Goldman: Investors Brace For Crash As Desk Activity Is Indicative Of VIX At 35

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"Investors continue to take down risk in what feels like preparation for the index to finally reflect what single stocks have been saying for a while (i.e. “something’s got to give”)." - Goldman's Brian Garrett


Mexican Resort Towns Burn As Special Forces Kill Jalisco New Generation Cartel Boss "El Mencho"

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"... armored vehicles were seized, including rocket launchers capable of downing aircraft and destroying armored vehicles." 


Gold Outlook 2026: consolidation or capitulation?

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Renewables Now Make Up 1/4 Of US Electricity Generation

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...coal in electricity generation fell from a share of 49% to just 16.4% last year.


The Baltic States Plan To Form Their Own "Military Schengen"

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...creating a contiguous zone of free military movement between the Pyrenees and the approach to St. Petersburg.


Saudis Lead Arab Fury After Huckabee Floats 'Greater Israel' Vision

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Tucker Carlson interview provokes rare unified Arab world reaction...



Trump Declares War On Euro Censorship

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US unleashes anti-censorship arsenal for Brits and Europeans to circumvent government free speech curbs...


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APAC stocks were mixed amid trade uncertainty as the region digested the latest tariff developments after the US Supreme Court ruled against IEEPA tariffs on Friday, prompting President Trump to impose a global 10% flat-rate tariff, which he later raised to 15% over the weekend.

Trump 2.0's Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together

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This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place...


AWS Engineers Allowed An AI Tool to Act...Then The Cloud Unit Went Down

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One incident in mid-December led to a 13-hour interruption affecting a tool customers use to analyse AWS spending.


China Is Cracking Down On "Stock Market Influencers" As AI Surge Overheats Market

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The move reflects broader unease over market volatility...


Trump Admin Proposal Could Bring Drastic Changes To Asylum Process

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....aims to reduce the number of immigrants filing fraudulent asylum claims for work authorizations in order to better focus on security checks.


Full Analysis Of The Supreme Court IEEPA Decision: How It Impacts The Economy, Policy And Markets

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The Supreme Court decision to strike down IEEPA will have significant consequences to the US economy, public policy and markets. Here is how two of the largest US banks expect the decision to trickle down. 


Iran Floats Joint Oil Investment, Sanctions Rollback Wish-List Ahead Of Next US Talks

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Many Western analysts calling it totally unrealistic...


Waste Of The Day: The Story Of Robosquirrel

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...built to study the predator and prey relationship between squirrels and rattlesnakes.


"Immense" AI Narrative-Shift Leaves Goldman's Rates Traders Looking For Hedges

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The rates market is struggling to price the near term positive growth backdrop when the forward picture is so muddy...


Supreme Court Ruling On Tariffs Won't Change US–China Trade Relations, Analysts

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The ruling doesn’t change much for either the CCP or the U.S. government.


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How Long Can Emerging Markets Continue To Rally? For Morgan Stanley, This Is The Key Factor

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Persistently strong growth in the US means that if inflation does not start to show a downtrend in the next couple of months, those rate cuts will come into question, and with them, the outlook for the dollar.


Tesla Avoids California Suspension By Dropping 'Self-Driving' Claims

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Tesla had marketed its full self-driving feature as essentially an autonomous driving feature. But it still needed supervision.


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US President Trump said on Saturday that he will increase the global tariff that was announced on Friday from 10% to 15% with immediate effect.

Trump Warns Netflix About Democrat Ties During Bid To Buy Warner Bros

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The President called on Netflix to remove Obama-era national security adviser Susan Rice from their board or "face consequences"...