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Nasdaq’s 2026 Guide to Options: Calls, Puts and What Drives Premiums
A refreshed primer breaks down options payoffs, pricing and settlement mechanics — and shows why TSLA options can cost f...
Egypt Targets 2027 Service Start for West Nile Monorail
Egypt's transport minister has set 2027 as the target for the 43.8 km West Nile monorail linking 6th of October City to ...
Egypt's Sisi Orders Continued Care for Poorest Citizens, Reviews Cash Subsidy Plan
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met ministers in New Alamein to review food reserves, the Future Egypt silo complex and a...
Egypt Says Food Reserves Cover 6 Months as Cash Subsidy Study Advances
Egypt's supply ministry says strategic stocks cover about six months for most staples, and a cash-support overhaul is be...
Sisi Orders Push for Food Self-Sufficiency, Cash-Based Subsidy Reform
Egypt's president directed ministers to build longer strategic food reserves, expand cash-based support and tighten subs...
Ukraine Faces €650m Heating-Sector Funding Gap Ahead of Winter, PM Says
Kyiv needs roughly €650m more for energy before the heating season; the €2bn support fund is not enough, Ukraine's prime...
108 Kindergarten Assistants in Narva Lose Jobs as Estonian Language Rule Takes Effect
Estonia's requirement that kindergarten assistants speak Estonian at B2 level has led Narva to terminate 108 contracts; ...
Trump Calls Out Exxon and Chevron for 'Too Much' Profit as Iran Conflict Buoys Oil Prices
Trump accused ExxonMobil and Chevron of 'too much' profit and demanded lower retail fuel prices, as a report projects ne...
Why US Shoppers Are Turning to BNPL for Groceries — and What the Surge Signals
Federal data shows BNPL originations hit $157B in 2025, and grocery use doubled to 29% of users. The trend points to bot...
NASA Delivers Compact Navigation Payload for Intuitive Machines' Altus-1 Lunar Relay
NASA's shoebox-sized NavCube3-mini receiver will ride on Intuitive Machines' first lunar relay satellite, testing GPS-ba...
Expedition 75 Preps for Spacewalk as SpaceX Crew-13 Introduces Itself
The ISS crew is preparing for a Thursday spacewalk and researching how microgravity affects the body, while the four-mem...
A 320-Yuan 'Australian' Supplement Was Made for 35 Yuan: The Nuofeili Scam Explained
Police say a bestselling 'Australian' supplement was actually made in Guangzhou and sold through shell companies, genera...
RealAnalytica launches Atlas Agents, AI workforce for real estate brokerages
RealAnalytica's Atlas Agents platform brings AI agents to lead follow-up, marketing and transaction work for brokerages,...
Truck Sweeps Sideline 32 Drivers and 45 Vehicles Across Eight States
Multi-state inspections led to hundreds of violations and out-of-service orders for brake defects, CDL and medical-certi...
STG Logistics to Pay $2.2M to NJ Drayage Drivers as Bankruptcy Caps $80.9M Settlement
STG Logistics will pay New Jersey drayage drivers $2.2 million in a misclassification settlement — a small slice of the ...
Jim D'Amico Takes Part Ownership of Corcoran Premier Realty
Brands by Integra chairman Jim D'Amico buys into the Orlando-area luxury brokerage, bringing a 20-state housing services...
Atlantic Coast Mortgage Hires Beazer Homes Veteran Keith Cross as SVP of Builder Relations
Fairfax-based Atlantic Coast Mortgage hires a Beazer Homes veteran to lead builder partnerships, signaling a push into n...
U.S. Navy's $76.6B Submarine Deals Lock In Virginia and Columbia Build-Out
The Pentagon's $76.6 billion awards to General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls secure nine Virginia attack subs, five Co...
Yellow.ai to List Via SPAC, Then Buy the Call Centres It Wants to Automate
Yellow.ai is merging with SPAC Bluerock to list on Nasdaq at about $550M — and plans to spend the proceeds buying the ou...
Memory, not compute: Majestic Labs bets LPDDR6 pooling can crack Nvidia's AI wall
Tel Aviv startup Majestic Labs says AI inference is bottlenecked by memory, not GPUs — and its Arm-based Prometheus serv...
Horizon3 triples to $2bn valuation with $250m round as AI-hacking fears drive demand
Autonomous pentesting startup Horizon3 raised $250m at a $2bn valuation, betting the week's AI containment breaches will...
RV Theft Falls 20% in 2025, Yet Most Stolen Units Never Return, NICB Says
A new NICB report shows recreational vehicle thefts declining 20% while roughly two-thirds of stolen motorcycles, ATVs a...
Amazon's Zoox Cleared to Charge for Driverless Rides as US Safety Rules Catch Up
NHTSA has approved Amazon's Zoox to begin charging for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis, while still-pending f...
NHTSA Steps Up Probe of 135,000 Ford Cars Over Timing Belt Failures
NHTSA escalates its investigation into about 135,000 Ford cars with 1.0L engines after timing belt debris was linked to ...
InfraRed Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Intermodal Terminal Operator Rail Modal Group
InfraRed's value-added fund has acquired a majority stake in Albany-based Rail Modal Group, an inland intermodal termina...
InfraRed Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Intermodal Firm Rail Modal Group
London-based InfraRed Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Rail Modal Group, the New York operator of inland in...
Claims AI: Measure Better Decisions, Not Just Faster Activity
Claims leaders can count what AI does, but not whether it improves claim outcomes. Industry experts argue for scorecards...
Paraguay Wheat Exports Jump 71% to US$92.5 Million in 2026 First Half
Paraguay shipped 425,200 tonnes of wheat from January to June 2026, up 71.4% year on year, earning US$92.5 million in th...
Indian Cleaning Startup Pronto Turns Head-Camera Footage Into AI Training Data
Bangalore startup Pronto pays cleaners double to record shifts with head cameras, then sells anonymized footage to US AI...
Tether's USDT Holds Near $1 Peg as Supply Tops 183 Billion Tokens
Fresh market data shows Tether's USDT trading at $0.9987 with 183.4B tokens in circulation — a snapshot of the world's l...