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The International Energy Agency is about to make history — and not the kind anyone was hoping for. On Wednesday, the IEA recommended the release of 400 million barrels from strategic petroleum reserves, the largest coordinated drawdown in the agency's 50-year existence. The previous record? A 182.7-million-barrel release in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. This one more than doubles it. The trigger is the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, which has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint between ...
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Remember when stablecoins were the weird cousin nobody wanted to talk about at Thanksgiving? Yeah, those days are officially over. The stablecoin market just hit an all-time high of $226.8 billion, and suddenly everyone from Bank of America to your neighborhood fintech startup wants a piece of the action. Let's break down what's actually happening here. In just over a year, the stablecoin market exploded from $132 billion in January 2024 to $226.8 billion today. That's not a gradual climb—that's a ...
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Here's a fun thought experiment that's less fun than it sounds: What if the government's big tax giveaway this year gets completely wiped out by gas prices? Not by inflation, not by bad luck, but by geopolitics and crude oil doing what crude oil does best—spiking at the worst possible time. That's the bear-case scenario Tavis McCourt, an equity strategist at Raymond James, is floating around. And honestly? It's worth paying attention to, even if it's not his baseline prediction. The setup ...
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So Iran's playing hardball near the Strait of Hormuz, and suddenly everyone's freaking out about oil. Fair enough—roughly 20% of the world's oil supply flows through that waterway. But here's the thing: if you're just buying random oil stocks hoping crude prices moon, you're basically gambling. Oil nearly tanked 30% in a single day last Monday. That's not investing; that's a coin flip with your retirement account. The real play? Stocks that make money whether oil's at $85 or $120. Boring? ...
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Tesla just hit a regulatory deadline that could reshape the future of self-driving cars in America — and based on the company's track record, it is entirely possible they missed it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave Tesla until March 9 to hand over data on 2.88 million vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving technology as part of a probe into traffic violations committed while the software was in use. Tesla had already secured two deadline extensions, pushing from the ...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise just proved that sometimes the best growth strategy is buying someone else's. The company reported fiscal Q1 earnings of 65 cents per share, crushing the Street's 59-cent estimate, while revenue came in at $9.3 billion — up 18% year-over-year. The stock rose in after-hours trading. But the real story is where that growth actually came from, and where it conspicuously did not. Nearly all of HPE's revenue growth was driven by its networking segment, which surged 152% to ...
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In the span of a single day, crude oil went from nearly $120 a barrel to around $81. That is not a typo. West Texas Intermediate shed roughly a third of its value in what might be the most violent two-day swing in oil market history — and the catalyst was a combination of presidential tweets, a deleted social media post, and a bunch of finance ministers scrambling to open their piggy banks. Here is what happened. Over the weekend, the ...
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The stock market is basically a never-ending game of musical chairs, and this week, the music stopped in some interesting places. Louis Navellier just dropped his weekly ratings update on 217 blue-chip stocks, and if you've got any of these in your portfolio, it's worth paying attention. Here's the deal: NVIDIA just got upgraded to "Very Strong" status. Yeah, the chip giant that's been carrying the AI hype train is now officially on the "buy more" list. Meanwhile, Eli Lilly—the pharma ...
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