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Street Fighter 2026 movie first-look trailer sees Dune star in key role

Street Fighter 2026 movie first-look trailer sees Dune star in key role

Published by Daniella Wilson

The first trailer has been unveiled for upcoming video game adaptation Street Fighter – giving fans a glimpse of the film’s eclectic cast including Game of Thrones and Dune star Jason Momoa as popular character Blanka. The ensemble for the film also includes To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Recruit star Noah Centineo, British actor and martial artist Andrew Koji, and rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson among many others, and all of them can be seen in the new teaser. “I got good news y’all,” a voice is heard saying towards the beginning of the trailer. “Gathered here are the world’s best fighters. But only one of which will be crowned the world champion of street fighter.” Throughout, the teaser includes all sorts of high-octane fight scenes, bright, neon colours and early ’90s indicators – with director Kitao Sakurai certainly going for a highly stylised approach in keeping with the aesthetic of the games. The official synopsis for the film reads: “Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Koji) and Ken Masters …

Japan sees private credit as a policy pillar despite overseas market turmoil

Japan sees private credit as a policy pillar despite overseas market turmoil

Published by Sam Flores

TOKYO, April 16 : Japan’s financial regulator sees private credit as a potential key pillar of its new strategy to meet rising corporate funding demand driven by a surge in M&A activity, a senior official told Reuters, despite turbulence in overseas private credit markets. The move reflects a shift in Japanese corporate behaviour, with rising inflation prompting firms to invest cash piles they have been sitting on for long, a trend analysts say could accelerate as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi prioritises investment-led growth. In contrast with overseas private credit markets that are taking heavy redemption hits, Japan’s market “remains underdeveloped and needs cultivation,” Michinori Haba, the Financial Services Agency’s deputy director-general in charge of financial markets, said in an interview. Haba said funding demand has strengthened further as the Takaichi administration promotes investment alongside rising M&A activity, accelerating government debate over the need to diversify providers of capital. “Under the government’s new financial strategy, domestic private credit could form one of the key pillars,” he said, adding that the policy is premised on close monitoring …

BofA Sees Customer Gas Spending Jump 16%, But Discretionary Spending Holds Up

BofA Sees Customer Gas Spending Jump 16%, But Discretionary Spending Holds Up

Published by Jenni Sidey

The national average for 87-octane gasoline has remained above the politically sensitive $4-a-gallon level for two straight weeks after the largest monthly jump in AAA data going back two decades. The fuel shock has Wall Street analysts focused on whether surging pump prices will begin crowding out discretionary spending. Bank of America CFO Alastair Borthwick told analysts on a conference call earlier today that the fuel shock at the pump has not undermined overall consumer strength so far, though that could change if the Hormuz chokepoint is not resolved in the near term, according to Bloomberg.  The BofA presentation Alastair cited showed that, for the first quarter, consumer spending at the pump was up 3%. For March, gas spending soared 16%. However, no meaningful spending pullbacks were visible elsewhere: Entertainment, travel, and retail spending all remained healthy, with entertainment spending rising 12% in the quarter. BofA has joined a number of other firms, including Chime Financial, in disclosing gas-cost impacts on their customers. Chime’s CFO warned earlier this month that clients spent 25% more on fuel …

USTR’s Greer Sees No Changes in Data Rules That Bar Chinese Vehicles From US

USTR’s Greer Sees No Changes in Data Rules That Bar Chinese Vehicles From US

Published by Sam Flores

By Nora Eckert and David Shepardson WARREN, Michigan/WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade ⁠Representative ⁠Jamieson Greer said Thursday that President ⁠Donald Trump’s administration does not plan any changes to a crackdown on vehicle hardware ​and software from China, which effectively bars Chinese cars from the U.S. market. The rules were adopted in January 2025 under President Joe Biden, ‌based on national security concerns linked ‌to the ability of vehicles to collect sensitive data on American owners.  The rules imposed a sweeping ban on the use ⁠of key Chinese ⁠software and hardware in vehicles on American roads. The software prohibitions took effect ​in March, and those on hardware take effect n 2029. “We don’t see any change in that — so it seems like it would probably be difficult for certain countries to establish new production here, given those sets of rules,” Greer said. He said U.S. officials plan a ​video conference with Chinese officials to discuss “deliverables” for President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in ⁠May but ⁠the auto sector is not …

Gothenburg children’s hospital ‘evacuated’ as outbreak sees 16 staff members falling ill | World | News

Gothenburg children’s hospital ‘evacuated’ as outbreak sees 16 staff members falling ill | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

A children’s hospital in Sweden has been forced to close one of its areas amid a mystery outbreak, which saw 16 staff members falling ill. Staff at Queen Silvia’s Children’s Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, suddenly fell ill and began experiencing symptoms similar to allergic reactions. They are currently receiving medical treatment, while the facility has reportedly been closed. According to Aftonbladet, one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers, the paediatric surgery 2 department, which receives children undergoing daytime surgery has now been moved after staff became ill while working. Officials are investigating the cause of the outbreak and working to prevent it from spreading further. Safety officer Taru Kontio, of the Swedish Healthcare Association, told local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten that staff had also experienced symptoms consistent with asthma. Other symptoms reported include runny noses, itchy eyes, severe headaches, itchy scalps, eczema, fever, coughing, hoarseness and nasal congestion. Other local publications have reported the hospital has been evacuated, whiile others say only effected wards have been closed in an effort to contain the incident. Jonas Nordin, area manager for …

Kevin Plank’s Unsellable Thoroughbred Race Farm Sees Another Deep Price Cut

Kevin Plank’s Unsellable Thoroughbred Race Farm Sees Another Deep Price Cut

Published by Jenni Sidey

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank has once again cut the asking price on his massive thoroughbred racing farm in northern Baltimore County, Maryland, as the historic farm – once owned by the Vanderbilt family – continues to sit on the market amid a series of deep price cuts. Plank has been winding down his sprawling real estate portfolio, offloading everything from multiple residential properties to a luxury hotel in Baltimore City in recent years. Among his crown jewels – alongside the Baltimore Peninsula – is Sagamore Farm, a 404-acre thoroughbred racing operation he has been trying to sell for years. The latest data from multiple listing service provider MLS Bright shows that Plank likely instructed his listing agent, Christina Giffin of Monument Sotheby’s International Realty, to pursue another price cut. MLS Bright data shows Sagamore’s current listing price is around $16.5 million. This represents a 15% cut from the late-2025 listing of $18.5 million and an overall decline of about 25% from the original $22 million listing in March 2025. The farm appears to have …

Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch Sees Pay Total .7 Million

Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch Sees Pay Total $6.7 Million

Published by Daniella Wilson

As Starz gets set for its first shareholder meeting as a spun off, pure-play TV production brand without its Lionsgate studio sibling, the company has disclosed its C-suite pay for top execs. Jeffrey Hirsch, who has spent a decade at Starz and took the CEO title in 2019, saw his compensation package total $6.7 million between salary, incentives and awards, a securities filing disclosed on April 2 shows. His current contract runs through December 2028. Alison Hoffman, who oversees content and revenue as president, received $2.7 million while CFO Scott Macdonald saw pay total $2 million in fiscal ’25. “The media landscape is evolving rapidly, but spin-offs, consolidation, and bundling are creating opportunities for focused, profitable players like Starz,” Hirsch wrote in a letter to shareholders. “With a highly capable tech stack and a proven playbook to migrate a linear-first business into a digital-led one, we believe our business is well positioned to participate in industry M&A as a buyer of complementary assets that align with our audiences, all while maintaining disciplined leverage and generating …

Cash Is King, Dowd Sees ,000 Gold As The Credit Market “Is Starting To End The Party”

Cash Is King, Dowd Sees $10,000 Gold As The Credit Market “Is Starting To End The Party”

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com warned at the end of January that the “Credit Destruction Cycle” was showing up in something called private credit.  Dowd was worried about extreme risk in the economy, especially with all the growth in lending in the last two years coming from private credit.  Has this gotten better or worse?  Dowd says, “It’s gotten worse, and it has spread…” “The number if credit funds that have gated their investors keeps growing.  This is important because high net worth individuals, insurance companies and pension funds put millions of dollars in these private credit funds and now they want to redeem them, and there is a gate.  The last two years of loan growth in the economy was from banks loaning to private credit. . .. There have been earth shaking events in private credit land.  That started a cascading effect of people becoming worried about their private credit fund.  Then, redemptions started, and some funds like Blue Owl have taken massive hits.  They had to gate …

Kepu Tuipulotu inspires comeback as Bath’s heavyweight bench sees off Sale

Kepu Tuipulotu inspires comeback as Bath’s heavyweight bench sees off Sale

Published by Sam Flores

Ewan Richards picked off a Sale attacking line-out and, from his own 22, Tuipulotu pummelled his way down the short side, running through two tackles, before spotting space in the Sale back field and setting up replacement scrum-half Van der Linde perfectly with his piece of footballing magic. Then came Barbeary’s killer thrust, after 28 punishing phases, to put them within sight of the finishing line. While Sale engineered a great position to steal the win late on, George Ford – playing his first game since February 21 after being dropped by England following the Six Nations defeat to Ireland – lost control of the ball and the chance slipped away. It was Sharks’ ninth defeat of a disappointing league campaign. “I’m crestfallen,” said Sale’s director of rugby Alex Sanderson, who was forced to play a hooker, Nathan Jibulu, at No 7 because of his back-row injury issues. “I’m just gutted for the amount of effort that the lads put in. It is frustrating but it’s seemingly a similar story to how the rest of …

Rubio sees G7 building ‘coalition’ against Iran strait control

Rubio sees G7 building ‘coalition’ against Iran strait control

Published by Sam Flores

PARIS: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday (Mar 27) he saw European readiness to help form a coalition against Iranian control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz after US-Israeli attacks unleashed a regional war. Rubio joined top diplomats from the Group of Seven powers for talks as he assured them that the war launched a month ago would only continue for a matter of weeks. The top US diplomat voiced alarm that Iran would seek to establish a permanent “tolling system” for vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which one fifth of global oil normally transits. “Not only is this illegal, it’s unacceptable, it’s dangerous to the world, and it’s important that the world have a plan to confront it,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting in a historic abbey on the outskirts of Paris. He said he had found “a lot of buy-in” to opposing any Iranian tolling, with Britain taking a leading role. “We’re willing to be a part of that coalition, but we’ve encouraged others to …