wove personal memories, family histories, and local narratives into richly tactile, sometimes peculiar, and always moving works alive with the histories of the African diaspora,” the gallery says.
Robinson’s interest in storytelling is matched by her experimental, almost stream-of-consciousness approach. She described the practice of creating sculptural reliefs on her books as “RagGonNon,” which she considered to be interactive, constantly evolving, and open to interpretation in the way that literature evokes different things for different readers. She viewed her vernacular visual narratives the same way.
The artist also concocted unique combinations of materials, not only assembling different elements such as shells and buttons but also creating distinctive structural substances. Notably, Robinson used a mixture she called “hogmawg,” which consists of clay, leaves, twigs, mud, lime, animal grease, and glue—a process she learned from her father, who had initially taught her the craft of bookmaking. She picked up sewing and needlework from her mother.
Robinson also found a fruitful creative connection with fellow Columbus artist Elijah Pierce, whom she described as a spiritual mentor and friend. “He was a great person, a great artist, and a person who walked with integrity, and he passed on so much of that wisdom to me,” she once said. “We just generally like to be around each other. There was just a connection there.”
“A Holy Place: The Elijah Pierce Barbershop” (1983), buttons, beads, wood, found objects, hair, thread, and fabric, 30 x 102 inches
Through textural, whimsical narratives, Robinson’s books and dolls are simultaneously autobiographical and universal. “A Holy Place: The Elijah Pierce Barbershop,” for example, depicts her friend in his place of work, nodding to a meaningful personal relationship but also celebrating more broadly the barbershop as a “sacred” place of connection and joy in African American communities. “Women in Poindexter Village, Button Beaded Book” references fellow residents on the estate, including a special tribute to her mother tucked inside.
Beaded and Bound opens on November 19 and continues through January 16 in New York City.
Detail of “A Holy Place: The Elijah Pierce Barbershop”“Button Beaded Doll with Music Box and Poncho” (c. 1988), beads, buttons, thread, fabric, and music box, 14 x 8 x 4.25 inches“Button Beaded Doll” (c. 1988), buttons, beads, thread, and fabric, 10 x 6.5 x 5.5 inchesDetail of “Early Life: Themba-A Life of Grace and Hope” (c. 1996), buttons, beads, thread, pastel, acrylic, ink, and paperDetail of “Early Life: Themba-A Life of Grace and Hope” (c. 1996), buttons, beads, thread, pastel, acrylic, ink, and paper“Roll Books with Cord, Button Beaded Books” (date unknown), buttons, beads, thread, and fabric, 4 x 4.5 x 2.73 inchesAlternate view of “Roll Books with Cord, Button Beaded Books” (date unknown), buttons, beads, thread, and fabric, 4 x 4.5 x 2.73 inches“Women in Poindexter Village, Button Beaded Book” (1989), buttons, beads, thread, ink, paint, and fabric, 11.75 x 9 inches (closed), 11.75 x 27.5 inches (open)Open view of “Women in Poindexter Village, Button Beaded Book”“Button Beaded Doll” (c. 1988), buttons, beads, cowrie shells, thread, fabric, and music box, 16.5 x 7.5 x 4.25 inches“Button Beaded Accordion Book with Stuffed Figures” (date unknown), buttons, beads, cowrie shells, found objects, thread, paint, and fabric, 11.5 x 9.25 x 5.5 inches (closed), 11.5 x 39 inches (open)
Jacqueline Kelly, who took part in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs case, will head criminal inquiry into 2024 incident at university
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has tapped a former prosecutor involved in the Sean “Diddy” Combs case to head a criminal investigation into 2024 sexual assault allegations at Cornell University.
On Wednesday, James appointed Cornell alum Jacqueline Kelly to serve as outside counsel and lead a “fair and comprehensive criminal investigation”. Kelly, formerly chief of the civil rights unit in the US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York, will report directly to James’s office.
Rory McIlroy voiced his support on Wednesday for the DP World Tour chief executive’s claim that LIV Golf’s goal was to “destroy” the European golf circuit.
The combination of prodigious talent in the saddle and an easy likeability out of it is a perfect fit for Dubai operation
“I want to ride more Group One winners,” Billy Loughnane said last month when asked to name his main ambition for 2027, and Britain’s new 20-year-old champion jockey seems all but certain to achieve his aim, following Wednesday’s news that he has signed a retainer to ride in the royal blue colours of Sheikh Mohammed’s global Godolphin operation next year.
Loughnane will be contracted alongside William Buick as one of two retained Godolphin jockeys next year, and not as an outright No 1, but even if Loughnane does not claim the lion’s share of the best rides as soon as next year, his trajectory within the operation seems clear.
On-premises high-performance compute (HPC) is still in demand, according to Hyperion Research, which estimates the market is expanding at almost 20 percent year-on-year, often driven by requirements for AI processing. What Hyperion calls the "on-premises HPC and AI-for-Science" server market showed significant growth in the first half of 2026, with revenues hitting $16.5 billion, up 19.9 percent. However, the analyst says unit shipments over the same period grew only 4.4 percent, meaning that systems are carrying a higher price tag due to greater use of costly components such as GPUs and other accelerators, not to mention the effects of higher memory costs, which have tripled or quadrupled since last year. Its tracking of the HPC market is based on multiple surveys conducted of both buyers and suppliers, the firm says. The latest data shows a major change in the overall HPC market growth, heavily driven by a combination of the use of AI, large language models (LLMs), and purchases of large GPU/accelerator-based systems. This trend was noted a couple of years ago, with Omdia reporting in 2024 that revenue growth from server sales was racing ahead of actual units shipped, as customers prioritized investment in highly configured server clusters for AI. Much of that spending was by hyperscalers and cloud providers, seeking to profit from selling AI services to enterprise customers, but Hyperion’s figures focus on on-prem shipments, showing that many enterprises prefer to do their processing in-house. According to Hyperion, Dell has now surpassed HPE as the biggest HPC vendor, with server revenues of $4.2 billion for the first half of 2026. HPE, which picked up supercomputing specialist Cray for $1.3 billion in 2019, had long been pack leader in the global HPC arena in terms of market share and revenue. The figures put Dell on a 24 percent share, while HPE is not far behind on 21 percent. Lenovo and China-based Sugon trail behind at 4 percent share each, while 45 percent of the market is just labelled as "others" by Hyperion. This includes names such as Bull, which re-emerged from the shadows of Atos this year, plus Supermicro, Penguin Computing, and NEC. The HPC infrastructure market is inherently cyclical. HPE recognized significant revenue in 2025 with sales of multiple exascale-class leadership machines, but procurement of that scale is intermittent and doesn't necessarily come along every year, Hyperion notes. "Organizations and institutions are continuing to invest in their advanced computing infrastructure due to both replacing aging machines and the desire to adopt AI into their workflows to support their businesses and missions," said Hyperion Research CEO Earl Joseph. "The growth reflects both a nominal increase in units being purchased and significant increases in system prices." HPC systems are considered the backbone for many AI and AI-related applications, which has driven the overall HPC market to a new growth level, Joseph added. ®
Grootscheepse dna-analyses leveren onverwachte bevindingen op over het ontstaan van Germaanse en Keltische talen. „Er is een heel nieuwe dimensie geopend.”
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