By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The picture of who will be in charge of executing President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration and border policies has come into sharper focus after he announced his picks to head Customs and Border Protection and also the agency tasked with deporting immigrants in the country illegally. Trump said late Thursday he was tapping Rodney Scott, a former Border Patrol chief who’s been a vocal supporter of tougher enforcement measures, for CBP commissioner. As acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump said he’d nominate Caleb Vitello, a career ICE official with more than 23 years in the agency who most recently has been the assistant director for firearms and tactical programs. Related Articles National Politics | How backlash to the pandemic helped shape Trump’s health picks National Politics | Nursing home industry wants Trump to rescind staffing mandate National Politics | Melania Trump says heading to the White House for the second term is much different than the first National Politics | Trump offers a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled nominee to lead the Pentagon National Politics | Elon Musk funded a super PAC comparing Trump’s position on abortion to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s They will work with an immigration leadership team that includes South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security ; former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement head Tom Homan as border czar ; and immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff. Customs and Border Protection, with its roughly 60,000 employees, falls under the Department of Homeland Security. It includes the Border Patrol, which Scott led during Trump’s first term, and is essentially responsible for protecting the country’s borders while facilitating trade and travel. Scott comes to the job firmly from the Border Patrol side of the house. He became an agent in 1992 and spent much of his career in San Diego. When he joined the agency, San Diego was by far the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Traffic plummeted after the government dramatically increased enforcement there, but critics note the effort pushed people to remote parts of California and Arizona. San Diego was also where wall construction began in the 1990s, which shaped Scott’s belief that barriers work. He was named San Diego sector chief in 2017. When he was appointed head of the border agency in January 2020, he enthusiastically embraced Trump’s policies. “He’s well known. He does know these issues and obviously is trusted by the administration,” said Gil Kerlikowske, the CBP commissioner under the Obama administration. Kerlikowske took issue with some of Scott’s past actions, including his refusal to fall in line with a Biden administration directive to stop using terms like “illegal alien” in favor of descriptions like “migrant,” and his decision as San Diego sector chief to fire tear gas into Mexico to disperse protesters. “You don’t launch projectiles into a foreign country,” Kerlikowske said. At the time Scott defended the agents’ decisions , saying they were being assaulted by “a hail of rocks.” While much of the focus of Trump’s administration may be on illegal immigration and security along the U.S.-Mexico border, Kerlikowske also stressed the importance of other parts of Customs and Border Protection’s mission. The agency is responsible for securing trade and international travel at airports, ports and land crossings around the country. Whoever runs the agency has to make sure that billions of dollars worth of trade and millions of passengers move swiftly and safely into and out of the country. And if Trump makes good on promises to ratchet up tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada, CBP will play an integral role in enforcing them. “There’s a huge amount of other responsibility on trade, on tourism, on cyber that take a significant amount of time and have a huge impact on the economy if it’s not done right,” Kerlikowske said. After being forced out under the Biden administration, Scott has been a vocal supporter of Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda. He has appeared frequently on Fox News and testified in Congress. He’s also a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In a 2023 interview with The Associated Press, he advocated for a return to Trump-era immigration policies and more pressure on Mexico to enforce immigration on its side of the border.
Anyone hoping that benching and releasing quarterback Daniel Jones would relate in a turnaround for the Giants was given a rude awakening on Sunday. The Buccaneers scored the first 30 points of the game on their way to a 30-7 loss that dropped the Giants to 2-9 on the season. After the game, rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers didn’t hold back the frustration that he’s feeling about the way things are going for the team. Nabers called the Giants “soft as fuck” while talking to reporters in the locker room after the game and said he felt he couldn’t do anything to help the team avoid its sixth-straight loss because the ball never came his way before the result was in hand. “I mean, it’s just soft man,” Nabers said, via Ryan Novozinsky of NJ.com. “I’m tired of going out there and losing. It’s just that. I mean, I don’t know bro. I go out there, first and second quarter, and I don’t get the ball and start getting targets at the end. I mean, I can’t do nothing. Start getting the ball at 30-0 — what do you want me to do?” Nabers finished the day with six catches for 64 yards and said he doesn’t know why the team is in such a bad place. He did share that he doesn’t think it has anything to do with Jones or Tommy Devito. “Obviously it ain’t the quarterback,” Nabers said. “Same outcome we had when DJ was the quarterback. Take a look. Take a look: It ain’t the quarterback.” The Giants have six more games to go and it looks like they have a lot to figure out if they want to keep things from falling apart off the field as well.LYNCHBURG, Va. — BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) is pleased to announce an award from the U.S. Department of Energy for cleanup operations at the West Valley Demonstration Project in West Valley, New York. The Phase 1B contract was awarded to West Valley Cleanup Alliance, LLC (WVCA), which is a joint venture led by BWXT Technical Services Group, Inc. and includes Jacobs Technology, Inc. and Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. WVCA also includes teaming subcontractors Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. and North Wind Portage, Inc. The IDIQ contract has a 10-year ordering period with a maximum value of up to $3.0 billion that can be performed for up to 15 years. Under the contract, WVCA will continue the current cleanup mission to include, but not be limited to, the demolition of remaining near- and below-grade components of the main plant process building; additional facility deactivation and demolition; contaminated soils remediation and disposition; waste management and legacy waste disposition; safeguards and security; environmental monitoring; surveillance and maintenance; and program support activities. “BWXT has played an important role in D&D at West Valley since August 2011 as a member of the current cleanup contractor. Having personally worked at the site several years ago, I’m especially pleased to continue our collaboration with the customer and the community on this important effort,” said Heatherly Dukes, president of BWXT Technical Services Group. “While we have made significant progress, there remains more to do under this phase of the project, and we’re looking forward to continuing the successful cleanup in the years to come.” The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is an approximately 150-acre area located 35 miles south of Buffalo, New York. The site is owned by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and is home to the only commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility to operate in the United States. Operating from 1963 to 1972, the site processed 640 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and generated over 600,000 gallons of liquid high-level waste. In 1980, Congress passed the WVDP Act, which required the Department of Energy to conduct a high-level waste management demonstration project at the site and transport it to a federal repository for disposal. Suzy Sterner Chief Corporate Affairs Officer 202-428-6905 Chase Jacobson Vice President, Investor Relations 980.365.4300Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! This week, it’s Looking Glass Studios’ legend, Deus Ex director, and Otherside ’s Warren Spector - who I suspect might have realised the very secret goal of this column. Cheers Warren! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? What are you currently reading? Let me start by saying I have 17,000 "dead tree" books and 7,000 e-books, so I have a lot to choose from! That may be why I read several books at once - a lightweight read, a heavy read, a medium read, some fiction and some poetry. Or maybe it's just that I'd go crazy if all I read was pap or pretentious heavyweight stuff. That out of the way... right now, I'm reading these: Gamer Girls by Mary Kenney There's a huge chunk of videogame history I know nothing about. Reading this, I'm learning some more. A lightweight book, but informative and an easy read. Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill, Alex Coles and Andrzej Klimowski I've been meaning to dive into Benjamin's work but haven't made it any further than The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. I figure a quick overview of his life and work will ease me into the rest of his work. Chilly Scenes Of Winter by Ann Beattie A novel I've been meaning to read since I saw Joan Micklin Silver's wonderful 1979 (I think) film of the same name. I rewatched it recently and it hasn't entirely held up but I figured I should finally give the novel a try. Poetry 180 edited by Billy Collins For some reason I do not understand, I've become a poetry nut recently. It started with a course on Masterclass by ex-poet laureate, Billy Collins that was terrific. (If you don't subscribe to Masterclass you might consider it. If nothing else, Will Wright does a terrific game design course...) Collins has become my favorite poet - funny, accessible and somehow pretty profound. If nothing else find his poem "The Lanyard." It starts out being about trivialities but ends up being about so much more. 1001 Muscle Car Facts by Steve Magnante I’m a car nut. Have been since I was a teenager. Steve Magnante makes me look like an amateur. Which I guess I am, actually. Anyway, I love the guy’s stuff. (Check out his “Junkyard Crawl” videos on YouTube. They’re awesome.) I didn’t include this book in my first pass “what I’m reading” list because it isn’t the kind of thing you sit down and read – you crack it open, read a factoid or three and put it back down. But it’s a book; I’ve been “reading” it for months; I learn lots of useless facts from it; so here it is. I've kept a list of every book I've read since 1989, so this is an easy one to answer. Given that I read more than one book at a time, I have several books in my finished list: New York In The '50's by Dan Wakefield. I grew up in New York, in the East Village, and was too young to experience what Wakefield writes about, but I've long been fascinated by the political/cultural/literary life of Columbia University, the jazz clubs of Manhattan and bohemian life in Greenwich Village. (Hey, I admit I'm nostalgic for a period I didn't live through...) Wakefield is a terrific writer and he's a Zelig-like figure who knew everybody from philosophers to poets to the Beats to jazz musicians to blacklisted writers to, well, everyone. Wonderful book describing an incredible life. Signs And Meaning In The Cinema by Peter Wollen Another book I've been meaning to read for decades. It's a collection of three essays and a massive interview with the author. The first essay is an evaluation of the work and theories of Russian film director, Sergei Eisenstein; the second essay is an evaluation of the auteur theory and some evaluations of various film directors; the third essay is the one I really wanted to read - it's all about semiotics as it applies to film. I've never understood semiotics, a fact that really bugs me. I've been reading a bunch about it over the last few months, but nothing that, to my limited knowledge, applied its precepts to anything other than literature and anthropology (and rarely even those). I figured Wollen might show me how the study of signs and signifiers might apply to film and, in that way, show me how it might be applied to an understanding of games in a new and interesting way. That didn't quite work out, but I'm not done with semiotics. Some of it is sinking in and I've been enjoying the journey. The Beauty Of Games by Frank Lantz Not much to say about this other than STOP READING THIS AND GET A COPY! Frank's a super smart guy who's taught game design and game criticism as well as making games of his own. Here he offers ways to think about games that get far beyond good/bad and fun/not-fun. I've been saying for years that those ways of talking about games are useless - that "fun" in particular is a useless word that diminishes what we do. Frank goes way deeper in a book that's an easy, accessible read. Required. Go. Now. Play Nice by Jason Schrier Jason may be the best games journalist around. His books Press Reset and Blood, Sweat and Pixels give the most accurate look at what game development is really like I've ever read. His latest, Play Nice, is a history of Blizzard. No, make that THE history of Blizzard. There's basically no need to write another one. I thought I knew the story. I didn't. Now I do. (Jason has a way of getting people - okay, ME - saying things on the record they shouldn't say at all. I don't know how he does it. But he does. That's very much on display here.) I've got a ways to go in the books I'm currently reading so it'll be a while before "next" rolls around, but I do have my eye on some books. I won’t read all of these of course, but these are the ones from which I’m going to choose. I reserve the right to change my mind on any or all of these before or after I give them a try. Oh, and before you read this list, know that I'm unashamedly pretentious. That said, these are legitimately the books by my bed. No fooling. So sue me. Or join me. And let's talk about stuff. Basic Writings Of Existentialism edited by Gordon Marino I've been on a philosophy kick on and off for a year or so. Read a lot. For better or worse, Existentialism makes some sense to me but that’s on the basis of not very much. I want to broaden my range of reading. I'll probably dip my toe into this over the course of time rather than read it all at once, but this seems like a good way to dive deeper. Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology edited by Robert E. Innis Anyone want to bet this is the first book to drop off my to-read list? Reading ABOUT semiotics is tough enough. Reading original stuff is almost impossible. I'm going to give it a shot, but I'm not hopeful. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari Harari is a favorite of mine. He popularizes Big Topics in ways that bug a lot of people but I find enlightening, even soothing. This one is about the history of networks and their impact on humanity and society. I don't know much more than that and don't really care. I eat the guy's stuff up. The Virtual Life Of Film by David Rodowick I actually went to grad school with Rodowick and understood, like, every fifth word he said. He was our resident semiotics nut. He's gone on to an impressive career as an academic and I'm hoping - as I did with the Wollen book - I can learn something about practical application of a critical approach I find opaque (at best). I hate when I don't understand something and I'm going to lick this semiotics thing if it kills me. The Work Of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing by Adam Moss I love reading books about creativity, the creative process and the creation of art works. I know very little about this book other than it got great reviews, I love the topic and the book itself is a work of art. I mean the way it's bound, the quality of the paper, the beautiful illustrations. I'm in... Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell This is supposed to be the Next Big Thing in Fantasy. I'll need something lightweight to balance out all the heavy stuff weighing down my night table. I'm hoping this is it. If not, there are a LOT of comics and graphic novels to read! (I'm not ALWAYS pretentious!) Fight Me by Austin Grossman This wasn’t on the first list I submitted, but that was just a foolish oversight on my part. I was boxing up a bunch of books for reasons that wouldn’t interest anyone and there was Austin’s latest novel, somehow unread. I know nothing about it other than that it was written by Austin Grossman, which is all I really need to know. If you don’t know who Austin is, check his game design credits – System Shock, Deus Ex and more. He’s helped me on most of my games. He also happens to be a wonderful novelist. Fight Me is his latest, but you should check out Soon I Will Be Invincible and, if you want a peek behind the curtain of game development, his novel You is a great way to see what it’s like at a game dev studio... with monsters. The City And Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami This was another late entry – it just came out the day I submitted this list but it had to be included. I love Murakami. His brand of magical realism just does it for me. I could recommend ALL of his books and hate to single any out but if you’ve never given him a shot, you could do worse than start with 1Q84. But, really, he hasn’t written a bad book so start anywhere and prepare to have your view of reality changed. Playing With Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World by Kelly Clancy This book showed up in The Economist’s list of best books of the year this week and, given its title and subject matter, I pretty much had to make it a last minute addition to my list. It’s a history of games from a political, military, psychological, philosophical and, I understand, just plain fun perspective. Sounds both useful and, well, fun. It’s gotta be on my could-be-next list. I've been collecting quotes for decades so this is going to be both easy and hard. Easy because I have a lot to choose from. Hard because I have a lot to choose from. I'm tempted to pass on this for now - someday I'm going to start up a Quote a Day website where I provide a quote, talk about why it's interesting in general and why it's important to me, personally. Okay, here's one (out of, literally, thousands) in my collection. It sang to me. (Anyone I might work for should stop reading here!) "I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares." - Saul Bass (As a note, Saul Bass created some of the most memorable film title sequences of all time. A second-to-none visual designer. Look him up. There's lots of his work on YouTube...) Ack. Another one where I have to list several! I'll list just six (and regret the ones I've forgotten immediately after I finish this!) Time And Again by Jack Finney I love time travel stories and this is a doozy. My sister read this first, reading it in one sitting. She passed it along to my father, who read it in one sitting. He passed it along... and, well, you get the idea. Totally fun. No more, no less. It's a popcorn read, but nothing wrong with that. Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis This book by noted leadership thinker describes several what he calls "great groups" - teams that created great, innovative, world-changing things. He doesn't offer instructions about how to create them, but describes their characteristics and the shared circumstances that allowed them to come into being and flourish. I LOVE this book. It describes a couple of teams I've been lucky enough to work with. That said, I'll warn you that my current team, when I had them read it, HATED it. I won't go into why here. (Hey, I want to intrigue you.) Read it yourself and see what you think. I'm happy to discuss it. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp Okay. This is simply the Best Book I've Ever Read About Creativity. Tharp is a world-renowned choreographer and, yes, there's an element of autobiography here (that got me seriously obsessed with ballet for a while, about which I'm still simmeringly interested). The autobiographical stuff is fascinating. I mean, you wouldn't believe the people Tharp has worked with. It's like a who's who of the arts community. But her discussion of her process and how it can be applied to any medium is just (insert four letter word here) brilliant. GO READ THIS! The Creative Act by Rick Rubin Rubin's book shares some characteristics with Tharp's Creative Habit, but it has its own - dare I say it? - "hippie" vibe. The first third of the book lays that stuff on pretty thick, to the point where I almost stopped reading. Man, am I glad I stuck with it! The last two-thirds of the book are (insert four letter word here) incredible. I said earlier that I collect quotes. I got a LOT of them from this book. There's insight on every damn page. The Timeless Way Of Building by Christopher Alexander I keep a copy of Timeless Way of Building by my bed and read a passage when I need to lower my blood pressure. Alexander invented the idea of Pattern Languages, which have become an important part of software development, and that's very much in evidence here. Be warned, Alexander was an architect and he had his hippie-dippie aspect, so there's nothing about software in this book and there's some stuff here that might send left-brain folks spinning off into some alternate universe. But if you can get past that, the writing is beautiful and the descriptions of spaces that are "alive" are pretty wonderful. Designing Disney by John Hench Disney's Imagineers are among the smartest, most creative people on the planet. No fooling. This book, by an Imagineer who was there at the very beginning of the effort that led to Disneyland in 1955 has lots of lessons to teach us - especially world-builders. The creation of spaces that tell stories, ways of directing players without leading them around by the nose, color to create emotions... All that and more is here. There's so much to learn in what's a surprisingly compact read. This may be the toughest question of all. I'm not sure there are ANY books I want to see adapted to a game. I mean, books are wonderful as books, and games are wonderful as games. The two media don't need each other. That said, let me see... okay, here's one almost entirely selfish one: Wildcards edited by George R.R. Martin Wildcards is a shared world anthology created and edited by George R.R. Martin (yeah, the guy who writes the Song of Ice and Fire books, now and forever known as Game of Thrones). It's a "what if superheroes and villains and vaguely monstrous things existed in an alternate version of our world." (Man, does that not do it justice!) The first book came out in 1987 so it's been around for a while, basically as long as Watchmen, the obvious competition. I think it's on its 25 book or something. (Don't quote me on that.) I say it's here selfishly because a lot of the writers in the series are friends of mine and I love their work. In one case, I love the writer herself - my wife Caroline writes with George in the series. She's created some memorable characters and, if I say so myself, written some terrific stories. But enough tooting my wife's horn. If you want to give the series a try, you can start with the very first book or you can dive in with one called Inside Straight. One of those two - don't start anywhere else or you're likely to be confused. And if you just want more information, check out the Wikipedia page. I've tried to get every company I've worked for to license the rights to Wildcards and make a game but haven't had any luck. Ok, Warren wins. Or, is at least tied with Dan . Book for now!
What we need to offset inflation and expensive stock valuations ... will Trump deliver? ... expect volatility to remain ... how short-term options can mean big returns overnight We think the combination of pro-growth policies, still-low inflation, continuing rate cuts, and AI-driven economic tailwinds will propel stocks broadly higher in 2025. That comes from our hypergrowth expert Luke Lango. Of the variables Luke identified, we’re focused on “pro-growth policies.” That’s because they have the best chance of mitigating the biggest threat to your portfolio value in 2025 – reinflation. Looking at the data, it’s easy to agree with her. The last handful of months of core PCE inflation (the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge) have been flat or slightly higher on a month-to-month basis: May: 0.1% June: 0.2% July: 0.2% August: 0.2% September: 0.3%. (The October reading arrives next week.) The Fed isn’t going to raise rates to deal with this. We’ve begun a rate-cutting cycle, and a U-turn now – even the hint of a U-turn – would be like tossing a grenade into the economy. If we want to help hurting Main Street America... and ease lofty stock valuations via real earnings growth... and offset inflation ... then the answer is simple: Grow like crazy. Specifically, outgrow inflation. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers had a great one-liner when asked about any advice he’d give President-elect Trump: We need to be able to build, baby, build in the United States. Here’s more from MarketWatch : [Summers] argued there were too many barriers to constructing data centers, energy production facilities and electricity transmission systems to help power the AI revolution and new green technologies. “These are potentially complex and risky technologies, and the government needs to, less by law than by moral force, establish close connections where real experts within government who are closely monitoring and following developments” in the sector, he said. From Thomson Reuters : President-Elect Trump has the potential to impact a wide range of policy provisions, from the economy to a raft of regulatory rules and directives... The regulatory landscape under Trump is also expected to see significant shifts. Deregulation would be a key theme, affecting sectors from energy to finance... As we discussed in the Digest at the start of the week, in a rosy scenario, Trump tax cuts and deregulation increases demand for goods and services... business investment increases... hiring increases... wage growth increases... so, overall productivity skyrockets. No, prices wouldn’t come down (they’re entrenched at this point). They might even climb again. But in this ideal hypothetical, growth-based wages and economic opportunities will rise to offset higher prices and inflation, and then some. So, the net, felt effect is positive. But for this to happen, it’s all about growth. That’s how we spike the punchbowl and keep this party going in 2025. For a sense of this, let’s turn to Eric Fry’s lead analyst in Investment Report , Thomas Yeung: [The result of the run-up in the market] has been a surge in average valuations – a fact Eric and I have been highlighting over the past several weeks. The Shiller PE Ratio, which averages earnings over a 10-year business cycle, now sits at 37.0, its highest level since the heady days of 2021. When the Shiller PE Ratio was last at this level in December 2021, stocks tumbled 19% over the following year. The Shiller PE has climbed since Thomas wrote this. As I write Friday, it’s up to 37.95. The chart below, dating to 1860, will give you some context for how extreme this level is. Will Trump’s pro-growth policies create an earnings explosion that gently lets the air out of this overinflated balloon? We’ll find out beginning next year. If not, today’s lofty valuation increases the likelihood of volatility – stocks roar on good news but drop sharply on not-so-good news. Now, while such an environment is tough on long-term investors, it’s a dream for traders. Jonathan is the lead analyst at our corporate partner Masters in Trading . After spending 25 years learning his craft on the Chicago trading floors and inside private investment firms, Jonathan now offers up live trading ideas, market commentary, and trading education each morning. This week, we’ve introduced Digest readers to how Jonathan is trading short-term options. This includes zero-day options, which expire on the very same day they’re issued. As we detailed yesterday , zero-day options can be incredibly lucrative, potentially rewarding traders with quadruple-digit returns – sometimes in just hours. But for this to happen, it requires big moves in the underlying stock. Translation, lots of volatility. Jonathan believes today’s market is ripe for such moves: I’ve been hammering one point home all week... All this short-term volatility isn’t going anywhere. And with volatility remaining elevated, we have many ways to capitalize on whatever the markets throw at us. One opportunity on Jonathan’s radar comes from QQQ, which is an ETF that tracks the Nasdaq 100 Index: Take a look at the daily chart below. The $500 mark is standing out as a critical level right now. After QQQ hit a high just above $515, it pulled back, but it’s consistently found support right around that $500 area. This isn’t just a coincidence — it’s where buyers and sellers are battling it out, making it the key level to watch. Why does this matter? Because levels like this often act as a launchpad for the next big move. If QQQ holds above $500, we could see another push higher. But if it breaks below, we could be looking at some serious downside action. Either way, this is where opportunity lives, and this is why we trade short-term options like 3DTE, 2DTE, and even 0DTE — to move fast and capitalize on these shifts. If you’re less familiar, “DTE” stands for “days to expiration” which circles us back to the short-term options trades I highlighted a moment ago. That’s when he’ll be broadcasting in real time, demonstrating how zero-day and short-term options work. This will be a live, one-time-only event. Now, if options make you nervous, I get it. They have a questionable reputation. But I’d encourage you to join Jonthan so you can see for yourself why that reputation is unfair – and why these short-term options can be so powerful, both for protecting and making money. On the “making money” side, let’s return to Jonathan and the QQQ set-up he just identified: We’ve seen this play out before. Earlier this year, during a similar setup, I highlighted a key level in our live class. Members positioned themselves using short-term puts ahead of a market pullback, and when the QQQ dropped 2.4%, our model portfolio saw gains as high as 179.9% overnight. This is what it’s all about — being prepared, staying disciplined, and taking advantage of these moments. Tuesday’s live event is all about helping you understand how these options work... the market conditions that increase the chances of such triple/quadruple-digit overnight returns... and the right way to avoid taking unnecessary risk. On that note, here’s Jonathan: A solid fundamental understanding of the market, the strategic use of options, and disciplined risk management forms the cornerstone of successful trading. My career on the front lines of the exchanges has shown that these principles, when applied systematically, can offer major advantages, even in volatile markets. To reserve your seat for Jonathan’s One-Day Winners Live Summit this Tuesday at 11 a.m. Eastern, sign-up here. If we get loads of it, our inflation and valuation problems shrink. If we don’t get it, we’re left with a very expensive stock market. And that could mean major fireworks. But that just points us back to Jonathan and how he trades unpredictable markets. We hope you’ll join him on Tuesday to learn how to put volatility in your corner . Have a good evening, Jeff RemsburgVikings withstand Bears' furious rally, win on field goal in OTThe University of Asia and Pacific (UA&P) – vivo Inter-Collegiate Futsal Tournament 2024 came to an exciting close on November 16, with Rizal Technological University (RTU) clinching the championship title in a hard-fought final match. The thrilling finale and the heartfelt awarding ceremony capped off weeks of intense competition and camaraderie at the UA&P gymnasium, leaving a lasting impression on athletes, organizers, and fans alike. The final game between UA&P and RTU was a showcase of grit, teamwork, and sheer determination. Both teams battled fiercely, keeping the crowd energized and engaged until the final whistle. RTU ultimately emerged victorious with a score of 4, securing their place as champions of this year’s tournament, while UA&P gave a valiant effort, finishing with a score of 3. Following the game, the spotlight turned to those who worked tirelessly behind the scenes. The awarding ceremony recognized the project and committee heads whose dedication ensured the tournament’s success. These individuals were instrumental in fostering a sense of camaraderie and excellence throughout the league. Next, UA&P extended its appreciation to its valued partners, including vivo, whose support has been pivotal in bringing the tournament to life. This was followed by the awarding of teams, acknowledging their commitment and sportsmanship throughout the competition. UA&P Men’s Futsal Team Manager Angelica Ysabelle Ang expressed her gratitude for vivo’s partnership, emphasizing its impact on the tournament. “vivo played a huge role in making the UA&P – vivo Inter-Collegiate Futsal Tournament a success. Their phones upgraded our streaming platform, making it easier to share the games in better quality with everyone watching online. Most importantly, their trust in the players gave everyone an extra push to do their best,” she shared. vivo Philippines’ Brand Marketing Department Head, Liu Lu, shared her thoughts on the collaboration. “At vivo, we are committed to creating meaningful connections through sports. Supporting the UA&P Inter-Collegiate Futsal Tournament resonates deeply with our mission to promote active lifestyles and inspire excellence. Seeing the passion and unity fostered by this event reaffirms our belief in the power of sports to bring communities together,” she remarked. As the tournament concluded, the partnership between UA&P and vivo stood as a shining example of how sports can inspire, unite, and empower. This season of the UA&P vivo Inter-Collegiate Futsal Tournament will be remembered not only for its thrilling matches but also for the shared vision and commitment that made it possible. For those who missed the action, highlights and recaps are available on the UA&P Men’s Futsal Varsity Facebook page and follow vivo on Facebook , X , Instagram , TikTok , and YouTube . As vivo continues to support local sports, this collaboration serves as a testament to its dedication to uplifting communities and fostering a love for active lifestyles. Being business-savvy should be fun, attainable and A+. BMPlus is BusinessMirror's digital arm with practical tips & success stories for aspiring and thriving millennial entrepreneurs.
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