Bus driver en route to early retirement after $1-million lottery win
For one Canadian lottery player, early retirement plans are now closer to reality after a life-changing win.
Brandon Stewart lives in Windsor, Ont., and works as a transit bus driver. Stewart has been a regular lottery player for the past two years, playing Lotto 6/49 with Encore twice a week. He said he typically buys his tickets online through his OLG.ca account.
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Read MoreChina to continue to share AI dividends with fellow developing countries: FM
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that China will continue to share artificial intelligence (AI) dividends with fellow developing countries, and promote AI to better serve global development, as it opened the second Workshop on AI Capacity Building in Beijing on Monday, with participants from nearly 40 countries and international organizations.
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Read MoreTrump says US moving past 'days of economic misery' on Middle East trip
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The two leaders signed a strategic economic partnership worth up to $600 billion.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted his administration’s economic policies in a speech delivered in Saudi Arabia.
The president is traveling through the Middle East this week in an effort to attract more investment in the U.S.
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Read MoreTop Stock Movers Now: Nvidia, UnitedHealth Group, Honda, and More
Key Takeaways
- U.S. equities were mixed at midday, boosted by tech stocks and a new report showing consumer inflation came in lower than expected.
- The Nasdaq was up 1.5%, and the S&P 500 rose almost 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged lower as UnitedHealth Group shares slumped.
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Alphabet’s $32 Billion Bet: Smart Move or Costly Mistake?
Alphabet tripled its price per share over the past 5 years thanks to Google Search, which has the largest share of the search engine market, Android the largest mobile operating system in the world and YouTube the dominant video-sharing platform.
But now it sits at a crossroads, and the question for investors is has the time come to sell the Search giant?
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Stock Market in Chaos? 1 High-Yield ETF Could Be a Safe Haven
The stock market has gotten off to an extremely rough start in 2025, with highly-valued stocks suddenly selling off on a variety of worries. Both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 entered corrections, erasing trillions in value from the market’s total capitalizations.
Much of this selloff has been driven by threats of sweeping tariffs that would drastically raise costs for American businesses and spur higher inflation.
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Is This Quantum Stock Set To Keep Soaring?
Following comments by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang about the probable timeline for practical quantum computing, quantum startups have had a rocky start to 2025.
Huang, himself an expert in cutting-edge computing technologies, said he believed that it could take about 20 years for quantum computers to become a useful technology.
While the comment attracted criticism from some technologists and quantum bulls,
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