Darden Restaurants (DRI) Q3 2024 earnings

Darden Restaurants (DRI) Q3 2024 earnings

A sign hangs on the front of an Olive Garden restaurant on June 22, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olsen | Getty Images Darden Restaurants on Thursday reported mixed quarterly results as the Olive Garden owner’s same-store sales shrank for the first time since the pandemic. Shares of the company fell more than 5% in … Read more

Turkey central bank raises interest rate to 50%

Turkey central bank raises interest rate to 50%

A picture taken on August 14, 2018 shows the logo of Turkey’s Central Bank at the entrance of its headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. ADEM ALTAN | AFP | Getty Images Turkey’s central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate, the one-week repo rate, from 45% to 50%, citing the continuing need to counter climbing … Read more

As Haiti violence continues, U.S. begins helicopter evacuations of citizens – National

As Haiti violence continues, U.S. begins helicopter evacuations of citizens – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. government-chartered helicopter flights began carrying American citizens from the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday amid rising violence, the State Department said, with a first flight transporting more than 15 people to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. A department spokesperson estimated that more than 30 U.S. … Read more

3 Killed In Suicide Bombing In Afghanistan’s Kandahar, 12 Injured

3 Killed In Suicide Bombing In Afghanistan’s Kandahar, 12 Injured

The explosion at around 8:00 am targeted a group of people waiting outside a bank. Kandahar: A suicide bombing killed three people and wounded 12 others on Thursday in the Afghan city of Kandahar, a provincial official said, the heartland of the Taliban authorities that rule the country. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, … Read more

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan: evacuations in NT ahead of ‘one-in-a-hundred-year flood’ | Northern Territory

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan: evacuations in NT ahead of ‘one-in-a-hundred-year flood’ | Northern Territory

More than 100 people have been evacuated from the remote Northern Territory community of Borroloola as it faces dangerous record flooding just days after it was lashed by Tropical Cyclone Megan. The McArthur River at the township was forecast to peak at 18 metres by Thursday afternoon, three metres higher than the previous 2001 flood … Read more

Fed raises GDP and inflation outlook, while keeping rate cut forecast

Fed raises GDP and inflation outlook, while keeping rate cut forecast

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” in Dirksen Building on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Federal Reserve members still see three interest rate cuts in 2024 despite an … Read more