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Women gaining a 'greater presence': What have women gained legally, culturally, professionally?

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To commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Dr Ashley Morgan, Masculinities Scholar and Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University. The day was established by the United Nations a quarter of a century ago. November 25th honours the legacy of the Mirabal sisters, three Dominican activists who were assassinated for their relentless fight for freedom and justice against the brutal regime of Rafael Trujillo. Since its inception, the day has inspired global campaigns to amplify women’s voices, advance women’s rights, and end violence against women worldwide.


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3 reasons why Lloyds’ share price could sink without trace in 2026!

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3 reasons why Lloyds’ share price could sink without trace in 2026!


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2025 has been a spectacular year for the Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) share price. So spectacular, in fact, that I think it’s in danger of crashing back down to earth.

At 87.4p per share, Lloyds shares are up 59% since 1 January. It’s a stunning rise that I feel fails to reflect the enormous challenges facing UK banks in the short term and beyond.

But what could cause the FTSE 100 bank to correct sharply? Here are three threats I think could rock the lender in 2026.

1. Falling interest rates

The Bank of England (BoE) has cut interest rates five times since summer 2024. With inflation falling, further reductions are expected during the next year.

This is problematic for Lloyds as it reduces its net interest margins (NIMs). This key profit metric measures the difference between what the bank pays savers and charges borrowers.

Market analysts are forecasting two more rate cuts by the middle of 2026. However, with the limping UK economy requiring significant support, I think the BoE may slash further than predicted. If so, this could have a significant impact on retail banks’ share prices.

2. Double whammy

Unlike other FTSE 100 banks, Lloyds sources almost all of its profits from UK customers. This creates significant concentration risk, and is especially worrying today given the poor economic outlook.

According to media reports, Chancellor Rachel Reeves about to cut growth forecasts for the next five years at tomorrow’s Budget.

Certain banking products like current accounts are essential. But others like car loans, mortgages, and credit cards are highly sensitive to economic conditions, provoking massive uncertainty for retail banks.

On top of this, Lloyds could see impairments snowball if the domestic economy splutters. For 2025, S&P is expecting the black horse bank to record £1.14bn of bad loans, up from £430m the year before. In my view there’s a good chance they could keep growing in 2026.

3. Huge valuation

I don’t think these threats are reflected in Lloyds’ valuation following 2025’s enormous share price gains. When also factoring in other dangers like increasing competition, regulatory changes, and rising penalties for mis-selling car loans, I think the FTSE 100 bank looks seriously expensive.

Lloyds shares now trade on a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of 1.2. That’s some distance above the 10-year average of 0.8. It also suggests the bank trades at a premium to the value of its assets.

As you can see, the risks to the FTSE bank are severe. But there are also opportunities, from a recovering housing market and demographic changes that are driving broader financial services demand. Lloyds is also a digital banking leader, helping it to fend off the challenger banks.

On balance, though, I think the dangers facing Lloyds are too considerable to ignore, and especially given its elevated share price. It’s why I’m looking for other UK shares to buy instead.



This story originally appeared on Motley Fool

Kylie Jenner Slips Into the Shower in her Metallic Bikini Video

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Kylie Jenner Slips Into the Shower in her Metallic Bikini Video


As Kylie Jenner wore a bikini while showering, the short clip went viral after being shared on a fleeting Instagram Story. The brief swimwear shower clip glows with golden hour and polished chrome fabric.

Kylie Jenner captures sun-kissed shower moment in fresh bikini video

Have a look at Kylie Jenner’s deleted shower video:

The “The Kardashians” star wears a liquid-silver triangle bikini with skinny halter ties. Her hair is slicked back and wet. The outfit has no visible accessories. The metallic top catches light like steel on water.

The setting reads spa-modern. Beige stone tiles, a rainfall head, and a frameless glass divider frame the shot. Pastel bottles and a lavender loofah sit in a recessed niche. Sun streaks turn the mist sparkly in her selfie camera.

Fans kept it hot but tidy under X posts. One user screamed, “Aaaahhh .” Another posted, “Gorgeous .” A third added, “Hottest forward.”



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Lakers center Deandre Ayton to miss game tonight against Clippers

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Lakers center Deandre Ayton to miss game tonight against Clippers


The Lakers made two announcements Tuesday, saying that center Deandre Ayton was out for the game against the Clippers at Cyrpto.com Arena because of a bruised right knee and that they had signed forward Drew Timme to a two-way contract.

The team also announced that it had waived two-way center Christian Koloko.

Timme had played for the Lakers’ G League team, the South Bay Lakers, and posted averages of 25.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 25.5 minutes during six games.

The 6-10 Timme played his college basketball at Gonzaga.

“I talked to [Lakers president of basketball operations] Rob [Pelinka] and everyone yesterday, last night and they told me,” Timme said after the Lakers’ shootaround Tuesday. “I was just super excited. It’s super cool.”

Jaxson Hayes will start at center in place of Ayton in the NBA Cup game.



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David Cameron’s brave prostate cancer story shows we must put 1 thing at centre of care | UK | News

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David Cameron’s brave prostate cancer story shows we must put 1 thing at centre of care | UK | News


Prostate cancer presents an acute challenge to our society and our health service. But, most of all, it can have a terrible impact on the men who are diagnosed and their loved ones who support them. It’s the most common cancer in England with 63,000 men diagnosed every year and close to 500,000 men living with the disease. And it can affect anyone, former Prime Minister David Cameron has just revealed he had prostate cancer.

The earlier you find prostate cancer, the easier it is to treat. So, understandably, the focus of conversations around prostate cancer tends towards early diagnosis and screening programmes. But neither must we lose sight of those half a million men trying to navigate their way through the ordeal of facing the disease.

Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer will be given a choice of treatments, and many like Lord Cameron describe the shock of not only hearing they have cancer but also learning that it is up to them to decide how that cancer should be treated.

It can feel like a cruel choice, because those decisions can be life-changing and unalterable. The list of side effects from treatment is long and can strike at the very heart of a man’s sense of self, dignity and relationships. They can include incontinence, erectile problems and loss of libido among many others. 

Impacts on mental health can therefore seem almost inevitable, from the shock of diagnosis, the stresses of treatment decisions and the potential for regret, to processing the lasting physical impact of disease and treatment.

But mental health challenges are not unavoidable, and they’re not an afterthought, to only be considered if there’s time. The mental health challenges of prostate cancer are an integral part of the picture, and support should be no less integrated. 

Solutions should not be seen as an expensive ‘nice to have’, because mental health support doesn’t just mean lying on a chaise longue talking to a psychiatrist. 

Getting mental health support right at the right time can be as easy as asking how someone is feeling. At each stage of the pathway, from the doorway in at the GPs to the exit out of the urology department, there are so many opportunities for support. There are resources, groups, classes and services that far too few men even hear about, let alone utilise.

We know that when men are given the right information and feel fully involved in decision making, they’re much less likely to be impacted by regret. Evidence clearly shows that the more time patients have with a nurse, the better their quality of life.

We can be smarter about all of this. At one West London hospital, men undergoing hormone therapy for prostate cancer are automatically opted in to their support programme and only asked if they don’t wish to participate. We don’t have to increase demands on consultants’ time or NHS nurses’ workloads.

Cancer charities, including Prostate Cancer UK, are developing programmes with the NHS around ‘direct referral’, enabling clinicians to guide men towards the support they need. These services are delivered by specialist charity nurses, easing the burden on NHS staff.

While Prostate Cancer Research runs an ‘Infopool’ website, where men and their families can hear from others who’ve walked the same path – more than 1,000 real stories about diagnosis, treatment choices, side effects, and how they coped. Knowing you’re not alone and learning from others with similar experiences can make a massive difference.

The bottom line is this: every person who has a diagnosis of prostate cancer should get a Holistic Needs Assessment; a look at the impact cancer is having across each aspect of their life – as per the Daily Express Cancer Care Campaign. But too often these have become “tick-box exercises” or exclusively focused on the physical impacts.

The Holistic Needs Assessment offers the ideal opportunity to discuss the mental health impacts of cancer and refer patients to support – whether that’s community offerings, or more specialist psychological help.

The upcoming National Cancer Plan presents a real opportunity for the Government to place mental health support at the centre of patient care. We must find better ways to ensure men aren’t left isolated and suffering. 

The big shift from hospital to community care that this Labour Government has committed to could create the space for this to happen. What I want to see is a cancer plan that is ambitious for the thousands of men whose lives are impacted by prostate cancer and that understands the whole of their needs.

Calvin Bailey MBE MP is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostate Cancer



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Rams’ Kobie Turner living up to his nickname as ‘The Conductor’

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Rams’ Kobie Turner living up to his nickname as ‘The Conductor’


Rams defensive end Kobie Turner, a 294-pound man strong enough to carry a piano on his back, can also tap out a tune.

The country saw that Sunday night when, on two occasions, NBC aired video footage of Turner expertly playing a complex version of the “Sunday Night Football” theme song. He learned it by ear, then set up his phone to capture the clip.

The song was written by legendary composer John Williams and originally was called “Wide Receiver,” although NBC never adopted that name.

“He listened to it a couple of times and was able to play it and add his own flair,” NBC coordinating producer Rob Hyland said of Turner, who majored in music theory and composition at University of Richmond.

“I was completely blown away. Kobie has so much talent on the football field and just as much with musical instruments. His nickname, `The Conductor,’ is very fitting.”

Turner had two sacks in the 34-7 trouncing of Tampa Bay. He was instrumental in the Rams assembling their best defensive performance of the year, giving up 70 yards passing and 193 total.

The idea to show Turner’s musical talents was hatched earlier this year, and for “Thursday Night Football” on Amazon Prime. There’s a lot of crossover between those two production crews.

Reid Esocoff, whose father, Drew, directs the Sunday night show, pitched the idea to Prime to have Turner play that song for the Oct. 2 game against San Francisco. The segment got the green light, and Amazon sent the Rams star the sheet music.

“It was like five minutes long,” Turner recalled. “I was like, OK, I’m going to have to rearrange this. There’s like trumpets and strings, and I’m like, ‘I’m only doing piano.’”

Turner did his part, but the video wound up on the cutting-room floor.

Enter NBC, which made the same ask and ensured the Rams it would air the video. This time, Turner didn’t want the sheet music, just a recording of the familiar theme song.

“I picked it up by ear and I rearranged it too,” he said, “Because it was another three-minute-long song.’ I was like, how can I emulate this with just the keys and me in a solo take? It was a lot of fun.”

He nailed it, and the video ran twice, when NBC was going to a commercial and after Turner made a big play.

“Anytime I can learn something new, and anytime I can flex the music muscle it’s a lot of fun,” he said.

After playing the song — on his first take, mind you — Turner paused, then popped up and did a strongman flex in triumph.

Tackled it.



This story originally appeared on LA Times

[Spoiler] Wins In Season 34 Finale

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There are good “Dancing With the Stars” seasons, and there are great “Dancing With the Stars” seasons — and I do believe Season 34 has been one of the greatest to date.

During Tuesday’s super-sized season ender, a truly formidable group of finalists — Jordan Chiles, Alix Earle, Dylan Efron, Elaine Hendrix, and Robert Irwin — made one last case (well, three last cases) for why they should win the Mirrorball trophy, reminding us along the way of how stacked this season’s cast has been.

Still, it must be noted that earlier this week, TVLine readers weighed in on who would win Season 34, and who should win Season 34 — and Robert decisively led both polls, with 67% and 57% of the votes, respectively. But with a three-hour finale, and three more rounds of competitive dance, standing between the finalists and that Mirrorball, was Robert able to maintain both his high scores and his popularity with the voters? Or did another contestant upset the Irwin siblings’ full-circle “Dancing With the Stars” moment?

Keep scrolling for the full breakdown of Tuesday’s “Dancing” finale, including the big results, then drop a comment with your thoughts on how Season 34 ended!

Round 1: Judges’ Choice


Jordan Chiles Ezra Sosa Dancing With the Stars Season 34 Finale
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The competitive rounds got underway with Judges’ Choice, in which Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli coached the couples in rehearsal as they practiced a ballroom or Latin style they hadn’t attempted before. Here’s how the scores shook out:

* Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa (Paso Doble): 29 out of 30
* Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy (Samba): 30 out of 30
* Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach (Paso Doble): 28 out of 30 (including a 10 from Bruno, who was practically slobbering over a shirtless Dylan)
* Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten (Rumba): 30 out of 30
* Robert Irwin and Witney Carson (Quickstep): 29 out of 30

Round 2: The Instant Dance Challenge


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The evening’s second round brought back a challenge first introduced last season — much to the contestants’ chagrin, I’m sure. In the Instant Dance Challenge, couples performed just minutes after finding out their assigned style and song. On one hand, no, these dances weren’t completely improvised; earlier in the week, the duos prepared a little something for all of the possible styles they might need to perform. But on the other, sheesh — rehearsing all of those potential dances, just to perform only one, in a week with two more competitive rounds already? That’s a lotta steps.

Here’s how the Instant Dance round unfolded:

* Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa (Tango): 30 out of 30
* Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy (Cha-Cha): 30 out of 30
* Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach (Foxtrot): 30 out of 30
* Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten (Quickstep): 27 out of 30
* Robert Irwin and Witney Carson (Cha-Cha): 30 out of 30

Round 3: Freestyles


Dylan Efron Daniella Karagach Dancing With the Stars Season 34 Finale
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And Round 3 was the one we eagerly await all season: the freestyle round, where there are no rules or restrictions on the choreography. From Meryl Davis and Maks Chmerkovskiy’s sssteamy routine back in Season 18, to Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold’s emotional and patriotic performance this time last year, the freestyles are often a couple’s best work all season, which certainly held true for our Season 34 pairs.

Here’s what the scores looked like:

* Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa: 30 out of 30
* Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy: 30 out of 30 (a perfect 90 for the night!)
* Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach: 30 out of 30
* Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten: 30 out of 30
* Robert Irwin and Witney Carson: 30 out of 30

Perfect scores all around!

And the winners are…


Robert Irwin Witney Carson Dancing With the Stars Season 34 Finale
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After those three scored performances, it was up to America to handle the rest. Your Season 34 winners are… Robert and Witney!

Alix and Val were this season’s runners-up; Jordan and Ezra came in third place; Dylan and Daniella came in fourth place; and Elaine and Alan finished in fifth.

With that, I hand it over to you, “Dancing” fans! Do you agree with those finale results? If not, who would you have liked to see win? Tell us in a comment below!





This story originally appeared on TVLine

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals for 2025

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals for 2025


Black Friday and Cyber Monday have changed a lot since the days of lining up outside Best Buy before sunrise for a wildly discounted TV.

The frenzy has mostly moved online, and while the deals feel a little less dramatic, there’s still plenty of value to be found.

One big perk of online shopping is the ability to route your purchases through portals like the Aeroplan eStore, letting you earn a healthy chunk of points at no extra cost, all from the comfort of home.

Add in the usual holiday sales and a well-chosen credit card, and Black Friday can still be a worthwhile points-earning event rather than just another excuse to overspend.

Here’s a curated look at the best deals this year.

This Black Friday & Cyber Monday roundup will be updated frequently as new deals roll in. Feel free to bookmark this page and check back often so you don’t miss anything worthwhile.

Aeroplan & Air Canada Black Friday Deals

From November 25–30, 2025, Air Canada is running its Black Friday sale across more than 180 destinations.

You can find the full breakdown in our Aeroplan Black Friday article, but the short version is: if you’re planning winter travel, this is one of the easiest times to lock it in.

Aeroplan eStore: Up to 10X + Extra Stacking

Through November 29, the Aeroplan eStore is offering elevated earn rates of up to 10 Aeroplan points per dollar at over 250 retailers.

A few noteworthy multipliers:

  • Amazon.ca: Up to 10X (watch the eligible categories closely)
  • Simons, Lego, Clearly, Samsung: 10X
  • Apple: 6X from Nov 25–29

Aeroplan credit cardholders also get a 50% bonus on eStore points earned, and Aeroplan Elite members receive an additional 2X.

If you combine base points from Aeroplan credit cards, elite bonuses, cardholder multipliers, and the elevated eStore rates, you can hit up to 19.25 Aeroplan points per dollar spent with the right stack.

Air Canada Gift Cards: 3 Aeroplan Points per Dollar

Between November 20 and December 2, you’ll earn 3 Aeroplan points per dollar when purchasing $750+ in Air Canada gift cards.

If you also pay with an Aeroplan co-branded credit card, you can get up to 4.25 points per dollar.

Just remember Air Canada only allows two gift cards per booking, and the combined value must fully cover the purchase.

ZIPAIR

ZIPAIR has launched its once-a-year Black Friday Sale, with discounts across all routes. For Canadians, the standout is the nonstop Vancouver (YVR) – Tokyo Narita (NRT) service, priced from CAD $310 one-way in standard class.

For those wanting extra comfort without paying full-service carrier prices, ZIPAIR’s lie-flat “ZIP Full-Flat” seats are also on sale — starting around $1,310 one-way to Tokyo. It’s one of the most affordable ways to fly lie-flat to Japan, though the experience is very à-la-carte.

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The sale runs from November 17–December 4, 2025 (Japan time), with travel valid from November 17, 2025 through March 28, 2026, depending on the route.

ZIPAIR fares include 7 kg of carry-on, but almost everything else comes at an extra cost. Wi-Fi is essentially the only complimentary perk onboard; meals, checked bags, and seat selection all cost extra. As long as you know what’s included and what isn’t, the value can be excellent.

TD Rewards

Check your email because there’s a targeted offer for select cardholders: earn 20,000 bonus TD Rewards points when you spend $500 or more on Expedia for TD.

If you hold the TD First Class Travel® Visa Infinite* Card, this stacks nicely with your built-in $100 annual travel credit, making it an easy double dip for anyone planning an upcoming hotel or flight booking.

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Hotel Black Friday Deals

Marriott Bonvoy

From November 25–December 2, Marriott is offering:

  • 25% off hotels booked through the app (members only)
  • 20% off when booking online

Discount applies to stays between Nov 30, 2025 – Feb 22, 2026.

Buy Marriott Bonvoy Points

Through December 7, you can buy points with a 40% bonus. Not always the best value, but helpful for topping up.

Hilton Honors

Hilton is offering up to 25% off stays across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico through December 15, 2025.

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Fairmont

Fairmont is running a strong 30% Off Worldwide Cyber Sale, offering one of the best premium-hotel discounts this Black Friday. Book between November 25 and December 1, 2025, and enjoy 30% off stays from November 28, 2025 through May 31, 2026.

The discount applies to two-night stays or longer at Fairmont properties worldwide, with no minimum stay required at participating hotels in North America (unless otherwise stated).

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Accor (ALL)

Accor’s Black Friday offer includes:

  • 30% off at participating hotels in Canada and the U.S.
  • 40% off across the Americas
  • +10% extra for ALL members
  • Up to 4X Reward points when booking through the Accor app

Valid for bookings made before December 3, 2025, for stays Dec 19, 2025 – Dec 12, 2026.

Hotels.com

Hotels.com is running a handy holiday gift card bonus right now. Buy a $100 Hotels.com gift card and you’ll get a $15 bonus card, or pick up a $200 gift card and receive a $30 bonus.

This offer is only available via the Hotels.com app, and it’s an easy way to lock in future savings, especially if you already book prepaid stays through Hotels.com.

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Gift cards are available in denominations from $10 to $2,000, they never expire, and there are no fees — which makes this one of the simplest travel-related deals to take advantage of this season.

Hotels.com Canada still hasn’t migrated to the One Key loyalty program, which means you can still benefit from the classic “Stay 10 Nights, Get 1 Reward” structure for now. If you’ve been meaning to use it before the switch, this promo makes the timing even better.

Black Friday Shopping Deals for Travellers

PC Optimum

Shoppers Drug Mart’s biggest Super Redemption Event returns with elevated cash values:

  • Redeem 50,000 points → $75
  • Redeem 130,000 points → $200
  • Redeem 250,000 points → $400
  • Redeem 300,000 points → $500
  • Redeem 400,000 points → $700
  • Redeem 500,000 points → $900

A great time to burn points strategically.

Rakuten.ca

Rakuten is featuring elevated cashback rates — often reaching 20% at select stores.

NordVPN is one of the simplest ways to secure your connection on public Wi-Fi and access Canadian streaming libraries while abroad, and is offering 100% cashback.

NordVPN

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Conclusion

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are packed this year, and if you’re strategic, you can combine sales, portal bonuses, and credit card multipliers for genuinely outsized value.

Just try to shop with a plan so you don’t end up as the person who earned 40,000 points and somehow created a $4,000 balance on your credit card. We’ve all been there.



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HP to slash up to 6,000 jobs — latest tech company to pivot to AI

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HP to slash up to 6,000 jobs — latest tech company to pivot to AI


HP said Tuesday it expects to cut between 4,000 and 6,000 jobs globally by fiscal 2028 as part of a plan to streamline operations and adopt artificial intelligence to speed up product development, improve customer satisfaction and boost productivity.

Shares of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company fell more than 5% in extended trading.

HP’s teams focused on product development, internal operations and customer support will be impacted by the job cuts, CEO Enrique Lores said during a media briefing call. The cuts would represent up to 10% of its workforce.

The company laid off an additional 1,000 to 2,000 employees in February, as part of a previously announced restructuring plan. AFP via Getty Images

“We expect this initiative will create $1 billion in gross run rate savings over three years,” Lores added.

The company laid off an additional 1,000 to 2,000 employees in February, as part of a previously announced restructuring plan.

Demand for AI-enabled PCs has continued to ramp externally, reaching over 30% of HP’s shipments in the fourth quarter ended Oct. 31.

A global memory chip price surge brought on by rising demand from data centers could push up costs and pressure profits at consumer electronics makers such as HP, Dell and Acer, Morgan Stanley analysts have warned.

Big Tech’s push to build out AI infrastructure has triggered price increases for dynamic random access memory and NAND — two commonly used types of memory chips — amid high competition in the server market.


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Demand for AI-enabled PCs has continued to ramp externally, reaching over 30% of HP’s shipments in the fourth quarter ended October 31. REUTERS

Lores said that HP expects to feel the impact in the second half of fiscal 2026, with higher price increases. HP has enough inventory in hand for the first half.

“We are taking a prudent approach to our guide for the second half, while at the same time implementing aggressive actions like qualifying lower cost suppliers, reducing memory configurations and taking price actions,” Lores said.

The company expects fiscal 2026 adjusted profit per share between $2.90 to $3.20, below analysts’ average estimate of $3.33, according to data compiled by LSEG.

HP expects adjusted first-quarter profit per share between 73 cents and 81 cents, with the midpoint coming below estimates of 79 cents apiece.

Revenue for the fourth quarter was $14.64 billion, beating estimates of $14.48 billion.



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Trump needs to hit the reset button if the GOP wants to win the 2026 midterms

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Trump needs to hit the reset button if the GOP wants to win the 2026 midterms

As far as President Trump is concerned, T.S. Eliot got it all wrong.

April is not the cruelest month, November is. 

As he barrels toward the end of his first year back in the White House, the president is beset by slumping poll numbers and a pileup of problems, some of which are self-inflicted. 

Even a gaggle of normally obedient Republicans in Congress are growing restless, and his call for gerrymandering House district lines in red states to pad the GOP advantage in the midterms is in danger of producing the opposite outcome. 

The sheer volume of mounting trouble reflects Trump’s supreme self-confidence, grand vision and his “let’s do it now” management style.

On any given day, the combination results in too many balls in the air competing for his attention. 

Tighten the focus 

The big picture suggests he needs a reset, and maybe a rest.

In any event, it’s time to tighten the focus and follow a more methodical approach so the most important things get sufficient presidential attention. 

It’s hard not to conclude that Trump’s scattered focus is the root cause of what ought to be triggering White House alarms: The president is underwater with voters on every major poll taken this month. 

According to Real Clear Politics, his average approval is a mere 43%, while his average disapproval is 54.8%, a spread of minus 11.8 points. 

Most troubling, the numbers are far worse on his handling of the economy, which was the issue at the heart of his resounding 2024 victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in all the swing states. 

Yet now Trump’s average approval on the economy is a mere 39.5%, against an average disapproval of 57.8%, creating a huge spread of minus 18.3. 

His recent talk of handing out tariff rebate checks of $2,000 smacks of desperation and echoes the deservedly maligned “Obama Phone.” 

Three situations that erupted into public view in recent days illustrate the scope of Trump’s morass. 

Although he touted a proposal his aides crafted to settle the Ukraine-Russia war as a sign that “something good may just be happening,” leaders in Europe and elsewhere blasted it as a shocking capitulation to Russian demands. 

That was soon followed by another bombshell that revealed the helter-skelter nature of the process, namely that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was caught off guard by the proposed terms. 

Rubio later pressed for pro-Ukraine’s changes even as he dutifully defended the initial effort as a “living, breathing document.” 

Deadly opposition 

Reports Tuesday that changes were made that are acceptable to Ukraine were encouraging, but then came news that Russia had fired a barrage of missiles and drones on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, killing at least seven people and wounding a score of others. 

Russian officials marked the attack by saying they oppose the changes to the proposed deal made at the request of Ukraine, which would seem to send the plan back to square one. 

At such moments, it’s worth remembering that Trump, while seeking his second term, said repeatedly that if elected again he would solve the war within 24 hours. 

That’s not to deny that he has had great success as a peacemaker in other conflicts, including between Israel and Hamas, but this one has eluded his efforts because Russian leader Vladimir Putin has betrayed their supposedly good relationship at every turn. 

Yet Trump returned to an old argument Sunday by posting on Truth Social that Ukraine’s leaders were guilty of “zero gratitude.” 

The line recalled the Oval Office showdown last February, when Trump ejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the White House, though their relationship was repaired, or at least it seemed to be. 

But by demanding gratitude when Russia is attacking civilian targets in the Ukrainian capital in the midst of negotiations, Trump appears unduly spiteful. 

Trump haters were especially gleeful over two other black eyes he suffered.

A federal judge’s decision to toss the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James unleashed loud cheering in the media peanut ­gallery. 

As The New York Times put it, the ruling by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie in Virginia marked “the most significant setback yet to the president’s efforts to force the criminal justice system to punish his perceived foes. The dismissals also served as a rebuke to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who had rushed to carry out Mr. Trump’s orders.” 

Yes, but the ruling had nothing to do with the merits of the charges, which the government promises to file again. 

The ruling dealt primarily with the role of Lindsey Halligan, a former Trump lawyer whom he wanted Bondi to appoint as an interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 

The problem is that Trump had fired the first interim prosecutor, Erik Siebert, who reportedly said the cases against Comey and James lacked sufficient evidence. 

Still, Halligan, working largely alone and over the objections of other prosecutors in the office, won grand jury indictments against both, but the judge declared her appointment improper. 

The problem is that Siebert was also an interim appointment, and the law forbids Bondi from appointing two different people in the same 120-day window, the judge ruled. 

This is not Bondi’s first screwup, and she should have known about the timing limitation. 

Still, the judge dismissed the indictments “without prejudice,” meaning the government can ­refile the accusations against both Comey and James. 

The idea that Trump is hell-bent on punishing his political enemies is a handy one for the left, but it never concedes that Comey, James and others first investigated Trump largely because he was a Republican. 

They targeted him for purely political reasons, yet that’s only a problem when he goes after those who abused their offices and arguably committed other crimes. 

James stands accused of mortgage fraud and Comey allegedly lied to Congress in 2020. 

Confidential info 

The charge centered on media leaks of confidential information about the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax — with most of those leaks going to the Times. 

So the paper has dirty hands, and its cheering for Comey when it knows firsthand that he was guilty of leaking shows the depths of the Gray Lady’s deceit. 

The paper hates Trump more than it loves the truth. 

In that sense, I don’t blame Trump for filing lawsuits against such biased outlets.

Nor do I find it shocking that he would hit back at Comey and James, who shattered every norm in American history when they weaponized the legal system to go after him. 

Still, the stakes and the law demand that he and Bondi get their ducks in order before they go down that slippery road. 



This story originally appeared on NYPost

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