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What both sides are saying about ceasefire deal between Israel and HezbollahIt's a common understanding that the ASX stock market can be . Just look below at how the (ASX: XJO) has moved since June 2006. However, within the ASX 200, there are a few companies that I view as ASX 'volcano' stocks. Now, clearly, I'm not talking about investing in literal volcanoes — it's an analogy for stocks and industries that have a history of unexpected and extreme bouts of volatility. Imagine owning a piece of farmland near a volcano like Vesuvius, which caused the devastation of the ancient Roman city of . Vesuvius has a destructive history, as do most active volcanoes. However, after an eruption, the land around a volcano can have very fertile soil thanks to the elements released, such as . In other words, farming on land near a volcano can be very fruitful. Until there's an eruption, then it's the worst place to be. How much is farmland worth if a volcano is erupting nearby? Significantly discounted, I'd say. Volcanoes typically have a cycle of eruptions. We just don't know when the next one will be. The next Vesuvius eruption could be . Some ASX stocks also nclude commodity price cycles (influenced by ), discretionary spending cycles, debt cycles, and so on. If we're invested in or researching ASX shares in sectors such as , , , and even , we should anticipate some pain along the way. I would not suggest investing in a cyclical business during a strong point in its cycle. We can tell when the iron ore price is high (for example, above US$130 per tonne), so I wouldn't choose to buy ( ) shares or ( ) when the share prices are elevated. From a long-term perspective, we can see when economy-linked ASX stocks like ( ) or ( ) are going strongly. At some point, a 'volcano' will likely erupt and send those share prices plummeting. But, for brave investors, the decline in the share prices of these businesses could unlock the best time to invest. When consumer spending at Adairs stores is limited, this could conversely be the best time to invest because the market is likely pricing the business significantly lower. Just look at the Adairs share price movement below. The retailer saw a decline of approximately 70% between June 2021 and November 2023, but in the last 12 months it has risen 66%. There are plenty of other examples like that. The destruction after one of these 'volcano' eruptions is painful for shareholders but can open up compelling ASX stock opportunities for investors. However, investors in these ASX volcano shares may want to keep in mind that a few years down the line (or sooner), there could be another eruption.
Excellence has been the 49ers’ calling card for the past several seasons. Since 2019, they’ve been one of the elite teams in the NFL, amassing 54 wins against 29 losses in the regular season with two Super Bowl runners-up and two NFC Championship losses in five years. Yet on Sunday night in frigid Orchard Park, the 49ers, mired at 5-6 and a game out of first place in the NFC West, find their season hanging in the balance with a showdown against the 9-2 Bills. “I think the vibe is probably a lot lower outside of this locker room than it is inside,” 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey told reporters this week. “I think our team is hungry. We still have everything in front of us and we’re ready to go.”Young men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals
Aston Villa had a stoppage-time goal disallowed as they drew 0-0 with Juventus in the Champions League. Morgan Rogers looked to have given Unai Emery’s side another famous win when he slammed a loose ball home at the death, but referee Jesus Gil Manzano ruled Diego Carlos to have fouled Juve goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio and the goal was chalked off. It was a disappointment for Villa, who remain unbeaten at home in their debut Champions League campaign and are still in contention to qualify automatically for the last 16. A very controversial finish at Villa Park 😲 Morgan Rogers' late goal is ruled out for a foul on Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio and the match ends 0-0 ❌ 📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/MyYL5Vdy3r — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) November 27, 2024 Emiliano Martinez had earlier displayed why he was named the best goalkeeper in the world as his wonder save kept his side level in the second half. The Argentina international paraded his two Yashin Trophies on the pitch before kick-off at Villa Park and then showed why he won back-to-back FIFA awards when he denied Francisco Conceicao. Before Rogers’ moment of drama in the fourth minute of added time, the closest Villa came to scoring was in the first half when Lucas Digne’s free-kick hit the crossbar. But a draw was a fair result which leaves Villa out of the top eight on goal difference and Juventus down in 19th. Before the game Emery called Juventus one of the “best teams in the world, historically and now”, but this was an Italian side down to the bare bones. Only 14 outfield players made the trip from Turin, with striker Dusan Vlahovic among those who stayed behind. The opening 30 minutes were forgettable before the game opened up. Ollie Watkins, still chasing his first Champions League goal, had Villa’s first presentable chance as he lashed an effort straight at Di Gregorio. Matty Cash then had a vicious effort from the resulting corner which was blocked by Federico Gatti and started a counter-attack which ended in Juventus striker Timothy Weah. Villa came closest to breaking the deadlock at the end of the first half when Digne’s 20-yard free-kick clipped the top of the crossbar and went over. Martinez then produced his brilliant save just after the hour. A corner made its way through to the far post where Conceicao was primed to head in at the far post, but Martinez sprawled himself across goal to scoop the ball away. How has he kept that one out?! 🤯 Emi Martinez with an INCREDIBLE save to keep it goalless at Villa Park ⛔️ 📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/OkcWHB7YIk — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) November 27, 2024 Replays showed most of the ball went over the line, but the Argentinian got there with millimetres to spare. At the other end another fine goal-line block denied John McGinn as Manuel Locatelli got his foot in the way with Di Gregorio beaten. The game looked to be petering out until a last-gasp free-kick saw Rogers slam home, but whistle-happy official Gil Manzano halted the celebrations by ruling the goal out. We do not moderate comments, but we expect readers to adhere to certain rules in the interests of open and accountable debate.No. 22 Xavier faces South Carolina St., eyes rebound from lone loss
WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Pat Verhaeghe didn’t think highly of Donald Trump as a leader. Then Verhaeghe began seeing more of Trump’s campaign speeches online and his appearances at sporting events. There was even the former president’s pairing with Bryson DeChambeau as part of the pro golfer’s YouTube channel series to shoot an under-50 round of golf while engaging in chitchat with his partner. “I regret saying this, but a while ago I thought he was an idiot and that he wouldn’t be a good president,” said the 18-year-old first-time voter. “I think he’s a great guy now.” Verhaeghe isn't alone among his friends in suburban Detroit or young men across America. Although much of the electorate shifted right to varying degrees in 2024, young men were one of the groups that More than half of men under 30 supported Trump, , a survey of more than 120,000 voters, while Democrat Joe Biden had won a similar share of this group four years earlier. White men under 30 were solidly in Trump’s camp this year — about 6 in 10 voted for Trump — while young Latino men were split between the two candidates. Most Black men under 30 supported Democrat Kamala Harris, but about one-third were behind Trump. Young Latino men’s views of the Democratic Party were much more negative than in 2020, while young Black men’s views of the party didn’t really move. About 6 in 10 Latino men under 30 had a somewhat or very favorable view of the Democrats in 2020, which fell to about 4 in 10 this year. On the other hand, about two-thirds of young Black men had a favorable view of the Democrats this year, which was almost identical to how they saw the party four years ago. “Young Hispanic men, and really young men in general, they want to feel valued," said Rafael Struve, deputy communications director for Bienvenido, a conservative group that focused on reaching young Hispanic voters for Republicans this year. “They're looking for someone who fights for them, who sees their potential and not just their struggles.” Struve cited the during a July rally in Pennsylvania as one of the catalyzing moments for Trump’s image among many young men. Trump, Struve said, was also able to reach young men more effectively by like podcasts and digital media outlets. “Getting to hear from Trump directly, I think, really made all the difference," Struve said of the former president's appearances on digital media platforms and media catering to Latino communities, like town halls and business roundtables Trump attended in Las Vegas and Miami. Not only did Trump spend three hours on Joe Rogan's chart-topping podcast, but he took up DeChambeau's “Break 50” challenge for the golfer's more than 1.6 million YouTube subscribers. Trump already had an edge among young white men four years ago, although he widened the gap this year. About half of white men under 30 supported Trump in 2020, and slightly less than half supported Biden. Trump's were bigger. His support among both groups increased by about 20 percentage points, according to AP VoteCast — and their feelings toward Trump got warmer, too. It wasn’t just Trump. The share of young men who identified as Republicans in 2024 rose as well, mostly aligning with support for Trump across all three groups. “What is most alarming to me is that the election is clear that America has shifted right by a lot,” said William He, founder of Dream For America, a liberal group that works to turn out young voters and supported Harris’ presidential bid. With his bombastic demeanor and a policy agenda centered on a more , Trump framed much of his campaign as a pitch to men who felt scorned by the country’s economy, culture and political system. Young women also slightly swung toward the former president, though not to the degree of their male counterparts. It's unclear how many men simply did not vote this year. But there's no doubt the last four years brought changes in youth culture and how political campaigns set out to reach younger voters. Democrat Kamala Harris' campaign rolled out policy agendas tailored to Black and Latino men, and the campaign enlisted a range of leaders in Black and Hispanic communities to make the case for the vice president. Her campaign began with a from many young voters, epitomized in memes and the campaign's embrace of pop culture trends like the pop star . Democrats hoped to channel that energy into their youth voter mobilization efforts. “I think most young voters just didn’t hear the message,” said Santiago Mayer, executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, a liberal group that engages younger voters. Mayer said the Harris campaign’s pitch to the country was “largely convoluted” and centered on economic messaging that he said wasn’t easily conveyed to younger voters who were not already coming to political media. “And I think that the policies themselves were also very narrow and targeted when what we really needed was a simple, bold economic vision,” said Mayer. Trump also embraced pop culture by appearing at UFC fights, football games and appearing alongside comedians, music stars and social media influencers. His strategists believed that the former president’s ability to grab attention and make his remarks go viral did more for the campaign than paid advertisements or traditional media appearances. Trump's campaign also heavily cultivated networks of online conservative platforms and personalities supportive of him while also engaging a broader universe of podcasts, streaming sites, digital media channels and meme pages open to hearing him. “The right has been wildly successful in infiltrating youth political culture online and on campus in the last couple of years, thus radicalizing young people towards extremism,” said He, who cited conservative activist groups like Turning Point USA as having an outsize impact in online discourse. “And Democrats have been running campaigns in a very old fashioned way. The battleground these days is cultural and increasingly on the internet.” Republicans may lose their broad support if they don't deliver on improving Americans' lives, Struve cautioned. Young men, especially, may drift from the party in a post-Trump era if the party loses the president-elect's authenticity and bravado. Bienvenido, for one group, will double down in the coming years to solidify and accelerate the voting pattern shifts seen this year, Struve said. “We don’t want this to be a one and done thing,” he said. ___ Associated Press writer Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan, and AP polling editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux contributed to this report. Matt Brown, The Associated Press
Biometrics for fraud protection have become a critical piece of the online world, minting billion-dollar companies, but one of the top consultancies in the field says that by combining biometrics with other technologies, identity verification providers can tap into an emerging growth opportunity. The most-read story of the week on was Liminal’s forecast for Identity Authorization Networks, which notes ID.me, fresh off a fundraise at a $1.8 billion valuation, as a potential winner in the segment. The trial of age assurance technology in Australia by ACCS and NEC’s new imaging technology are other examples of face biometrics being layered with other technologies to address familiar problems in new ways. Digital identity networks that include enterprise identity and fraud protection capabilities are defined by Liminal as (IANs), and the consultancy pegs their market opportunity at $15.5 billion by 2028, just in the U.S. The new report says Proof, ID.me, Entrust, Clear, Visa, DocuSign and Google are ready to stand up IANs now, while Jumio and Socure are just a step behind in readiness to address the emerging market. ID.me raised $67 million in a tender offer valuing the firm at $1.8 billion, and made an appearance at number 315 of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. The company says it is adding 60,000 new users daily and its revenue grew by 370 percent from 2020 to 2023, leading to next year. A bipartisan group of 14 American Senators has called for an . The Senators claim concern about the technology’s accuracy, necessity and impact on privacy, and suggest Congress should block the program’s expansion, pending “rigorous congressional oversight.” They say the agency has not provided sufficient evidence that the use of biometrics is necessary to spot fraud or speed up passenger processing. The new biometric pre-enrollment app intended to make the EU’s EES border control system operationally feasible was presented by Frontex at an iMARS conference last week. The , hurriedly developed in 10 months, has been through two tests, but the face biometric verification and chip reading functions are still being improved. ACCS CEO Tony Allen filled in the details of and released the full project plan this week. The trial relies heavily on the ISO/IEC DIS 27566-1 standard, and will examine a range of options, from biometric facial age estimation to inference based on data like purchasing history, for their effectiveness and privacy protection. A pair of American legislators and Meta think for age verification, with the social media giant offering up a metaphor that may apply in the metaverse, but not in meatspace. Apple disagrees, naturally, but has the AVPA and ACCS on its side. NEC has introduced a technology for capturing both , without adjusting the camera between modalities. The capability is delivered in a compact camera module that could go in POS devices, ATMs or tablets, and works on lower-resolution images, the company says. Generative AI is enabling fraudsters to gather information about their targets, tailor attacks to specific banks and defeat authentication checks, Feedzai Senior Director of Data Science Xin Ren writes in a guest post for . The combination of across the financial industry, however, can defeat even these sophisticated attacks. Illuma Founder and CEO Milind Borkar tells the the origin story of his voice biometrics business as a research and development contractor for the federal government, and its pivot to serving financial institutions. He talks about why demos of Illuma’s voice recognition look nearly the same even as the technology improves, and the difference between AI and machine learning. The number of e-Tazkira has grown by 8.1 million to 12.2 million in total since the Taliban took over in 2021, but rural numbers are low, and the cost has been increased fivefold. The NSIA is opening new centers and deploying mobile teams, and the government claims improvement, but regional disparities and claims of corruption linger. A pre-release edition of the UK’s DIATF has been published as businesses and regulators prepare for the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill. The framework is restructured in version 0.4 for ease of navigation, and makes . DHS’ OBIM is looking into migrating a pair of latent fingerprint biometrics databases holding more than . An RFI seeks a cost estimate for a cloud system that can search those databases 3,000 a day, between them, within specified times, and also asks about accuracy. Please let us know about any interviews, podcasts or anything else we should share with the people in biometrics and the digital identity community either in the comments below or through social media. | | | | |HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Amarri Tice scored 20 points and Paul Otieno added six in the overtime as Quinnipiac defeated Hofstra 75-69 on Sunday. Tice added 11 rebounds and three blocks for the Bobcats (6-7). Otieno scored 17 points and added 14 rebounds. Jaden Zimmerman shot 4 of 8 from the field, including 1 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 1 for 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 10 points. Jean Aranguren led the Pride (8-5) in scoring, finishing with 23 points, eight rebounds, six assists and three steals. Cruz Davis added 14 points and two steals for Hofstra. Michael Graham had eight points, 13 rebounds and three blocks. Quinnipiac entered halftime up 36-32. Tice paced the team in scoring in the first half with 10 points. Quinnipiac was outscored by four points in the second half and the teams finished regulation tied 63-63 after two free throws by Aranguren with 38 seconds remaining. Otieno shot 2 of 3 from the field on the way to their six points in the overtime. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .