NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn woensdag met wisselende koersuitslagen geopend. Beleggers op Wall Street blijven de ontwikkelingen rond de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten en op de oliemarkten in de gaten houden. Software- en cloudbedrijf Oracle kwam met kwartaalresultaten en stond bij de stijgers.
De olieprijzen gingen woensdag weer omhoog na de flinke daling een dag eerder. Het Internationaal Energieagentschap (IEA) kondigt woensdagmiddag volgens ingewijden een gecoördineerde vrijgave van strategische oliereserves aan van in totaal 400 miljoen vaten. Dit om zo de sterk gestegen energieprijzen te helpen drukken en de oliemarkt te kalmeren. Het gaat om de grootste gezamenlijke vrijgave van noodreserves door de IEA-lidstaten ooit.
De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening 0,2 procent lager op 47.617 punten. De brede S&P 500 steeg 0,1 procent tot 6790 punten en de technologiebeurs Nasdaq klom 0,3 procent tot 22.774 punten.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het Internationaal Energieagentschap (IEA) heeft besloten 400 miljoen vaten olie vrij te geven uit de strategische voorraden van de aangesloten landen. Nederland draagt daar 5,4 miljoen vaten aan bij, melden Haagse bronnen.
De maatregel is bedoeld om de markt te kalmeren. Door de oorlog in Iran zijn de prijzen de afgelopen tijd sterk opgelopen. De olie die Nederland beschikbaar stelt, komt ruwweg neer op een vijfde van de totale strategische reserve. Landen die bij het IEA zijn aangesloten, verplichten zich ertoe voor negentig dagen voorraad aan te houden.
No longer under the tyranny of compression fit leggings, today’s athleisure is something looser, with a wink of nostalgia
Athleisure is not to be confused with serious fitness wear. No one is running a marathon or playing a game of football in the shoes pictured above. Notice how, in a made-up noun that is a compound of athletics and leisure, the first has been shrunk to three letters. The only personal best that concerns you here is having an optimal Saturday morning.
Athleisure is fashion, not kit, so it moves with the times just as much as it moves with you. And it looks very different now than a few years ago, when every outfit was anchored by snazzy leggings. Tight legging sets with dazzling graphics were the parade uniform of the imperial age of Lycra. Under the cheerful tyranny of compression fit, starburst-pattern leggings with matching sports bras ruled the roost. These were outfits designed to be watched in a mirror with a rousing soundtrack: perky and sculpting, lingerie-like in their obsession with matching two-piece sets and with bottoms.
Continue reading...After Antonin Kinsky’s Spurs woes at Atlético, we recall five more matches the keeper in question would sooner forget
The score at the City Ground was goalless as Manchester City’s Andy Dibble captured an aerial cross and assessed his options. Little did he know that the Nottingham Forest midfielder Gary Crosby had spotted that he had rested the ball, casually, on one hand. “All I thought was: ‘He’s got to have it in two hands,’” said Crosby, who would steal up behind Dibble before stooping to head the ball out of his grasp and tap into the net. Despite concerted visiting protestations, the referee, Roger Gifford, remained unmoved and the goal stood. “I can never escape it,” admitted Dibble in an interview 14 years later. Crosby, meanwhile, has said: “It’s the one thing I get remembered for.” Dibble, now 60, retired from professional football in October when knee replacement surgery prompted his departure from his role as Accrington Stanley’s goalkeeping coach. He played for 18 clubs in a 24-year career that earned him three Wales caps.
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Continue reading...German carmaker has struggled with rising competition in China, a key market for European luxury brands
Porsche is to cut more jobs after profits were largely cancelled out by a costly writedown on reversing its electric car strategy, as the luxury manufacturer also battled a prolonged sales slump in China.
The German carmaker appointed a new chief executive, Michael Leiters, on 1 January after four profit warnings last year that also contributed to it tumbling out of Germany’s DAX stock index.
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In the spectacular, lofty photos of Dani Guindo, heavy clouds and mercurial pools glow amid an Icelandic landscape. The Spanish artist, based in Reykjavík, seeks unique relationships between light, form, and atmosphere. In Iceland, the vicissitudes of the weather and the stark, glacial landscape continually stoke his interests.
Guindo typically uses drones to capture a wide range of angles, from panoramas of glaciers and mountains to vertical shots of silty streams that appear almost abstract. His latest series, Terminus, captures a glacier’s many rivulets amid a rocky landscape, along with a ghostly, rounded outline revealing evidence of the glacier’s earlier phases.
The glacier is Múlajökull, which falls into a category scientists call a “surge-type,” in which periods of ice flow are interspersed with periods of inactivity or retreat. A semi-circle pattern of drumlins—hills formed below flowing glaciers—are filled with a number of lakes with water in a range of blue-green hues.
“Múlajökull is a very isolated glacier outlet, surrounded by a chaotic maze of rivers and marshlands, making an approach on foot almost impossible,” Guindo says in a statement. “With the right wind conditions, I was able to fly my drone close to the glacier, managing to capture some of my favorite shots to date.”
Find more on Guindo’s Instagram and Behance.
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The last book in the Harry Potter series may have come out almost 20 years ago, but the Wizarding World universe remains alive and well if its author has anything to say about it: JK Rowling just revealed that Voldemort came back to life, used a spell to lift Will Smith’s 10-year Oscar ban, and then died again.
So, so amazing. Every Harry Potter fan in the world has the chills right now!
JK Rowling delivered the incredible update on X:
How awesome is this?! The Harry Potter universe is simply the gift that keeps on giving. Looks like we’ll be seeing Will Smith at the Oscars this Sunday after all, because Voldemort’s final spell erased all the consequences he faced for slapping Chris Rock. If you love JK Rowling’s magical book series, please head to her X account to thank her for sharing such an exciting secret about the Wizarding World!
Have a vasectomy coming up? Odds are, you have a reservation at Texas Roadhouse for around the same time. While the two have always gone hand in hand, the steakhouse’s servers have never celebrated male birth control surgery like they do birthdays…until now: Texas Roadhouse just announced that they’ve written a song for waitstaff to sing to men who are celebrating a recent vasectomy.
Finally! It took too damn long for Texas Roadhouse to step up here, but better late than never!
Starting today, men who get vasectomies within seven days of dining at Texas Roadhouse will be honored with the same lively experience that Texas Roadhouse offers to people celebrating birthdays. That means vasectomized men will be sat on a saddle, where they may wave a napkin in the air while servers chant, clap, and sing a Texas Roadhouse original song called “Happy Vasectomy!” before serving the lucky patron one (1) scoop of ice cream.
To drum up hype for the vasectomy celebration experience, Texas Roadhouse released a preview of their “Happy Vasectomy!” song. Check it out below!
Amazing. Worth the wait, Texas Roadhouse fans? Yes, or yes?
“Texas Roadhouse has always been to vasectomies what Chuck E. Cheese is to children’s birthday parties, we’re just making it official,” explained Texas Roadhouse CEO Gerald L. Morgan in a press statement announcing the vasectomy celebration experience. “Our sincere apologies that it took us so long to celebrate vasectomies the way they deserve to be celebrated. We really cared about getting this right, and I’m proud to say our restaurant’s vasectomy celebration is a memorable, fun experience you won’t find anywhere else.”
It just goes to show that a little ingenuity can go a long way in making a newly sterilized man’s steak dinner one he’ll never forget. Props to you, Texas Roadhouse!