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Here’s this week’s chart from today’s Morning Brief. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every morning, along with:Stocks finished their best February since 2015 and closed at an all-time high.And we all know the story: How the Magnificent Seven catapulted the S&P 500 (and now the Nasdaq) higher and higher, thanks to AI.This concentration has been a consistent source of worry for many investors, as concentration in a few large-cap stocks naturally feels shaky.2023 was themed “The Magnificent Seven.” 2024 is themed on the number 3. Not only is seven a small, undiverse number compared to, say, 500,…

Toronto’s out-of-control car theft epidemic has attracted international attention, with a new New York Times cover story portraying the city as a lawless haven for criminals and a key hub for the global car theft trade. Toronto’s car theft epidemic is no stranger to locals: skyrocketing theft statistics, the seizure of shipping containers full of luxury cars and audacious high-tech robberies are all old news to anyone who’s followed GTA news over the past two years. But the problem is now becoming so serious that our neighbors to the south are beginning to take notice. The New York Times published…

LenapeCherokeeSyrian Judeo-ArabicJudeo-SpanishLakotaRusynKumeyaayPangasinanMāoriNauaranChuukeseMapucheWestern ArmenianMarshalleseGilbertesePalauanWest AmbaeScottish GaelicHaketiaBukhoriChamorroIrishSorani KurdishMoroccan Judeo-ArabicZazaBartangiPuerto Rican Sign LanguageBaltiHawaiianP’urhépechaNahuatlGarifunaKaqchikelMamMahoukaEbriéGullahBétéTlapanecMojaveTaíno Hundreds ofthe world’s endangeredand threatened languages are spokenin and around New York City. One project set out to document them. The Endangered Languages of New York By Alex Carp Videos by Ruven Afanador Feb. 22, 2024 Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the opposite of cosmopolitan. “You go to some distant mountain or island, and you collect stories,” the linguist Ross Perlin says, describing…

The next World Cup will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico and will run from June 11 to July 19, 2026.This will be the first time the tournament has been expanded from 32 teams to 48 teams.That means there will be a total of 104 games, more than ever before.With the tournament still a ways off, few ticket details are available, but here’s what we know so far:Where are the matches?The World Cup will be held in 16 cities across three countries, more than any other tournament to date.Three of these locations are in Mexico: Monterrey, Guadalajara,…

A new study from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey uses satellite data to highlight the growing threat to coastal communities: About 40 percent of Americans live on the coast, where aging buildings, roads and railroads face structural damage from flooding.”The danger is getting worse every day because of rising sea levels,” said lead author Leonard Auchenhen, a doctoral student at Virginia Tech.According to NASA satellite data, the global average rate of sea level rise has been about 3.3 millimeters per year since the early 1990s, and long-term tide gauge records suggest the rate of rise is accelerating, said…

Six years ago, Rafael Cosme was at an antiques market in Rio de Janeiro when he came across a pile of film negatives on the ground. “Nobody wanted them,” the seller said. They were priced at $2.”I came home with two bags of negatives and wondered what I was doing with my life,” he recalled.So Cosme became obsessed with lost and discarded photos of Rio’s past. Since that morning in 2018, he has amassed more than 150,000 film photographs and negatives, most of them taken by amateurs, that tell the story of Rio de Janeiro’s history from the 1890s to…

In 2026, three countries — the United States, Canada and Mexico — will host the first-ever 48-team FIFA World Cup, and we now know where all 104 matches of football’s biggest knockout tournament in history will be played.New York/New Jersey will host the final on July 19, 2026, beating out original favorites Los Angeles and Dallas to clinch the rights to host men’s world soccer’s premier event.The 16 host cities in the three countries did not know which matches would be assigned to them until FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on a live broadcast on Sunday that the 2026 tournament…

As we enter the middle of a new earnings season, executive mentions of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategic initiatives have plummeted and appear poised to fall to a new low.Among hundreds of earnings calls in recent weeks, just nine S&P 500 companies directly mentioned the politically controversial term, according to data released by Friday afternoon by financial data firm FactSet.That’s a far cry from the 156 mentions among S&P 500 companies in the fourth quarter of 2021, when use of the term peaked, according to the firm.According to a Yahoo Finance analysis, quotes this year have been very short…

An American heiress who murdered her wealthy mother while on holiday in Bali in 2014 has confessed to the heinous crime.”I do not regret killing my mother. No matter how evil it sounds, that is my reality,” she said in a shocking YouTube video posted on Feb. 2.Heather Mack, 21, said she beat her mother to death and stuffed her body into a suitcase.”When I was 10 years old, my mother killed my father in a hotel in Athens, Greece,” she claimed. “I knew in my heart, in my mind, in my soul, in my blood, in the oxygen coursing…

Stocks have surged to record highs at the start of 2024.Inflation has moderated, the Federal Reserve looks set to cut interest rates, and the vaunted “soft landing” for the US economy is coming into view.The US economy and corporate America continue to prove resilient in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes.This optimism reflected in recent market action and the economic consensus serves as the central theme of the latest Yahoo Finance Chartbook, which brings together more than 30 charts from some of Wall Street’s top strategists.It marks a significant shift from the first Yahoo Finance Chartbook, published…