Chinese tech giants Xiaomi and Alibaba Group Holding have launched spring recruitment drives amid fierce competition for the talent driving the global artificial intelligence boom. The campaigns come as the smartphone and e-commerce giants, respectively, look to increasingly position themselves as AI-first firms, amid growing commercial pressures in their traditional businesses. In a Weibo post on...
Chinese tech giants Xiaomi and Alibaba Group Holding have launched spring recruitment drives amid fierce competition for the talent driving the global artificial intelligence boom. The campaigns come as the smartphone and e-commerce giants, respectively, look to increasingly position themselves as AI-first firms, amid growing commercial pressures in their traditional businesses. In a Weibo post on Monday, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun said the company’s global recruitment campaign would target...
The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people For people living in close proximity to a war zone, the lack of sympathy for Australian and British expats and influencers in Dubai has been, on the face of it, curious. Since their adopted home was bombed in the initial days of the war, they have faced mostly ridicule a...
The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people For people living in close proximity to a war zone, the lack of sympathy for Australian and British expats and influencers in Dubai has been, on the face of it, curious. Since their adopted home was bombed in the initial days of the war, they have faced mostly ridicule and contempt in their home countries. Continue reading...
Spring has officially sprung, but your March favourites tell us you’ve still got one cosily socked foot in bed • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here March claims to be spring – and some of it even reckons it’s British summertime – but even the sunniest days are “summer in the sunshine, winter in the shade”. Judging by the products you loved most, you haven’t decided whether ...
Spring has officially sprung, but your March favourites tell us you’ve still got one cosily socked foot in bed • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here March claims to be spring – and some of it even reckons it’s British summertime – but even the sunniest days are “summer in the sunshine, winter in the shade”. Judging by the products you loved most, you haven’t decided whether to emerge from hibernation yet, either. Pillows and bed socks accounted for a quarter of all your favourite things this month, and your fashion must-have was a snuggly hoodie. But your enthusiasm for a glow-up eye cream and a legendary hot brush suggests you’re harbouring an itch to get out. Continue reading...
Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by mi...
Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and, now, be preserved in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...
China is developing a revolutionary air-breathing engine for next-generation fighter jets and hypersonic missiles. Designed to operate continuously from a stationary start-up to over Mach 6, the “contra-rotary ramjet engine” could replace the combined turbine-ramjet systems currently used in high-speed flight. After more than three decades of work, the engine prototype has been completed and exper...
China is developing a revolutionary air-breathing engine for next-generation fighter jets and hypersonic missiles. Designed to operate continuously from a stationary start-up to over Mach 6, the “contra-rotary ramjet engine” could replace the combined turbine-ramjet systems currently used in high-speed flight. After more than three decades of work, the engine prototype has been completed and experimentally verified, marking a potential step towards engineering applications. The next steps...
RgStudio/E+ via Getty Images Shares of VSE Corporation ( VSEC ) have seen quite a bit of volatility as of late. Starting the year at $170, shares rose to a high of around $230, but have come down to $170 again at this point. Meanwhile, investors had a lot of information to digest, including the release of the 2025 results, but moreover, a massive deal to complete its transformation into becoming a...
RgStudio/E+ via Getty Images Shares of VSE Corporation ( VSEC ) have seen quite a bit of volatility as of late. Starting the year at $170, shares rose to a high of around $230, but have come down to $170 again at this point. Meanwhile, investors had a lot of information to digest, including the release of the 2025 results, but moreover, a massive deal to complete its transformation into becoming a larger and pure play. This changed the investment thesis to a great degree, and frankly, it has improved a great deal after I urged a word of caution at $180 in the fall. However, there are many developments taking place here, which come with some question marks, making me anxious to learn about the developments taking place this year. Other, higher conviction ideas, including recent M&A action, can be found at Value In Corporate Events . A Big Deal Late in January, VSE announced a $2.025 billion cash and equity deal to acquire Precision Aviation Group, also known as PAG, a portfolio company of GenNx360 Capital Partners. PAG provides aviation MRO, distribution, and supply chain solutions for a broad range of commercial, business, aviation, and defense markets. With a workforce of over a thousand workers, the company serves some 10,000 customers with about 175,000 repairs each year. The company generates $615 million in revenues from such activities, revealing that a 3.3 times sales multiple has been paid. Beyond greater scale, a larger footprint, and the addition of attractive activities, VSE expects about $15 million in synergy opportunities from both revenue synergies and cost synergies. Deal terms call for a $1.75 billion cash payment as well as a $275 million equity component, with a contingent consideration of up to $125 million based on the 2026 EBITDA performance. The company furthermore announced that the deal is valued at 13.5 times EBITDA, which reveals a $150 million EBITDA contribution. This suggests that the business generates EBITDA margins around a quarter o...
The mission around the moon is an elaborate dress rehearsal to test systems and components, some built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, for future plans to establish a lunar base
The mission around the moon is an elaborate dress rehearsal to test systems and components, some built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, for future plans to establish a lunar base
Unfortunately for investors, the phrase "regime change" may become a nasty double entendre. In its classical geopolitical sense, it refers to the deliberate overthrow or fundamental alteration of a sovereign government's structure, typically through external pressure, military action or internal upheaval. In financial markets, however, "regime change" denotes a structural break in prevailing econo...
Unfortunately for investors, the phrase "regime change" may become a nasty double entendre. In its classical geopolitical sense, it refers to the deliberate overthrow or fundamental alteration of a sovereign government's structure, typically through external pressure, military action or internal upheaval. In financial markets, however, "regime change" denotes a structural break in prevailing economic conditions—resetting from one, typically range-bound baseline, to another. Examples include transitions from bull markets to bear markets, from disinflationary to inflationary environments, from falling rates/accommodative monetary policy to rising rates and a more restrictive one, or from chronic oil oversupply to sustained oil undersupply. In the worst case, many or all of these shifts might happen concurrently. As of late March, these two meanings have converged. Following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on February 28 that eliminated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other key Iranian officials, the explicit pursuit of regime change in Tehran has simultaneously set in motion a cascade of regime changes across global financial markets. What began as an apparently opportunistic geopolitical operation now risks precipitating precisely the market dislocations that prudent investors and policymakers had sought to avoid: a formal equity bear market, resurgent inflation, elevated interest rates and a prolonged disruption in oil supply that reverses years of structural oversupply. The immediate catalyst was Iran's retaliation. Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in modern history, effectively halting approximately 21% of global seaborne oil trade—the largest oil supply disruption in history. West Texas Intermediate crude surged from the mid-$50s in December — where it had languished amid record U.S. shale output and OPEC+ restraint — to the $100–$110 range. The Iranian attack on Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, about 50 miles northeast of Doha, which is the worl...
The post The Demand for Rare and Precious Metals is Rising. This Web App Gives Investors Direct, 24/7 Access to Gold, Uranium, and More. by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. Benzinga Money is a reader-supported publication. We may earn a commission from the advertisers associated with this article. Read our Advertiser Discloser ....
The post The Demand for Rare and Precious Metals is Rising. This Web App Gives Investors Direct, 24/7 Access to Gold, Uranium, and More. by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. Benzinga Money is a reader-supported publication. We may earn a commission from the advertisers associated with this article. Read our Advertiser Discloser . The demand for rare earth and precious metals has intensified, driven on one hand by industrial applications and on the other by investors seeking portfolio diversification amid economic uncertainty. The U.S. governmentʼs establishment of a U.S. critical mineral reserve has brought further attention to precious metals, which are essential to modern manufacturing and used in everything from smartphones to wind turbines and fighter jets. Existing options to invest directly in these metals — such as ETFs, managed funds, company stocks, etc. — often have limitations, including regional restrictions, strict trading hours, high entry barriers, and minimum purchase requirements. Investors are often provided only with indirect exposure and must depend on asset managers or specific platforms, exchanges, or brokerages to invest in each metal. Metals.io removes those traditional barriers to investing in metals, providing individual investors 24/7 global access to rare earth metals, critical metals, gold, uranium, and more. Sign up today. Why You Should Invest in Metals With Metals.io Metals.io offers multiple advantages designed to improve accessibility and portfolio management for metals investments. Tokenized metals Metals.io enables direct ownership of physical metals through blockchain-powered tokenization. Each token acts like a “warehouse receipt,” proving that you have ownership of physical assets stored on your behalf by a trusted provider, while removing many of the limitations of traditional commodity investments, such as high minimum purchase requirements, limited transpar...
10am: Nasdaq opens flat, Dow opens higher US stocks started higher, but have flattened off, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq now a handful of points in the red. The Dow Jones is up 0.4% at above 45,350, while the S&P 500 has added 0.2%. Among Nasdaq 100 stocks, fallers are being led by...
10am: Nasdaq opens flat, Dow opens higher US stocks started higher, but have flattened off, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq now a handful of points in the red. The Dow Jones is up 0.4% at above 45,350, while the S&P 500 has added 0.2%. Among Nasdaq 100 stocks, fallers are being led by...
Buy low and sell high. Investors are certainly familiar with this popular adage regarding the stock market. It seems so simple. And of course, who doesn't want to be able to successfully jump in and out of stocks? But this implies, at a high level, that you can properly time the market. While alluring, this is an extremely overrated activity. Here's why. Image source: Getty Images. Continue readin...
Buy low and sell high. Investors are certainly familiar with this popular adage regarding the stock market. It seems so simple. And of course, who doesn't want to be able to successfully jump in and out of stocks? But this implies, at a high level, that you can properly time the market. While alluring, this is an extremely overrated activity. Here's why. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) is a leading healthcare company that has been generating some incredible results in recent years. It has some excellent GLP-1 drugs in its portfolio -- Zepbound and Mounjaro -- which are in high demand from patients looking to lose weight and become healthier. The knock on the stock these days, however, is that it may have gotten too expensive, and that demand may also slow d...
Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) is a leading healthcare company that has been generating some incredible results in recent years. It has some excellent GLP-1 drugs in its portfolio -- Zepbound and Mounjaro -- which are in high demand from patients looking to lose weight and become healthier. The knock on the stock these days, however, is that it may have gotten too expensive, and that demand may also slow down in the future. As a result, shares of Eli Lilly haven't been all that hot of late. Instead, they've been in a bit of a tailspin. But investors shouldn't count out the healthcare stock , as its CEO believes there could be a catalyst in the near future. Continue reading
A big potential catalyst for any stock is always its quarterly earnings report, which can give investors a good indication of whether its business is on the right path or not. If a company posts better-than-expected numbers or provides encouraging guidance, it can give the stock a huge boost. On the flip side, however, if investors are underwhelmed with what they see, that can quickly lead to a se...
A big potential catalyst for any stock is always its quarterly earnings report, which can give investors a good indication of whether its business is on the right path or not. If a company posts better-than-expected numbers or provides encouraging guidance, it can give the stock a huge boost. On the flip side, however, if investors are underwhelmed with what they see, that can quickly lead to a sell-off. On April 22, AT&T (NYSE: T) will report its first-quarter earnings for 2026. This comes after the company posted some strong fourth-quarter numbers a few months ago. There will also be plenty of attention given that rival Verizon Communications also reported impressive subscriber growth in its quarterly report recently. This means for AT&T, expectations may be elevated for Q1 to see not only if it can build off strong Q4 numbers but also if it can keep up with Verizon. Should you invest in AT&T stock before it releases its upcoming earnings numbers? Continue reading
The artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has struggled this year, with the stock down over 11%. That's despite strong quarterly results and forward guidance above Wall Street consensus estimates. At a company conference earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects $1 trillion in sales of its current Blackwell platform and the soon-to-be-launched Vera Rubin platfor...
The artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has struggled this year, with the stock down over 11%. That's despite strong quarterly results and forward guidance above Wall Street consensus estimates. At a company conference earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects $1 trillion in sales of its current Blackwell platform and the soon-to-be-launched Vera Rubin platform between this year and 2027. Image source: Nvidia. Continue reading