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Global strategists at Goldman Sachs advise investors to look beyond the over the next decade. Peter Oppenheimer and his team forecast that the S&P 500 will return about 6.5% annually over the next ten years, one of the weakest projections among major regions. On the other hand, emerging markets are expected to deliver annual returns near 10.9%, supported by strong earnings growth in China and India. Asia excluding Japan is projected to return roughly 10.3%, while Japan itself could see gains of 8.2%. The strategists argue that lofty US valuations and a convergence in earnings growth make international diversification crucial.US stocks…

The IWSC is among the world’s most prestigious wine and spirit competitions.Photo courtesy International Wine & Spirits CompetitionEvery medal tells a story, but some producers turn those stories into a saga. With its new Top 50 Producers lists, the International Wine & Spirit Competition (IWSC) is shining a light on the wineries and distilleries that don’t just win big once, but show up on the podium year after year. Working with the IWSC team, I’ve also compiled an Honor Roll of individual wines and spirits that have managed the even rarer feat of taking home Gold at least three times…

Hotel guests have reportedly been kicked out during the middle of their stay and given less than 24 hours to leave after short-term rental company Sonder collapsed.Sonder said it planned to file for bankruptcy after its licensing agreement with Marriott International ended on Sunday. In a statement posted online, it said it would “complete winding down operations immediately” and intended to “initiate insolvency proceedings” in all countries it operated in.  It has properties in 40 cities including London, New York, San Francisco and Montreal. Guests from all over the world, including the US, Amsterdam and Montreal, posted about their experiences online after they…

Key takeaways Treat your plant systems as one stack: sensors/PLCs at the edge, SCADA for supervision, MES for execution, ERP for business, and analytics as the cross‑cutting data layer. Design integrations around a few critical flows — orders and recipes down; events, quality, and genealogy up — so every team (execs, ops, quality, IT) speaks the same language about priorities. Start small but connected: standardize tags and master data early, choose open protocols, and build an analytics-ready “hub” so AI use cases scale beyond pilots. When technologies don’t talk to each other, it creates a significant stumbling block for food…

Money savers across the UK are being urged to act before December. They are at risk of missing out on the best returns due to high inflation and possible Bank of England base rate cuts.According to experts from Moneyfactscompare.co.uk, the UK’s leading provider of retail financial product data, the interest rate on the top one-year bond rose in November for the first time since July. The rate is currently at 4.46%, but this still remains lower than the 6.05% it was this time two years ago. Meanwhile, the average one-year fixed bond rate is 3.95% gross, which is higher than…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Few things are more cherished by investors than a network effect. A marketplace, for instance, can use its range of sellers to attract more buyers, which encourages additional sellers in turn. This can produce a fast-growing, highly profitable business that is hard to dislodge.While many companies tout their ability to produce these outcomes, few succeed in actually doing so. In the UK, two businesses spring to mind: property portal Rightmove and car sales business Auto Trader. Their market dominance and low customer…

Gold continues its battle with the $4,150 barrier early Wednesday, preserving the previous bullish momentum, in anticipation of a potential end to the government shutdown.  Gold eyes on House vote for US government reopeningGold buyers are catching their breath after three straight days of gains, helped by the renewed optimism surrounding the US government reopening, which fuelled ‘buy-everything’ momentum across the markets.Persistent risk flows continue to reduce the US Dollar’s (USD) appeal as a safe haven, with its demand further hit by renewed calls for aggressive interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) in the coming months.Amid the…

Lucid Group (LCID) announced the pricing of a new $875 million offering of senior notes in a private sale to institutional investors. The funds will help Lucid pay down debt as it prepares for its next growth stage. Lucid Group stock falls after $875 debt offer After delivering just over 4,000 vehicles in Q3, Lucid marked its seventh straight quarter with record deliveries. Through September, the EV maker delivered nearly 10,500 vehicles, already topping the roughly 10,200 it handed over in 2024. Lucid ended the third quarter $1.6 billion in cash and equivalents, which it said is enough to fund…

– Good Track Record in Turkmenistan and Environmental Impact Reduction via CO2 Capture facility were Key Factors in Securing Contract- Groundbreaking Ceremony Held on November 2, 2025, in the Presence of the President of Turkmenistan, His Excellency Serdar Berdimuhamedov- Plant Scheduled to Commence Operations in 2030TOKYO, Nov 10, 2025 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has signed an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract with SC Turkmenhimiya, the state-owned chemical company of Turkmenistan, for the construction of a large-scale ammonia and urea fertilizer production complex. The contract was concluded in partnership with Gap Insaat Yatirim ve Dis…

By HEIDI PARKER, US DEPUTY SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR Published: 17:34, 12 November 2025 | Updated: 18:16, 12 November 2025 Jennifer Aniston has stumped her fans during the star’s new interview with Elle Magazine’s Women In Hollywood December 2025/January 2026 issue.The 56-year-old actress claimed that her family ‘had no money’ when she was growing up even though her father was an actor on the popular soap opera Days Of Our Lives.’No money? Her dad was famous on TV, I don’t get it,’ said one fan on X while another added, ‘She must mean her parents were only millionaires and not billionaires.’ The subject…