Five things to know ahead of today's opening bell. We got a lot of them. Well, we got five of them actually.Human resources software giant Workday reports after the bell. The stock down about 17% in the three months. In the past three months, analysts have raised concerns that AI could uh take market share from workday and its competitors.Meanwhile, President Trump saying his administration will not approve wind or farmer destroying solar. This comes after the Trump administration tightened permitting for r ...

ESPN launching its uh new direct to consumer streaming service today. It's the first time the network will deliver its full slate of programming outside of the bounds of traditional pay TV. The service is much uh more fullfeatured than ESPN uh plus.Uh, and at $30 a month will feature content from the NFL, NBA, college football, and other sports. One highlight, AI narration will allow users to get personalized versions of Sports Center in the voices of uh, ESPN anchor, something that we saw initially with Al ...

We uh speaking of Washington DC, that's the lead story today. >> Yeah. So, it kind of goes with what we just saw in South Park.DC residents overwhelmingly oppose President Trump's federal takeover of the city's police department, and they do not believe his efforts actually will reduce crime in the district. That's all according to a new poll from the Washington Post and George Mason University. The poll finds 79% of people surveyed in DC oppose the president's takeover of the DC Police Department and the d ...

The Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis. That's the new headline from the New York Times with plenty of data to back it up. The Times reports that of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections.And often they lost it by a lot. That four-year swing toward Republicans adds up to 4.5% million voters. a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out of.And this de ...

in Texas because the Texas House yesterday passed a new congressional map that could give Republicans five more seats after next year's midterm elections. The vote passed, of course, along party lines after more than eight hours of debate. It ends a bitter redistricting fight in the House that included Democrats leaving Texas for two weeks.Republicans currently control now 25 of the 38 congressional districts there. Under the new map, President Trump would have carried 30 of 38 seats, all by more than 10 po ...

Bankless Nation, it is the third week of August. Time for the Bankless Weekly roll up. David, we got to get to this question first. Uh, this is a meme I saw on Twitter that I think encapsulate what what everyone is feeling right now. What if 124,000 Bitcoin was the cycle top and there won't be an alt season. And this is a picture of a baldw Jack just lying in bed thinking about this question in his McDonald's >> wearing a McDonald's t-shirt. Yeah, his McDonald's polo. I mean, I I I think it's a good questio ...

Welcome back to the good channel everyone. My name is Josh and right now Bitcoin is still holding above this major area of support as we're seeing new liquidity building above the price of Bitcoin which we need to pay attention to as the Bitcoin dominance is continuing to pull back in the short term causing a major bounce for Ethereum. A major reaction from this significant area of support which we need to pay attention to.So yes, I have closed my Ethereum shorts position in profits which I'll talk more abo ...

President Xi Jinping visits Tibet to commemorate six decades since China created the autonomous region. Photo: Yan Yan/Xinhua/AP ...

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Rumor has it, though, that Mark Cudmore is excited about Indian and Australian PMI data. Let's confirm this story now and try and figure out exactly why we are so excited. Update us. Enlighten us, Mark.Good morning. I think you set the scene pretty well there. I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here, I admit.But I did just notice that the both the services and manufacturing components and therefore created the composite PMI rating for both India and Australia were multi-year highs. And I thought was just ...