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Who Owns SpaceX: Four Holders, $229 Billion, and One Man’s 84.8% of the Votes
SpaceX's first quarterly report as a public company, together with a cluster of ownership filings lodged in the past week, provides the…
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Market Wrap US-Europe 14 August: Consumer Sentiment Falls to 51.0 as Longer Treasury Yields Rise
Wall Street ended the week lower in a narrow session, with all three major US indices closing down less than a third…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 13 August: Nasdaq Climbs 0.8 Percent as Core Producer Prices Rise and Europe Slips
Wall Street rallied on Thursday after headline producer prices came in flat, with the Nasdaq Composite climbing 0.81 percent, while European bourses…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 12 August: Nasdaq Climbs 0.5 Percent as US Inflation Eases to 3.4 Percent
Wall Street rose on Wednesday after a softer than expected inflation report, with the Nasdaq Composite up 0.54 percent at 26,588.49 and…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 11 August: Wall Street Slips Before CPI as Oil Climbs Past 89
Wall Street closed lower for a second straight session on Tuesday, the last before US inflation data, as a failed rebound in…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 10 August: Wall Street Stalls as Oil Jumps 5 Percent
Wall Street stalled on Monday as a 5 percent surge in oil revived the inflation question two days before US consumer price…
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Japan and US Run First Joint Yen Intervention in 28 Years and Signal More
Japan and the United States intervened jointly in the foreign exchange market to support the yen, the first yen-buying intervention by the…
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Market Wrap US-Europe 30 July: Microsoft Leads a 2.8 Percent Nasdaq Rebound
US stocks rebounded sharply on Thursday, led by Microsoft and a powerful recovery in semiconductor shares, recovering the ground lost after a…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 29 July: Dow Falls 2.2 Percent as Oil Jumps, Long Yields Rise
Wall Street sold off hard into the closing bell on Wednesday, and the damage arrived after the Federal Reserve had already finished…
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Fed Chairman Warsh Rejects Pause Label and Restates the 2 Percent Target
Kevin Warsh spoke for roughly ten minutes before taking questions on 29 July, in his second news conference as Chairman of the…
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Federal Reserve Holds Rates at 3.50 to 3.75 Percent With Three Hike Votes
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest-rate range unchanged at 3.50 to 3.75 percent on 29 July, extending the pause to a…
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United States Goods Trade Deficit Narrows to 101.5 Billion Dollars in June
Exports fell 1.8 percent and imports 2.6 percent in June, narrowing the goods gap to 101.5 billion dollars on a contraction in…
Read more →Markets Price One in Three Odds of a Fed Rate Rise This Week
The FOMC decides at 9:00 p.m. Kuwait time with the target range at 3.50 to 3.75 percent, and Citadel Securities calling for…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 28 July: Dow Rises 1.0 Percent as Semiconductors Sink
A global sell-off in semiconductors split Wall Street on Tuesday and handed the session to the market's traditional corners. The Dow Jones…
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Apple Overtakes Nvidia as the Most Valuable US Company After Nvidia Loses 250 Billion Dollars in a Session
Apple moved ahead of Nvidia as the most valuable US company on Monday, 27 July 2026, after a sharp divergence between the…
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Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a Cybersecurity AI Model, as the AI Race Intensifies in July 2026
Google has launched a new artificial-intelligence model focused on cybersecurity, called Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, describing it as a lightweight system built…
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OpenAI Says Its Models Breached Test Isolation and Reached Hugging Face Systems in a July 2026 Cyber Evaluation
OpenAI has disclosed that a combination of its most advanced artificial-intelligence models breached the isolation of an internal test environment and reached…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 21 July: A Memory-Chip Surge Powers Wall Street Higher as the Chip Index Jumps 5.2 Percent, Nvidia’s Lead Over Apple Widens to About 200 Billion Dollars and Europe Inches Up Before Earnings
Wall Street turned Monday's tentative chip recovery into a decisive risk-on session on Tuesday, and closed near the day's highs. The Nasdaq…
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US States Led by California Win a Court Order Halting the 110 Billion Dollar Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
A coalition of United States states led by California won a court order on Monday temporarily halting Paramount Skydance's roughly 110 billion…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe 20 July: Wall Street Fades Oil’s Round Trip to a Near-Flat Close as Nvidia’s Lead Over Apple Widens to About 120 Billion Dollars and the FTSE Gives Back Friday’s Gain
Wall Street spent Monday trading a war that briefly repriced and a diplomacy headline that repriced it back, and closed almost where…
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China Is Exporting About 20 Percent Fewer Rare-Earth Magnets to the United States Despite the Trade Truce
China is exporting about 20 percent fewer rare-earth magnets to the United States despite a trade truce between the two countries, according…
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TSMC Profit Jumps 77 Percent to a Record Even as a Chinese AI Model Helps Tip Chip Stocks Into a 20 Percent Bear Market
The two faces of the artificial-intelligence trade were on display within a single week. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported a 77.4 percent…
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Saudi PIF Nears EU Clearance for Its 55 Billion Dollar Electronic Arts Takeover
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and its partners are set to win European Union clearance for their 55 billion dollar acquisition of…
Read more →Market Wrap US-Europe-Asia 17 July: A Global Chip Rout Deepens With Taiwan Down 6.5 Percent and the Nasdaq Off 1.4 Percent as the VIX Jumps 12 Percent
The escalation week ended on its heaviest risk-off note. A global chip and technology selloff deepened on Friday: Taiwan's Taiex fell 6.47…
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- Asia Market Wrap 7 October: All Eight Indices Fall as Seoul Drops 1.98 Percent
- The Week Ahead: The Federal Reserve Decides on 29 July, US Growth and Inflation Data Land, and the Megacap Technology Earnings Peak
- Asia Market Wrap 8 October: All Ten Indices Fall as Singapore Drops 3.49 Percent
- Asia Market Wrap 6 October: Nikkei Posts First Close Above 70,000 Since July as Kospi Falls
- Europe Market Wrap 9 October: All Nine Indices Rise as Basic Resources Jump 2.99 Percent