On September 11, a caller praised The Boeing Company's (NYSE:BA) CEO and asked when the company would overcome the ongoing labor uncertainty and finally move beyond years of sideways stock performance. Mad Money host Jim Cramer replied:
I think that Boeing is ready to go up. But here's the problem. Every time crude goes up a dollar, the stock goes down a dollar. And that, think about it, that was actually the ratio. I did some work on this. And because today crude was down, Boeing went up $5... No, it's so stupid because, in truth, the airlines need more planes because the planes are more fuel-efficient. So they actually do better in this environment, but ******* ody cares. They know that airlines have to borrow money to buy planes and rates are higher, and they think that oil somehow's bad. But what ends up happening is the stock does nothing. I think it's about to go up because I think oil might be peaking unless there's some catastrophe over there.
The Boeing Company's (NYSE:BA) second-quarter results showed improving cash generation, but profitability remained weak. Revenue rose 8% year over year to $24.6 billion, while operating cash flow reached $1.4 billion and free cash flow was $631 million. Its total backlog reached a record $715 billion, including more than 6,200 commercial airplanes. CEO Kelly Ortberg said, "We're ramping up production just as we planned. That's driving higher revenues and improved cash flow." He also said there's more work ahead to ramp production, complete commercial-aircraft certifications and uphold customer commitments. Boeing said the 737-7 and 737-10 had completed flight testing, with deliveries expected to begin in 2027.
The Boeing Company's (NYSE:BA) large backlog has yet to translate into consistent commercial-aircraft profitability, leaving execution and margins as important concerns for investors. Commercial Airplanes delivered 171 aircraft in the second quarter but still posted a $322 million operating loss and a negative 2.7% operating margin. It also reported a $428 million GAAP net loss.
The balance sheet leaves less room for further setbacks. The company ended June with $45.9 billion of consolidated debt against $20 billion of cash and investments in marketable securities. The FAA certified the 737-7 on August 3, while Boeing continues working toward certification of the 737-10. First deliveries of the variants are expected in 2027. The company also recorded $280 million of losses on the VC-25B program in the quarter.

#boeing #cash #commercial

It was a night of devastation in Chatsworth that began with a deadly Metro bus collision and ended with the fiery crash of an NBC4 helicopter covering the news that left two journalists and, on the ground, a bystander dead.
Tuesday's scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos, with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe. The crashes claimed the lives of five people and left others with various degrees of injury.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were trying Wednesday to determine exactly what caused the news helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350 B2, to go down.
NTSB Investigator Fabian Salazar said officials are searching through the wreckage, combing through maintenance logbooks, security footage, weather reports and witness interviews, and reviewing the pilot's training to figure out what went wrong.
But the most critical information so far has been audio captured from the helicopter during a live broadcast of reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw's final moments before it crashed.

#journalists #nbc4

It's good when a stock forms a bullish chart pattern, and even better when institutional investors pour larger sums into buying those stocks. Three stocks offer that attractive combination: Travelers (TRV), AI stock Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and housing play Welltower (WELL).
The three are in the IBD Stock Screener, specifically the Stocks That Funds Are Buying list. This screen uses IBD data to identify multimillion dollar trades on the upside, i.e., institutional demand.
After a summer rally, Travelers is pausing to form a flat base with a 398.69 buy point. Shares of the auto, home and business insurer had their best day of the year on July 17, when they jumped 9%. Lower catastrophe losses and higher net investment income made for a bullish second-quarter report. More than 4.3 million shares were traded that day, the third most so far this year.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average component has a 97 IBD Composite Rating. Its Earnings Per Share Rating of 99 is the highest in the insurance industry group. The Accumulation/Distribution Rating of C- shows a mix of buying and selling in the past few months. Longer term, the number of funds holding Travelers increased to 2,893 in the second quarter from 2,664 a year earlier, according to IBD MarketSurge.
The stock is up 30% year to date.

#year #rating #funds #bullish

Extreme weather is creating a more demanding environment for property owners, insurers, and communities. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the United States recorded 27 confirmed billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2024, resulting in a total cost of $182.7 billion. These events spanned a wide range of extremes, including severe storm events, tropical cyclones, wildfires, drought/heat waves, and winter storm/cold wave events. Over the last decade, ***** ulative losses from these disasters have exceeded $1.4 trillion, driven significantly by population growth, material wealth, and increased development in hazard-prone areas. These figures suggest that the financial consequences of extreme events may increasingly depend on how accurately the value of exposed property is understood before a loss occurs.
That question becomes especially consequential during reconstruction. A 2026 report from Bloomberg, featured in Claims Journal, noted that surveys conducted by United Policyholders since 2007 found an average of two-thirds of wildfire survivors reporting that they were underinsured, with an average shortfall of $200,000 or more. The Insurance Information Institute has similarly estimated that two-thirds of American homeowners may be underinsured for wildfire losses, typically by about 20%, and in some cases by as much as 60%. These findings illustrate how the presence of an insurance policy can still leave a substantial difference between available coverage and the resources required to rebuild, particularly when construction costs rise after a catastrophe.
The financial implications can extend across the broader insurance ecosystem. Aon's 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight reported approximately $260 billion in global economic losses from natural catastrophes during 2025, compared with $127 billion in insured losses. For property stakeholders, such a figure may place greater attention on the relationship between the value ***** igned to an ***** et, the cost of restoring it, and the capital available when a loss occurs.
Frequency can add another layer to that calculation. Data from NCEI indicate that the average interval between U.S. billion-dollar disaster events was approximately 16 days during 2020–2024, compared with 82 days during the 1980s. NCEI notes that shorter intervals can leave less time and fewer resources for response, recovery, and preparation for subsequent events. As the time between major events contracts, property valuations may require more frequent attention because construction costs, labor conditions, materials, and local economic circumstances can change between policy reviews.

#property #losses #insurance #information

Sept 9 (Reuters) - The photos tell a story of lives, interrupted.
The schoolroom, gaily decorated with paintings and letters. The paint shop, where the shelves still contain rows of once colourful cans. The bathroom, the closet that held neatly piled clothing, the ‌yards. All are now covered with a thick layer of river mud that descended without warning on bustling communities.
As the waters ‌recede, the survivors remain stunned, grieving and praying.
A string of miracle rescues in recent days has kept hopes alive that more people might still be saved from the catastrophe of August 26 when a glacier collapsed, sending a mass of mud and rock crashing into a river along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet. The resulting floods washed away villages, snapped highways like twigs, and buried homes in the mud.
At least 1,380 bodies have so far been pulled from the wreckage, some far downstream from the site of the disaster. A wall outside a Kathmandu hospital plastered with photos and desperate appeals hints at the unfinished ‌story of an estimated 5,500 people who remain ⁠missing.

#nepal

A reduced charge does not reduce the seriousness, or the wrongness, of what Tiger Woods did.
Let's hope he understands that because his attorney's comments Wednesday, Sept. 2, following the plea deal from Woods' latest DUI arrest weren't exactly encouraging. Woods lost his driver's license for five years after pleading no contest to charges of reckless driving and refusal to submit to a lawful test.
"The ultimate decision was made to bring closure to the case," Woods' attorney Douglas Duncan told TV station WPBF, "and to allow Tiger and his family to move on with their lives."
"Move on with their lives." As if this was a minor fender-bender or a ticket for trespassing rather than the averted catastrophe that it was.
Woods endangered lives with this latest DUI incident, clipping a pickup truck towing a small trailer while trying to overtake it at high speed in his neighborhood. After his SUV flipped, it skidded down the street before coming to a stop within inches of a sidewalk.

#move #sept #duncan

Catastrophe, capitulation, calamity.
All applicable, all too familiar, all can be levied at Celtic after their Champions League qualification blunder away to LASK.
A night that started full of hope and optimism as Celtic edged four goals clear on aggregate after 21 minutes ended in deep humiliation in a 5-4 aggregate defeat after extra time.
At the same stage last season, their disastrous loss to Kairat Almaty ultimately cast a long shadow over their season and was the nexus point for an overflow of negative fan sentiment towards the club.
Here's how Celtic's nightmare evening unfolded.

#catastrophe

NEW YORK (AP) — In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future," a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world's nations to unite to combat climate change.
Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability.
Warning about an "extreme of extremes" or the "Other Big One," a play off the California reference of a big future earthquake, can be fraught. After all, ***** ody can say for sure when a weather catastrophe may happen. But in the last few years, the planetary ingredients needed for a massive disturbance have been building. And alarm is growing.
"The risk is that people just think you are exaggerating," said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the California Institute for Water Resources. "It's the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' problem. Sometimes wolves are real. If it's outside the door, wouldn't you want to know?"
In the 1850s, while living in Seneca Falls, New York, amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote did a series of experiments that put different substances, including carbon dioxide and moist air, inside glass cylinders and left them in the sun. What she found was extraordinary: cylinders with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is released when coal, gas or oil is burned, heated up faster and took longer to cool after the sun went down.

#york #future #people #extreme

In Hollywood's ongoing reckoning with child stardom, Hayden Panettiere shared the dark sides of a career in the spotlight.
The "Nashville" and "Ice Princess" star has died at 36, her representative confirmed in a statement to USA TODAY on Sunday, Aug. 16. A cause of death has not yet been shared.
Months before her death, the actress opened up in her memoir "This Is Me: A Reckoning" about childhood fame, crossing nefarious actors in her teens and addiction as an adult. In recent interviews about the memoir, Panettiere reflected that she was "groomed" to be a "little soldier" throughout her early career, which included roles in the soap opera "One Life to Live" and the animated "A Bug's Life."
Much of Panettiere's memoir grappled with grief, especially the death of her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, and the years she lost to addiction. She wrote about relinquishing custody of her then 2-year-old daughter Kaya after struggling with postpartum depression and addiction. And, like many of her famous peers, Panettiere grieved the "chance to have a 'normal' childhood."
When Panettiere was just 4, her mother pushed her through the busy Manhattan streets from audition to audition, bookending each call with the phrase "Don't phone it in." Praised for her tears and dramatic expressions, Panettiere reflected that she "began to ***** ociate catastrophe with adoration."

#death #memoir

The New England Patriots have taken a hit to their guard depth with Ben Brown and Andrew Rupcich going down with injuries in Thursday's preseason opener against the Indianapolis Colts.
When speaking with media members on Saturday morning, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said that Brown is expected to miss multiple weeks. It's a tough blow for the interior offensive line considering Brown's ability to swing between both guard positions and center as needed.
As a result, the Patriots signed offensive linemen Darrian Dalcourt and Joe Michalski, according to ESPN's Mike Reiss.
The team is still top-heavy at the guard position with Alijah Vera-Tucker at left guard and Mike Onwenu on the right side. However, Vera-Tucker has a long injury history, and although Onwenu has managed to stay healthy throughout his career, there are no guarantees that will remain the case in 2026.
Things could get dicey if injuries hit the starting lineup. The Patriots have seemingly prepared for a potential catastrophe by working rookie offensive tackle Caleb Lomu and veteran James Hudson out at guard in training camp.

#mike #offensive #brown #vera

After an edgy win against Dundee in the season opener, Celtic, the reigning Premiership champions, showed their supremacy on Sunday afternoon at Rugby Park. Kilmarnock finally changed their turf from plastic to grass after clubs voted in favour of banning artificial turf ahead of the 2026-27 season; however, it proved a catastrophe for the East Ayrshire side, who suffered a 5-1 humiliation. Second-half strikes from Benjamin Nygren and Luke McCowan followed a first-half hat-trick from the club-record signing Kasper Høgh.
Below are the Celtic players rated in their 5-1 win against Kilmarnock.
Viljami Sinisalo: 7.5
Made a couple of smart saves soon after Høgh's opening goal. Could have done little to stop Michael Schjønning-Larsen, who pulled one back and made it 4-1 for Neil McCann's men.
Alistair Johnston: 7.5

#season #turf

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Achieved record second-quarter earnings with high-teens growth in adjusted EBITDA and EPS, excluding catastrophes, positioning the company to deliver its 10th consecutive year of profitable growth.
Global Lifestyle performance was bolstered by a 24% year-to-date increase in Connected Living earnings, driven by the expansion of mobile supply chain services and optimization of recently added programs.
The company is evolving from a protection provider to an end-to-end business partner, leveraging integrated ecosystems of technology, data, and AI to solve complex client challenges at scale.
Global Housing growth was supported by a new partnership with Freedom Mortgage, adding approximately 2.6 million loans to the lender-placed insurance portfolio.

#year

PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered construction crews on a border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping groundwater needed to make concrete could threaten their livestock.
The order comes as crews across the southern border race to complete one of President Donald Trump's highest domestic priorities — barriers that span four states and received over $46 billion in federal funding. Controversies have sprouted up in Texas and California, with border-town residents and environmentalists reporting a wide variety of issues with construction.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees border wall construction, has said water is needed to make concrete for roads, wall construction and dust suppression. Cattle ranchers in the area say the drought has already forced them to reduce their herd size.
"It would put us in an immediate catastrophe and having to do something with our livestock. I mean, it could potentially put some people out of business, us included," said Russell Johnson, a cattle rancher whose property runs along the border.
Johnson raised the issue at a public meeting in July after noticing an industrial well, which drilling crews told him would pump 300 gallons a minute, on land he leases for grazing. Johnson has roughly 12 wells across his ranch, which pump between three and seven gallons a minute.

#wall #cattle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New observations of some of Neptune's moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of years ago around the solar system's outermost planet in which a Pluto-sized interloper caused a celestial demolition derby.
Researchers used NASA's James Webb ***** e Telescope to examine the composition of three of Neptune's small inner moons — Proteus, Larissa and Galatea — and its inner dusty rings, and detected clay minerals that one might expect to find deep inside certain worlds in the outer reaches of the solar system. These magnesium-rich minerals are known to exist on the dwarf planet Ceres, which orbits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and in some meteorites.
"These minerals require prolonged contact between liquid water and rock to form," said planetary scientist Ryleigh Davis, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, and lead author of the study published in the journal Science Advances.
"The moons themselves are far too small and cold for that chemistry to have occurred in place, so the clay had to come from somewhere else — the deep interior of a much larger ancient world. Finding this material on Neptune's inner moons points to a catastrophic event in Neptune's past that destroyed those ancient worlds and exposed their deep interiors, with the small moons and rings we see today re-forming from that wreckage," said Davis, who worked on the study while at Caltech.
First possible exomoon may change definition of what a moon is

#moons #rings #deep #planet

Interested in Intact Financial Co.? Here are five stocks we like better.
Intact delivered solid Q2 results, with C$3.17 in net operating income per share, a 94.9% combined ratio and a 17% operating return on equity despite elevated catastrophe and large-loss activity.
Canadian personal lines remained a key growth driver: personal-auto premiums rose 9% and the combined ratio improved to 88.8%, while personal-property premiums increased 7% despite significant catastrophe losses.
Management views the U.K. performance issues as temporary and is pursuing a 24- to 36-month transformation. Intact also raised its expected data and AI benefits to C$500 million by 2028 and has C$3.7 billion of excess capital available for acquisitions.
Intact Financial (TSE:IFC) reported second-quarter net operating income per share of C$3.17, supported by a 94.9% combined ratio despite elevated catastrophe and large-loss activity. Operating return on equity was 17%, while book value per share rose 13% year over year to C$111.73.

#operating #despite #financial

Monday night’s USMNT catastrophe against Belgium completely erased and potentially overshadowed everything Mauricio Pochettino’s plucky side was able to accomplish at this World Cup. There’s no need to be hyperbolic and say it was all for naught because collecting the second-ever knockout stage victory in the program’s history is nothing to scoff at. It must be said, though, that the elements will rarely, if ever, be lined up in such an advantageous manner for Team USA to make that long-awaited run deeper into the tournament.
This team’s impact on how soccer is viewed in America won’t be known for a long time. And there are reasons to be optimistic that a solid foundation was built for future success. It’s just really, really tough to think of anything except how Christian Pulisic & Co. got bodied out there in Seattle.
Some good news—at least in terms of visibility—can be gleaned from master tastemaker Colin Cowherd devoting a solid chunk of time to the USMNT’s failure on his show today. The bad news is that he’s not exactly saying great things.
“When pressure was applied last night we folded like wet cardboard,” Cowherd surmised. “Pulisic looked pedestrian. Last night against Belgium’s top players he was just a guy.”
Actually, it was worst than just a guy. It was a guy addicted to giving the ball away. Now, some of that can be attributed to his health and it’s not right to be too hard on a player physically unable to perform. Cowherd, taking the correct stance that the best ability is availability, pointed out this has been a problem with the USMNT’s top star.

To continue our series on reviewing the off-season state of the Buccaneers’ roster, we’ll take a quick look at the running back situation next.
The Bucs low-key have some developments to monitor here, and it will be huge in determining how successful the running game adapts under new playcaller Zac Robinson.
After starring in a stocked Buccaneers offense in 2024, and as a rookie no less, Bucky Irving’s star came crashing down to Earth for various reasons last year.
The state of the offensive line was nothing less than a catastrophe last year, with several persisting injuries and lineup changes affecting the entire offense, especially the run game. Irving was hit behind the line of scrimmage at a near league-high rate, giving him little opportunity to create at the second level — which he swiftly proved to be one of the NFL’s best at.
And, of course, came serious injuries to his shoulder and knee that kept him out for 7 games, and even when he returned he was clearly still ailing. He underwent offseason shoulder surgery to fully correct the issue, and the expectation is that he will be ready for the regular season but might miss training camp.

Lothar Matthäus expects Julian Nagelsmann to be replaced as Germany coach following Monday's shock World Cup elimination to Paraguay in the round of 32.
Nagelsmann said after the game that he's willing to see out his contract, which runs until after the 2028 European Championship, but Matthäus believes a change will be made.
"I believe that after this World Cup, we have to continue with a new coach. This was simply too much. There's probably a lot that needs to be reviewed, on the pitch and off it," Matthäus told Bild.
The German legend described Germany's performance against Paraguay as "subpar".
"A game like that can happen. But we played a catastrophe game against Ecuador already," Matthäus said, referring to Germany's 2-1 group-stage defeat.

(Oil & Gas 360) – This week marked a notable shift in market sentiment. For months, energy markets were focused on disruption, conflict, and supply risk.
Now, attention is turning toward reopening trade routes, restoring production, and **** sing whether the world is moving from a supply crisis toward a period of greater abundance. Prices moved lower, but capital continued flowing toward oil, gas, LNG, and power infrastructure, suggesting the industry remains focused on long-term demand growth.
Brent crude declined after Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire, while the U.S.–Iran both digitally signed a memorandum of understanding on ending the war, although a planned meeting on Friday in Switzerland was postponed. President Trump earlier in the week defended the deal, saying he wanted to avoid an economic catastrophe. Meanwhile, Iran resumed exports, reportedly shipping 20 million barrels following the agreement.
Why it matters:
Markets are removing some of the geopolitical risk premium that drove prices higher earlier this year. The focus is shifting from disruption to how quickly supply can return.
Momentum continued building around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as tanker traffic resumed and shipping flows gradually normalized, although questions grow over Iran's transit terms.

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China routinely sends astronauts to and from its **** e station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home.
The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, because one of its