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Copy of Evidence Of Insider Trading In The Oil Markets; US Lawmakers Awakened Against Prediction Market Sports Betting; OpenAI’s “Guaranteed Returns”; And Zuckerberg’s CEO AI Agent
Markets are getting yanked around by everything at once. Stock and oil futures saw a strange burst of activity just minutes before Trump’s market-moving post , while lawmakers are now moving to ban sports prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket , putting the fast-growing sector on notice. At the same time, OpenAI is reportedly guaranteeing private-market investors a 17.5% minimum return to help win enterprise deals , and Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent
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M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Spices and seasonings giant McCormick offered to acquire Unilever 's food business for $33B, excluding debt MSN Poste Italiane is launching a $12.5B take-private offer for Telecom Italia GlobalMarket Saudi gaming and sports investor Savvy Games agreed to buy the Moonton studio from China's ByteDance for $6B Bloomberg Water treatment giant Ecolab agreed to buy data center cooling company CoolIT Systems from KKR in a $4.75B all-cash de
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Evidence Of Insider Trading In The Oil Markets; US Lawmakers Awakened Against Prediction Market Sports Betting; OpenAI’s “Guaranteed Returns”; And Zuckerberg’s CEO AI Agent
Markets are getting yanked around by everything at once. Stock and oil futures saw a strange burst of activity just minutes before Trump’s market-moving post , while lawmakers are now moving to ban sports prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket , putting the fast-growing sector on notice. At the same time, OpenAI is reportedly guaranteeing private-market investors a 17.5% minimum return to help win enterprise deals , and Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent
5 min read
Anthropic Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Data Theft, OpenAI Strikes Consulting Deals, IBM Shares Plunge, and £40m Aircraft Fraud Ends in Jail
The global AI race is escalating into open confrontation after U.S. startup Anthropic accused Chinese rivals of industrial-scale intellectual property theft , alleging millions of exchanges were used to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot . At the same time, OpenAI is deepening its enterprise push with multiyear partnerships with top consulting firms, aiming to embed AI agents into corporate workflows. Meanwhile, shares of IBM tumbled after Anthropic signaled it
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The Economics of Snowfall
A Deep Dive Into Who the Economic Winners and Losers are during Snowfall "The weather outside is frightful.” Frank Sinatra I was working from home on a random weekday when I took a break to look at the view from my apartment and let my mind wander. Whilst I watched people penguin walk and cars all but crawl, I settled on an interesting thought: who benefits and suffers the most financially when it snows? That question led me down an incredibly fascinating rabbit hole, t
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Your "Investment" Is Probably a Gamble. Here's How to Know for Sure.
The Differences between Dice, Deals & Dividends; "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” John Maynard Keynes I commonly get consulted for investment proposals, whereby people are asking of me where I believe is best for them to deploy their capital in order to get a financial return, and the first thing that I ask [after strongly indicating that I am not a financial advisor, and the entire conversation isn’t financial advice] what their time
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Copy of Evidence Of Insider Trading In The Oil Markets; US Lawmakers Awakened Against Prediction Market Sports Betting; OpenAI’s “Guaranteed Returns”; And Zuckerberg’s CEO AI Agent
Markets are getting yanked around by everything at once. Stock and oil futures saw a strange burst of activity just minutes before Trump’s market-moving post , while lawmakers are now moving to ban sports prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket , putting the fast-growing sector on notice. At the same time, OpenAI is reportedly guaranteeing private-market investors a 17.5% minimum return to help win enterprise deals , and Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent
5 min read
M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Spices and seasonings giant McCormick offered to acquire Unilever 's food business for $33B, excluding debt MSN Poste Italiane is launching a $12.5B take-private offer for Telecom Italia GlobalMarket Saudi gaming and sports investor Savvy Games agreed to buy the Moonton studio from China's ByteDance for $6B Bloomberg Water treatment giant Ecolab agreed to buy data center cooling company CoolIT Systems from KKR in a $4.75B all-cash de
1 min read
Evidence Of Insider Trading In The Oil Markets; US Lawmakers Awakened Against Prediction Market Sports Betting; OpenAI’s “Guaranteed Returns”; And Zuckerberg’s CEO AI Agent
Markets are getting yanked around by everything at once. Stock and oil futures saw a strange burst of activity just minutes before Trump’s market-moving post , while lawmakers are now moving to ban sports prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket , putting the fast-growing sector on notice. At the same time, OpenAI is reportedly guaranteeing private-market investors a 17.5% minimum return to help win enterprise deals , and Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent
5 min read
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