Richard Foster

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Richard Foster |Paul Campbell

1.Which team won the same number of points this season as they did last season? 2.Mohamed Salah finished the season with 29 goals and 18 assists, meaning he was involved in 55% of Liverpool’s goals. Which player was involved in 46% of his team’s goals – the second highest contribution in the league? 3.Which player scored three own goals this season? 4.Which stadium hosted the most goals – a total of 75 in 19 matches? Tottenham Hotspur Stadium5.Two players scored two hat-tricks this season.

1 month ago | virginiabusiness.com | Richard Foster |Richard Foster

Ashley Dayer’s dream of winning a National Science Foundation grant to pursue discoveries in bird conservation started when she was an early-career professor with an infant in her arms and a shoestring laboratory budget. Competition is intense for NSF grants, a key source of funding for science research at U.S. universities. It took three failed applications and years of preliminary research before the agency awarded her one.

1 month ago | virginiabusiness.com | Richard Foster |Richard Foster

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in March, a lackluster start to the spring homebuying season as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged home shoppers. Existing home sales fell 5.9% last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.02 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. The March sales decline is the largest monthly drop since November 2022, when sales fell 6.7% from the previous month.

1 month ago | virginiabusiness.com | Richard Foster |Richard Foster

GLEN ALLEN, Va. (AP) — Atlantic Union Bankshares Corp. (AUB) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $49.8 million. The bank, based in Glen Allen, Virginia, said it had earnings of 52 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for costs related to mergers and acquisitions and non-recurring costs, were 57 cents per share. The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 69 cents per share.

1 month ago | virginiabusiness.com | Richard Foster |Richard Foster

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rallying further Thursday as better-than-expected profits for U.S. companies pile up, though CEOs say they’re unsure whether it will last because of uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s trade war. The S&P 500 was 1.3% higher in midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 265 points, or 0.7%, as of 11:05 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.7% higher.