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Middle East tensions spike oil prices, the UK transitions to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, and central banks navigate shifting inflation. Escalating US-Iran Conflict and Tightening Energy Markets The global economic landscape finds itself increasingly cornered by escalating military hostilities between the United States and Iran, creating severe disruptions that ripple far beyond the immediate Middle Eastern theater. With Washington executing consecutive nights of targeted airstrikes to avenge military casualties, retaliation has swiftly materialized across the region, highlighted by Iranian strikes against American assets in Kuwait and Bahrain. Most critically for global financial markets, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has…

Sometimes the most interesting regulatory changes are not the ones that create new rules. They are the ones that quietly remove existing ones. That is what happened on July 17, when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) eliminated the routine daily reporting requirements for large physical commodity swaps under Part 20 of its regulations. The Commission argued that the reporting regime, introduced in 2011 following the Dodd-Frank Act, had become redundant because swap data repositories now collect the same information through a more modern reporting framework. Clearing organizations, clearing members and swap dealers will no longer submit the daily and…

Why Is Trump Media Selling Faster Access to Truth Social Posts? Trump Media & Technology Group has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to posts on Truth Social, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which owns Truth Social, has also pitched a discounted plan of $60,000 a month for firms that sign up for a 3-year subscription, the people said. The discussions center on a paid licensed data feed called Truth API, which is designed to deliver posts from 10 influential Truth Social accounts faster than…

Crude oil prices continued rising on Hyperliquid as investors reacted to the ongoing escalation between the US and Iran. Brent jumped to $88.7, with its 24-hour volume soaring to $59 million. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US benchmark, rose to $83.62, with the volume rising to $111.2 million.Crude oil prices jump on US-Iran war escalationBrent and WTI prices continued their recovery this weekend as the US-Iran war escalated. The US launched the eighth round of attacks against key Iranian assets, with officials hinting that more attacks will be likely. According to Axios, the US has sent more air refueling planes…

Most Marvell Technology (MRVL) coverage frames the debate as a question about AI demand. The analyst distribution says the real disagreement is about something else entirely. At $188.68 as of July 17, 2026, MRVL carries a consensus target of $252.56 across 43 analysts — but the range behind that average runs from a low of $110 to a high of $385 (StockAnalysis). That is a spread implying anywhere from a 41.7% loss to a 104% gain on the same company, over the same horizon, using the same public information. A 250% gap between the most bearish and most bullish target…

As the second-quarter earnings season of 2026 approaches its most critical stretch, the global equity market finds itself at a pivotal crossroads.For over two years, a relentless, AI-driven bull run has propelled mega-cap technology valuations to historically elevated levels.However, the narrative on trading desks has undergone a fundamental shift. The era of rewarding companies simply for uttering the words “artificial intelligence” is officially over.As Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Apple prepare to open their books between July 22nd and July 30th, Wall Street is demanding concrete evidence of monetization.Investors are no longer grading on a curve; they want to see…

The comforting story about SpaceX stock is that Thursday’s aborted Starship launch was just an engineering hiccup and the dip is a buying opportunity. Both halves might be true, but the framing misses what actually changed: for the first time in SpaceX’s history, a routine test-flight abort — the kind that happened repeatedly before the IPO with zero financial consequence — is now a market event that erased billions in public-market value. SPCX trades near $125.40 as of July 17, 2026 (MarketBeat), below its $135 IPO price and down 18.5% since the June debut, after the company scrubbed its 13th…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said his X account was hacked and that a thread promoting real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, which circulated for days as apparent thought leadership, was written by an attacker and heavily AI-generated. The now-deleted posts argued that tokenization could make buildings, bonds and funds easier to divide, trade and settle, and referenced Robinhood’s push into tokenized assets. Posted on July 14, the thread drew more than 700,000 views and was covered across crypto media as Chesky’s own commentary before he reclaimed the account on July 17 and disowned it. “To the person who hacked my account earlier…

Bloom Energy stock is moving from bad to worse as it crashed to $206, its lowest level since April last year. BE has slumped by over 40% from its all-time high as concerns about its valuation and the data center industry remained. This retreat has seen its market capitalization fall from $98.7 billion to $58 billion.Bloom Energy stock has plunged as key concerns emergedBloom Energy is a top company that provides on-site power in various industries like retail and data centers. It counts companies like Nebius, CoreWeave, Walmart, Equinix, and Honda as clients.While Bloom has been in the industry for…

Bloom Energy stock is moving from bad to worse as it crashed to $206, its lowest level since April last year. BE has slumped by over 40% from its all-time high as concerns about its valuation and the data center industry remained. This retreat has seen its market capitalization fall from $98.7 billion to $58 billion.Bloom Energy stock has plunged as key concerns emergedBloom Energy is a top company that provides on-site power in various industries like retail and data centers. It counts companies like Nebius, CoreWeave, Walmart, Equinix, and Honda as clients.While Bloom has been in the industry for…