Economy & Finance

Spacecraft Builder That Beats Big Defense Primes On Cost And Speed: Here’s How To Profit Provided continued AI disruption, indiscriminate software stock selling, and credit market risks do not trigger a broader risk-off market event in the coming weeks or months, a June SpaceX IPO could become the bedrock for the grand reopening of the […]

Diageo Shares Plunge Most In Two Years On Weaker Guidance, Dividend Cut Shares of Diageo Plc fell the most in 2 years after the maker of Guinness beer and Johnnie Walker whiskey cut its guidance for the second time this fiscal year amid soft demand in the US and China markets. The move marks an

Market Bets Soar That Fed Will Cut Rates To 2% In 2027 Concerns about rising inflation, and the Fed hiking rates to contain it, have reversed rather dramatically.  As Bloomberg’s Edward Bolingbroke observes, after months of consensus trades that the Fed’s easing cycle will end in 2026, traders in US futures and options markets are

The AI Boom Is Powering A Nuclear Renaissance Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com, Hyperscale AI data centers require city-scale electricity loads, making dependable baseload power a strategic necessity. Microsoft and Amazon are forming direct nuclear partnerships and pursuing advanced reactor technologies to secure long-term energy supply. Energy infrastructure, particularly nuclear generation and uranium supply,

Trump’s Cuba Pressure Campaign Could Spark Cohiba Cigar Price Spikes Cuba is buckling under a severe economic crisis. Years of economic mismanagement, turbocharged by hyperinflation and population decline, have left the nearly seven-decade-old communist government weaker than at any point in years. Now, the Trump administration has promised maximum pressure, with President Trump openly vowing

Trump Admin To Launch New Free-Speech Site To Combat Censorship Abroad Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In response to what the Trump administration says is a rising tide of censorship in Europe, the State Department is launching a new app that will give users worldwide access to content that has

Report Details Russia’s Shadowy Digital Pipeline Concealing $90BN In Crude Exports Global sanctions meet the digital age in a recent interesting bit of FT analysis, which concluded that a single email server may have exposed what amounts to a $90 billion shadow pipeline for Russian crude. While Western media and officials would consider this an ‘illicit’ sprawling

Another Migrant Sex Offender Granted Asylum In Britain Despite Skipping Bail In Europe Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, An Afghan man accused of rape in Austria jumped bail and fled to Britain, where he was granted asylum and lived freely for over six years. It is the second such case to be exposed

Saudi Arabia Records Largest Budget Deficit Since 2020 Via The Cradle Saudi Arabia recorded its widest quarterly budget deficit in five years in the final three months of 2025, as lower crude oil prices weigh down the kingdom’s finances, Bloomberg is reporting. Data released by the Saudi Ministry of Finance  shows the government posted a deficit of

Russia Faces Five Geostrategic Challenges As The Special Operation Enters Its Fifth Year Authored by Andrew Korybko, As it’s always done, Russia is expected to ensure its sovereignty, security, and thus its survival through the creative interplay between its political, military, intelligence, diplomatic, expert, and civil society communities. Russia’s special operation against NATO-backed Ukraine just entered its fifth