Wednesday 01 - 09:45
Microsoft ended the first quarter of 2026 with its stock down roughly 25%, marking its steepest quarterly decline since the fourth quarter of 2008, when shares fell 27% during the global financial crisis. Although the stock rebounded on Tuesday, the final trading day of the quarter, the recovery did little to offset months of selling driven......
NASA's Perseverance rover has made two significant discoveries on the rim of Jezero Crater that together strengthen the case for ancient microbial life on Mars. Scientists have identified microscopic corundum crystals — the mineral that forms rubies and sapphires on Earth — alongside record concentrations of nickel in billion-year-old......
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced new safety measures at San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday, limiting certain landings and causing notable delays. The restrictions come amid a runway repaving project and a FAA decision to prohibit side-by-side approaches on the airport’s parallel east-west runways in clear......
Absenteeism among airport security personnel in the United States has declined significantly after workers received long-delayed pay, according to officials from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The improvement comes after weeks of disruption that affected airport operations across the country. The TSA, which oversees security......
Recent statements from the United States Department of Defense have sparked renewed uncertainty about Washington’s commitment to NATO’s principle of collective defense. During a press briefing, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested that reaffirming the country’s position on the alliance would ultimately depend on......
Financial markets are tightening rapidly as the ongoing conflict in Iran drives energy prices higher, giving central banks the option to delay immediate rate changes. In the United States, overall financial conditions have tightened sharply due to rising energy costs, higher borrowing and mortgage rates, wider credit spreads, and declining......
Sovereign bonds rallied sharply in the United States, Australia, and Japan on Sunday as investors pivoted away from inflation concerns toward fears that the Middle East conflict could drag the global economy into a prolonged slowdown, marking a notable reversal for a market that had faced heavy selling pressure for most of March. U.S. Treasuries,......
A pseudonymous trader known as "Cinibengales" has lost more than $650,000 after placing high-stakes bets on the decentralized prediction market Polymarket, wagering on the collapse of the Iranian government and the entry of U.S. forces into the country outcomes that failed to materialize as contract deadlines approached. On-chain......
A Mexican immigrant died while in U.S. immigration custody in Los Angeles on March 25, according to officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The case brings the total number of deaths in ICE detention facilities to at least 14 since the beginning of 2026. Authorities have not yet released full details regarding the circumstances......
Israel and the United States intensified their air campaign against Iran over the weekend, striking power plants, missile production sites, and nuclear facilities across Tehran and surrounding provinces as the conflict entered its second month. Iran retaliated with waves of drones and missiles targeting Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other......
Gold is on course for its steepest monthly decline since October 2008, falling roughly 15 percent in March as a surging U.S. dollar and rising Treasury yields stripped the metal of its traditional safe-haven appeal, even as a major war rages across the Middle East. The selloff has wiped more than $1 trillion in market capitalization from the......
European Union energy ministers will meet by videoconference on Tuesday, March 31, to coordinate a joint response to the oil and gas market disruptions triggered by the war in Iran, according to an internal EU briefing document cited by Reuters. The emergency session comes as European natural gas prices have surged more than 70 percent since......
The U.S. dollar climbed toward a 10-month high on Monday as the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran entered its fifth week with no clear path to resolution, buoyed by safe-haven capital flows and surging oil prices that rattled global markets throughout March. The dollar index traded around 100.2, after touching 100.54 in mid-March,......
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