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The geopolitical conflict in the Middle East has disrupted global energy markets. As a result, oil prices have moved sharply higher. Some may have been hoping for information that would calm tensions when President Trump addressed the people of the United States at the start of April. However, little new information was provided, and oil prices rose the next day. Before you buy an energy stock today, or any day, you need to understand three basic facts about the sector. When you step back and look at the long-term picture, the current volatility in the energy sector isn't unusual. Oil and natural gas are commodities sensitive to supply and-demand dynamics. The balance is easily disrupted by factors such as geopolitical conflicts, natural disasters, and economic swings. Dramatic, often swift, price moves higher and lower are fairly common and should be seen as a normal aspect of the industry. Right now, news flow and emotions are the two key forces moving the energy sector. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading

Welcome back to Canada Daily, the newsletter on business, economics and politics from Vancouver to Montreal and beyond. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here . Canadian Jeremy Hansen is one of four astronauts on their way to being the nearest any human has gotten to the moon in more than 50 years. Bloomberg’s Loren Grush has turned out comprehensive coverage of the Artemis II mission, detailing its multibillion-dollar cost , historic nature and even its toilet troubles. Just before 2 p.m. Toronto time today, the crew surpassed the Apollo 13 distance record set in 1970 — meaning they’ve traveled farther from Earth than anyone else. About 45 minutes later, the Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule oriented its windows toward the moon, allowing the crew to begin photographing the far side of the lunar surface and features never before seen by humans. Early in the official flyby period, mission specialist Christina Koch said the crew marveled at seeing both the moon and Earth at the same time. “We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear,” Hansen said as the crew broke the record. “But we most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long lived.” Artemis II is set to make its closest approach to the moon around 7 p.m., reaching its farthest distance from Earth minutes later. Things have gone fairly smoothly so far, aside from issues with the toilet . The commode’s system for pumping wastewater into space wasn’t working well, precluding urination (although bowel movements were still permitted). After some wrangling, NASA gave crew members the “go” late on Saturday for “all types of uses of the toilet.” The space agency has long-term plans to set up a base on the moon where astronauts can live and work. Also in this newsletter: lower consumer confidence , higher trucking costs and a strong reception for robot umpires ....

At a press conference, the US president, Donald Trump, addressed his latest deadline for Tehran to reach a deal (8pm ET on Tuesday), adding: “The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.” Trump also threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by Iran on Friday in an effort to identify their source. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for specifics about the media company Trump was referring to. A White House official later said an investigation was under way. Middle East crisis live: Trump says Iran ‘can be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night’ Trump threatens to jail journalist to find source of second missing airman report Continue reading...

克利夫兰联邦储备银行行长贝丝·哈马克表示，如果通胀率持续高于美联储2%的目标，那么加息或许是适宜之举。 哈马克周一接受美联社采访表示，她更希望官员将利率维持“相当一段时间”不变。 她还设想了需要上调或下调利率的情境。 哈马克表示，如果劳动力市场显著恶化，“我可以预见我们需要降低利率的情境”。 “或者，如果通胀持续高于我们的目标，我也可以预见我们可能需要上调利率的情境，”她说道。 哈马克表示，克利夫兰联储的预估显示，4月通胀率可能达到3.5%。 哈马克表示，“如今通胀已经连续五年多高于我们的目标水平”，如果进一步上升，则表明通胀“正朝着错误的方向发展，偏离我们2%的目标。” 哈马克今年就货币政策拥有投票权，她在1月和3月支持了维持利率不变的决定。 责任编辑：丁文武

格隆汇4月7日｜随着伊朗战争推高了能源价格，而就业市场依然低迷，美联储哈玛克和古尔斯比均认为通胀比就业问题更为严重，暗示他们支持收紧而非放宽的货币政策。在一次采访中，两人被要求用颜色来评估经济形势，从“火烧眉毛”的红色到“一切顺利”的绿色。古尔斯比在谈到通胀前景时说道：“至少是橙色。情况不太乐观”。 “我原本乐观地认为我们会重回2%的通胀目标轨道，但哎呀，最近情况急转直下。”哈玛克也对通胀感到忧虑，她指出通胀已经连续五年高于目标水平，并且在过去两年里“基本处于横盘”的状态，“现在绝对是更鲜艳、更明亮的橙色。”而在就业方面，哈马克称她对前景持乐观态度，或许是黄绿色。古尔斯比则将劳动力市场评为“黄色”。

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伊朗伊斯兰共和国广播电视台援引联合军事指挥部发言人报道，伊朗对美国和以色列的军事行动不会受到特朗普威胁的影响。 发言人称，特朗普的威胁“源于陷入僵局”，并且是为了给“美军接连失败”做辩解。 责任编辑：丁文武

NicoElNino/iStock via Getty Images Why KWEB Is Underperforming KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF ( KWEB ) has dropped 20% so far this year, approaching the April 2025 low when fears of a trade war rattled global financial markets. It seems that investors are throwing in the towel on Chinese tech stocks, giving back entire gains over the past 12 months. KWEB tracks top internet and technology companies listed in Hong Kong. Many of these are large components in the Heng Sheng Technology Index (-15% YTD). Since the start of this year, we've seen a steep divergence compared to the Heng Sheng index and China's onshore A-share index. However, onshore Chinese ETFs are more resilient, even outperforming U.S. indices this year. For instance, both Xtrackers Hvst CSI 300 China A-Shs ETF ( ASHR ) and KraneShares Bosera MSCI China A 50 Connect Idx ETF ( KBA ) only fell 2% YTD. Why should we buy the "loser" KWEB? KraneShares To answer that question, we need to figure out the fundamental reasons behind the selloff. KWEB's top holdings are concentrated in certain business exposures, which embed idiosyncratic risks. That can deviate from the broader market index. The table you see above shows the top 10 names in KWEB, making up more than 50% of the total weight. The ETF is underperforming when these stocks are selling off. But why are these stocks falling out of favor? They are laggards because they are in the middle of business transitions. Some are shifting away from e-commerce and legacy advertising to AI, cloud computing, and quick commerce. The pivots will sharply decelerate near-term revenue growth, as traditional segments (slowing the most) still play big roles in the revenue mix. The transitions create higher costs and uncertainties. Additional headwinds come from higher CapEx to fund new business initiatives, causing sharp declines in earnings and FCF. I wouldn't be surprised to see negative YoY growth The recent earnings season further exacerbated bearish sentiment as wel...

Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) , a hydrogen fuel cell systems developer, closed Monday at $2.69, up 11.62%. The stock moved higher after Plug Power secured a 275-megawatt GenEco electrolyzer award for Hy2gen Canada’s Courant project. Investors are watching how this scale win shapes near-term order momentum and profitability expectations. Trading volume reached 98.5 million shares, coming in about 7% above its three-month average of 92 million shares. Plug Power IPO'd in 1999 but its lack of profitability has led to a 98% decline since going public. S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) added 0.43% to finish Monday at 6,611, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) rose 0.54% to close at 21,996. Within hydrogen fuel cell systems, industry peers Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) closed at $135 (-0.46%), while FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) ended at $6.67 (+1.06%) as investors monitored clean-power contract pipelines. Plug Power’s new electrolyzer project award announced late last week is one of the most significant electrolyzer awards Plug has received to date. It has heightened investor optimism for stronger order momentum and a feasible path to profitability. Continue reading

Target's digital business just hit an all-time high as a percentage of total merchandise sales, showing that the company can hold its own against Amazon and Walmart in an increasingly digital era.

Key PointsTarget's digital sales crossed 20% of its total annual merchandise in fiscal 2025.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images News Kevin Hassett, director of the White House's National Economic Council, expects U.S. production to surge due to fiscal policy fueling factory construction and AI increasing productivity, all of which should lower inflation, he said on Monday. He expects that inflationary pressures from the Iran war, which has led to soaring oil prices, should quickly abate once the conflict is resolved. Furthermore, the effect from war should be viewed as a one-off increase to prices, which the Federal Reserve typically “looks through” when setting monetary policy. Meanwhile, the infrastructure investment agreements secured by the Trump administration, combined with increased use of AI, are expected to kick in. " $18T of new spending, AI increasing productivity — it puts downward pressure on inflation, and that should take the pressure off the Fed," he said in an interview on CNBC. "They should be able to lower rates, and I expect that that’s what’s going to happen when my friend Kevin Warsh gets in there." The Senate plans to hold its confirmation hearings for Kevin Warsh as Fed chair on April 16, according to reporting by Politico. Warsh's confirmation, though, could be delayed by months as some senators object to the Justice Department's investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell's handling of the Fed's multibillion-dollar renovation project. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is on the Senate Banking Committee, has said he'll block a vote on any candidate for the Fed chair as long as the DOJ probe of Powell continues. Hassett calls the Iran war's impact on oil and inflation a "temporary disruption." He focuses on the expected increase in construction, noting that the NEC is tracking 100 groundbreakings due to deals the administration has reached. That has increased employment in the construction industry in the last few months, he said. Eventually, that will lead to increased employment in the factories and higher production. "A gain, you can’t ...

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Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service have a parcel delivery in plan in place that will see a 20% reduction in package volumes. FedEx and UPS stock both fell around 1% on Monday.

Rivals OpenAI , Anthropic PBC , and Alphabet Inc. ’s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results from cutting-edge US artificial intelligence models to gain an edge in the global AI race. The firms are sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum, an industry nonprofit that the three tech companies founded with Microsoft Corp. in 2023, to detect so-called adversarial distillation attempts that violate their terms of service, according to people familiar with the matter. The rare collaboration underscores the severity of a concern raised by US AI companies that some users, especially in China, are creating imitation versions of their products that could undercut them on price and siphon away customers while posing a national security risk. US officials have estimated that unauthorized distillation costs Silicon Valley labs billions of dollars in annual profit, according to a person familiar with the findings who described them on condition of anonymity. OpenAI confirmed it’s part of the information sharing effort on adversarial distillation through the Frontier Model Forum and pointed to a recent memo it sent to Congress on the practice, where it accused Chinese firm DeepSeek of trying to “free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs.” Google, Anthropic, and the Frontier Model Forum declined to comment. Distillation is a technique where an older “teacher” AI model is used to train a newer, “student,” model that replicates the capabilities of the earlier system — often at a much lower cost than producing an original model from scratch. Some forms of distillation are widely accepted and even encouraged by AI labs, such as when companies create smaller, more efficient versions of their own models, or allow outside developers to use distillation to build non-competitive technologies. Read More: OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Distilled US Models to Gain an Edge Yet distillation has been ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results from cutting-edge US artificial intelligence models to gain an edge in the global AI race. The firms are sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum, an industry nonprofit that the three tech companies founded with Microsoft Corp. in 2023, to detect so-called adversarial distillation attempts that violate their terms of servic

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Geospace Technologies ( GEOS ) announced on Monday that executive management has implemented an organizational change plan that will result in a 20% reduction in its global workforce, included a voluntary early retirement plan available to eligible qualifying employees. The company said management is evaluating opportunities to operate more efficiently by optimizing its cost structure. In connection with the workforce reduction, the company expects to incur $0.6M in termination costs in the second quarter and $0.7M in costs in the third quarter. According to the company’s SEC filing , the workforce reduction, along with cost-containment measures, is expected to produce about $10M in annual cash savings. More on Geospace Technologies Geospace Technologies Painful, But Necessary Transformation Geospace outlines growth plans for Intelligent Industrial segment with GeoVox acquisition while addressing $9.8M net loss Financial information for Geospace Technologies

Key PointsHe raised his price target on the company.

May WTI crude oil (CLK26 ) on Monday closed up +0.87 (+0.78%), and May RBOB gasoline (RBK26 ) closed up +0.0202 (+0.61%). Crude oil and gasoline prices settled higher on Monday, with crude posting a 4-week high. Crude prices rallied after President Trump signaled an escalation of the conflict in...

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格隆汇4月7日｜截至当天收盘，纽约商品交易所5月交货的轻质原油期货价格上涨87美分，收于每桶112.41美元，涨幅为0.78%；6月交货的伦敦布伦特原油期货价格上涨74美分，收于每桶109.77美元，涨幅为0.68%。

Amazon (AMZN.US) has reached an agreement with the United States Postal Service to retain 80% of its existing delivery operations. 富途牛牛

Quarterly revenue reached NT$2.13 trillion, slightly missing estimates, as AI server demand held firm despite Middle East tensions impacting shipping and energy markets.

The Strait of Hormuz saw an uptick in traffic over the weekend, as a looming U.S. deadline for Iran to reopen the key waterway kept markets on edge.

aapsky/iStock via Getty Images In an October 31, 2023, Seeking Alpha article on leveraging war risks with the Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X Shares (DFEN) product, I concluded with the following: As long as war risk remains high, defense spending will increase, supporting the leading defense contractors. DFEN leverages those war risks as the geopolitical landscape remains highly uncertain in late 2023. In late October 2023, the wounds of the October 7 attacks in Israel were still fresh, and the war between Russia and Ukraine had been raging for under two years. In April 2026, the U.S. and Israel are at war with Iran, with Iran retaliating against countries throughout the Middle East, making it a regional conflict. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine continue to battle after the war’s fourth anniversary. The case for defense contractor shares continues to improve. The Case For Defense Stocks Has Improved The following factors have increased defense spending since October 31, 2023: The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began on February 28, 2026, and continues in early April with a significant threat of escalation. The war between Russia and Ukraine continues with no end in sight. U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted that NATO members increase their military budgets to 5% of GDP. The U.S. administration has increased its military budget. U.S. relations with NATO partners have deteriorated, prompting them to increase their defense budgets. The bifurcation of the world’s nuclear powers continues to threaten world peace, increasing global military spending. These factors support higher spending and increased revenues and profits for the companies that produce offensive and defensive weaponry. The Top Holdings Of The DFEN ETF At $67.74 per share, the Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X ETF ( DFEN ) had $394.55 million in assets under management. DFEN trades an average of over 260,000 shares per day and charges a 0.96% management fee. The $5.70 dividend yields 8....