"Teens plan to drink more Monster (23%), than Alani Nu (20%), Red Bull (18%), and Celsius (16%)." 

Diesel prices have soared above gasoline prices as long-standing production costs combine with global supply disruptions, shrinking inventories, and strong international demand...

• The US military developed new strike plans that include potentially using the so-called “mother of all bombs” to target Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites.
• APAC stocks slumped amid the global tech sell-off; European tech slumps, whilst NQ -1% underperforms.
• KOSPI was the worst performer and triggered circuit breakers after dropping as much as 8% owing to its large tech exposure.
• DXY pressured on lower yields & AI concerns; AUD underperforms post-jobs data.

"The European Commission is currently assessing the potential for concrete cooperation with Vietnam in the critical raw materials sector." 

In case they confuse foreign students...?

"Carbon pollution" from first world countries is forcing third world cultures to sell their daughters into bondage?  What was their scapegoat before climate change was a thing...?

...mixing "AI bad" with "Russia bad" with "disinformation bad" in a neat little agenda cocktail...

"Crude and petroleum-product flows exiting the Gulf of Oman dropped to 9.1 million barrels a day over the past couple of days. The weekly average slipped..." 

Russia still has time to propose Ukrainian-like security guarantees for averting another special operation...

• US President Trump said the Iran conflict will end soon; the US military reportedly developed new strike plans targeting Iranian energy and nuclear sites.
• APAC stocks slumped amid the global tech sell-off and hotter-than-expected US CPI; US and European equity futures declined.
• KOSPI was the worst performer and triggered circuit breakers after dropping as much as 8% owing to its large tech exposure.
• DXY softened alongside lower US yields; crude futures retreated, while gold rallied on haven demand.

Four years after the largest act of infrastructure sabotage in postwar Europe, Germany finally has a defendant. Just one.

China is racing to build the computing infrastructure needed to compete with America in artificial intelligence, but AI needs water - a lot of it...

"This is not the right side of history..."

"when AI goes higher, Fins often trade lower at a inverse correlation, and when the market gets worried on the AI capex buildout (and what the funding picture looks like from here), the fundamental connection between Financials & capital markets & AI gets reestablished."

Anthropic grew 33% a month through July. Back out the $16.8 billion quarter and August-September ran at around 6%...