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Bessent's Plan To Increase The Amount Spent On Buybacks Of U.S. Debt Didn't Reassure Investors. Stocks Dropped.

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Scott Bessent Ups The Ante With Accelerated Buybacks Of Treasury Bonds After Yields Rebound

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Bessent Doubles Down On Economic Pressure Against Iran, Says It Likely Means No 'Large-Scale Kinetic Restart'

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The U.S. National Debt Has More Than Doubled In Less Than A Decade, Hitting $40 Trillion For The First Time

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Bond Yields Rebound Quickly And Erase The Drop From The Treasury's Intervention In Just A Day

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AI Is Starting To Take A Toll On Jobs. Goldman Sachs Finds Entry-Level Workers Are Most Exposed.

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Walmart's Results Beat Expectations And Hiked Its Outlook For The Year. Its Stock Plunged Anyway.

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Trump Announces Increased Economic Pressure Against Iran. Oil Prices Jump.

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Trump Says U.S. Will Carry Out An 'Economic D-Day' Against Iran. Countries Dealing With Tehran Will Be Targeted Too.

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The U.S. Is Reportedly Carrying Stealth Missions To Carry Oil Through Hormuz. Millions Of Barrels Are Making It Through.

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AI's Next Big Problem Is Not Chips Or Power. It's Growing Opposition To Data Centers.

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The GOP Is Warning AI Companies Over Data Center Backlash. The Ohio Senate Race Could Be A Test.

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Bank Of England Faces Inflation Above 3%. Economists Predict No Rate Change In 2026.

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The Treasury Will More Than Double Its Government Debt Repurchases. Yields Are Sharply Lower.

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A Chinese Company Reached A Milestone Characteristic Of SpaceX. Shares Of Musk's Company Are Dropping.

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ECB Chief Warns U.S. Retreat Is Making It Harder To Compete, Says Europe's Post-War Economic Model Is 'Eroding'

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Iran Again Targeted The UAE With Missiles. Abu Dhabi Now Suspended Trade With Tehran.

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Ukraine's Zelenskyy Removed A Popular Defense Minister Last Month. He's Now Calling For Wartime Elections.

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Consumer Spending Declined In July. Goldman Sachs Expects It To Fall Further.

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Formerly China's Richest Man, A Disgraced Real Estate Mogul Is Now Headed To Prison For Life

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Refiner Stocks Have Soared More Than 80% In 2026. The Last 5 Times This Happened, They Fell Later.

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The S&P 500 Keeps Hitting Records. Bank Of America Warns Of Two Risks That Could End The Rally.

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Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine On Why AI Could Kill The Creator Economy

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Larry Sharpe On What Replaced The American Dream: "The Empire Is Falling"

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"Bitcoin Will Be Higher": The Editor Who Broke FTX Says We're Still In The First Inning

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The Job Market Is Stable But Workers Say It Feels Frozen: Report

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Washington Wants To Limit Chinese AI Models. One Of Them Helped Contain OpenAI's Cyber Incident.

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Americans Spend Nearly $2,000 a Year on Sports. Almost Half of Fans Have Taken on Debt

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The £100K Salary Trap: Why More High Earners Say They Still Feel Broke Despite Six-Figure Pay

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The Largest World Cup In History Just Ended. It Is Set To Drive Historic Revenue For FIFA

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SpaceX Stock Falls Back Below IPO Price As 319 Million More Shares Hit The Market

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SpaceX's Biggest Investors Revealed: 23 Firms Control More Than 80% of Its Reported Shares

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Anthropic Eyes Israeli Startup Reportedly Coveted By Nvidia, SpaceX. What Is Spurring The Suitors

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Alibaba Shares Sink as AI Spending Surges, Sending Down Its Profit

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Formerly China's Richest Man, a Disgraced Real Estate Mogul Is Now Headed To Prison For Life

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GTA VI Suffers Another Leak. Gameplay Clips Online Appear Ahead of Netflix Premiere.

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Vance Fundraiser Brings In $5 Million as Speculation About A 2028 Presidential Run Grows

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Rezerra CEO Jesse Williams Is Playing the Long Game in Battery Storage

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SK Hynix Shares Surge After Announcing a Massive $28.7 Billion Stock Buyback

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More Than 150 Polymarket Wallets May Have Traded On U.S. Military Secrets, Research Finds

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Scientists Build an AI 'Early-Warning System' That Could Spot the Next Pandemic Before It Strikes

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Bitcoin's Search For A Bottom Continues. Technical Signals Are Starting To Shift

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Bitcoin Jumps Above $71,000 As Trump Pushes Crypto Bill. Standard Chartered Sees $100,000 By Year-End.

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Skylark Labs Expands Self-Learning Defense Robotics Across the U.S. and GCC; Leveraging Hexadyne's Three Decades of Defense-Market Expertise

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How Field Service Businesses Can Stop Losing Money to Scheduling Chaos

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What an Elevated PSA Really Means, According to Urologist Dr. Jitesh Patel

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July 4th Sales Go Live Across Major U.S. Retailers. But Shoppers Are Spending Earlier As Deals Arrive Ahead Of The Holiday.

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OpenAI And Anthropic Built AI Around Tokens. Palantir's Karp Says 'Something Has Gone Completely Wrong' With The Model.

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Corporate Profits Are Soaring. At The Same Time, Workers Hit Their Lowest Share Of National Income Ever Recorded.

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SpaceX IPO Creates New Billionaires As Elon Musk's Stake Tops $1 Trillion

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Meta Is Facing a Landmark Over Social Media Addiction In Young Users. A Former Executive Pointed At Zuckerberg.

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Most Voters Don't Like Trump Family Profiting Off Crypto, Poll Shows

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Possible Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Late Stage Trial. Moderna Stock Skyrockets.

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Somali Pirates Have Returned To The Seas. A Turkish Vessel Was Seized This Week.

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Russia Is Facing Energy Shortages Again As Ukraine Pounds Its Infrastructure. Moscow Limits Gas Purchases Again.

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Iran Could Take The U.S. War To Europe If Washington Escalates, Report Claims

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Florida Primaries Deliver Big Upsets. Trump-Backed Candidates Gets Mixed Results.

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Trump Approval Drops To The Lowest Of His Presidency As Iran War And Gas Prices Weigh On Voters

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Trump's GOP Support Is Slipping As His Approval Among Republicans Hits a Second-Term Low

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Trump Media Is Selling Early Access To The President's Social Media Posts. He Is Now Getting Sued.

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Unitree Founder Says Humanoid Robots May Take a Decade To Jump To The Mainstream

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Retail Investors Aren't Done With AI. But They're Suddenly Hedging Their Bets.

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Korea's First Sovereign AI Appliance Ships: Domestic Chip, Domestic LLM, One Server

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