STORY: Russia carried out its third ballistic missile attack on Kyiv this month but most of them were apparently shot down on approach, the city's military administration said on Sunday (August 18).Residents in the Ukrainian capital were inspecting the crater caused by what's believed to be a North Korean missile.Kyiv officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties in the capital. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of striking civilian infrastructure in the war and both deny doing so.Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday his troops had strengthened positions in Russia's Kursk region nearly two weeks into their incursion.He called for bold decisions by Kyiv's allies to allow long-range strikes.These Ukrainian soldiers are conducting drills across the border from Kursk, where Ukraine says it has seized more than 80 settlements over 444 square miles since August 6.It's the biggest invasion of Russia since World War Two.Against the backdrop of that incursion, Belarus's president, a staunch ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin, spoke of a tense standoff along his country's border with Ukraine on Sunday. President Alexander Lukashenko said Ukraine had stationed more than 120,000 troops along that border and Minsk had deployed nearly a third of its armed forces there. Russia denied a report that Ukraine's Kursk attack had derailed indirect talks with Kyiv on halting strikes on energy and power targets.A spokesperson for the foreign ministry denied those talks had been going on, saying "no one broke anything off because there was nothing to break off." She was responding to a report in the Washington Post on Saturday......that Ukraine and Russia were planning to send delegations to Qatar this month to negotiate a landmark agreement halting strikes on critical civilian infrastructure.
Author of Your Money Playbook and former NFL linebacker Brandon Copeland sits down with Brad Smith in-studio to break down how professional athletes should be planning for their retirements. "I had to tell my mind that I was a superhuman every single Sunday to walk out through the white smoke to hear 70,000 fans screaming praises or booing you, but to trick my mind into going and basically battling another 300-pound grown man and moving them out of the way. I had to tell myself I was superhuman and I couldn't lose, and I couldn't lose, and I couldn't lose," Copeland says about the mentality he took away from sports and refocused into his finances. "And then now, what athletes are talking about is you get off the field and people tell you now you're human again, and plan for when this thing does not work out. And that's real." Copeland advises athletes to realize the fact that high-income flows will one-day cease when they retire from the playing field: And so you need to protect it, and you need to save." He encourages them to invest as much as possible during their prime earning years because it will likely determine their potential salary in the future. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Wealth! This post was written by Melanie Riehl
Is your portfolio struggling to find love in the market? Raymond James analyst Andrew Marok sits down with Julie Hyman and Josh Schafer to talk about which dating app stocks investors should swipe right on. Grindr (GRND) shares are up by over 38% year-to-date, while Bumble (BMBL) is down by 58% in that same window. Match Group (MTCH) — the parent company of online dating apps and websites Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish — is down nearly 6% in 2024, but has seen a slight uptick in its share price over the past month. Marok notes the generational differences becoming apparent between Gen Z and Millennial users on these apps, especially in the straight-dating scene. Younger users coming onto the dating scene are preferring in-person events and activities, rather than swiping for matches. "These two generations have kind of antithetical preferences to how they choose to approach relationships. And since these apps were largely built by Millennials, for Millennials, navigating this switch to the Gen Z preferences has proven quite tricky," Marok explains. "We haven't seen that so much in the gay dating market, which is why Grindr has kind of prospered while the others have stumbled." Marok underlines the fact that dating apps with more specific purposes find larger engagement. Several of them even have functions and in-app settings to socialize and find friends or even network professionally. "Hinge does really well and resonates with Gen Z. I think the focus on more serious relationships, not a swipe based model, is something that is quite positive. Grindr, the fact that it serves a pretty wide variety of social connection needs within the gay community is something that has resonated really well." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.