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Oil tanker at sea as crude prices surge above $100 amid Houthi strikes

Houthi Strike on Saudi Tankers Triggers Dow Selloff as Brent Crude Closes Above $100

Houthi forces struck Saudi Aramco-affiliated tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, sending Brent crude above $100 a barrel and pulling the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 500 points as

July 24, 2026

by Dmitri Agafonov

American workers at a labor event with union signs

US Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 57-Year Low at 187,000, Defying Economic Headwinds

US initial jobless claims fell to 187,000 last week, the lowest figure since November 1969, sharply undercutting the consensus forecast of 215,000. The reading arrives despite oil near $100, a technology-sector selloff, and the weakest monthly payrolls gain the labor

July 24, 2026

by Dmitri Agafonov

Oil tankers anchored off Takoradi Ghana as Brent crude crosses $100 on Houthi Red Sea strikes

Brent Crude Tops $100 as Houthi Twin Tanker Strike Sets Saudi Ship Ablaze in Red Sea

Houthi forces struck two Saudi crude tankers in the Red Sea on Wednesday, setting one ablaze

Japanese yen currency exchange rate display as Bank of Japan signals faster rate hikes

Yen Rebounds From 40-Year Low as BOJ Eyes Faster Rate Hikes

The yen staged its sharpest intraday recovery in weeks on Wednesday after Bloomberg and Reuters both

TSMC's Fab 18 advanced chip plant in Tainan, Taiwan, where the company's most advanced processors are made

TSMC Grew 30 Percent in May. Taiwan’s Market Had One of Its Worst Days Anyway.

TSMC reported May revenue of NT$416.98 billion, up 30.1 percent from a year earlier and re-accelerating from April's scare. Taiwan's benchmark index fell 3.48 percent the same day. The world's most important

June 10, 2026

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BYD electric vehicle store with cars on display in Stuttgart, Germany

BYD’s Founder Promises the World in Five Years, From the Bottom of a 45% Share Slump

Wang Chuanfu told a thousand shareholders in Shenzhen that BYD will be the world's biggest automaker within five years. The room needed the reassurance: the stock has lost 45 percent from its

June 10, 2026

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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and OpenAI's Sam Altman meeting in Tokyo in February 2025, before the stalled margin loan talks

Banks Balk at Pricing OpenAI: SoftBank’s $6 Billion Margin Loan Stalls

SoftBank's attempt to borrow at least $6 billion against its OpenAI stake has stalled, Bloomberg reported, with creditors unsure how to value a private company that has missed some internal sales and

June 10, 2026

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Lenovo's research and development campus in Beijing, as the PC maker's shares fall on memory-driven price hikes

Lenovo Falls Nearly 10% as the Memory Crunch Comes for the Price of the PC

Lenovo shares slid nearly 10 percent in Hong Kong on reports of PC price increases driven by memory costs, the squeeze analysts call chipflation. The AI data centers eating the world's DRAM

June 10, 2026

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Rows of server racks in a data center, the kind of hardware behind Super Micro's 39 billion dollar AI order backlog

Super Micro Needs $7 Billion From Investors to Build the AI Servers It Already Sold

Super Micro announced $7 billion of equity and equity-linked offerings to buy components for roughly $39 billion in AI server orders from more than 20 customers. The stock fell more than 10

June 10, 2026

Business·Markets·News

Wall Street street sign with American flags, as prediction exchange Kalshi rolls out employment verification to fight insider trading

Kalshi Will Ask Traders Where They Work as Insider Betting Tests Prediction Markets

Kalshi will demand employment details from traders in markets it scores as insider-prone, and put whistleblower buttons on every contract, effective immediately. The exchange's own numbers, 100-plus blocked trades in a quarter,

June 10, 2026

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Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where futures slipped after US strikes on Iran revived oil's war premium

Oil’s Seven-Week Low Lasted One Evening as US Strikes on Iran Jolt Markets

Brent's seven-week low lasted one evening. US strikes on Iranian air defenses around Hormuz and Tehran's overnight retaliation put the war premium back into oil and pulled US futures lower. The de-escalation

June 10, 2026

Business·Markets·News

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Kennedy Space Center ahead of the company's record Nasdaq IPO

SpaceX IPO Draws More Than $250 Billion as Order Books Close on a Record Listing

Investors have stacked more than $250 billion against the $75 billion SpaceX is selling, Reuters reported, making the largest IPO in history nearly four times oversubscribed before Wednesday's cutoff. How much of

June 10, 2026

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MGM Resorts Springfield casino facade on Main Street Massachusetts

Barry Diller’s $18 Billion MGM Bid Puts a Quiet Rhode Island Financier in the Hot Seat

Barry Diller's People Inc. submitted an $18 billion non-binding bid for MGM Resorts on June 1, offering $48.30 a share for the roughly 74 percent it doesn't already own. By recusing himself

June 8, 2026

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on June 5 2026 as May jobs report fuels Fed rate hike bets

The Jobs Report That Broke Wall Street’s Bet and Handed Kevin Warsh an Impossible First Test

May nonfarm payrolls surged to 172,000 — more than double what Wall Street had penciled in — upending months of market positioning and forcing traders to price in a Federal Reserve rate

June 5, 2026

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Houthi Strike on Saudi Tankers Triggers Dow Selloff as Brent Crude Closes Above $100

US Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 57-Year Low at 187,000, Defying Economic Headwinds

Brent Crude Tops $100 as Houthi Twin Tanker Strike Sets Saudi Ship Ablaze in Red Sea

Yen Rebounds From 40-Year Low as BOJ Eyes Faster Rate Hikes

TSMC Grew 30 Percent in May. Taiwan’s Market Had One of Its Worst Days Anyway.

BYD’s Founder Promises the World in Five Years, From the Bottom of a 45% Share Slump

Banks Balk at Pricing OpenAI: SoftBank’s $6 Billion Margin Loan Stalls

Lenovo Falls Nearly 10% as the Memory Crunch Comes for the Price of the PC

Super Micro Needs $7 Billion From Investors to Build the AI Servers It Already Sold

Kalshi Will Ask Traders Where They Work as Insider Betting Tests Prediction Markets

Oil’s Seven-Week Low Lasted One Evening as US Strikes on Iran Jolt Markets

SpaceX IPO Draws More Than $250 Billion as Order Books Close on a Record Listing

Barry Diller’s $18 Billion MGM Bid Puts a Quiet Rhode Island Financier in the Hot Seat

The Jobs Report That Broke Wall Street’s Bet and Handed Kevin Warsh an Impossible First Test

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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