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Uber's $950 million Delivery Hero deal gives it 55% of Taiwan's delivery market, but antitrust review, integration risk, and a ready DoorDash make the outcome anything but certain.
SpaceX pre‑IPO perpetuals hit $3.2B in trading across eight venues in under a month. The premium gap between perp prices and the $135 IPO reveals risks from funding, index design, and exchange fragmentation.
Alpha Score flags mixed conviction on Infosys and HDFC Bank. Wipro shares also show weakness. Momentum drawdown risk rises ahead of Friday's expiry.
Trump told NY Post he will impose 100% tariffs on French wine unless France drops its 3% digital services tax. Threat comes ahead of G7 summit. French wine exports to the US total about $2B annually.
A year ago, Siemens Energy mapped a land route to Dammam as a backup. The Hormuz closure turned that map into the region's trade playbook overnight.
White House digital asset director Patrick Witt says negotiations continue daily with Democratic senators on three unresolved issues: agriculture, ethics, and banking. Polymarket puts passage odds at 51%.
Foxconn and Schneider Electric will co-develop integrated power and cooling solutions for AI data centers, targeting faster deployment. Production begins later this year. Traditional suppliers face a new bundled competitor.
Kingworld Medicines gets exclusive rights to two Lingnan hospital formulas for burns and brain health, covering Hong Kong, China and cross-border channels. The deal shifts the distributor toward product origination.
91% of executives across 18 countries say electrification improves energy security, with 79% citing instability as a catalyst. 72% say policy is lagging behind business demand.
India's Sensex and Nifty surged 1.5% as Brent crude collapsed 4.6% to $83.36 on a US-Iran peace deal reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Energy importers and aviation led gains.
Trump's threat to slap 100% tariffs on French wine unless Paris scraps its 3% digital tax sets up a G7 showdown and hits luxury goods, US tech stocks.
Noida International Airport received its first commercial flight Monday, an IndiGo arrival from Lucknow. The greenfield project aims to serve western UP and NCR, cutting travel time for passengers in the region's southern corridor.
Nifty 50 buy-and-hold delivered 6.7%-20.1% annualized over 10-year periods, beating profit-booking strategies by up to 5.4 percentage points a year, FundsIndia study shows.
Vedanta's oil and gas business began trading independently at Rs 39, the first of four demerged entities. Thin volumes and a mixed market set the stage for the spin-off.
AIS pulls in TDS, dividends, mutual funds, foreign remittances, and SFT data that Form 16 and Form 26AS miss. Download steps and password format included.
The death of Indian sailor Nishant Uirthanathan aboard MT Celestial highlights systemic failures in emergency medical response and body preservation on commercial vessels.
Satya Nadella warned on X that AI models absorbing corporate knowledge could hollow entire industries. The risk is structural for Microsoft, the company sells the tools that make it possible.
ESMA warns unlicensed crypto firms must halt EU service by July 1. France threatens jail. Hogan Lovells sees 75% of providers losing registration. Check if your exchange is on the MiCA list.
The pure-play steel stock begins trading after the long-awaited restructuring. The listing removes timeline uncertainty and may attract sector-focused funds. The steel cycle remains challenging.
Vedanta Aluminium listed at Rs 527 on the BSE after demerger. The ₹58,000 crore valuation sets a template for the group's remaining spin-offs, including Cairn India.
Vedanta Power shares opened at ₹42 on the NSE, completing the conglomerate's demerger. The stock trades at a discount to NTPC, with the solar pipeline as the key catalyst over the next 12-18 months.
India's Sensex jumped 1,300 points as an Iran-US peace deal reopened the Strait of Hormuz. Crude crashed to $84. India VIX fell 4%; rupee strengthened. Next catalyst: Fed policy decision.
The HCCO process worked in a full-size vessel at PX Energy. The next test will target continuous operation. Questerre aims to cut fuel costs at the Brazil facility.
Vedanta's demerged aluminium, oil and gas, power and steel units began trading Monday. The parent rose 1% to ₹313. Each unit now trades on its own fundamentals.
Brent crude fell 4.7% and WTI 5.2% after Trump's Iran deal reopened the Strait of Hormuz. The real supply impact may take weeks, traders said.
Bailey says shrinking the gilt portfolio preserves the BoE's ability to buy bonds in a future crisis, pushing back on criticism that the unwind tightens conditions unnecessarily.
Trump's World Liberty Financial paid $250,000 in USD1 to UFC fighters on the White House lawn. The UAE probe behind the stablecoin could reshape crypto regulation.
A new arXiv paper finds that battery storage operators using price-spread bids leave money on the table. A volatility-aware strategy can boost revenue by 15% in simulated CAISO data.
A new agent-based model links wealth concentration to environmental thresholds. The research offers a framework for investors assessing long-term systemic risk.
MIT and Santa Fe Institute researchers show hypothesis overlap, not compute limits, causes diminishing returns in science. The next breakthrough may require testing fewer, more independent ideas.