The S&P 500 is down 116.37 points, or 2%.

In the Nordics it’s not up to the army to bring in bottles of water in a crisis; rather, there is the “expectation” that local authorities will respond, along with civilians and businesses, Turnbull said.Europeans elsewhere need to realize the threat from Moscow can reach “much deeper” than nations bordering Russia, said Matthew Redhead, a national security expert at the Royal United Services Institute in London.

“The threat is rising,” from Russia’s campaign of vandalism, sabotage and arson across Europe and Moscow could target energy grids, internet cables and water supplies, Norway’s Defense Minister Tore O. Sandvik told AP.“Sabotage has become one of the threats that is now on the radar to an extent that we haven’t seen probably since the Second World War” said Even Tvedt, Chief Security Officer at the Kongsberg Group.Reeling off suspicious incidents at the company, he detailed how in 2024 an activist tried to destroy engines for fighter jets, drones were spotted over an area where it’s illegal to fly and attempts were made to get through a factory perimeter.

It’s not always possible to identify motivation or to say if the incidents are separate, linked or just “some kid” flying a drone, but the number of suspicious events indicates sabotage is highly possible, Tvedt said.Moscow is ramping up its activities in Europe to a “pre-war” level, said Redhead, but away from Russia ordinary people and local authorities may be less ready for a crisis because “we don’t think we will be on the front line.”

“Freaking people out about this at some point is potentially quite necessary.”

Clarksdale, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people packed inside a local auditorium Thursday to see the hit film “The median pay package for CEOs rose to $17.1 million, up 9.7%. Meanwhile, the median employee at companies in the survey earned $85,419, reflecting a 1.7% increase year over year.

CEOs had to navigate sticky inflation and relatively high interest rates last year, as well as. But the economy also provided some tail winds: Consumers kept spending despite their misgivings about the economy; inflation did subside somewhat; the Fed

The stock market’s main benchmark, the S&P 500, rose more than 23% last year. Profits for companies in the index rose more than 9%.“2024 was expected to be a strong year, so the (nearly) 10% increases are commensurate with the timing of the pay decisions,” said Dan Laddin, a partner at Compensation Advisory Partners.