took it one step further and calculated that changes in carbon dioxide may affect the climate.
Trump also talked up the potential for more trade deals that could be on the way with other countries, following his announcement the day before on an agreement with the United Kingdom.“Many Trade Deals in the hopper, all good (GREAT!) ones!” he said on his Truth Social network.
In the meantime, the flow of earnings reports for the start of the year from companies is slowing but still moving the market.Expedia sank 7.3% even though the travel website reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected.The owner of Vrbo and Hotels.com said demand was weaker than it expected during the quarter, and it highlighted softer-than-expected demand in the United States, as well as a nearly 30% decline in bookings from Canada to its southern neighbor.
Other travel-related companies, including Hilton and Airbnb, have reported a similar softening in travel demand to the U.S. in their recent earnings reports.Sweetgreen wilted by 16.2% after the salad seller reported a slightly larger loss for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The fast-casual restaurant chain also gave a forecast for revenue over the full year that fell just short of analysts’ estimates.
They helped work against a 28.1% rally for Lyft, which delivered a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company said it reached the highest weekly ridership levels in its history during the last week of March.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the chip giant known as TSMC, offered an encouraging report, saying its revenue in April leaped 48.1% from a year earlier. That sent its stock that trades in the United States up 0.7%.Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant’s new film,
In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they’ll soon regret visiting. They’re welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in “Heretic,” a horror thriller from A24, Grant’s turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in “Love Actually” is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
“It was a challenge,” Grant says. “I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you’ve climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up.”“Heretic,” which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of