Equities close with slight gains as tech shares recover

Equities close with slight gains as tech shares recover

Traders are pricing in a chance of roughly 63% for a rate cut of at least 25 basis points at the Fed’s June meeting, the first with odds above 50% Published Wed, Feb 18, 2026 · 06:39 AM [BENGALURU] US stocks managed to eke out slight gains on Tuesday (Feb 17) after struggling in the…

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Every time a startup stalls, these 5 blind spots are to blame

Every time a startup stalls, these 5 blind spots are to blame

You know the feeling. Growth flattens. The energy dips. The metrics are not terrible, but they are not moving. You tell yourself it is just a slow month, a weird cycle, the market. But deep down, you sense something is off. Most startups do not stall because founders are lazy or untalented. They stall because…

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Kelly Ripa ribs Mark Consuelos for “reeking of cigars” after time spent in his “man cave”: “The dog got groomed, and you pet her, and then she smelled like cigars”

Kelly Ripa ribs Mark Consuelos for “reeking of cigars” after time spent in his “man cave”: “The dog got groomed, and you pet her, and then she smelled like cigars”

A celebratory cigar for Mark Consuelos did not go unnoticed by his wife Kelly Ripa—nor their dog, Lena. Consuelos told viewers on Tuesday’s Live with Kelly and Mark about how he spent some of Monday (Feb. 16), locked away in his “man cave” watching he and Ripa’s Italian football club, Campobasso FC, defeat Vis Pesaro.…

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Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson dead at 84

Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson dead at 84

Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday morning. He was 84. The renowned civil rights leader’s death comes after he was hospitalized in Chicago last November for progressive supranuclear palsy — a rare brain disease. “He has been managing this neurodegenerative condition for more than a decade,” the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded, said…

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Woke Portland pizza restaurant hits diners with anti-ICE propaganda and bizarrely declares ‘food is political’

Woke Portland pizza restaurant hits diners with anti-ICE propaganda and bizarrely declares ‘food is political’

A woke Portland, Oregon, pizza restaurant bombarded diners visiting its website with an unhinged anti-ICE rant – before bizarrely claiming that food is political.  The note posted on Tastebud’s website, which has gone viral, called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and surfaced weeks after the deaths of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good and…

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