U.S. women's national team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, known for her unflappable demeanor in the face of pressure, is retiring from international soccer. Naeher was on the team's roster for a pair of upcoming matches in Europe but those games will be her last after a full 11 years playing for the United States. Naeher was the starting goalkeeper for the U.S. team that won the Women's World Cup in 2019 and the gold medal at this year's Olympics in France. She's the only U.S. goalkeeper to earn a shutout in both a World Cup and an Olympic final. She made a key one-handed save in stoppage time to preserve the Americans' 1-0 victory over Brazil in the Olympic final. Mallory Swanson, who scored the only goal, ran down the length of the field to embrace Naeher at the final whistle. Naeher announced her retirement on social media Monday . “Every tear shed in the challenging times and disappointments made every smile and celebration in the moments of success that much more joyful. This has been a special team to be a part of and I am beyond proud of what we have achieved both on and off the field," she wrote. “The memories I have made over the years will last me a lifetime.” Naeher has been known throughout her career for her calm and steady leadership. She is one of just three goalkeepers to make more than 100 appearances for the United States. Naeher made her debut with the national team in 2014 and was a backup to Hope Solo at the 2015 World Cup, which the United States won. She became the team’s regular starter following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was on the squad that repeated as World Cup winners in 2019. For her career, Naeher has appeared 113 games with 110 starts, 88 wins and 68 shutouts. She had four shutouts over the course of the Olympic tournament in France. In all, she was on the U.S. roster for three World Cups and three Olympic teams. The 36-year-old has also played for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women’s Soccer League since 2016. She plans to play for Chicago next season. The United States is headed to Europe for a match against England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and on Dec. 3 against Netherlands in The Hague. In addition to her save at the Olympics, Naeher has had many other memorable moments. In the 2019 Women's World Cup semifinals against England, she stopped Steph Houghton’s penalty kick in the 83rd minute. The Americans won 2-1 before downing the Netherlands 2-0 in the final. Earlier this year in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup, Naeher made three saves during a penalty shootout with Canada and also converted a penalty kick herself — tucking the ball neatly into the corner of the net. Afterward she said: “Winning is the best feeling.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes got back to climbing on Wednesday after the latest update on inflation appeared to clear the way for more help for the economy from the Federal Reserve . The S&P 500 rose 0.8% to break its first two-day losing streak in nearly a month and finished just short of its all-time high. Big Tech stocks led the way, which drove the Nasdaq composite up 1.8% to top the 20,000 level for the first time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, meanwhile, lagged the market with a dip of 99 points, or 0.2%. Stocks got a boost as expectations built that Wednesday’s inflation data will allow the Fed to deliver another cut to interest rates at its meeting next week. Traders are betting on a nearly 99% probability of that, according to data from CME Group, up from 89% a day before. If they’re correct, it would be a third straight cut by the Fed after it began lowering rates in September from a two-decade high. It’s hoping to support a slowing job market after getting inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower rates would give a boost to the economy and to prices for investments, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. “The data have given the Fed the ‘all clear’ for next week, and today’s inflation data keep a January cut in active discussion,” according to Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Expectations for a series of cuts to rates by the Fed have been one of the main reasons the S&P 500 has set an all-time high 57 times this year , with the latest coming last week. The biggest boosts for the index on Wednesday came from Nvidia and other Big Tech stocks. Their massive growth has made them Wall Street’s biggest stars for years, though other kinds of stocks have recently been catching up somewhat amid hopes for the broader U.S. economy. Tesla jumped 5.9% to finish above $420 at $424.77. It’s a level that Elon Musk made famous in a 2018 tweet when he said he had secured funding to take Tesla private at $420 per share . Stitch Fix soared 44.3% after the company that sends clothes to your door reported a smaller loss for the latest quarter than analysts expected. It also gave financial forecasts for the current quarter that were better than expected, including for revenue. GE Vernova rallied 5% for one of the biggest gains in the S&P 500. The energy company that spun out of General Electric said it would pay a 25 cent dividend every three months, and it approved a plan to send up to another $6 billion to its shareholders by buying back its own stock. On the losing end of Wall Street, Dave & Buster’s Entertainment tumbled 20.1% after reporting a worse loss for the latest quarter than expected. It also said CEO Chris Morris has resigned, and the board has been working with an executive-search firm for the last few months to find its next permanent leader. Albertsons fell 1.5% after filing a lawsuit against Kroger, saying it didn’t do enough for their proposed $24.6 billion merger agreement to win regulatory clearance. Albertsons said it’s seeking billions of dollars in damages from Kroger, whose stock rose 1%. A day earlier, judges in separate cases in Oregon and Washington nixed the supermarket giants’ merger. The grocers contended a combination could have helped them compete with big retailers like Walmart, Costco and Amazon, but critics said it would hurt competition. After terminating the merger agreement with Kroger, Albertsons said it plans to boost its dividend 25% and increased the size of its program to buy back its own stock. Macy’s slipped 0.8% after cutting some of its financial forecasts for the full year of 2024, including for how much profit it expects to make off each $1 of revenue. All told, the S&P 500 rose 49.28 points to 6,084.19. The Dow dipped 99.27 to 44,148.56, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 347.65 to 20,034.89. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.27% from 4.23% late Tuesday. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, edged up to 4.15% from 4.14%. In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was an outlier and slipped 0.8% as Chinese leaders convened an annual planning meeting in Beijing that is expected to set economic policies and growth targets for the coming year. South Korea’s Kospi rose 1%, up for a second straight day as it climbs back following last week’s political turmoil where its president briefly declared martial law. AP Writers Matt Ott and Zimo Zhong contributed.bet365 app 。

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To be honest about the election it felt more like a dour mid winter scoring draw than any victory. Yet, after all the shouting’s done, the two main parties of the outgoing coalition still have the ball. This was a secure consolidation in tough conditions. Let’s look at some of the key numbers in order to distinguish what actually happened from of the weird party spin that conjured alternative realities from the RTÉ Exit Poll which rated Fianna Fáil at the bottom (on 19.5%) and Sinn Féin (21.1%) top. Here’s what actually happened on a national basis. In reality, the exit poll was out by beyond the margin of error on both parties. But as you can see from how the figures turn into seats, in an uber competitive political market, the difference of just three points can have a massive effect on a party’s fortunes. With only Cavan Monaghan left the three seats there are expected add two to the FF total (48) and one to Sinn Féin (39). In terms of winners and losers here’s the chart that shows what happened, first nationally: There are two clear losers here. One, most obviously on the Government side is The Green Party, which is left only with the seat of its leader. Yet it has enough local councillors to get itself into the next Seanad, and at 3% will qualify for public funding. The other is Sinn Féin. It made gains where organisation (like Waterford) was good. And it also benefited from new seats in the Dáil. But the gap between exit poll and the real poll meant early (wild) optimism tanked. The drop from 2020 is precipitous. There are three clear winners too (and maybe two halves). On the opposition benches, the Soc Dems not only broke the 3% funding barrier but took vote share from Sinn Féin and Greens. With Labour, both centre left parties now stand at 22 seats. Aontu finally won a second seat in the Dáil to sit alongside founder and former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín. They also appear to have taken vote share off Toibin’s former party, and with public funding will continue to challenge them from the right. The biggest winner though is undoubtedly Fianna Fáil. With vote share slightly down by 0.3%, they’ve opened up a 9/10 seat gap on second and third placed Sinn Féin and Fine Gael. They’ve performed well in Donegal, along the border and in the west. But both Fine Gael and Labour consolidated their vote and pushed up their seat totals. In the case of the former more than half the parliamentary party are first time TDs, whilst Labour has more than doubled its representation. And Fine Gael are now the largest party in Dublin... Fourteen years after Fianna Fáil were trounced in 2011 leaving them with just the late Brian Lenihan in Dublin they now have a TD every constituency bar Dublin Central and are in third place, and less than 4% behind Sinn Féin (down 7.7%) and Fine Gael. You can see what a long haul it has been and how the wider landscape has fragmented meaning it will be hard to conceive of a one stop shop part like the Fianna Fáil of old will ever become so dominant in Irish politics again from this chart... It’s not just that Fianna Fáil has got bigger since its crash in 2011, but almost everyone else’s got smaller relatively, including now, for the first time since it entered Dáil elections, Sinn Féin. There may also be four new groups of parties/individuals. The two centrist parties, Sinn Féin’s singular brand of left populism, the left and centre left and then perhaps an emergence of right and centre right (II and Aontu) with rural independents. That means there’s no route to power without allies. There’s are few routes to power without strategy. Micheál Martin’s strategy has been long, hard and perhaps some of his critics would say, unnecessarily slow. But that’s to underestimate the degree to which the crash broke trust in politics and politicians. The party has prospered in spite of the anti incumbency surge across the democratic world because it has maintained a course for left of centre policies on issues like housing which its current base don’t rate highly (only 17% of FF voters rated it highly). Its housing policy moved away from the market led model that’s overseen shortages and price rises that alienated the lower middle and working class families who in the past had been able to buy because of a plentiful supply public rental sector. That played to the margins FF lost in 2011 (who are still in Opposition territory). It worked because what the opposition offered was indistinguishable to the ordinary Joe and that took a lot of friction out. And perhaps made the party more transfer friendly. By not pandering to the prejudices of their respective bases both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have managed to substantially renew their parliamentary teams. They also have the money Sinn Féin were clearly eying up to upscale house building. And with that will come jobs, apprenticeships and opportunities for kids who don’t want to go on to third level education. As I never tire of saying demographics isn’t destiny , politics is. Nor is anything a linear or inevitable progression. Sinn Féin’s big opportunity was in 2020 which it didn’t see coming and so missed the chance to do what it vainly hoped to do on Friday. Something similar to quick weight loss in diets, too much growth too quickly can be only too easily lost afterwards. On the other hand, Fianna Fáil’s slow growth approach seems to be working just fine, so far. By pruning the old fantasy of FF dominance Martin has made space for further growth. There’s still far too little done, with a hell of a lot more to do.Dec 11 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O) , opens new tab led a Big Tech rally on Wednesday, with its stock hitting a record high after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer protection and antitrust agency. Trump tapped Ferguson on Tuesday to replace Lina Khan, whose term as FTC chair has expired. The agency became a political flashpoint under Khan, who promoted antitrust enforcement as a check on corporate power. Several Big Tech firms such as Google-parent Alphabet, Microsoft (MSFT.O) , opens new tab and Apple (AAPL.O) , opens new tab faced heightened regulatory pressure from the FTC during her tenure. Ferguson was a "known dissenter" under Khan "and many people feel under his leadership the antitrust case against Alphabet will come to an end", said Jay Woods, chief global strategist at Freedom Capital Markets. Trump and his team have been broadly critical of Big Tech companies, although some of his most prominent backers were tech executives, and it is unclear how they will approach regulatory and M&A policy for that sector. Alphabet's shares rose about 5.5% to hit a record high of $195.45. Tesla (TSLA.O) , opens new tab jumped 4.6%, also to a record high, extending its rally since the Nov. 5 presidential election on bets the EV-maker will benefit from CEO Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Other tech shares also rallied. Microsoft gained 1.2% and Amazon.com (AMZN.O) , opens new tab and Meta Platforms (META.O) , opens new tab added 2% each. The latest inflation report raised expectations of an interest-rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this month, lifting technology stocks . Shares of Alphabet have gained over 10% in the last two days following announcements from the company about its AI agents and quantum-chip breakthrough. Google released the second generation of its Gemini artificial-intelligence model earlier on Wednesday and teased a lineup of new ways to use AI beyond chatbots, including through a pair of eyeglasses. It unveiled a new-generation chip on Monday , which it said helped overcome a key challenge in quantum computing. "What we're seeing here is Google positioning itself at the bleeding edge of a transformative technology," said Michael Ashley Schulman, chief investment officer at Running Point Capital. "While Google sometimes has been viewed as 'behind' in AI, the recent quantum breakthrough shows us that the company knows how to construct processors," said Jamie Meyers, senior analyst at Laffer Tengler Investments. Sign up here. Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tabNone

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