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Brent crude hit its highest level in nearly four months this week, briefly touching $107 a barrel before settling near $101.21 on Wednesday as Houthi strikes set Saudi energy facilities ablaze, according to Reuters reporting on the attacks. WTI settled at $96.05 the same session, putting it on track for its biggest weekly advance since July.
COMEX October copper futures fell more than 4% on Wednesday, and Freeport-McMoRan shares dropped over 8% the same day, after the White House confirmed it still has no final…
Local governments across China have effectively stopped accepting new filings for power-battery and energy-storage capacity since the second half of 2026, according to Caixin,…
The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999, roughly the price of two entry iPhones, and it is the first product to carry new CEO John Ternus's name after Tim Cook's exit this month.
Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic before resigning this week, telling employees and then the public that both companies are racing…
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The current wireFifty percent tariffs weren't enough. The White House has now published import bans on Canadian dairy, motorcycles and most alcoholic beverages, set to take effect September 29, according to the .
CENTCOM confirms three Iranian crude carriers hit near Kharg Island and the Gulf of Oman this week, two permanently disabled, one destroyed outright, as part of what US officials call a campaign against a tanker network funding…
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR have agreed to build compute-financing platforms targeting more than $500 billion in third-party capital, according to .
Regulatory filings show the Pecos County, Texas gas plant backing Amazon's new data centre campus is permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year, which would make it the single largest source of climate pollution in the United…
Buried on page five of the 16-page CEO Performance Award Agreement is a change-in-control clause: if Tesla is acquired or merges, the operational milestones get disregarded and only the market-cap hurdles remain, as the reports.
OpenAI used its own cash, not a fresh round of SoftBank-style outside money, to buy back roughly $7 billion of employee shares at an $852 billion valuation, reports.
US nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, reversing a downwardly revised 20,000 gain in June, and spot gold jumped 2.3% to $4,336.11 an ounce on the release, hitting a seven-week high according to CNBC.
Sunrise Energy Metals shares jumped as much as 29% after the US Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital offered up to $400 million in conditional debt financing for the Syerston project in New South Wales, according to…
Texas Pacific Land, LandBridge and EagleRock are pitching remote Permian Basin acreage to AI developers as an escape route from a backlash that has already killed a $1.5 billion project in San Marcos, the first Texas city to…
Home loan applications at Westpac dropped from roughly 33,000 a month to about 27,000 after Australia's federal budget floated changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, a 20% fall that Reuters confirmed from the bank's…
The largest oil supply shock since the 1970s is unwinding faster than most traders priced in, and crude is paying the price. Brent has dropped roughly 27% over the past month, falling toward the mid-$70s as Saudi tankers begin…
Valar Atomics has become the first private nuclear startup to achieve criticality on its own reactor system, completing zero-power critical tests on its NOVA core with Los Alamos National Laboratory, and marking the second…
South Korea's producer price index has hit its highest level since October 2022, with April's 6.9% year-on-year reading driven by a 73.9% surge in coal and petroleum product prices as the Hormuz crisis fed through to Asian energy…
Reformation's confidential IPO filing, expected as soon as next week with a potential listing in July, is as much a Permira story as a brand story.
Saudi supertankers heading for the Gulf of Oman is the physical confirmation of what crude futures already priced on Thursday: the US-Iran preliminary framework is real enough that shipping operators are willing to move product…
The pound's post-Brexit recovery has, according to Goldman Sachs, now overshot the fundamentals that justified it. Goldman's GSDEER model labels sterling the most structurally overvalued G10 currency, a harder verdict than the…
Standard Nuclear's NYSE filing under ticker STDN is the most interesting nuclear IPO in the current pipeline precisely because it targets the supply-chain chokepoint rather than the headline technology.
India's government bond market has spent the last several months repricing the limits of RBI support. The 10-year yield spread over the policy repo rate reached a two-year high after the RBI's June cut, an outcome that should not…
BHP's Jansen potash project is becoming the mining industry's most expensive lesson in greenfield cost discipline. The company has flagged a $2.3 billion impairment and simultaneously disclosed that Stage 2 costs have risen from…
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invoked Section 69A of the IT Act on June 16 to impose a nationwide Telegram block through June 22, citing organised cheating rackets selling fake exam papers ahead of the…
New Zealand's total goods exports reached NZ$8.9 billion in May 2026, an 18% year-on-year increase and the second consecutive monthly record, with meat the single largest driver at NZ$1.5 billion, up 43%.
Charles Schwab is raising house maintenance requirements on portfolio margin accounts running paired long-short positions structured around tax-loss harvesting, warning clients that margin calls may arrive faster and with less…
Japan's corporate governance story is at risk of a policy-induced detour. The Tokyo Stock Exchange has spent two years pushing companies trading below book value to improve capital efficiency through buybacks, ROIC targets, and…
Elastic's acquisition of DeductiveAI, a CRV-backed startup that uses AI to detect, triage, and propose fixes for software bugs, is a small deal with a clear strategic read.
MSCI's May 2026 reassessment of Indonesia's market accessibility status is either complete or imminent, and the stakes are not symmetrical.
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