A great weight loss plan involves many parts: a healthy diet, lots of exercise, and, of course, ample hydration. The importance of H2O should not be underestimated! Making sure you drink enough water can help you suppress your appetite, lower your calorie intake, make your workouts more efficient, and even boost your metabolism. And as it turns out, there are a few ingredients you can add to your glass that can make your water even more beneficial: lemon and chia seeds.
To learn more about the health benefits of lemon water with chia seeds, we spoke to Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist Krutika Nanavati of Clinic Spots. She gave us the rundown on this incredible weight loss beverage. Find it all below!
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Lemon water and chia seeds
There’s no denying that water on its own is one of the best things you can drink for your overall health—but if you want to kick it up a notch and create the ultimate weight loss beverage, Nanavati says adding lemon and chia seeds to the mix can do wonders.
Benefits of lemon water with chia seeds for weight loss
According to Nanavati, these two powerful ingredients each offer their own potentially waist-slimming benefits, and consuming them regularly by adding them to your water is a great way to help you stay satiated and even boost your metabolism.
“For one, lemon water is a low-calorie beverage that can help to promote hydration and fullness, both of which are important for weight loss,” Nanavati explains. “In addition, the chia seeds in this drink can help to boost metabolism and promote healthy digestion, which can also support weight loss.” Perfect! But the benefits don’t stop there. Chia seeds can also help pack fiber into your diet, which she notes “is beneficial for weight loss as it helps to keep you feeling fuller for longer.” And when you feel fuller longer, you’re much less likely to snack on all those sugary, salty treats that make it so difficult to lose weight. Overall, the added fiber will definitely help you on your fitness journey.
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How to make lemon water and chia seeds
Now that you know all the incredible benefits of lemon water with chia seeds, it’s time to dive into the best way to prepare this beverage. Luckily, this is a pretty straightforward, quick recipe. To start, all you need to do is add a bit of lemon juice to a glass of warm water. “You can also add a few drops of honey for taste,” Nanavati suggests.
Next up, it’s time to add the chia seeds. She explains that you can add some chia seed powder or go with whole, soaked seeds. And voila! You’re all set. It’s as simple as that. “Try this drink every morning and avail the multiple health benefits it offers like weight loss, detoxification, a powerhouse of antioxidants,” Nanavati concludes.
Of course, no single drink can work miracles; weight loss is a concentrated effort that will require an all-around healthy diet and a killer workout routine. However, sipping on this beverage certainly won’t hurt—we’ll definitely be giving it a shot ASAP!
Whether you’re dealing with belly rolls, a beer gut, or the middle-aged spread, it’s safe to say your midsection situation is cramping your vibe—and putting your health at risk. Excess waistline fat makes squeezing into your favorite pants or shorts quite the chore, and you’d like to shape things up. To get you started, we’ve put together a bodyweight workout that’ll help you lose five inches off your waist with no equipment required.
According to the Mayo Clinic, abdominal fat should not be taken lightly. Whatever your body weight may be, having too much extra fat in your midsection is associated with sleep apnea, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, and a greater chance of early mortality. Your age, the number of calories you feed your body every day, and the number of calories you torch can all contribute to your weight and gaining belly fat.
When it comes to trimming your waistline down by five inches or more, you need to eat a healthy diet, strength train at least two to three times a week, and make sure you’re doing enough aerobic work. In addition to cardio and strength training, a pretty underrated—but stellar—kind of workout you can add to your routine is one that’s totally body-based. Bodyweight workouts can be performed basically anywhere and don’t call for fancy equipment. So whether you’re traveling for the holidays or simply don’t want to leave your house, there’s no excuse not to squeeze in a healthy fitness session.
Get ready to build muscle, boost your endurance and strength, and improve your core stability. Here’s a great bodyweight workout to lose five inches off your waist or more.
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Walking Lunges begin by stepping forward with one leg and firmly planting your foot on the floor. Then, lower yourself with control into a lunge until your back knee gently touches the ground. Walk forward with the other leg, and repeat the movement. Perform three to four sets of 12 reps for each leg.
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Judo Pushups stretch out your core and improve your shoulder mobility. Start the exercise by getting in a pushup position. Drive your hips up to the ceiling, and get a solid stretch in your hamstrings. Swoop down toward the ground, leading with your head by your chest. Right before your body reaches the floor, push yourself back up, flexing your triceps to finish the motion. Perform three to four sets of eight to 10 reps.
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Step-Ups start with you putting one foot on a bench or sturdy surface, like a plyometric box. Keep your chest tall and core tight
by placing your foot on a bench or sturdy surface. Make sure your chest remains tall and your core tight as you lean into the heel of your front leg and push off of it to step up. Flex your quad and glute at the top of the movement, then lower yourself under control before performing another rep. Perform three to four sets of 12 reps for each leg.
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Get into a side plank position with your shoulder in line with your wrist and feet stacked. Lift your hips up and forward and brace your core. Leading with your top leg, raise from the heel up as high as you can, flexing the glute at the end of the movement. Lower the leg under control back to starting position before performing another rep. Perform three to four sets of 10 reps for each leg.
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You will begin the Janda Situp by positioning yourself to where you’re lying flat on your back with your knees bent and your heels pressing against a sturdy surface. Perform a sit-up while digging your heels towards you, flexing your hamstrings. As you come up, flex your abs as hard as you can, exhaling all of your air. Lower yourself slowly—aka with control—before performing another rep. Perform three to four sets of eight to 10 reps.6254a4d1642c605c54bf1cab17d50f1e
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Bitcoin is just a few hundred dollars away from reclaiming the vaunted $21,000 territory in the face of bear market pressures.
On October 26, Bitcoin peaked at $20,866 as it helped the sector push its total market capitalization to over $1 trillion. The momentum, however, wasn’t enough for the asset to break past the $21K marker.
At press time, according to tracking from Coingecko, the cryptocurrency is trading at a slightly lower price of $20,673 although it is still up by 2% over the past 24 hours and by 7.8% for the past week.
This scenario opens up the possibility of Bitcoin once again falling below the crucial $20K range, falling back into the state it was before the mini rally happened.
But analysts think the maiden crypto is not yet ready to give up its recent gains as bulls are doing their best to prevail over the bears.
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Jim Wyckoff, a Kitco News analyst, gave a bit of a reassuring suggestion for the Bitcoin community that are starting to worry after the asset declined a bit.
According to him, as far as the current price action is concerned, bulls remain in control as they have “near-term technical advantage” over their counterparts. As such, an upside movement for the crypto over the next few days is still highly possible.
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Earlier, crypto trading expert Michael Van de Poppe said that in order for the largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap to sustain its bullish movement, it needs to stay above the $20,500 zone.
The digital currency also enjoys positive sentiment as indicated by its technical analysis, which suggests “buy” option far outscores “sell,” 11 to 6.
Market Forces At Play For Bitcoin
While considered as the leader of all cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is not immune to market forces that can directly influence its price trajectory.
For example, the U.S. Federal Reserve will once again implement another 75 bps interest hike to deal with high inflation numbers that continue to put U.S. economy in turmoil and is already proven to affect the crypto space in a negative way.
Meanwhile, fiat currencies like the British Pound experiencing extreme volatility and depreciation work in favor of assets like Bitcoin as investors are inclined to shift to better stores of value.
As investors, traders and holders await the next development in BTC price movement, it is imperative to also pay attention to these “triggers” as well.
BTC market cap at $397 billion on the daily chart | Featured image from Yamada-co.jp, Chart: TradingView.com
Enlarge / Diego Luna returns to the role of Cassian Andor in the newest Star Wars series on Disney+.
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At its worst, Star Wars: Andor is a sanded-off, PG-13 version of some of the best TV dramas of the past decade. It’s easy to see traces of The Wire, Lost, and Breaking Bad in this story of Star Wars-adjacent scum and villainy. However, as you might suspect, such nuanced TV inspirations can only go so far in a franchise that regularly features chirping droids and action figure tie-ins.
At its best, though, Andor plays out like no other Star Wars film or TV entry to date, and it bodes well for the series’ post-Skywalker future. Andor flexes its adult-ish aspirations to better resemble the gritty content that has made series sidebars like comics, novels, and video games beloved. While its momentum takes a little too long to kick in, enough quality coalesces by the end of the series’ first 100 minutes to make it a worthy recommendation for fans of compelling sci-fi television, let alone Star Wars loyalists.
At Disney+, an initial release of three episodes says a lot
Enlarge / Trouble seems to find Cassian Andor a lot in his series.
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This series “follows” the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story the only way Lucasfilm really could: by building a prequel out of its likable anti-hero Cassian Andor. (Spoiler alert: If this series had been a direct timeline sequel to that film, it would, uh, include far fewer characters.) Since his name’s in the title, Andor features as the star, and the events rewind to both his biggest adult and childhood adventures.
Disney+ typically debuts new TV episodes on a once-a-week basis, and while a few series exceptions have launched with a bonus episode (most notably Marvel’s WandaVision), Andor is the first to approach a “binge” on launch week. Wednesday’s three-episode debut feels like a major admission from Lucasfilm: ‘Hey fans, pretty please watch all three episodes before rushing to judgment.’
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I am thankful that I did. Andor needs this much time to get its bearings, mostly because its opening episodes plow ahead with an entirely new cast of characters surrounding the familiar face of lead actor Diego Luna. Trailers have suggested that we’ll eventually see characters from Rogue One, Star Wars: Rebels, and other entries, but first, we have to watch Andor embrace his destiny.
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Enlarge / Bix (Adria Arjona) has a long and fraught relationship with Andor to contend with in this new series.
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If your preferred Star Wars adventures feature shady deals in alleyways, dubious-sounding no-questions-asked favors, and cold-blooded killings, Andor wastes no time bearing its dark heart. Andor begins the first episode on a fact-finding mission, and while he’s clearly been on his search for a while, this TV series opens with his quest going awry. Within minutes, Andor returns to Ferrix, his veritable home base where he typically picks up and sells scrap to get by. It’s time to run one last deal, he tells his few accomplices, and they need to tighten their alibis about it, just in case.
And he would’ve gotten away with his scheme, too, if it weren’t for a meddling middle manager inside an Imperial operations outpost. Deputy Inspector Karn (Kyle Soller) is the series’ first standout new character, as he bristles with impotent rage while trying to make a name for himself inside an otherwise bureaucratically restrained Empire. Karn alternates between obnoxious smugness and chest-puffing BS as appropriate, and his resulting unlikability is magnetic to watch as he bears down on Andor’s escape plan. His place in the story is probably as close as the Star Wars universe will ever get to resembling the broken law enforcement ecosystem of some of modern TV’s biggest hits.
The LimbplastX Institute charges between $70,000 and $150,000 to make patients as much as six inches taller.Getty Images
A man who borrowed $75,000 for surgery faces monthly $1,200 payments for the next five years.
John Lovedale told GQ that “the world seems to bend” for taller men.
He decided to take out a loan to pay for leg-lengthening surgery to become 3 inches taller.
A man who borrowed $75,000 for leg-lengthening surgery that made him 3 inches taller will spend $1,200 a month on repayments for the next five years, GQ magazine reported.
John Lovedale, in his mid-40s, explained why he went through the painful, months-long surgery. “I noticed that taller people just seem to have it easier. The world seems to bend for them,” he said.
He decided to take the opportunity to become 3 inches taller when he heard about the procedure. Before doing so he was about 5 feet 8.5 inches tall, slightly less than the average height of 5 feet 9 inches.
Lovedale took a loan from the online bank SoFi to pay for the surgery, which costs between $70,000 and $150,000, depending on whether the patient wants to grow by 3, 4, 5, or 6 inches, GQ reported.
The network engineer will now spend $1,200 in repayments for the next five years, but has no regrets, the magazine reported. “People just look at you differently when you’re tall. I already get a lot more looks at the gym,” Lovedale said.
He first heard about the leg-lengthening procedure performed by Kevin Debiparshad on Facebook.
Debiparshad is one of only a handful of surgeons in North America who perform cosmetic leg lengthening. He founded LimbplastX Institute near Las Vegas in 2016, and the clinic’s business boomed during the pandemic, Debiparshad told GQ.
Cosmetic leg lengthening was originally intended to help patients with real conditions, but it is now becoming a more common cosmetic surgery.
The procedure itself sounds excruciating. The doctor breaks the patient’s femurs, or thigh bones, and inserts adjustable metal nails into them. GQ reported that the nails are extended slightly every day for three months with a magnetic remote control.
It can take months to slowly lengthen the bones and for the legs to heal. Debiparshad told GQ: “There’s a mental discipline that you have to have. It’s like training for the marathon.”
The doctor revealed that many of his patients are tech workers from big firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta.
Despite the stigma surrounding cosmetic surgery, it appears to become increasingly common for men. The Washington Post reported in January 2020 that men were turning to all kinds of cosmetic procedures in an effort to get ahead in their careers.
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) — more than twice as much as previously forecast — according to a study published Monday.
That’s because of something that could be called zombie ice. That’s doomed ice that, while still attached to thicker areas of ice, is no longer getting replenished by parent glaciers now receiving less snow. Without replenishment, the doomed ice is melting from climate change and will inevitably raise seas, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
What scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what’s melting on the edges. But in the last few decades there’s less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance. Study authors looked at the ratio of what’s being added to what’s being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland’s total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.
“I think starving would be a good phrase,” for what’s happening to the ice, Colgan said.
One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s inability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep.
The figures are a global average for sea level rise, but some places further away from Greenland would get more and places closer, like the U.S. East Coast, would get less. Although 10.6 inches may not sound like much, this would be over and above high tides and storms, making them even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts,” said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University, who wasn’t part of the study.
“This is a really large loss and will have a detrimental effect on coastlines around the world,” said NYU’s David Holland who just returned from Greenland, but is not part of the study.
This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth’s two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas. Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen island.
Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
“You have committed mass loss from the ice,” Alley said in an email. “In the same way, most of the world’s mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea.”
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, “within this century,” without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century, or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.
“That’s how climate change works,” Colgan said. “Today’s outliers become tomorrow’s averages.”
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I come to you today with good and bad news. The bad news is that small phones are dead. Apple is all but certainly killing off the iPhone Mini this year, and the smallest Android phone I’ve used all year is the 5.9-inch Asus Zenfone 9 — quite a bit larger than the 5.4-inch Mini. But that’s what passes for “small” now.
Here’s the good news. We can at long last lay to rest the debate over what’s the right size for a phone because I just made up an answer: 6.1 inches. All phones henceforth shall adhere to the new, entirely reasonable standard I have invented and come with a 6.1-inch screen. Take the Google Pixel 6A and its — you guessed it — 6.1-inch screen. Next to the 6.4 and 6.7-inch Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, it’s downright tiny. It fooled me into thinking I was holding a small phone when I first took it out of the box, but it’s actually a whole lot bigger than the Mini.
Small phones are good (iPhone Mini, left) but a 6.1-inch phone (iPhone 13, right) is the next best thing.Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
If we can’t have truly small phones, then we should have more like the Pixel 6A: small enough to kind of fit in your pocket but large enough to be tolerated by the big-phone-loving population. Certain exceptions will be allowed, but by the power vested in me by literally nobody: 6.1 inches is the new default. Here’s my reasoning.
It’s small enough to kind of qualify as a compact phone.
Sony just teased a new “compact” phone that’s probably the Xperia 5 IV, which is very likely to have a 6.1-inch screen like its predecessor. Since most Android phones (especially the best-selling budget and midrange devices) hover around the 6.5-inch mark these days, this counts as compact.
It’s also, objectively, not very small. Here’s something that really happened: when I unboxed the Google Pixel 6A, I gushed to the rest of the Verge reviews team over Slack about what a cute, small phone it was. A little baby Pixel 6! They quickly reminded me that 6.1 inches is not tiny, cute phone territory. When you spend most of your time using huge Android phones, you can lose your sense of what’s a small display and what’s just normal.
It’s big enough to be acceptable to the big-phone-favoring public.
The base models of the Samsung Galaxy S22 and iPhone 13 are both 6.1 inches. In the US, at least, those are basically the default flagship phones on Android and iOS — you can go up from there, both in price and screen size, but it all starts at 6.1 inches. See my earlier point about screen size being normalized through repeated exposure: if most people already see this as the default, then it’s settled, I say! No need to push the standard screen size higher — we’re all comfy right here.
Someone has to put an end to screen size inflation.
Years ago, we all walked around with tiny sub-5-inch phones in our pockets, and you know what? That was fine. But then we got greedy for more square inches and more pixels. Here we are. The biggest iPhone is a gargantuan 6.7 inches. What’s next, a 7.6-inch screen? You’d have to fold it in half to even carry it around! Imagine! The madness must be stopped.
See? Look how nice the 6.1-inch Galaxy S22 is.Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
I’m not saying every single phone has to be 6.1 inches. The people have spoken, and the people want Maxes, Pluses, and Ultras. I’m just declaring politely asking that we settle on a sensible middle ground that satisfies both the small phone aficionados and everyone else before it’s too late. In the meantime, I’ll be over here, gently weeping as I put my SIM card into yet another phone with a huge 6-point-something-inch screen.
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) – World equity markets got off to a solid start on Monday and the euro pulled away from parity as market participants scaled back bets on the Federal Reserve interest rate hike next week and on optimism spurred by central bank pledges to support China’s economy.
U.S. stock futures were up more than 1% while European stock indices were a sea of green in a big week for the region.
The European Central Bank is set to raise rates for the first time in more than a decade on Thursday, the same day the bloc will be hoping Russia resumes gas supplies. Italy, meanwhile, is again in the grip of a political crisis. read more
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The pan-European STOXX 600 index (.STOXX) was up 1.3% by 1030 GMT after posting a 0.8% drop last week. Gains on Monday were broad-based and led by miners (.SXPP), energy stocks (.SXEP) and banks (.SX7P).
“It is a wild week this week, there is so much going on,” said James Rossiter, senior global strategist at TD Securities.
“The ECB is a huge focus, there is not a lot of scope for the ECB to surprise, 25 bps is locked in I think… and then there is Italy and Nord Stream too.”
Italy’s borrowing costs surged on Monday and the premium investors demand for holding Italian debt over safer German paper was at its widest in a month as political turmoil in Europe’s fourth largest economy rumbled on.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi attempted to resign from his post on Thursday after the 5-Star Movement, a coalition partner, failed to back him in a confidence vote. Draghi’s resignation was rejected by the Italian president. read more
Draghi is expected to address parliament on Wednesday but Italy’s 10-year bond yield rose 10 basis points (bps) on Monday to as high as 3.48% , pushing the closely watched spread over German Bund yields to its widest level in over a month at around 235 bps .
“We expect volatility to remain high until then in response to various rumours concerning whether he will remain firm on his resignation or whether he is willing to remain in place,” UniCredit analysts said in a note.
“Any indication that could increase the likelihood of early elections will ultimately be negative for BTPs and drive the spread wider.”
Overnight, a gauge of Asian shares (.MIAPJ0000PUS) rose more than 1%, its biggest daily rise in nearly two months, boosted by a jump in Chinese shares as regulators encouraged lenders to extend loans to qualified real estate projects.
It came too as the high-flying dollar, which has had its strongest start to a year in recent memory, eased on Monday. /FRX
The uncertainty will haunt the ECB at a policy meeting where it is likely to kick off a tightening cycle with a rise of 25 bps, with markets hanging on details of an anti-fragmentation tool intended to ease pressure on borrowing costs for the Union’s most indebted members. read more
Friday’s rally on Wall Street reverberated through global markets with MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) up 1.4%, having shed 3.5% last week.
A wider index of global stocks (.MIWO00000PUS) was up 0.4%.
Chinese blue chips (.CSI300) added 1.0% as the head of the country’s central bank pledged to help the economy, though Shanghai had also announced more districtwide coronavirus testing. read more
Traders are back to expecting a 75 basis point interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve next week, after flirting with the prospect of a 100 basis point move to rein in inflation.
“We do not believe that central banks will be able to raise rates to the extent that they or the market forecasts given the headwinds to already moderating economic growth,” said Steve Ellis, global CIO of fixed income at Fidelity International.
Corporate earnings will be in sharp focus this week with Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), International Business Corp (IBM.N), Netflix Inc (NFLX.O), Tesla Inc .O and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) due to report.
Of the 35 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported, 80% have beaten analyst expectations, according to Refinitiv. Analysts now expect aggregate year-on-year second-quarter profit growth of 5.6%, down from 6.8% at the beginning of the quarter.
Rising interest rates and a firm dollar have been a major drag for non-yielding gold which was stuck at $1,713 an ounce after shedding 2% last week.
Oil prices rose in the risk-on wave. President Joe Biden continued his trip to the Middle East hoping to get agreement on an increase in output, having seemingly come away from Saudi Arabia empty handed.
After an early dip, Brent crude added $2.54, or 2.5%, to $103.70 a barrel, after a 2.1% gain on Friday.
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8:20 a.m. — Flood warning in many areas through late morning after 2 to 4 inches of rain; more rain possible through this evening
Many parts of the immediate D.C. area were drenched by 2 to 4 inches of rain overnight, causing areas of flooding. Rain has thinned out for the time being but areas of light to moderate may redevelop this morning and there may be another period of steady rain and even some embedded thunderstorms this afternoon into the evening. The rain now looks to last longer than it had in earlier forecasts.
“Streams continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall,” the National Weather Service writes. The possibility of another half-inch to inch of rain through this evening could exacerbate the situation.
The rainfall map below shows that a widespread zone along and just west of Interstate 95 in Northern Virginia saw 2 to 4 inches of rain overnight. Reagan National Airport, which received about 4 inches, was near the jackpot. Dulles Airport received 2.32 inches while BWI Marshall Airport recorded comparably less, just 0.93 inches.
The Weather Service received about a dozen reports of flooding in the area overnight. Numerous streams overflowed, including parts of Rock Creek, flooding adjacent roads. Low-lying, poor drainage areas also experienced flooding, including parts of Interstate 295 running the District and Interstate 395 running through Arlington and the District.
Original article from 5 a.m.
A somewhat subjective rating of the day’s weather, on a scale of 0 to 10.
4/10: I could go for a pool day instead of puddle day.
Today: Rain, ending with time. Highs: Low to mid-70s.
Tonight: Clearing. Lows: Mid- to upper 60s.
Tomorrow: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: Low 80s.
We’re dodging raindrops this morning and hopefully missing out on significant flooding as much as possible. Rain odds dwindle with time today, leaving us dry by evening if not prior. The rest of the forecast is considerably better. At least, until we get to the heat on Tuesday. In the meantime, if you’re out and about today, be aware of the potential to come across high water. Turn around, don’t drown.
Today (Saturday): Pockets of heavy rain are ongoing early morning. Although it could be hit-or-miss, some areas could pick up too much in a short period, leading to flooding. Showers may continue off and on into the afternoon, but the heaviest probably comes early. Widespread rainfall totals of one to three inches seem a decent bet, with some spots ending up with more. It’s on the cool side despite remaining rather muggy. Temperatures may only reach the low and mid-70s in the afternoon as winds turn to come out of the northeast. Gusts around 25 mph are possible. Confidence: Medium
Tonight: A stray shower may linger. Otherwise, clearing. We should trend toward mostly clear by morning. Winds are light out of the north and northeast. Temperatures dip to the mid- and upper 60s for lows. Confidence: Medium-High
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Tomorrow (Sunday): Humidity is down, and sunshine is the rule. We’ll see some clouds in the peak heating of the day, but it should stay dry. Highs are mainly in the low 80s. Confidence: Medium-High
Tomorrow night: Skies are clear. The relatively low humidity allows temperatures to fall to a range of near 60 to mid-60s for lows. Confidence: Medium-High
Skies remain rather sunny on Monday. With a wind switching to come from the south, humidity begins to rise, but it’s still on the low-moderate side. Afternoon readings make the mid-80s or so. Confidence: Medium
Temperatures are poised to jump back toward summerlike levels on Tuesday. Sunshine is dominant as temperatures rise to a range of low to mid-90s for highs. Fortunately, it may just be a one-day pulse of higher heat, for now. Confidence: Medium
The 2022 NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics shifted to Boston for a pivotal Game 3 on Wednesday night — a contest the Celtics won to take a 2-1 series lead.
Players generally make sure to limit distractions at such a crucial time of the postseason, allowing themselves to focus on the pursuit of a title. Prior to Game 3, however, there was one major distraction that the Warriors couldn’t ignore. During pregame warmups, some of the Warriors noticed that something was a little off with their basket. They made their objections known, and the TD Garden staff brought out the measuring stick to confirm the height.
Sure enough, the rim was two inches taller than the regulation 10-foot height, according to ESPN’s Kendra Andrews. Some of you out there may be asking, “two inches, what’s the big deal?” There is a HUGE difference between shooting on a basket that’s 10 feet tall and one that’s 10-foot-2. It was obviously a significant enough change for the players to notice, and thankfully they got it fixed before tipoff.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the situation before the game and joked, “It’s a good thing the game starts at midnight,” in reference to the 9 p.m. Eastern start time.
“It happens every once in a while,” Kerr said. “Players have a really sharp eye for that. The players can tell.”
Dub Nation has already begun crying conspiracy — suggesting that the Celtics raised the rim on purpose to throw off Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and the rest of the Warriors sharpshooters — but, as Kerr said, these things happen from time to time.
The good news is that the facilities staff got the situation rectified before the game started. If the Warriors would have noticed this midway through the first quarter and wound up losing the game, there undoubtedly would have been quite an outcry.
