In the dim morning light, Tim Millard sat up in bed and checked his phone. “It’s 12:38 in the morning, and I just got an email about one of my job applications,” he said. He opened his inbox. “Ah! Rejected, yet again.” The audience murmured sympathetically, then erupted with laughter as Millard described the “three-step…
Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, Aug. 31, 2026. Stringer | Reuters Oil prices rose to a six-week high on Monday as the U.S. and Iran traded strikes over the weekend, ratcheting up tensions in the Middle East. Brent crude oil futures, the international oil benchmark, rose 1.3% to $97.52…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 2, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth Social on…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R), Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (L) and Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visit Qoornoq, an abandoned settlement on the island of Qaarusuup Nunaa, also called ‘Bear Island’, Greenland on September 6, 2026. Mads Claus Rasmussen | Afp | Getty Images European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen…
General view of Land Rover cars outside the Jaguar Land Rover factory on April 7, 2025 in Halewood, England. Richard Martin-roberts | Getty Images News | Getty Images Thousands of workers at Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will be offered voluntary redundancies as the luxury car manufacturer responds to intense competition from cheaper Chinese rivals,…
YICHANG, CHINA – AUGUST 03: A netizen displays Japanese yen and US dollars on August 3, 2026 in Yichang, Hubei Province of China. Japan and the US have confirmed that they jointly intervened last week to halt a slide in the yen after it weakened to a fresh 40-year low. (Photo by Liu Junfeng/VCG via…
TEHRAN, IRAN – AUGUST 2: A man looks at a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and bearing messages was displayed in front of the Zolfaghar and Zolghadr ballistic missiles exhibited at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on August 2, 2026. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images…
Treasury yields face a key test at 4.8%, with a sustained move above that level potentially creating “meaningful problems” for other asset classes, according to Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak + Co. “We remain concerned about the Treasury market…as rising fiscal deficits, massive debt issuance, and heavy corporate borrowing continue to pressure…
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft taken from Canadarm2’s video camera as Dragon approaches the International Space Station, Friday, May 25, 2012. In foreground is a portion of Canadarm2. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple the supply ship…
At a July protest against data centers in Lubbock, Texas, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller took the microphone to share his concerns about data center land grabs in his home state. But what he said could apply to what’s happening in dozens of states across the U.S. “When [data centers] first started popping up, nobody…
