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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,......
Starcloud, a startup developing orbital computing infrastructure, has raised $170 million, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion as interest in space-based AI systems accelerates. The funding round, led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, highlights growing investor demand for off-planet data solutions to ease the strain on terrestrial energy......
SpaceX launched its Transporter-16 rideshare mission Monday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, sending 119 payloads to a sun-synchronous orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. One of the largest dedicated smallsat rideshare flights in SpaceX history, the mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East during a window that......
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called on U.S. President Donald Trump to halt the ongoing conflict in Iran, warning that oil prices could surpass $200 per barrel. Speaking at the Egypt Energy Show 2026 in Cairo, Sisi emphasized that only international leadership could prevent the war from escalating in the Gulf region. Highlighting......
Researchers at the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology have developed a new type of laser that manipulates sound particles rather than light, a breakthrough they say could eventually contribute to navigation systems immune to jamming. The findings, published March 30 in Nature Communications, describe the first......
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