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Published 6:42 pm Saturday, November 30, 2024 By Staff Reports Michigan (7-6, 5-5) 13, No. 2 Ohio State (11-2, 8-2) 10 Nov. 30, 2024 – Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio Attendance: 106,005 o This was the 120th all-time meeting between the Buckeyes and Wolverines o Howard conducted the offense efficiently during the two-minute drill prior to halftime. He connected with Jeremiah Smith for a 10-yard touchdown pass, leading to a 10-10 tie. o He now has 75 passing touchdowns in his career. o Smith tied teammate TreVeyon Henderson with 11 career starts as a true freshman. Together they share the No. 7 spot on the all-time list. o Smith surpassed the 900-yard mark (934) and has 10 touchdowns this season. o His streak of catching at least one pass extended to 37 games. o It was the third interception of his career and the first as a Buckeye. o His four tackles pushed his career mark to 131.The Northwest will soon not have enough electricity to meet an explosion in demand from the tech industry as companies inject power-hungry artificial intelligence into every facet of life. That was the sobering message a panel of tech and electricity industry experts delivered to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council earlier this month . Panelists also said the council’s current data center demand forecasts significantly undershoot what’s coming, increases in technology’s efficiency will only drive further demand and people will die in blackouts if capacity isn’t expanded. The council is responsible for creating 20-year power plans to guarantee that Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana have enough electricity. That task has grown increasingly challenging as technology giants’ newest creations use increasingly more power, threatening the region’s ability to meet its fast-approaching climate law standards . The power council convened the panel after hearing dramatic data center demand projections, Chairman Jeffery Allen said as he kicked off the three-hour conversation. “(Accurately forecasting demand) is certainly something we’ve got to get right as we start working on the next power plan,” Allen said. “As an organization that sprung up from the hubris of a massive over-forecast in the past, it’s very obvious (data center demand) will be a key part of our next power plan,” he added, referring to high 1960s demand forecasts that never materialized, leading to a $2 billion loss that still haunts regional power managers. The goal of the event, Vice Chairman KC Golden said, was to understand the coming demand, because most conversations about the issue have been held behind closed doors and limited to tech companies and utility providers. Demand exceeds supply “There is no question in my mind that the demand for computation and AI and the demand to plug in (graphics processing units) exceeds the available power that we have by 2030,” expert Brian Janous said. After working as Microsoft’s vice president of energy, Janous started Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a company that finds locations for data center developments and works with utilities to upgrade power infrastructure. Janous said the tech industry will use every bit of power it can. Contrary to the tech industry’s public-facing talking points , Janous also cautioned that even the largest advances in technological efficiency would not lower demand for power because increased efficiency simply drives more use. “We have an almost unlimited capacity at this point for consuming data,” he said. “We’re continuing to rapidly climb that curve of data consumption — and every advancement in terms of efficiency just moves us up that curve faster.” Both other panelists — Sarah Smith of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Robert Cromwell, the former vice president of Power Supply at Umatilla Electric Cooperative — and council member Mike Milburn singled out Janous’ point as particularly important. Smith said her team authored a late-2016 report to Congress that found data centers’ demand for power had tapered off in the 2010s after growing through the 2000s. That decline, she said, is now over. And that increasing demand — compounded by growth in other industries, the electrification of things like cars and broader regional population gains — has created a giant stress test for the region’s grid, said Cromwell, who now works as a consultant. During periods of extreme cold, like what the Pacific Northwest experienced last January , the region’s grid is strained to its limits, he said. “It’s almost a miracle that we didn’t have (rolling blackouts) around the region,” Cromwell said of that deep freeze. “The entire energy ecosystem needs to respond to that.” He said that will require increasing the number of skilled trade workers needed to build new infrastructure, adjusting planning and modeling approaches, and streamlining permitting processes for new projects. “There’s a lot of big industrial (power demand) loads out there looking for energy and looking for a place they can land and a utility that’s able to meet their needs,” Cromwell said. “They’re all going to land somewhere, and the region needs to be ready for that.” As a result, the Northwest needs to build transmission infrastructure more quickly than at any time in the past 70 years, he said. “Everything needs to start happening on a much faster cadence than anyone is going to be comfortable with,” Cromwell said. Part of that is because power demand from data centers is both high and inflexible. That means once they’re built, they need nearly 100 percent of the power they can handle — and, unlike a lot of other consumers, they need it nearly all the time, as opposed to only during the day. Cromwell said the Northwest needs to get ahead of demand to avoid the direct consequences of outages, as well as rushed policy Band-Aid-style fixes. “Start having elected officials attend funerals because we let the lights go out,” he said. “Nothing will change public policy faster than elected officials going to constituents’ funerals — and it won’t be for the better, because it’ll be reactionary and less than fully thought out.” What the numbers show Global data center electricity demand is projected to grow by more than 21⁄2 times by 2030, driven in part by each ChatGPT query consuming nearly 10 times as much power as a basic Google search would have. That growth has hit the region especially hard, leaving local power providers like Clark Public Utilities struggling to plan. But the seeds of the region’s demand were planted decades ago when early tech giants like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google raced to break ground east of the Cascades, motivated by their own needs and sweetheart deals made with local public utility districts. By 2008, the aptly named Data Center Map showed Washington had 14 facilities . Today, that number is 93 . Other firms report more still, with data center researcher Baxtel locating 112 . And power demand from that growth has consistently outpaced the council’s projections. The council’s 2010 power plan forecast that regional data center consumption — then an average of 300 megawatts a year — would increase by 3 percent a year in the lead-up to 2030. But by the time the council released its 2021 power plan , data center consumption had already exceeded the projected number, landing instead at an average of 657 annual megawatts — about enough power for 424,000 Northwest homes. That pattern is set to repeat, Cromwell cautioned. “Your medium case is not high enough, and your high case is probably pretty close to spot on,” he said in reference to load forecasts the council released earlier this year. About the project: The Murrow News Fellowship is a state-funded journalism project managed by Washington State University. Local partners are The Columbian and The Daily News. For more information, visit news-fellowship.murrow.wsu.edu.

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump said he can’t guarantee that his promised tariffs on key United States (US) foreign trade partners won’t raise prices for American consumers and he suggested once more that some political rivals and federal officials who pursued legal cases against him should be imprisoned. The president-elect, in a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that aired on Sunday, also touched on monetary policy, immigration, abortion and health care, and US involvement in Ukraine, Israel and elsewhere. Trump often mixed declarative statements with caveats, at one point cautioning “things do change”. A look at some of the issues covered: TRUMP HEMS ON WHETHER TRADE PENALTIES COULD RAISE PRICES Trump has threatened broad trade penalties, but said he didn’t believe economists’ predictions that added costs on those imported goods for American companies would lead to higher prices for US consumers. He stopped short of a pledge that US households won’t be paying more as they shop. “I can’t guarantee anything. I can’t guarantee tomorrow,” Trump said, seeming to open the door to accepting the reality of how import levies typically work as goods reach the retail market. That’s a different approach from Trump’s typical speeches throughout the 2024 campaign, when he framed his election as a sure way to curb inflation. In the interview, Trump defended tariffs generally, saying they are “going to make us rich”. He has pledged that, on his first day in office in January, he would impose 25 per cent tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada unless those countries satisfactorily stop illegal immigration and the flow of illegal drugs such as fentanyl into the US. He also has threatened additional tariffs on China to help force that country to crack down on fentanyl production. President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards. PHOTO: AP Shipping containers stacked at a port in Tianjin, China. PHOTO: AP “All I want to do is I want to have a level, fast, but fair playing field,” Trump said. Trump suggests retribution for his opponents while claiming no interest in vengeance. He offered conflicting statements on how he would approach the justice system after winning election despite being convicted of 34 felonies in a New York state court and being indicted in other cases for his handling of national security secrets and efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden. “Honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said of members of Congress who investigated the Capitol riot by his supporters who wanted him to remain in power. The president-elect underscored his contention that he can use the justice system against others, including special prosecutor Jack Smith, who led the case on Trump’s role in the siege on January 6, 2021. Trump confirmed his plan to pardon supporters who were convicted for their roles in the riot, saying he would take that action on his first day in office. As for the idea of revenge driving potential prosecutions, Trump said: “I have the absolute right. I’m the chief law enforcement officer, you do know that. I’m the president. But I’m not interested in that.” At the same time, Trump singled out lawmakers on a special House committee who had investigated the insurrection, citing Rep Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, and former Rep Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. “Cheney was behind it... so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee,” Trump said. Asked specifically whether he would direct his administration to pursue cases, he said, “No,” and suggested he did not expect the FBI to quickly undertake investigations into his political enemies. But at another point, Trump said he would leave the matter up to Pam Bondi, his pick as attorney general. “I want her to do what she wants to do,” he said. Such threats, regardless of Trump’s inconsistencies, have been taken seriously enough by many top Democrats that Biden is considering issuing blanket, preemptive pardons to protect key members of his outgoing administration.

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CHICAGO — In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm. It’s a response to an emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers who have seized on Republican Donald Trump ’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online. Many have appropriated a 1960s abortion rights rallying cry, declaring “Your body, my choice” at women online and on college campuses. For many women, the words represent a worrying harbinger of what might lie ahead as some men perceive the election results as a rebuke of reproductive rights and women’s rights. “The fact that I feel like I have to carry around pepper spray like this is sad,” said Perez, a 19-year-old political science student in Wisconsin. “Women want and deserve to feel safe.” Isabelle Frances-Wright, director of technology and society at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank focusing on polarization and extremism, said she had seen a “very large uptick in a number of types of misogynistic rhetoric immediately after the election,” including some “extremely violent misogyny.” “I think many progressive women have been shocked by how quickly and aggressively this rhetoric has gained traction,” she said. The phrase “Your body, my choice” has been largely attributed to a post on the social platform X from Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and far-right internet personality who dined at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida two years ago. In statements responding to criticism of that event, Trump said he had “never met and knew nothing about” Fuentes before he arrived. Mary Ruth Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, said the phrase transforms the iconic abortion rights slogan into an attack on women’s right to autonomy and a personal threat. “The implication is that men should have control over or access to sex with women,” said Ziegler, a reproductive rights expert. Fuentes' post had 35 million views on X within 24 hours, according to a report by Frances-Wright's think tank, and the phrase spread rapidly to other social media platforms. Women on TikTok have reported seeing it inundate their comment sections. The slogan also has made its way offline with boys chanting it in middle schools or men directing it at women on college campuses, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report and social media reports. One mother said her daughter heard the phrase on her college campus three times, the report said . School districts in Wisconsin and Minnesota have sent notices about the language to parents. T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase were pulled off Amazon. Perez said she has seen men respond to shared Snapchat stories for their college class with “Your body, my choice.” “It makes me feel disgusted and infringed upon,” she said. “... It feels like going backwards.” Misogynistic attacks have been part of the social media landscape for years. But Frances-Wright and others who track online extremism and disinformation said language glorifying violence against women or celebrating the possibility of their rights being stripped away has spiked since the election. Online declarations for women to “Get back in the kitchen” or to “Repeal the 19th,” a reference to the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote, have spread rapidly. In the days surrounding the election, the extremism think tank found that the top 10 posts on X calling for repeal of the 19th Amendment received more than 4 million views collectively. A man holding a sign with the words “Women Are Property” sparked an outcry at Texas State University . The man was not a student, faculty or staff, and was escorted off campus, according to the university’s president . The university is “exploring potential legal responses,” he said. Anonymous rape threats have been left on the TikTok videos of women denouncing the election results. And on the far-flung reaches of the web, 4chan forums have called for “rape squads” and the adoption of policies in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian book and TV series depicting the dehumanization and brutalization of women. “What was scary here was how quickly this also manifested in offline threats,” Frances-Wright said, emphasizing that online discourse can have real-world impacts. Previous violent rhetoric on 4chan has been connected to racially motivated and antisemitic attacks, including a 2022 shooting by a white supremacist in Buffalo that killed 10 people . Anti-Asian hate incidents also rose as politicians, including Trump , used words such as “Chinese virus” to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. And Trump’s language targeting Muslims and immigrants in his first campaign correlated with spikes in hate speech and attacks on these groups, Frances-Wright said. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism reported similar rhetoric, with “numerous violent misogynistic trends” gaining traction on right-wing platforms such 4chan and spreading to more mainstream ones such as X since the election. Throughout the presidential race, Trump’s campaign leaned on conservative podcasts and tailored messaging toward disaffected young men . As Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention over the summer, the song “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” by James Brown blared from the speakers. One of several factors to his success this election was modestly boosting his support among men , a shift concentrated among younger voters, according to AP VoteCast, survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. But Trump also won support from 44% of women age 18 to 44, according to AP VoteCast. To some men, Trump's return to the White House is seen as a vindication, gender and politics experts said. For many young women, the election felt like a referendum on women’s rights and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris ’ loss felt like a rejection of their own rights and autonomy. “For some of these men, Trump’s victory represents a chance to reclaim a place in society that they think they are losing around these traditional gender roles,” Frances-Wright said. None of the current online rhetoric is being amplified by Trump or anyone in his immediate orbit. But Trump has a long history of insulting women , and the spike in such language comes after he ran a campaign that was centered on masculinity and repeatedly attacked Harris over her race and gender . His allies and surrogates also used misogynistic language about Harris throughout the campaign. “With Trump’s victory, many of these men felt like they were heard, they were victorious. They feel that they have potentially a supporter in the White House,” said Dana Brown, executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. Brown said some young men feel they’re victims of discrimination and have expressed mounting resentment for successes of the women’s rights movement, including #MeToo . The tension also has been influenced by socioeconomic struggles. As women become the majority on college campuses and many professional industries see increasing gender diversity, it has “led to young men scapegoating women and girls, falsely claiming it’s their fault they’re not getting into college anymore as opposed to looking inward,” Brown said. Perez, the political science student, said she and her sister have been leaning on each other, their mother and other women in their lives to feel safer amid the online vitriol. They text each other to make sure they got home safely. They have girls' nights to celebrate wins, including a female majority in student government at their campus in the University of Wisconsin system. “I want to encourage my friends and the women in my life to use their voices to call out this rhetoric and to not let fear take over,” she said.Virtual and Augmented Reality have come a long way, and they are now used in various fields, including gaming and movies. Now, researchers have found an intriguing way to gain better insights into animal behaviors like course stabilization and obstacle avoidance during navigation. To view new perspectives on the aerodynamic powers of flying insects, researchers at Flinders University have developed a computer program that sets a virtual reality experience to move through. Since animals are tethered and not moving physically, studying their movements and comprehending responses becomes easier. Fascinatingly, since the virtual world is computer-generated , it can swiftly be altered, allowing better control over the space and facilitating the identification of visual triggers of behavior. “ Using machine learning and computer vision algorithms, we were able to observe the animals and work out what they are doing, whether that is a hoverfly attempting to turn to the left in its flight, or a fiddler crab avoiding a virtual bird flying overhead, ” says Dr. Yuri Ogawa. “ The software then adapts the visual scenery to match the movements that the animal has made. “ One of the most popular ways of developing insect VR is tethered flight arenas. However, these tethered flights don’t include translational motions, crucial to studying flying insects. Insects often perform rotational and translational behaviors, such as forward motion and sideslip. Therefore, several new VR arenas have been developed to offer unrestricted animal movement, including translational motions. VRs like TrackFly and FreemoVR have been validated in flies and mice, where the visual surrounding is updated based on the animal’s current position. New VR simulation lets you explore supermassive black hole In this context, Antarium could be considered an important VR framework. In this VR set, both rotational yaw and translational motions are generated in the Unity virtual environment. However, to provide an immersive experience, it is important to reduce the latency. More importantly, there is a lower limit to these delays when using conventional cameras or visual displays. “ This has truly been a team effort where every author on the paper has been instrumental in making the VR work. We look forward to using the VR to investigate the mechanisms underlying decision-making in insects, ” says Professor Nordström . Online Gaming can Boost up your Academic Results Journal Reference

First-ever baby conceived using technology that matures eggs outside body born in PeruThereport, which includes 100 of the world’s top sportsorganisations, teams, apparel, leagues, broadcasters andtechnology companies, looks at the influence and impact oftechnology in sport across all aspects. Leading therankings in #1 spot was the NBA, followed by McLaren Formula1 team, Apple, AWS ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand whoranked 5th ahead of 95 other powerhouses of the sportingtechnology industry. Emirates Team New Zealand CEOGrant Dalton said, “It brings the team great pride to berecognised so significantly in the Sports Technology PowerList specifically for the technological and innovativeaspect of what the team does. On one perspective weare a sailing team, but to be successful in that regard weare ultimately a technology company. Furthermore, inour role as current Defender of the America’s Cup anddriver of the technology at the pinnacle event of our sport,it is through the innovation that we have a significantinfluence across sailing which also extends to a number ofindustries like marine, sustainability, broadcast ande-sports." Emirates Team New Zealand have had a busyfew years as part of the Defence of the 37th America’s Cupwhich they won for the third time in a row in October ofthis year achieving a diverse number of design and sportingmilestones including: HYDROGEN BOATS Designed,built, successfully launched and implemented the inclusionof Hydrogen powered foiling chase boats, across the eventand teams of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’sCup WIND-POWERED LAND SPEED WORLDRECORD Designed, built and set a new Wind-powered LandSpeed World Record of 222.43km/h in their land yacht‘Horonuku’ with Glenn Ashby in Lake Gairner, SouthAustralia AC40 Design and development of theAC40 class which won World Sailing Boat of the Year and wasused as the foundation of the Women’s and YouthAmerica’s Cups in Barcelona AC SAILING E-SPORTSGAME Developed and launched AC Sailing E-Sports Gamebased of the team’s proprietary in-house simulator andAmerica’s Cup design tools AMERICA'S CUP WINNINGAC75 Designed and built the America’s Cup winningAC75 ‘Taihoro’ which sailed to victory for the thirdtime in a row in Barcelona The report’s maincontributors are immersed in using and understandingtechnology as an integral part of their roles in the sportsindustry. They engage daily with tech companies, sportsscientists, business leaders, coaches and athletes, andsports brands of all types and sizes. Rebecca Hopkins,CEO of The STA Group reflects on Emirates Team NewZealand’s top 5 ranking, “The Sports Technology PowerList is the ultimate industry guide to the brands shapingthe future of sport and sports innovation. It’s the listthe industry watches—and aspires to be on. Thisyear’s rankings were determined through a rigorous processthat combined AI-powered analysis of all past results,expert insights from The STA Group team, and a final verdictfrom a small yet distinguished jury. Being featured isa testament to the groundbreaking innovation and impactEmirates Team New Zealand brings to sports technology.Brands like this are redefining the future ofsport.”

( MENAFN - IANS) Washington, Dec 1 (IANS) Indian-American Pentagon official Kashyap 'Kash' Patel will head the federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the administration of US President-elect Donald Trump. Patel, a loyal supporter of Trump, has actively advocated for dismantling what he describes as the "deep state" within the US government. Born in 1980 in Queens, New York, to Gujarati immigrant parents from East Africa, Patel earned a law degree and began his career as a public defender in Florida, representing clients in state and federal courts. He later joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, specialising in international terrorism cases in East Africa and the United States. His tenure at the Department of Defense as a civilian lawyer saw him focus on global counterterrorism operations, ultimately catching the attention of Congressman Devin Nunes. Nunes recruited Patel as senior counsel on counterterrorism during his time as Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Kash Patel gained prominence during Donald Trump's first term and was involved in the House Republicans' investigation into the FBI's handling of the Russia probe. He played a crucial role in drafting a controversial GOP memo that alleged bias in the FBI's investigation of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. This document, referred to as the "Kash Memo" by the American media, became a significant point of contention in the partisan conflict surrounding the Russia investigation. Patel, 44, continued to influence Trump's national security policies as the Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense. During this time, he was also accused of acting as an unauthorised backchannel for Ukraine. He has openly expressed his desire to reform the FBI. In an interview on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show, Patel suggested significant changes, including dismantling the FBI's intelligence-gathering operations and repurposing its headquarters. "The biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state," Patel had said. "And I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You're cops. Go be cops," he added. Patel would work under Trump's proposed Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to restore what the President-elect described as the FBI's original principles -- Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. Patel's nomination reflects Trump's dissatisfaction with current FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom he criticised for the bureau's investigations into Trump, including the search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents. The appointment also signals Trump's commitment to reshaping federal law enforcement and strengthening his administration's ties with the Indian-American community, a group that has steadily gained political influence in the United States. Trump announced Patel's nomination on his social media, Truth Social, praising his achievements and dedication to the "America First" agenda. Trump emphasised Patel's role in exposing what he called the "Russia Hoax" and highlighted his extensive legal experience, including over 60 jury trials. If confirmed by the Senate, Patel would become the first Indian-American and South Asian to lead the FBI, marking a significant milestone for the Indian-American community. Patel's nomination represents a significant advancement for the Indian-American community, which has gradually and consistently increased its influence in the political landscape of the United States in line with its growing financial power. Patel's nomination marks a new milestone for the community under Trump's leadership. The President-elect previously appointed Nikki Haley, an Indian American Republican, as the ambassador to the United Nations during his first administration. This federal cabinet-level position made Haley the highest-ranking Indian American in the US political system until Kamala Harris was elected Vice President in 2020 as part of President Joe Biden's ticket. MENAFN30112024000231011071ID1108942230 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.Muskoka reacts to major snowfall, hundreds stuck on Highway 11ESPN names Titans Brian Callahan named one of seven NFL coaches on the hot seat

Exela Technologies Inc (XELA) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Highlights: Revenue Growth Amidst ChallengesIndustrial Waste Management Market: Growth to $140.87B by 2031, 5.4% CAGR 11-24-2024 08:40 PM CET | Industry, Real Estate & Construction Press release from: SkyQuest Technology Group Industrial Waste Management Market Scope: Key Insights : Industrial Waste Management Market size was valued at USD 87.75 Billion in 2022 and is poised to grow from USD 92.49 billion in 2023 to USD 140.87 Billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 5.4% during the forecast period (2024- 2031). 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It also includes projections for sales growth rates and pricing strategies for each regional market, such as: North America: United States, Canada, and Mexico Europe: Germany, France, UK, Russia, and Italy Asia-Pacific: China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia South America: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, etc. Middle East and Africa: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa This in-depth research study has the capability to tackle a range of significant questions that are pivotal for understanding the market dynamics, and it specifically aims to answer the following key inquiries: How big could the global Industrial Waste Management market become by the end of the forecast period? Let's explore the exciting possibilities! Will the current market leader in the global Industrial Waste Management segment continue to hold its ground, or is change on the horizon? Which regions are poised to experience the most explosive growth in the Industrial Waste Management market? 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To establish the important thing traits, Ask Our Experts @ https://www.skyquestt.com/speak-with-analyst/industrial-waste-management-market Table of Contents Chapter 1 Industry Overview 1.1 Definition 1.2 Assumptions 1.3 Research Scope 1.4 Market Analysis by Regions 1.5 Market Size Analysis from 2023 to 2030 11.6 COVID-19 Outbreak: Medical Computer Cart Industry Impact Chapter 2 Competition by Types, Applications, and Top Regions and Countries 2.1 Market (Volume and Value) by Type 2.3 Market (Volume and Value) by Regions Chapter 3 Production Market Analysis 3.1 Worldwide Production Market Analysis 3.2 Regional Production Market Analysis Chapter 4 Medical Computer Cart Sales, Consumption, Export, Import by Regions (2023-2023) Chapter 5 North America Market Analysis Chapter 6 East Asia Market Analysis Chapter 7 Europe Market Analysis Chapter 8 South Asia Market Analysis Chapter 9 Southeast Asia Market Analysis Chapter 10 Middle East Market Analysis Chapter 11 Africa Market Analysis Chapter 12 Oceania Market Analysis Chapter 13 Latin America Market Analysis Chapter 14 Company Profiles and Key Figures in Medical Computer Cart Business Chapter 15 Market Forecast (2023-2030) Chapter 16 Conclusions Address: 1 Apache Way, Westford, Massachusetts 01886 Phone: USA (+1) 351-333-4748 Email: sales@skyquestt.com About Us: SkyQuest Technology is leading growth consulting firm providing market intelligence, commercialization and technology services. 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Before becoming literary legends, many famous authors led fascinating lives filled with unexpected jobs. From working in law firms to sweeping floors, these surprising day jobs shaped their perspectives and inspired the stories we cherish today. Learning about their journeys shows that talent can flourish in any setting, proving that creativity often arises from the most unexpected experiences. 1. Octavia Butler, Potato Chip Inspector Octavia Butler always had a passion for writing, despite her mother’s advice of finding steady work, she took up lots of temporary jobs, such as a dishwasher, telemarketer, and even potato chip inspector. This allowed her to wake up early in the morning to write, and after publishing four novels and several short stories, she was finally able to support herself with writing as a full-time Job in 1979. 2. Harper Lee, Airline Ticket Inspector Harper Lee arrived in New York like many 23-year-olds after college to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. While living in the city, she worked as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines and met a Broadway composer Michael Martin Brown and his wife, whose offer of support allowed her to write, and she eventually found an agent who helped her publish ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. 3. Jack London, Oyster Pirate For Jack London, ‘Oyster Pirate’ was a colourful way of saying “shellfish thief.” In San Francisco in the late 1800s, competing oyster companies had begun to form a monopoly, so London, along with other “pirates,” would raid their oyster beds after dark and sell the shellfish for cheap. 4. J. D. Salinger, Cruise Ship Activities Director J. D. Salinger, a decade before he published ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ worked on a luxury Swedish cruise ship as an activities director. He would later set “Teddy,” a short story from his collection Nine Stories, on a cruise ship. 5. Toni Morrison, Textbook Editor Toni Morrison worked in the publishing industry for 15 years, editing educational and trade books. She started as an editor for a textbook publisher in 1965 and became the first black female senior editor at Random House, where she edited Muhammad Ali and Gayl Jones, among many others. 6. Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Researcher As a zoology research fellow in the 1940s, Vladimir Nabokov curated the butterfly collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. In 1945, the self-taught butterfly expert even came up with a hypothesis for the evolution of Polyommatus blues, the type of butterfly he studied. Although this idea didn’t take hold at the time, in 2011 a team of scientists using gene-sequencing technology discovered that Nabokov’s theory was right. 7. Agatha Christie, Pharmacist Agatha Christie began training as a nurse while her husband served in the Royal Flying Corps, during World War 1. She later qualified as an “apothecaries’ assistant” and worked as a pharmacist in a hospital. Her first mystery novel, ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles, centres around the death of a woman by strychnine poisoning, and she went on to eventually write a total of 30 poison-related murders into her detective fiction series. 8. William Faulkner, Postmaster After William Faulkner dropped out of the University of Mississippi, his mentor got him a job as the university’s postmaster. Faulkner soon earned a reputation as “the damndest postmaster the world has ever seen,” possibly thanks to his habit of throwing out mail he deemed was not important, reading during working hours, and spending the rest of his time on duty writing a book. 9. Franz Kafka, Co-owner of an Asbestos Factory Franz Kafka used to work demanding hours for an insurance company, which left him little time to write, after that, he took up his brother-in-law’s offer to work as a partner for his factory, Prague Asbestos Works, which manufactured the lethal products. 10. Margaret Atwood, Waitress Before Margaret became internationally known for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, she worked during college as a cashier and waitress at a coffee shop. She stated that she thought they hired her because they thought their real cashier was ripping them off, and they wanted someone really inept. Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Features, Lifestyle and around the world.

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The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Aleppo, one of Syria's largest cities and an ancient business hub. The push is among the rebels' strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country's borders . It was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal air campaign by Russian warplanes helped Syrian President Bashar Assad retake the northwestern city. Intervention by Russia , Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power, within the 70% of Syria under his control. The surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups. Robert Ford, the last-serving U.S. ambassador to Syria, pointed to months of Israeli strikes on Syrian and Hezbollah targets in the area, and to Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon this week, as factors providing Syria’s rebels with the opportunity to advance. Here's a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting: Assad has been at war with opposition forces seeking his overthrow for 13 years, a conflict that's killed an estimated half-million people. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements. The roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo. Coming after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria's warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute. Risks include if Islamic State fighters see it as an opening, Lister said. Ford said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other. The U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS — as a terrorist organization. Abu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida's Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria's war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria's opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad's brutal rule untainted by violent extremism. Golani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women. Golani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action, researcher Aaron Zelin noted. His group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years. By 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said. At the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo is one of the centers of commerce and culture in the Middle East. Aleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the war. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions. In 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year. The Russian military's entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held. This year, Israeli airstrikes in Aleppo have hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria.

BEIRUT — Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with cease-fire efforts to halt the all-out war. An Israeli bomb squad policeman carries the remains of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon on Sunday in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel. Some of the rockets reached the Tel Aviv area in the heart of Israel. Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on an army center killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded 18 others in the southwest between Tyre and Naqoura, Lebanon's military said. The Israeli military expressed regret, saying that the strike occurred in an area of combat against Hezbollah and that the military's operations are directed solely against the militants. Israeli strikes have killed over 40 Lebanese troops since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, even as Lebanon's military has largely kept to the sidelines. Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the latest strike as an assault on U.S.-led cease-fire efforts, calling it a “direct, bloody message rejecting all efforts and ongoing contacts” to end the war. Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of the Gaza Strip ignited the war there. Hezbollah has portrayed the attacks as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas. Iran supports both armed groups. The Israeli police bomb squad inspects the site after a missile fired from Lebanon hit the area Sunday in Petah Tikva, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes at Hezbollah, and in September the low-level conflict erupted into all-out war as Israel launched airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon and killed Hezbollah's top leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli military said about 250 projectiles were fired Sunday, with some intercepted. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people, including a 60-year old man in severe condition from rocket fire on northern Israel, a 23-year-old man who was lightly wounded by a blast in the central city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, and a 70-year-old woman who suffered smoke inhalation from a car that caught fire there. In Haifa, a rocket hit a residential building that police said was in danger of collapsing. The Palestine Red Crescent reported 13 injuries it said were caused by an interceptor missile that struck several homes in Tulkarem in the West Bank. It was unclear whether injuries and damage were caused by rockets or interceptors. Sirens wailed again in central and northern Israel hours later. Israeli airstrikes without warning on Saturday pounded central Beirut, killing at least 29 people and wounding 67, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. A flock of birds flies above the smoke from Israeli airstrikes Sunday in Dahiyeh, Beirut. Smoke billowed above Beirut again Sunday with new strikes. Israel's military said it targeted command centers for Hezbollah and its intelligence unit in the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, where the militants have a strong presence. Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,700 people in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry. The fighting has displaced about 1.2 million people, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population. On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by bombardment in northern Israel and in battle following Israel's ground invasion in early October. Around 60,000 Israelis have been displaced from the country's north. The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called for an "immediate ceasefire" in the Israel-Hezbollah war while on a visit to the Lebanese c... The European Union’s top diplomat called Sunday for more pressure on Israel and Hezbollah to reach a deal, saying one was "pending with a final agreement from the Israeli government.” U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein was in the region last week. Josep Borrell spoke after meeting with Mikati and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally who has been mediating with the group. Borrell said the EU is ready to allocate $208 million to assist the Lebanese military. But Borrell later said that he did not “see the Israeli government interested clearly in reaching an agreement for a cease-fire" and that it seemed Israel was seeking new conditions. He pointed to Israel’s refusal to accept France as a member of the international committee that would oversee the cease-fire's implementation. The emerging agreement would pave the way for the withdrawal of Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops from southern Lebanon below the Litani River in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the monthlong 2006 war. Lebanese troops would patrol with the presence of U.N. peacekeepers. With talks for a cease-fire and hostage release deal in Gaza stalled, freed hostages and families of those held marked a year since the war's only hostage-release deal. “It’s hard to hold on to hope, certainly after so long and as another winter is about to begin," said Yifat Zailer, cousin of Shiri Bibas, who is held along with her husband and two young sons. Around 100 hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead. Most of the rest of the 250 who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack were released in last year's cease-fire. Talks for another deal recently had several setbacks, including the firing of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who pushed for a deal, and Qatar’s decision to suspend its mediation. Hamas wants Israel to end the war and withdraw all troops from Gaza. Israel has offered only to pause its offensive. The Palestinian death toll from the war surpassed 44,000 this week, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count. On Sunday, six people were killed in strikes in central Gaza, according to AP journalists at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. How often do you buy something online ? A couple of times a month? A couple of times a week? A couple of times a day? Everybody's answer will be different, but collectively, it's done a lot: Online retail accounted for over $1 trillion of purchases in the U.S. in 2022 and a record $277.6 billion in the second quarter of 2023 alone. Retailers ranging from titans like Amazon and Walmart, down to local small-town shops work very hard to land their share of that business. Sadly and inevitably—so do criminals and scammers. At any given moment, they operate millions of bogus sites. So how can you spot those fake online shopping sites? Spokeo provides a guide. In the early days of the internet , it took some genuine skills to set up a website, but those days are gone. A quick search will show that there are lots of apps and services offering websites on a prefabricated "fill in the blanks" basis, and most web hosts provide those tools as part of the service when someone signs up with them. It's even easier on social media . If you were opening a "side hustle" business tomorrow from your home, you could set up your own Facebook page tonight in under an hour, with exactly zero knowledge of websites. Once that page is set up, you just need to throw a few dollars in the direction of Facebook's advertising department, and they'll start advertising your page to users. It's no harder to promote a website, except in that case, you'd give your advertising dollars to Google. This is a simplified overview, but the main point holds: Establishing a presence online has become a very democratized process, open to anyone with minimal skills and even the smallest budget for advertising. That's been a boon for legitimate entrepreneurs, but it also makes life very easy indeed for scammers. There are multiple types of bogus websites . Some are imposters, created to look very much like a legitimate commercial or government site that you're familiar with, such as Amazon or Netflix. Others don't imitate a specific site, but instead attempt to capture the look and feel of those sites in general (whether that be a retail site, a government or bank page, or even something relatively shady like a gambling or porn site). Next, scammers find ways to drive traffic to their site. Often that's through phishing texts or emails, but deceptive ads on social media or search engines like Google and Bing work just as well. Once a browser arrives at the criminals' site (or, in some cases, downloads their app), any number of bad things can happen. One is that they'll download malware onto your devices, which can capture passwords or steal personal information. A more straightforward risk is that the browser will cheerfully enter their personal and banking/credit card information, thinking they're making a legitimate purchase. That's largely why fake online shopping sites are so dangerous, and so useful to scammers and identity thieves. Most bogus sites share some or all of those characteristics, but shopping sites are a very specific type of bogus site with some quirks of their own. One characteristic to count on—whether the website directly impersonates a major retailer like Amazon, a niche retailer like MEC, or just positions itself as an anonymously general retail site—is that it will offer unusually low pricing on high-demand products. That might be a mass-market item like the latest gaming console, a suddenly in-demand item that's unavailable through normal channels (remember trying to get masks and sanitizing wipes during COVID-19?), or something as mundane as disposable diapers or high-capacity computer drives. Whatever the product, the advertised price will be low enough to get attention. The bogus site will have any number of ways to transfer a browser's money to its coffers, depending on the scammers' intentions and skillset. A few of the most common include: These are all aside from the potential to infect devices or steal payment information . Sites focused on identity theft might consider a faux purchase to be just the added gravy. How common is online shopping fraud? Well, the news is pretty bad. The FTC's 2022 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book recorded over 327,000 online shopping complaints, the fourth-highest category for overall complaints and second among fraud categories. You would expect these sites to be more prevalent during the final quarter of the year, corresponding to the holiday gift-giving season—Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas itself—and they are, but that doesn't mean you can relax during the other nine months of the year. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, or APWG, identified nearly a million fake or phishing websites during the first quarter of 2022 alone (not a busy time of year for shopping), for example. To be clear, only 14.6% of those were eCommerce sites, but that still translates to well over 140,000 bogus shopping sites. The true number is almost certainly higher because the APWG only tracks the ones that use a phishing approach. Many opt to simply buy advertising instead (or as well), and those won't be captured in the APWG's statistics. However you slice it, there's a definite risk of encountering these sites when you shop. The good news is that bogus shopping sites aren't hard to spot, once you're aware of the risk. They aren't built for permanence; scammers pull them together quickly and cheaply and then abandon them once they stop producing.That "just good enough" approach leaves plenty of visible signs you can detect. Below, here's what to look for when recognizing fake online shopping sites. Bad images Bogus sites don't have direct access to the real products' manufacturing images, so they resort to copying and pasting from legitimate sites. \That means bogus sites' product images (and often their fake logos, if they impersonate a legitimate site) are fuzzy and low-res. A URL that's slightly "off" Imposter sites obviously can't have the same URL as the legitimate site, so they'll usually have a URL that looks right, but isn't quite. They might have a typo in the name, or incorporate the real company's name into their URL in a non-standard way ("myfakesite.amazon.com.123xyz.com"), or—sneakiest of all—use a letter from a different language's character set , which looks the same to the eye, but not to the computer. Broken links The scammers may have simply copied and pasted user interface elements from a legitimate site, in which case many links on the site may be broken (or simply not clickable). Lots of missing elements A legitimate retail website will have several pages of legalese, often starting with a pop-up about its cookie policy or privacy policy. You should certainly expect to see a detailed document spelling out shipping policies, return and refund policies, and similar details. If those are missing or brief and vapid, it's probably a fake site. Limited options for payment Sites that plan to take your money and run will often show oddly specific payment options, from wire transfers to gift cards to cryptocurrency. The thing those payment methods have in common is that it's very difficult to get money back once it's spent. Sites geared around capturing your personal or payment information, on the other hand, may insist on getting your credit card. Typos, grammar, and linguistic errors Simple, silly language errors are often a red flag. Scammers may not be native English speakers, and it shows up in awkward or sometimes inappropriate phrasing. Errors in actual product listings aren't necessarily a smoking gun—you'll see them frequently on real Amazon pages—because they come from the manufacturers, who are often not English speakers. Language errors on the rest of the site are more of a concern. HTTP vs. HTTPS In the address bar of your browser, a legitimate retail site's URL will start with HTTPS, rather than HTTP, and will show a closed lock symbol. The majority of fake sites now also have an HTTPS URL and will show the lock (so this isn't as helpful as it used to be), but less-sophisticated scammers may miss that detail. You can automatically rule those ones out. And, of course, the biggest red flag of all is an unrealistically low price on the product you're looking for. We all want to get a really good deal, but that impulse will often lead you astray. If a shopping site fails those basic "eyeball" tests, the smart thing to do is just close that browser tab and walk away. If you want to dig deeper, or if you aren't sure, there are a few quick and easy ways to verify a site's legitimacy. Use a URL/website checker Remember those really sneaky fake URLs that use a letter from another alphabet? The best way to check those (and other problematic elements in a URL) is through a URL verifier/website reputation service, like the ones from URLVoid and Google . Just copy (don't click!) the link, and paste it into the checker. If the site is sketchy, they'll tell you. Look up the site on a registry Domain names all need to be registered and there are several lookup tools to check this, like ICANN's registration lookup (think of it as Spokeo for websites). If a site claims to be Amazon but was registered just a few weeks ago, that's a really big red flag. Similarly, if the site isn't located where it should be, or if the ownership data is obscured, that's grounds for concern. Turn to Google If you have a bad feeling about a particular site, do a quick Google or Bing (or whatever) search that pairs the site's name with keywords like "scam," "fraud," "bogus" or "ripoff" and see what comes up. If you get a lot of hits, that's definitely grounds for concern. Go Forth and Shop (Safely) If a given site fails any or all of those tests, then keeping your wallet in your pocket is definitely the smart choice. Instead of making the purchase, report the site instead to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center and the FTC's Report Fraud website. That will get the investigative wheels turning and may help protect someone less wary from falling victim to the scammers. As always, wariness and skepticism are your friends when it comes to avoiding scams. Don't click on links in emails, texts , or social media messages; instead, go to the company's site by typing the URL directly. If you search a company's page on Google, scroll down through the actual search results until you find it instead of clicking on the sponsored results or advertisements at the top. Most of all, remember the golden rule of scam avoidance: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Keeping those principles in mind, and using the tips given here to screen out dubious sites means you'll be able to shop 'til you drop (safely), despite the vast number of scammers out there. And that—as the credit card ads like to say—is priceless. This story was produced by Spokeo and reviewed and distributed by Stacker. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Qatar tribune Agencies The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to slash interest rates once again this week amid a darkening outlook and lukewarm growth with political turbulence in the eurozone’s two biggest economies adding to the troubled picture. It would be the ECB’s third straight reduction as it increasingly focuses on spurring lending to boost consumer spending and business investment in the 20 countries that use the euro. The central bank hiked rates aggressively from mid-2022 to tame surging energy and food costs but, with inflation easing and the eurozone weakening, they have now turned their attention to cuts. Recent worse-than-expected data had fuelled speculation the ECB could deliver a hefty, half-percentage-point cut for the first time in its easing cycle when it meets Thursday. But with inflation pressures still a concern – the indicator rebounded above the central bank’s 2% target in November – most analysts now expect the ECB to continue at the same pace as before, with a quarter-point cut.“While there is a strong case for the ECB to accelerate the pace of policy easing by delivering a (half point) cut, a majority of the governing council seems to prefer a quarter-point reduction,” Capital Economics said in a note. It would be the Frankfurt-based institution’s fourth cut since June and will take the key deposit rate to 3%. ECB officials have repeatedly raised concerns about the weakening growth outlook in the single-currency area, signaling a shift away from being laser-focused on bringing down inflation. Eurozone inflation peaked at 10.6% in late 2022 after surging in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and amid post-pandemic supply chain woes. It fell back under the ECB’s target in September but rebounded in subsequent months, reaching 2.3% in November.In remarks last week to a European Parliament hearing, ECB President Christine Lagarde said recent data “suggest that growth will be weaker in the short term, on the back of slowing growth in the services sector and a continued contraction in manufacturing.” Analysts expect the weaker outlook to be reflected in updated ECB economic forecasts, to be released Thursday alongside the rate call and are predicting small downward revisions to growth and inflation estimates. Political headwinds are adding to the tricky terrain that rate-setters will have to navigate. Germany is heading for elections in February, seven months earlier than scheduled, after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s long-troubled coalition last month. Even before the latest turbulence, the eurozone’s biggest economy was struggling with a manufacturing slowdown, and its anemic growth rates are weighing down the broader single currency area. Meanwhile, in France, the eurozone’s second-biggest economy, Prime Minister Michel Barnier had to resign last week after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament, deepening the country’s growing political and financial chaos. The ECB’s decision will come a week ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s next rate-setting meeting on Dec. 17 and 18, with markets betting on another cut in borrowing costs in the world’s top economy. Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House will also loom over the ECB’s meeting, with some eurozone officials voicing alarm about his threats to impose new tariffs on all imports to the United States. While a rate cut seems a certainty on Thursday, investors will closely parse the ECB’s statement and follow Lagarde’s news conference for clues about the pace going forward. The ECB has for a long time been stressing that its decisions will be guided by incoming data and Lagarde insists she will not commit to any particular rate path. Nevertheless, HSBC said in a note it expects a “dovish shift” in the ECB’s statement that would “set the scene for further cuts next year.” Copy 10/12/2024 10

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