‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Soars to No. 1 at the Box Office – Opening Weekend Numbers Revealed! | Box Office, Godzilla, Godzilla x Kong, Movies | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is huge! The movie opened to $80 million at the domestic box office in its first weekend, well ahead of $45 million to $55 million projections, THR reported. The opening marked the second-best opening in the MonsterVerse Universe, and the fifth biggest Easter opening of all time. Keep reading … Read more

Turkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soars

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate by 5 percentage points on Thursday, resuming a policy of rate hikes aimed at combating soaring inflation that is causing households severe economic pain. In a surprise decision, the central bank said it was raising the benchmark one-week repo rate to 50%. The bank … Read more

Samsung Electronics soars more than 5% after Nvidia report

Samsung logo displayed on a phone screen with a binary code reflected on it, a laptop keyboard, a memory card, an adaper and cables are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on January 30, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of South … Read more

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies, kept elbowing each other trying to enter. “Let us in! We’re hungry!” they … Read more

Turkish annual inflation soars to 67% in February

The Maslak financial and business center in the Sariyer district of Istanbul. Ayhan Altun | Moment | Getty Images Turkish annual consumer price inflation soared to 67.07% in February, the Turkish Statistical Institute said Monday, coming in above expectations. Analysts polled by Reuters had anticipated annual inflation would climb to 65.7% last month. The combined … Read more

India ‘easily’ fastest growing economy, IMF director says, as GDP growth soars

IMF Executive Director and former Chief Economic Advisor of India, Dr Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian addresses a press conference. Hindustan Times | Hindustan Times | Getty Images India is ‘easily’ the fastest growing economy in the world, IMF executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian said, as the country’s third-quarter GDP growth blew past analysts’ estimates. At 8.4%, India’s … Read more

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly rival soars 26% after promising weight-loss drug results

Vials move along a conveyor at the Novo Nordisk A/S production facilities in Hillerod, Denmark, on Monday, June 12, 2023. The success of Novo’s bestsellers Ozempic and Wegovy, drugs that help people lose significant amounts of weight, has created something of a gold rush in the pharma industry with about 40 companies developing products that … Read more

Kanye West’s Fans Mock ‘Cancel Culture’ As ‘Vultures 1’ Soars

Despite the controversy surrounding the rapper and the many attempts to cancel Kanye West, his new project with TY Dolla has hit the top spot on the Spotify charts. The update, which the music executive uploaded himself, brought his fans out in their numbers to not only celebrate the feat but also call out his haters’ … Read more

Stripe rival soars 21% on profit beat, hiring slowdown

Adyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization . Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of European online payments giant Adyen jumped on Thursday, after the company reported strong sales growth and better-than-expected profit for 2023. Adyen, … Read more

Palestinian death toll soars past 25,000 in Gaza with no end in sight to Israel-Hamas war

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The Palestinian death toll in Gaza from over three months of war between Israel and the territory’s Hamas rulers has soared past 25,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said Sunday. At least 178 bodies were brought to Gaza’s hospitals in 24 hours along with nearly 300 wounded people, according to Health Ministry … Read more