Nvidia Aided DeepSeek AI Breakthrough With “Extensive Technical Support,” House China Chair Warns Congressman John Moolenaar (R-MI), chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, penned a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that Nvidia provided extensive technical support to DeepSeek, enabling the startup to achieve chatbot performance breakthroughs despite US export controls on […]
Trump And Senate Dems Strike Shutdown Deal Update (0950ET): President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats struck a deal to avert a prolonged shutdown for most of the federal government. The deal will fund all of the government except DHS until September. DHS, meanwhile, will receive funding for two weeks while lawmakers negotiate changes following public outrage over two shootings in
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“Ready For De-Escalation”: Zelensky Ready To Accept Energy Ceasefire If Putin Will Shortly after President Donald Trump said Thursday afternoon that Russia had agreed to pause strikes on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities for a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight that Ukraine is prepared to halt drone and missile attacks on Russia’s critical
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Saudi Arabia Presses Royal Families To Bankroll Faltering Megaprojects Via The Cradle Saudi Arabia has begun pressing the kingdom’s wealthiest families to inject more capital into domestic ventures as flagship Vision 2030 megaprojects are scaled back or shelved, Bloomberg reported this week. The report said the Public Investment Fund (PIF), alongside the Ministry of Investment and other
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“Doomsday Clock” Ticks Closer To Midnight The hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock now stand at 85 seconds to midnight – closer to global catastrophe than ever before. The Doomsday Clock, or the Nuclear War Clock, represents how close we are veering towards global disaster at the hands of humans. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports,
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Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call dated Jan. 29, 2026 Corporate Participants: Alex Kapper — Vice President of Investor Relations Joseph Creed — Director Andrew R. Bonfield — Chief Financial Officer Analysts: Mircea Dobre — Analyst Michael Feniger — Analyst David Raso — Analyst Tami Zakaria — Analyst Charles Albert Dillard — Analyst
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Germany’s PMI “Recovery” Is Built On Layoffs, Price Inflation, And State Expansion Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Economic indicators suggest a stabilization in Germany’s services sector. Yet the apparent improvement in the corresponding index follows massive staff reductions and efficiency measures undertaken by companies responding to a political structural crisis. In Berlin, the great tremor has
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Births Plummet In China As Population Growth Stalls The number of new babies born in China dropped to 7.9 million in 2025, the lowest number in more than seven decades. This marked a 17 percent decline from one year before, when it was 9.5 million. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the National Statistics
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Tensions Between Kiev & Budapest Ramp Up As Ambassadors Summoned Over Election Interference Claims Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Hungary and Ukraine have summoned each other’s ambassadors amid a sharp escalation in diplomatic tensions, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accusing Kyiv of attempting to interfere in Hungary’s upcoming
What’s Worrying Billionaires The Most In 2026? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights the factors most likely to negatively impact the global market environment over the next 12 months, based on responses from billionaires across regions. The data for this visualization comes from the UBS Billionaire Survey 2025. Trade and Geopolitics Dominate Concerns Tariffs
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