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Inside India newsletter: Why Taiwan and South Korea's stock markets have surged past India within a week

The Indian equity market is losing favour with global investors, as its domestic consumption story weakens and the country lags in AI.

Business ticker: SpaceX sets issue price for IPO

SpaceX wants to raise around 75 billion dollars from its IPO +++ Deepseek apparently secures 6.4 billion euros in a financing round +++ Bayer faces a new hurdle in the glyphosate comparison +++ News in the company's live blog.

AI Bubble: How anticipation of a burst turns a rug pull into a tablecloth pull trick.

Long story short: We have seen many bursts/corrections in recent history. Buy the dip is the mantra. The dips will be bought so any market collapse will be extremely short-lived. Instead of experiencing a rug pull - the knee-jerk behavior is to DCA/buy the dip - we shall experience only tablecloth pulls where everything will remain on its place. submitted by /u/Markovvy [link] [comments]

Japan railroad stocks attract activist investors eyeing property holdings

Japan chemical company touts naphtha-light alternative for diapers, pads

Why we're raising our price target on Broadcom despite its post-earnings sell-off

Broadcom's AI business will continue to shine and outpace the conservative forecast.

Booking system considered to protect popular Hong Kong hiking trail from crowds

Authorities are considering a pilot booking system for one of Hong Kong’s most popular hiking routes and creating a new marine park at Sharp Island in Sai Kung, following bigger-than-expected crowds during mainland Chinese holidays. The proposals were outlined in a paper submitted to a Legislative Council ecology and tourism subcommittee ahead of a meeting on Monday. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said visitor numbers at the Po Pin Chau section of Sai Kung East Country...

Singapore’s Pritam Singh is facing cracks in his party. What does this say about the opposition?

Just over a year after consolidating its status as Singapore’s main opposition, the Workers’ Party (WP) is grappling with internal fissures as chief Pritam Singh’s role is being questioned by his own members. Singh, who has led the WP since 2018, is facing a special conference later this month called by 25 cadre members pushing for him to step down as secretary general for breaching the party constitution, according to local media. Sources say there is a generational divide in the party, with...

Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers

Amazon engineers called out their employer for conducting mass layoffs while it commits to spending $200 billion this year on AI infrastructure.

The Next Infrastructure Supercycle Could Be Worth $20 Trillion

Unprecedented heatwaves, violent storms, mega-cyclones, catastrophic floods, prolonged droughts and uncontrollable wildfires have all become commonplace, with extreme weather events increasing in both frequency and intensity thanks in large part to human-induced climate change. Global temperatures have continued to soar, with recent years continually ranking among the hottest on record. The consequences go far beyond the destruction of local ecosystems and damaging physical infrastructure, creat

+++ Iran War +++: Israel and Lebanon want to implement a ceasefire

Iran: Contacts with USA not broken off - but no progress ++ One dead and dozens injured after Iranian attack on Kuwait +++ Trump would “like to meet” Khamenei +++ The news blog.

Pressure on Trump is growing: US House of Representatives votes against war on Iran

The US House of Representatives wants to set limits on President Trump's use of troops against Iran. This is a dangerous sign for the US President.

Asia-Pacific markets set to open lower on renewed Middle East tensions

Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower amid renewed tensions between Iran and the U.S. and worries that the conflict may keep inflation elevated.

Israel and Lebanon agree to renew fragile ceasefire, create Hezbollah-free zones

Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to renew their fragile ceasefire and create a number of “pilot” security zones inside Lebanon from which Hezbollah militants would be banned. In a joint statement released after a fourth round of US-mediated talks at the State Department, the two sides said the ceasefire “is contingent on a complete cessation of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hezbollah operatives” from areas south of the Litani River. It was not immediately clear how the security...

Armament program: North Korea's ruler wants to radically expand its nuclear weapons stockpile

North Korean President Kim Jong Un wants to dramatically expand the country's nuclear forces. In doing so, he is continuing his course of nuclear armament - despite rigid UN sanctions.

After a long standstill: EU is preparing accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova

A veto from Hungary blocked long formal EU talks with Ukraine. Now the change of government is bringing movement into the process.

EU: Hungary paves the way for Ukraine to join EU accession talks

After an agreement with Kiev, Hungary signals support for EU accession talks with Ukraine. The EU states are now clearing the way for the next negotiations.

CrowdStrike’s stock falls as investors find more reason to pan cybersecurity earnings

Like Palo Alto Networks before it, CrowdStrike beats financial expectations but sees its stock get punished

It’s back – revived TEDxHongKong challenges assumptions and reframes beliefs

Hong Kong is an international economic powerhouse brimming with talent and capital, but how much of that has trickled down to local communities? This was the question that weighed on Daniella Lopez’s mind when she acquired the licence for TEDxHongKong – which had been inactive since 2017 – in late 2025. There have been more focused TEDx events in Hong Kong, such as TEDxTinHauWomen, that had specific themes. But TEDxHongKong is about building a broader platform that uses local expertise and...

Neighborhood dispute: Magyar: Hungary reaches agreement with Ukraine on minority issue

The new head of government in Budapest reports an agreement with Kiev on the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. This affects their EU ambitions.

Europe Scrambles to Contain the Energy Shock

The European Union and the Eurozone are feeling the energy shock as the Iran war enters its fourth month. The spike in oil and gas prices amid the Middle East crisis is raising inflation and moderating economic growth expectations in the EU and the Euro area, which are grappling with the second energy crisis in four years. Comparisons with the 2022 inflation and gas supply shock in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are flawed as circumstances are different and the likelihood of runaway

Elon Musk's net worth poised to sail past $1 trillion in SpaceX IPO

Based on SpaceX's updated IPO prospectus, Elon Musk owns shares in the company worth over $866 billion.

How do you think the SpaceX IPO will affect other space stocks (RKLB, ASTS, LUNR, etc.)?

Do you see these other stocks benefiting from the space-based bonanza? Or do they take a hit, as space-focused investors withdraw to reallocate their funds into SpaceX? Or is all already priced in, and the other space stocks will see neither a benefit nor a hindrance due to SpaceX's emergence? Very curious to hear everyone's opinion. submitted by /u/TomGerity [link] [comments]

Taiwan opposition leader promotes cross-strait peace during US trip

The need for Beijing and Washington to pursue “reconciliation and cooperation” and avoid war is the central message of her US trip, Taiwan’s main opposition leader Cheng Li-wun said in San Francisco. Cheng, leading a delegation from the Kuomintang (KMT), arrived in San Francisco on Monday evening, beginning a two-week US visit closely watched in Beijing, Taipei and Washington. In San Francisco’s Chinatown on Tuesday, Cheng said China and the US should forge “a relationship of friendship and...

Jim Cramer warns excess supply could be the next biggest threat to the bull market

CNBC's Jim Cramer warned that a growing wave of AI-related capital raises could overwhelm investor demand and create a near-term headwind for stocks.

+++ Ukraine War +++: Ukraine – EU states give the green light for the first phase of accession talks

Europeans are apparently working on negotiation plans for Ukraine +++ Russian Saratov refinery apparently out of operation +++ Kremlin: 754 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted +++ The news blog.

SpaceX IPO will pop the AI bubble

OBS: im making this post mostly because I genuinely want to hear other opinions, especially from people who understand markets, tech, or macroeconomics better than I do. Just to give some context I’m an aerospace engineer and I work with satellites, so I’m definitely not an Elon Musk or SpaceX hater. But I really think people should be careful over the next few months because the AI bubble is close to bursting, and I believe a SpaceX IPO could be the trigger. If you believe “this time is differe

Comment: Failed vote – Friedrich Merz has one more problem

The defeat in New York comes at a time when the Chancellor could have used a foreign policy success. He also played a part in the failure.

How single-stock turbulence presents ‘asymmetric’ downside risk for a rather calm S&P 500

A “dispersion trade” is being fueled by rising volatility for individual stocks while index volatility is falling — suggesting the risks of a selloff are rising

Nokia’s quantum-safe integration with QuStream that hasn’t been widely disclosed yet

Been digging into some quantum security stuff and came across what looks like a quiet collaboration between Nokia and a smaller player called QuStream. At Nokia’s Swiss Innovation Day this year, QuStream’s CEO Adrian Neal (who also leads post-quantum at Capgemini) presented their joint work. They’re running QuStream’s Quantum Safe Network (QQSN) on Nokia’s high-performance hardware, with firmware integration and upgrades planned. The tech stands out: it uses information-theoretic security with p