ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 15.88 points or 0.03% to 53,429.56 • Shanghai increased 10.068 points or 0.26% to 3,890.165 • Hang Seng closed • ASX 200 increased 149.30 points or 1.74% to 8,728.80 • SENSEX increased 509.73 points or 0.69% to 74,616.58 • Nifty50 […]
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Consumer Credit Grows Less Than Expected On Subdued Credit Card Usage While the monthly jobs report has become a veritable economic random number generator, with every monthly print coming either well below or above the forecast stack, the weekly initial claims report has become its foil – a study in boring reporting, with numbers barely
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Shares of Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) were down 3% on Tuesday. The stock has dropped 19% in the past three months. The homebuilder continues to face challenges from a difficult housing market which in turn continue to impact its quarterly performance. The company has been following a consistent strategy to navigate these headwinds rather than
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Tehran-Aligned Militia In Iraq Frees American Journalist In Prisoner Swap An Iran-backed militia in Iraq has announced it will release an American freelance journalist kidnapped in Baghdad a week ago. Shelly Kittleson was abducted on March 31, and her captors in Kataib Hezbollah announced Tuesday that she can go free as long as she exits Iraq immediately. Abu
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Antares Earns DoE’s First Ever Microreactor Approval As Modi Heralds ‘Defining Step In India’s Nuclear Energy Journey’ Antares Nuclear reached the most significant regulatory milestone to date for a microreactor. The company announced that its Mark-0 reactor became the first advanced reactor to receive Department of Energy approval for a Documented Safety Analysis under the
Oil, Inflation, & Recession Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It’s not the price of oil per se that triggers recession, it’s the underlying vulnerabilities that have been cloaked with happy story narratives to keep the game going. Recessions don’t require a spike in the price of oil/gasoline, but spikes in energy prices
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In a market where most restaurant chains are struggling to balance growth with profitability, CAVA Group is attempting something tricky, scale fast without breaking the business. At first glance, CAVA looks like a classic growth story. A fast-casual brand riding the “healthy eating” wave, expanding aggressively, and winning over urban consumers. But when you dig
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Petrochemical Supply Shock Begins Idling Asian Factories For weeks, we mapped out for readers how the Gulf energy shock dominoes would fall, spreading outward from the Middle East and striking Asia first through tightened energy-product flows that risk destabilizing the global economy. That transmission of tightening energy flows is now becoming alarmingly visible on factory
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Tucker Carlson Urges U.S. Officials To Defy Trump On Iran Orders: “Say No, Absolutely Not” Tucker Carlson has publicly called on White House aides and Pentagon officials to refuse President Donald Trump’s orders if they involve mass attacks on Iranian civilians or the possible use of nuclear weapons, telling them to “say no, absolutely not”
Stellar 3Y Auction: 2nd Most Foreign Buyers On Record, Highest Stop Through Since Feb 2025 After several weeks of decidedly ugly auction which saw a notable drop in foreign demand amid what we reported a week ago was rampant selling of US debt by foreign central banks, moments ago the Treasury sold 3Y notes in
