ROME (AP) — An emotional Mats Hummels has announced the end of his soccer career.
The Roma defender and 2014 World Cup winner said on Friday he will retire from professional soccer at the end of the season.
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FILE - Dortmund's Mats Hummels celebrates after the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, April 16, 2024(AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
FILE - Dortmund's Mats Hummels plays the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and Borussia Dortmund in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
FILE - Germany's Mats Hummels holds the trophy after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
FILE - Roma's Mats Hummels smiles when walking on to the pitch for the warmup before the Europa League playoff first leg soccer match between FC Porto and AS Roma at the Dragao stadium in Porto, Portugal, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira, File)
“I’m struggling with my emotions right now,” the 36-year-old Hummels said in a video on X.
“Now comes the moment that no footballer can avoid. After 18 years and so many things that football has given me, I’m ending my career this summer.”
Hummels joined Roma as a free agent in September, signing a one-year contract with the option to extend for another season.
A five-time Bundesliga champion — twice with Borussia Dortmund and three times with Bayern Munich — Hummels is considered one of the finest German defenders.
He left Dortmund in June, when his contract expired, following a total of 13 years at the club.
Hummels played for Dortmund in two stints, from 2008-16 and then again from 2019 after a spell in between with Bayern. He helped Dortmund win the Bundesliga in 2011 and 2012 and the German Cup in 2012 and 2021 as well as reach two Champions League finals.
His strong finish to last season meant it was somewhat of a surprise that he was left out of the Germany squad for the European Championship on home soil.
Hummels has had mixed fortunes in a tumultuous season for Roma. He wasn’t fully fit when he signed and coach Daniele De Rossi was fired just two weeks later.
He was rarely used by replacement Ivan Juric but under Roma’s third coach of the season, Claudio Ranieri, Hummels has returned to the center of the defense.
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FILE - Dortmund's Mats Hummels celebrates after the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid at the Signal-Iduna Park in Dortmund, Germany, Tuesday, April 16, 2024(AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
FILE - Dortmund's Mats Hummels plays the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and Borussia Dortmund in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
FILE - Germany's Mats Hummels holds the trophy after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
FILE - Roma's Mats Hummels smiles when walking on to the pitch for the warmup before the Europa League playoff first leg soccer match between FC Porto and AS Roma at the Dragao stadium in Porto, Portugal, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is pushing to more records Thursday as companies like Dollar Tree, Snowflake and Hormel Foods keep piling up profits. That's even as oil prices continue to swing and more data shows pressure building on the economy because of the war with Iran.
The S&P 500 added 0.5% to its all-time high set the day before after drifting between small gains and losses earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 10 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 1:26 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.8% higher after both indexes also set records the day before.
Even with worries about expensive oil and high inflation, the U.S. stock market has run to records largely because U.S. companies keep making more money. Stock prices tend to follow the path of corporate profits over the long term, and companies have been routinely topping analysts' expectations for the first three months of 2026.
Dollar Tree’s stock soared 19% after it became the latest to report fatter profit than analysts expected. CEO Mike Creedon said improved store conditions helped the retailer make more profit off each $1 in sales during the latest quarter despite tariffs adding to its costs. The company also gave a forecast for profit over the full year that topped analysts’ expectations.
Kohl’s rallied 18.9% after the retailer reported better results for the latest quarter than analysts had feared, while Best Buy climbed 18% following its own better-than-expected profit report. Hormel Foods climbed 13.1% after a strong performance for its Jennie-O ground turkey and exports of its Spam luncheon meat helped it report a better profit than analysts expected.
Snowflake rose 38.8% after saying artificial intelligence continues to be a strong driver of its business, and profit and revenue for the latest quarter exceeded expectations.
They helped offset a dip for Marvell Technology, which fell 3.1% after its profit for the latest quarter only matched analysts' expectations. It also said AI is driving big revenue growth for it, particularly its data center business.
In the oil market, prices ticked higher following their latest U-turns. The price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude oil rose 0.4% to $89.04, but only after bouncing between $87 and $92. It's been swinging as hopes rise and fall that the United States and Iran may reach a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and get oil flowing again from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide.
The latest threat to the ceasefire in the war came after U.S. Central Command said Kuwait had intercepted missiles launched by Iran late Wednesday night. That followed earlier “defensive” strikes by the U.S. military on missile launch sites and minelaying boats in southern Iran.
In the bond market, Treasury yields eased after a report said the measure of inflation that the Federal Reserve likes to use accelerated last month but was roughly within economists’ expectations.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.46% from 4.48% late Wednesday after giving up an earlier gain.
Data also showed how U.S. households are less able to save money, with the personal savings rate down to a four-year low of 2.6%, “pointing up the financial pressure on lower- and middle-income families,” according to Gary Schlossberg, global strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
U.S. households have been saying they’re feeling discouraged about the economy and inflation, even as the stock market keeps chugging along.
High yields in bond markets worldwide recently have threatened to slow economies and undercut prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments. High yields have already forced the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate to its most expensive level since last summer, and they could curtail companies’ borrowing to build the AI data centers that have supported the U.S. economy’s growth recently.
A report on Thursday said the pace of sales of new U.S. homes unexpectedly slowed last month, as the weight of higher mortgage rates hurts the market.
In stock markets abroad, indexes dipped across much of Europe and Asia. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.3% for one of the world’s larger losses.
AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.
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