Defence

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Infrastructure Featured

Washington Is Finally Rebuilding the System That Keeps Planes Apart

Congress handed the FAA a $12.5 billion down payment to replace 1980s air traffic control infrastructure. The real trade isn't the radar — it's who captures a decade of recurring spend, and whether Congress funds the rest.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Bank Earnings Meet the Hormuz Premium — July 13–17, 2026

Q2 earnings season opens with the big banks, June CPI lands Tuesday, and renewed US–Iran hostilities have put a war premium back into oil. The 10 names positioned around this week's catalysts.

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Space Economy Featured

Who Builds a Mega-Constellation That Nobody Owns?

Eight NATO nations just agreed to wire their sovereign military satellites into one virtual mega-constellation. Nobody is buying new hardware — which is exactly why the money is in the seams.

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Defence Featured

America Doesn't Build the Submarines the World Is Buying

Canada just handed Germany's TKMS its largest-ever defense contract for up to 12 submarines. No US shipyard was in the running — and that absence is one of the most overlooked trades in global defense.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: NATO's Ankara Summit and the Fed's Paper Trail — July 6–10, 2026

A holiday-shortened week with an outsized signal load: NATO leaders convene in Ankara, the Fed releases its June minutes, and Q2 earnings quietly open. Ten names positioned for what actually moves.

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Geopolitics Featured

Why NATO Went to Ankara

NATO's first summit on Turkish soil in 22 years opens this week. The venue is the message: Turkey has become the alliance's low-cost arsenal — and the investable exposure isn't where most investors are looking.

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Defence Featured

The Pentagon Now Buys Drones Like Bullets

The Pentagon has reclassified small drones as ammunition — and is deliberately crushing their price. That inverts the economics of the fastest-growing corner of defense. Here's where the margin survives, and who captures it.

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Space Economy Featured

Did Rocket Lab Just Overpay for the Wrong Kind of Satellite?

Wall Street filed Rocket Lab's $8 billion Iridium buy under 'Starlink challenger' and moved on. That's the mistake. What Rocket Lab actually bought was a cash-flow engine, a sovereign GPS backup, and the starting gun on space-sector consolidation.

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Geopolitics Featured

Why the Pentagon Just Made Itself a Rare-Earth Shareholder

Everyone's watching the mine. The real China chokehold is on magnet processing — and Washington's equity-and-price-floor deal with MP Materials just created a sovereign put that re-rates the entire Western rare-earth supply chain.

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Defence Featured

Someone Is Jamming the Signal the Economy Runs On

GPS isn't just maps — it's the microsecond timing under the grid, the markets, and the phone network. Now it's being jammed at industrial scale, and a new resilient-PNT industry is racing to build the backup.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: The Great Rotation — AI Cools, Defense and Defensives Heat Up — June 30–July 3, 2026

Last week's tech rout was a rotation, not a retreat — capital fled AI mega-caps for industrials, defense, healthcare, and gold. Ten names to watch into a holiday-shortened jobs week with a hawkish Fed.

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Defence Featured

America's Nuclear Rebuild Is Massively Over Budget. That's the Bull Case.

The market reads Sentinel's 80% cost overrun as a warning. It's the opposite: proof of a $1.7 trillion rebuild Washington can't cancel. The sharpest trade isn't the primes — it's the sole-source supplier underneath them, and the bottleneck nobody's watching.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Cooling Oil, Micron's AI Verdict, and the PCE Test — June 22–26, 2026

Oil's collapse on Iran de-escalation has handed equities a tailwind heading into a light data week — but Thursday's PCE print, Micron's HBM verdict, and the Fed's bank stress-test results will decide whether the rally has legs. Here are the ten names we're watching.

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Markets Featured

Boeing Is Quietly Becoming a Cash Machine Again

After six years of crisis, the FAA cap is off, the backlog is a record $695 billion, and free cash flow has turned positive. The market is still pricing the trauma — not the turn.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Warsh's Debut and the Post-SpaceX Reset — June 15–19, 2026

Kevin Warsh's first FOMC press conference and the rotational aftershocks of the largest IPO in history collide in a holiday-shortened trading week. Here are the ten stocks investors should be watching — and why.

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Defence Featured

The Pentagon Just Made Anduril a Prime

The Army just handed Anduril a sole-source, $20 billion enterprise contract — and two months later the Series H closed at a $61 billion valuation. The Pentagon now has a sixth prime, and the legacy five just got structurally re-rated.

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Geopolitics Featured

The Internet Runs on 600 Cables. Almost Anyone Can Cut Them.

A handful of state-sponsored sabotage incidents have exposed the most under-protected piece of critical infrastructure in the world — and a small cluster of public companies now own the only fix.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: AI Capex Reckoning Meets Hot CPI — June 8–12, 2026

A blowout jobs print sent yields back to 4.54%, Alphabet's $85B AI raise spooked the hyperscaler complex, and a May CPI poised to print near 4% lands Wednesday. Here are the ten names we are watching this week.

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Defence Featured

Why the Pentagon Is Quietly Abandoning Its Defense Primes

Anduril just signed its biggest Pentagon contract yet. Boeing missed another KC-46 deadline. The $80 billion defense reshuffle isn't coming — it's already here.

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Geopolitics Featured

The War Beneath the Waves

Ninety-seven percent of intercontinental data — and roughly $10 trillion in daily financial transactions — runs through cables on the ocean floor. Russia, China, and the Houthis have all figured this out. Wall Street is about to.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: AI Earnings, Jobs Data, and the Hormuz Wildcard — June 1–5, 2026

The S&P 500 just posted its ninth consecutive weekly gain. This week, a gauntlet of AI earnings, a pivotal jobs report, and simmering geopolitical risk in the Persian Gulf will determine whether the rally has room to run.

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Geopolitics Featured

Inside the Quiet War Over the World's Undersea Cables

A handful of fragile pipes on the seabed carry 95% of intercontinental data — and $10 trillion in daily financial transactions. Russia, China, and Yemen's Houthis have figured this out. The fleet that fixes them hasn't.

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Markets Featured

10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: The Beijing Summit and the Inflation Test — May 11–15, 2026

The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, Tuesday's CPI print, and oil near $100 make this week a gauntlet for investors. Here are 10 stocks positioned across the crosscurrents.

Geopolitics Featured

The Iron Paradox: North Korea Is Arming Its Border — and South Korea Is Turning It Into a $24 Billion Export Empire

South Korea's defense industry is having its moment. And it's not a coincidence. On May 8, North Korea announced it will deploy new 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzers along the southern border before year's end — weapons capable of striking Seoul from 37 miles away.

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AI Featured

The $340 Billion Paradox: Inside Palantir's Flawless Execution — and the Enormous Bet the Market Is Making

Palantir just posted 85% revenue growth and raised guidance by $800 million. NATO is deploying its battlefield AI across 32 nations. The stock trades at 150 times earnings. Something has to give.