Defence

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The Pentagon Lost the AWACS Fight in Congress. Now It's Winning It in Orbit.

Congress forced the radar planes back into the budget. The Space Force answered with $6.8 billion for satellites — and Rocket Lab just crossed the line from launch company to defense prime.

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Investing Featured

Archer Aviation (ACHR) Just Bought Boeing's Drone Empire for 20% of the Company. Here's What That Gets You.

Archer acquired Wisk Aero, Insitu, and SkyGrid from Boeing overnight -- paying with equity, not cash. The 19.75% dilution is the starting point, not the whole story. Here's the full math.

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Ondas Holdings (ONDS) Built a Counter-Drone Empire in Six Months. Earnings Land Wednesday.

Ondas closed an $875.8 million acquisition of DZYNE Technologies, hired the former Mossad director, and raised guidance 33% above Wall Street's estimate. Q2 results land Wednesday. Here is what the dilution and balance sheet actually look like.

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Geopolitics Featured

Who Defends Saudi Arabia Now?

An attack on one is now an attack on all: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan just built the first formal alternative to the American security umbrella in the Gulf. The repricing runs through arms flows, tanker rates, and the dollar.

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China's Newest Export Control Is Aimed at the Pentagon's Favorite Weapon

Beijing just curbed exports of drones and drone components to the US — weeks before the Xi–Trump summit, and a year into the Pentagon's plan to buy drones like ammunition. The parts layer is the leverage. It's also the trade.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: SpaceX's Trial by Fire and Jobs Friday — August 3–7, 2026

SpaceX faces its first earnings report as a public company two days before a $116 billion lockup expiry, Palantir and AMD headline the heaviest week of the season, and Friday's jobs number decides the Fed's September path.

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Renault's Next Model Is a Weapon

Europe's rearmament just hit its real constraint — factory capacity — and the fix is conscripting the dying car industry. Renault will build combat drones at Le Mans, VW may build Iron Dome parts at a plant slated for closure. The conversion trade, mapped.

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Every Country Suddenly Wants Its Own Iron Dome

Greece just bought a $4 billion Israeli sky shield, India tested its S-400 rival, and Washington agreed to license Patriot production to Ukraine — all in one week. Air defense is now the fastest-compounding franchise in the arms market, and the orders aren't going where you'd think.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: AI Capex on Trial and $100 Oil — July 27–31, 2026

Three central banks, four mega-cap earnings prints, and Brent above $100 — this week decides whether the AI trade stabilizes or the selloff deepens. Ten names positioned for what comes next.

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America Is Racing a November Deadline for the Metal Behind Every Bullet

China's ban on antimony, gallium, and germanium was lifted only until November 27, 2026. The race to reshore the metal behind every bullet is one of the year's most under-priced trades.

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Why the U.S. Navy Is Shopping for Warships in South Korea

The U.S. Navy just asked South Korean yards whether they can build its destroyers and oilers — the first crack in an 80-year ban on foreign-built warships. The stocks are pricing the order book; Congress is drafting the veto.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: The AI Unwind Meets an Earnings Gauntlet — July 20–24, 2026

Semiconductors just shed over $1 trillion on the Kimi K3 shock, oil is back near $90 on the US–Iran war, and Alphabet, Tesla, and Intel all report within 48 hours. The 10 names that matter this week.

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Why the Defense Supercycle Has a Congress Problem

The Pentagon's $1.5 trillion budget was always two documents stapled together. On July 15, the House put a price on the second one: 17 cents on the dollar. Here's what it means for every defense thesis written this year.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.