Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China The trip comes days after the UK approved controversial plans for a vast new Chinese embassy in London. In the interview with Bloomberg News, he said the visit to the world's second-largest economy could bring "significant opportunities" for British companies. Dozens of UK business leaders are expected to travel with him. Sir Keir said the UK ...
Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China The trip comes days after the UK approved controversial plans for a vast new Chinese embassy in London. In the interview with Bloomberg News, he said the visit to the world's second-largest economy could bring "significant opportunities" for British companies. Dozens of UK business leaders are expected to travel with him. Sir Keir said the UK would maintain "close ties" with the US on business, security and defence, but added that "sticking your head in the sand and ignoring China... wouldn't be sensible". Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he will not be forced to "choose between" relations with the US or China, ahead of the first visit of a British leader to Beijing in eight years. The long-delayed decision was made despite opponents warning it could be used as a base for Chinese spying. "I'm often invited to simply choose between countries. I don't do that," Sir Keir said in the interview. "I remember when I was doing the US trade deal, and everybody put to me that I'd have to make a choice between the US and Europe, and I said, 'I'm not making that choice.'" "We've got very close relations with the US – of course, we want to – and we will maintain that business, alongside security and defence," he said. "Equally, just sticking your head in the sand and ignoring China, when it's the second-biggest economy in the world and there are business opportunities wouldn't be sensible." Of the delegation travelling with him to China, Sir Keir added: "They understand the opportunities that there are... That does not mean compromising on national security – quite the opposite." The trip, which includes stops in Beijing and Shanghai, comes after a turbulent few weeks in relations between the US and its allies. In recent weeks, US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on allies for opposing his demand to take control of Greenland, and later provoked a backlash in the UK by saying Nato troops had stayed ...
SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images U.S. natural gas futures soared Monday, with the front-month contract surging to a three-year high, as winter storm Fern swept across the country, driving up heating demand and threatening supply. Nearly 10% of U.S. gas production was knocked offline by the storm, DNB Carnegie analysts said, as extreme cold disrupted operations in key producing regions. The U.S...
SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images U.S. natural gas futures soared Monday, with the front-month contract surging to a three-year high, as winter storm Fern swept across the country, driving up heating demand and threatening supply. Nearly 10% of U.S. gas production was knocked offline by the storm, DNB Carnegie analysts said, as extreme cold disrupted operations in key producing regions. The U.S. disruption carried over to global markets, as natural gas deliveries to U.S. liquefied natural gas export plants reportedly fell sharply over the weekend, raising concerns about supply overseas just as demand increases across parts of Europe and Asia due to cold weather. Storage levels across the European Union have fallen below 46% of capacity, well under the five-year average, but U.S. gas inventories entered the winter storm in a relatively strong position, with storage levels 4.8% higher than a year ago and 6.1% above the five-year average, according to the latest report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. "This suggests the market's strength should be relatively short-lived, assuming no prolonged disruptions once we get to the other side of this storm," ING commodity strategists said in a note. Monday's gains, backed by skyrocketing regional spot prices, widened the gap between the front month and later months, and "the gigantic backwardation in natural gas will come home to roost on Wednesday, when the February contract expires," Mizuho analyst Robert Yawger said in a note. "If the Arctic blast starts to fade and warmer temps start to creep into the forecast, beware of the stampede for the exits." Front-month Nymex natural gas ( NG1:COM ) for February closed +28.9% to $6.800/MMBtu, the highest settlement value since December 15, 2022, and the largest one-day percentage gain since January 27, 2022; the March contract finished +8% to $3.898/MMBtu. Oil futures ended slightly lower in rangebound trading Monday, as analysts said elevated geopolitical risk is...
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Moomoo's 28 million investors worldwide gained immediate access to Nasdaq's newly launched Monday and Wednesday weekly options today, as the investment platform rolled out the expanded expirations on day one. The move delivers trading flexibility, allowing users to align options strategies more precisely with market events and opportunities. As a gl...
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Moomoo's 28 million investors worldwide gained immediate access to Nasdaq's newly launched Monday and Wednesday weekly options today, as the investment platform rolled out the expanded expirations on day one. The move delivers trading flexibility, allowing users to align options strategies more precisely with market events and opportunities. As a global strategic partner of Nasdaq, Moomoo celebrated the introduction of these groundbreaking products by livestreaming an exclusive discussion for its global community, featuring Neil McDonald, CEO of Moomoo US, and Tanya Patwa, Head of U.S. Options Sales, Nasdaq. The conversation provided cutting-edge insights into these newly available options and the evolving options trading landscape. Moomoo celebrated the introduction of these groundbreaking products by livestreaming an exclusive discussion for its global community, featuring Neil McDonald, CEO of Moomoo US, and Tanya Patwa, Head of U.S. Options Sales, Nasdaq This launch follows recent SEC approval for Nasdaq to expand options expirations for a premier group of high-profile securities. The list extends beyond the so called "Magnificent Seven" stocks and includes nine major names: Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Meta Platforms (META), Broadcom (AVGO), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) — beyond the standard Friday expiry. This move offers traders more granularity and flexibility, aligning single-stock options closer to the daily expirations seen in major indices. Neil McDonald of Moomoo said, "We witnessed an explosion in options trading interest throughout 2025. Our data shows the number of options transactions surged 86% year-over-year. The introduction of Monday and Wednesday options is perfectly timed. Retail investors are savvy; when provided with proper training, access, and advanced toolkits, they are fully equipped to capitalize on market opport...
The largest US grid operator was granted authority to divert power destined for data centers to households, hospitals and other customers to prevent rolling blackouts as an extreme cold snap strains electricity supplies. An order signed by Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday authorized PJM Interconnection LLC to direct data centers, factories and other large facilities to switch on back-up gen...
The largest US grid operator was granted authority to divert power destined for data centers to households, hospitals and other customers to prevent rolling blackouts as an extreme cold snap strains electricity supplies. An order signed by Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday authorized PJM Interconnection LLC to direct data centers, factories and other large facilities to switch on back-up generators to reduce their burden on the grid and free up more electricity supplies. PJM, which serves more than 67 million people from Chicago to Virginia, sought federal approval to stave off the potential need to impose rolling blackouts. Wright also gave the same authorization to two units of Duke Energy Corp. Freezing weather is forecast to persist across much of the US into next week after a massive winter storm blanketed major cities in snow and ice. PJM previously called on all power generators to be ready to produce at maximum capability. Wholesale electricity prices for Tuesday morning jumped 241% across the PJM grid to more than $2,300 a megawatt-hour due to surging demand for household heating.
Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal! AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous. Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy. In fact, AI is already pushing global power grids to the brink. Wall Street is p...
Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal! AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous. Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy. In fact, AI is already pushing global power grids to the brink. Wall Street is pouring hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence—training smarter chatbots, automating industries, and building the digital future. But there’s one urgent question few are asking: Where will all of that energy come from? AI is the most electricity-hungry technology ever invented. Each data center powering large language models like ChatGPT consumes as much energy as a small city. And it’s about to get worse. Even Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, issued a stark warning: “The future of AI depends on an energy breakthrough.” Elon Musk was even more blunt: “AI will run out of electricity by next year.” As the world chases faster, smarter machines, a hidden crisis is emerging behind the scenes. Power grids are strained. Electricity prices are rising. Utilities are scrambling to expand capacity. And that’s where the real opportunity lies… One little-known company—almost entirely overlooked by most AI investors—could be the ultimate backdoor play. It’s not a chipmaker. It’s not a cloud platform. But it might be the most important AI stock in the US owns critical energy infrastructure assets positioned to feed the coming AI energy spike. As demand from AI data centers explodes, this company is gearing up to profit from the most valuable commodity in the digital age: electricity. The “Toll Booth” Operator of the AI Energy Boom It owns critical nuclear energy infrastructure assets , positioning it at the heart of America’s next-generation power strategy. , positioning it at the heart of America’s next-generation power strategy. It’s one of the only global companies capable ...
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triocean/iStock via Getty Images Investment Thesis Note: This is an update to my previous article. Over the past year since my last coverage, it has become clear that FitLife ( FTLF ) is a company with limited organic growth in a highly competitive, commoditized sector, where the company relies on acquisitions to avoid stagnation. Therefore, the investment thesis rests almost entirely on the capit...
triocean/iStock via Getty Images Investment Thesis Note: This is an update to my previous article. Over the past year since my last coverage, it has become clear that FitLife ( FTLF ) is a company with limited organic growth in a highly competitive, commoditized sector, where the company relies on acquisitions to avoid stagnation. Therefore, the investment thesis rests almost entirely on the capital allocation of a very competent CEO. For this reason, I have opted for a cautious Hold rating, as there is upside potential if execution is solid, but I consider better risk/reward opportunities may exist in other less demanding industries. Disappointing Organic Growth It's been over a year since my last article on FitLife in December 2024, and at that time my main concern was that organic growth alone wouldn't be enough for the company to grow. I believe this concern became evident during the first half of 2025 . To illustrate my point, sales decreased by 3.7% and 4.7%, respectively, during the first and second quarters of 2025 because the MusclePharm acquisition had already been fully digested. Looking at the growth of each brand this year, we can notice that Legacy FitLife brands showed modest growth in the first half but ultimately turned negative in the third quarter because Mimi's Rock (which has been a disaster this year) is now also counted as part of the legacy brands. Management has commented that Mimi's Rock has faced intense competition in the supplement sector and pressure on margins due to the discounts that must be offered to try to sell. On the other hand, MusclePharm had a huge sales surge , but this was driven by restocking from a wholesale customer (wholesale revenue increasing 112%), and online revenue decreased by 3% in the same period, so it appears to have been a one-off event. Growth by brand Q1 2025 Q2 2025 Q3 2025 Legacy FitLife +5% +5% -5% Mimi's Rock -11% -16% - MusclePharm -6% -4% 55% Click to enlarge This confirms that without M&A activity, t...
US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Bar...
US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump’s Republican Party. Trump said Tom Homan, his point man for border security, “will report directly to me”. Advertisement Homan’s new role appears to acknowledge the administration has run into political damage, with polls showing a majority of Americans disapprove of the often brutal crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Outcry after ICE killing of another US citizen Outcry after ICE killing of another US citizen In a marked change of tone, Trump said he held a “very good” talk with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat whom he has repeatedly accused of corruption.