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30 recent storiesBrent 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.
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 decision on refined copper tariffs, as Bloomberg reported.
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, while a central review of the entire sector's capacity runs through…
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 toward self-improving systems while gambling with outcomes they cannot…
Fifty 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 the IRGC, according to…
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 . The point is that Nvidia isn't lending its own balance sheet.
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 States, according…
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.
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 Bloomberg.
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 effectively zone out data…
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 own disclosures.
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 moving through the…
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 milestone under the DOE…
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 bank has issued for…
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.
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 $4.9 billion to $6.9…
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 NEET-UG medical…
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 cross-shareholding…
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.
A 50-60% oil price spike was, it turns out, all India needed to tip its EV market into a new gear. The Financial Times reports since the Hormuz crisis began, with the surge concentrated among urban middle-class buyers and commercial fleet operators…
Kevin Warsh held rates at 3.5-3.75% yesterday and still managed to send two-year Treasury yields up 15 basis points, because the message was the meeting, not the decision.
BWX Technologies has agreed to license its small modular reactor design following sustained pressure from activist investor Ananym Capital Management, which argued that the IP from the shelved mPower programme was sitting idle on the balance sheet…
At the G7 in Evian, Trump admitted to a 'little dispute' with Netanyahu over Lebanon, which is diplomatic shorthand for a substantive disagreement that could unravel the wider regional settlement he is trying to lock in.
There is no 'turn off Gemini in Docs' button inside Google Docs. To disable it, you navigate to Gmail settings, find smart features, toggle off two separate options in a submenu called 'Manage Workspace smart feature settings', and accept that you…
Imperial College London reached number two globally in the QS 2026 rankings, which sounds like good news until you look at the research-specific Leiden table, where Zhejiang University is now ranked first in the world and seven or eight Chinese…
Serve Robotics has grown from roughly 100 to 2,000 autonomous sidewalk vehicles in twelve months, Starship and Coco each have fleets in the thousands, and the regulatory framework in most US cities still has not decided whether a cooler-sized robot…
Kardigan priced its IPO at $400 million, above the original $373 million target, becoming the fourth biotech in 2026 to raise at least that amount and pushing the median 2026 biotech IPO size to nearly $302 million, well above any of the previous…
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