Goldman Breaks Down Build America 250 Impact On Construction Stocks The Build America 250 bill is a proposed transportation infrastructure funding package covering federal projects between 2027 and 2031 and would succeed the Biden-era Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which expires in the coming months. Goldman analysts, led by Ben Rada Martin, stated that the Build America 250 bill has cleared House committee approval with […]

The IPO Boom: Where Will The Money Come From? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The media hype surrounding SpaceX’s upcoming mid-June initial public offering (IPO) is immense. The company recently filed its S-1 with the SEC, targeting a valuation of $1.75 trillion and a capital raise of up to $75 billion. Some believe its valuation could rise to $2 trillion after the IPO. In its wake, Anthropic (Claude) […]

Number Of US Home Sellers Hits Highest Level In 6 Years In May: Report Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, Homebuyers held more leverage over sellers in May, with sellers outpacing prospective buyers in 35 of the nation’s 50 most populous metropolitan markets, according to a June 9 report from real estate brokerage Redfin. The number of sellers reached its highest level since 2020. Home sellers outnumbered buyers by […]

Trump Says “US Will Be Attacking Iran Hard Again Today”, Oil Spikes Summary Trump says “Will be attacking Iran hard again today” Trump tells Fox he “may keep going” with strikes. Trump says Iran took too long to negotiate, and now “will have to pay the price”. Tehran claims prior night attacks in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as fulfilment of its previously vowed ‘retaliation’ – targeted the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, […]

Massive SpaceX IPO Demand Coming From Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds One week ago, SpaceX kicked off its institutional roadshow, headlined by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who hosted a nationwide “live interactive discussion” with private wealth clients. The latest signal of investor demand comes from the Gulf, where massive sovereign wealth funds are reportedly seeking allocations in the IPO ahead of its expected Friday debut, according […]

Taiwan Test Fires US Mobile Launchers Into Waters Directly Facing China For First Time China’s PLA military has long been known to intimidate and threaten the self-ruled island of Taiwan, mainly with large military exercises which sometime encircle it partially or completely, or else with a heavy naval boat presence in the Strait of Hormuz. Taiwan’s military often reacts by scrambling its own fighter jets to closely monitor the PLA […]

Peacefire By Michael Every of Rabobank Welcome to the ‘peacefire’. After Israel and Iran were pulled back from the brink of new war by Trump on Monday, Wednesday morning Asia time saw him then strike Iran, and it fire at US bases in the Gulf, in response to Tehran downing a US Apache helicopter. It appears the US hit radar and missile/drone facilities around and in the Strait of Hormuz while Iran didn’t hit anything due to […]

Oil Prices Extend Gains After Another Big Crude Draw, Cushing ‘Tank Bottoms’ Loom Oil prices are higher this morning on renewed fighting between the US and Iran (and Trump rhetoric), while API reported a major crude inventory draw (for an eighth week in a row). Additionally, in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook released on Tuesday, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported the closure of the Strait is depleting […]

From Token-maxxing To Token-panic: Citrini Warns AI Goldilocks Narrative Hitting A Wall When the world and their pet rabbit was buying the hype and extrapolating trends to infinity and beyond, we dared to highlight a few ‘economic’ realities of the new ‘tokenomics’. From Singularity To Tokenomics: The AI Narrative Just Hit A Serious Snag Was Amazon’s Tokenmaxxing Fiasco Behind Claude’s $500M Mystery Bill? From Singularity To […]

10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Ignore This Week’s Sharp Reversal And Selloff Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Today’s reversal and selloff may end up being just another volatile session in an ongoing bull market. But I think investors would be making a mistake if they dismissed it outright, because it might not be. Sharp reversals often reveal underlying stress that has been building beneath the surface long before it becomes obvious […]

Americans’ Real Wages Are Shrinking As CPI Tops 4% For First Time In 3 Years With expectations of a 4%-plus print, all eyes are on this morning’s CPI report as we move past April’s shutdown-related distortions. Headline CPI rose 0.5% MoM (as expected) in May, lifting prices 4.2% YoY (also as expected). The first 4%-plus print since April 2023… Core Goods prices deflated in May while Energy remains a notable contributor… […]

Amazon Freight Expansion Sparks Selloff Across Trucking Stocks Less-than-truckload freight stocks fell in premarket trading in New York after Amazon roiled the industry yet again – this time by announcing expanded LTL services to cover all U.S. destinations, including third-party warehouses, distribution centers, and retail partners. “Businesses now have the flexibility to ship by pallet, choosing LTL to share trailer space for […]

Ukraine Hits Over Half A Dozen Energy & Industrial Sites Deep Inside Russia Overnight Ukraine has hit Russia in another sweeping wave of overnight aerial attacks, especially targeting industrial facilities and energy infrastructure across multiple regions, and the extent of damage is yet to be disclosed. One of the key targets was reportedly the VNIIR-Progress plant, located in the republic of Chuvashia, which is alleged by […]

Graham Platner Wins Maine Senate Democratic Nomination, Locking In Face-Off With Collins Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, Democratic voters in Maine on Tuesday nominated oysterman and military veteran Graham Platner as their candidate to take on incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), locking in the nominees for one of the most critical Senate elections of the 2026 cycle. Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. […]

Futures Slide Amid Renewed Tech Selling, Geopolitical Chaos Ahead Of Key CPI Print Markets continue to trade with a risk-off bias this morning, with equity futures and macro credit weaker, rates selling across the curve, as the USD and oil sensitive currencies outperform. It’s set to be another ugly day for US tech stocks as US equity futures slide ahead of today’s CPI print which will see headline inflation rise above 4% for the […]

Belfast Burns After Sudanese Migrant’s Street-Beheading Attempt Sparks Local Revolt Against Globalists The unrest ripping through Belfast should be seen as a predictable social reaction from a local population that believes it has been ignored and overruled by a global managerial class of unhinged politicians who have spent more than a decade enforcing nation-killing mass migration policies without public consent. The attempted […]

These Are The Jobs With The Highest And Lowest Divorce Rates Actuaries have America’s lowest divorce rate at 14.2%. At the other extreme, several occupations report divorce rates near 48%, highlighting a striking divide across the U.S. workforce. Using American Community Survey data compiled by FlowingData, Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld created the following graphic ranking the occupations with the highest and lowest […]

Chinese Firm To Deploy 100 Humanoid Robots To Households For Daily Chores Authored by Kaif Shaikh via Interesting Engineering, A Chinese robotics company has begun placing its humanoid robots inside real homes, marking a significant step in the race to develop machines capable of performing everyday household tasks. Wuhan-based GigaAI recently deployed the first batch of 100 SeeLight S1 humanoid robots for household testing, […]

Marriage Benefits Men’s Life Expectancy More Than Women’s One data point has recently caused much astonishment, confusion and also anger online. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, it is the finding that men benefit more from being married in terms of life expectancy than women do. In other words, that men live longer and healthier lives if they are backed up by a spouse in doing so, while women don’t see the same […]

Health Team To Monitor Wastewater, Social Media At World Cup For Outbreak Detection Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Public health specialists have launched a dedicated surveillance operation to detect infectious disease threats early during the 2026 World Cup by analyzing wastewater samples and monitoring online chatter. The 39-day tournament begins on Thursday in Mexico. Organizers estimate more than 6.5 […]

EU Targets Head Of Russian Orthodox Church With Sanctions What is there left to sanction in Russia? Apparently the European Union still sees plenty of opportunity to punish Russia over the Ukraine war, and is set to go after even religious leaders, now in year five of the conflict and many sanctions packages later. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, is among many names to be targeted in the EU’s latest […]

Former MI6 Spy Alastair Crooke: Iran Takes Its Chances With War Authored by Alastair Crooke The US war with Iran has moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one — one in which Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the next phase being war. Most likely this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing nevertheless a potential to widen regionally, should the US (and Israel) elect to sharply escalate. […]

NATO Country Halts Arms To Ukraine Under New Eurosceptic Prime Minister In yet another example of Ukraine war fatigue among European allies, NATO member Bulgaria has newly announce it is halting weapons deliveries to Ukraine, signaling a major shift in the eastern European country’s longtime policy. The prior government proved itself early out of the gate as an enthusiastic arms backer of Kiev, but new Bulgarian Prime Minister […]

The Murder Of Henry Nowak & The Poverty Of The ‘Far-Right’ Explanation Authored by Patrick Keeney via The Epoch Times, The brutal murder of Henry Nowak should have focused public attention on the circumstances surrounding his death and the troubling questions it raises about justice, race, and social cohesion in contemporary Britain. Yet one need only read one widely publicized headline to know that another story is about to […]

US Seeking ‘Precise Info’ On Iran’s Enriched Uranium Via IAEA Board Via The Cradle Washington has turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors in order to determine the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium, according to reports by Reuters and other media outlets. Sources cited by Reuters – which obtained a draft of a resolution being pushed by the US – said that Iran is being called on to […]