General Dynamics Electric Boat, a subsidiary of General Dynamics ( GD ), received a $15.38B cost-plus contract modification to support execution of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program. The FY26 national sea-based deterrence fund totals $3.07B (95%), followed by the FY25 maritime industrial base at $74M (2%), RDT&E at $73.21M (2%), and FY26 RDT&E at $2.84M (<1%); these funds will...
General Dynamics Electric Boat, a subsidiary of General Dynamics ( GD ), received a $15.38B cost-plus contract modification to support execution of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program. The FY26 national sea-based deterrence fund totals $3.07B (95%), followed by the FY25 maritime industrial base at $74M (2%), RDT&E at $73.21M (2%), and FY26 RDT&E at $2.84M (<1%); these funds will be committed at award, with $3.14B expiring by the end of the current fiscal year. Work is expected to be completed by June 2035. Contracting handled by Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. More on General Dynamics General Dynamics: Inexpensive Defense Leader General Dynamics Looks Undervalued As Submarines And Business Jets Ramp General Dynamics Can Still Shoot Higher From Here War isn’t moving defense stocks the way you’d expect: WSJ U.S. strikes highlight staying power of jets, warships amid drone hype
Foreigners turned net sellers of Japanese stocks for the first time in 2026 last week amid growing worries that higher oil prices will hit the nation’s economy. Overseas investors net sold roughly ¥491 billion ($3.1 billion) of Japanese cash equities in the week ending March 13, the largest amount since September, according to data from Japan Exchange Group Inc. The selloff marks the end of a nine...
Foreigners turned net sellers of Japanese stocks for the first time in 2026 last week amid growing worries that higher oil prices will hit the nation’s economy. Overseas investors net sold roughly ¥491 billion ($3.1 billion) of Japanese cash equities in the week ending March 13, the largest amount since September, according to data from Japan Exchange Group Inc. The selloff marks the end of a nine-week buying streak that had been largely driven by optimism for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ’s fiscal expansionary policies. Concerns that climbing oil prices due to the Iran war will fuel inflation and weigh on corporate earnings have dimmed the shine of Japanese stocks. Japan relies on the Middle East for more than 90% of its oil imports and its industrial supply chain heavily depends on naphtha from the region. “Many investors think that Japan is one of the most negatively-affected countries by rising oil prices,” said Naoya Oshikubo , chief market economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp. “That’s why Japanese equities are underperforming.” The Nikkei had rallied 17% in the first two months of 2026 but has lost 9.3% since the Iran conflict broke out, compared with a 3.7% decline for the S&P 500. The Bank of Japan added the Middle East to its list of risk factors on Thursday as it announced it was standing pat on interest rates. Governor Kazuo Ueda said he expects rising oil prices to put upward pressure on prices in Japan. Read more: BOJ Says Will Raise Rates if Outlook Stays on Track After Hold Jitters ahead of Takaichi’s summit with Donald Trump, scheduled for Thursday in Washington, have amplified investor caution in recent days, Mitsubishi UFJ’s Oshikubo said. “Investors are wary of tough negotiations with Trump over his order to send ships to the Middle East,” he said. The Nikkei 225 closed down 3.4% in Tokyo on Thursday while the broader Topix fell 2.9%.
Chinese authorities have renewed their push for stricter oversight of the electric vehicle (EV) market, urging carmakers to move away from aggressive discounting and focus instead on technological innovation. The directive comes as domestic manufacturers struggle with cooling demand and the phasing out of long-standing government subsidies. At a high-level meeting on March 17, the Ministry of Indu...
Chinese authorities have renewed their push for stricter oversight of the electric vehicle (EV) market, urging carmakers to move away from aggressive discounting and focus instead on technological innovation. The directive comes as domestic manufacturers struggle with cooling demand and the phasing out of long-standing government subsidies. At a high-level meeting on March 17, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation, gathered 17 major carmakers to “further regulate the competition order”, in the latest attempt to stabilise a sector defined by a “sticky” and often destructive price war Advertisement Officials vowed to strengthen price monitoring and cost investigations, while urging companies to strictly honour their 60-day payment cycle commitment to suppliers According to a February 2026 progress report by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, a government-backed industry consortium, the 17 carmakers reduced average payment cycles to 54 days, with four settling in under 50 days. Carmakers have been urged to strictly honour their 60-day payment cycle commitment to suppliers. Photo: EPA The extended payment cycle has long been used to cut costs and stay competitive in China’s vast automobile market, but it has squeezed supply-chain profitability even as Beijing has sought to counter deflationary pressures.
If it wasn't clear a year or two ago, the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) thus far in 2026 means the world is going to change a lot over the next decade and beyond. Rapid innovation can make it difficult to pick winners. That said, some companies have already established early leads in the AI race. For the most part, winning AI stocks have fallen into two groups: companies that enab...
If it wasn't clear a year or two ago, the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) thus far in 2026 means the world is going to change a lot over the next decade and beyond. Rapid innovation can make it difficult to pick winners. That said, some companies have already established early leads in the AI race. For the most part, winning AI stocks have fallen into two groups: companies that enable AI, often from a hardware and software standpoint, and companies that benefit the most from AI. Here are three stocks, pulled from both groups. They already dominate their respective fields. Dislodging them will be quite difficult at this point, making them as close to buy-and-hold-forever stocks as you'll find in such a fast-moving AI space. 1. Still the most important AI hardware company Nvidia (NVDA 0.80%) immediately became the go-to AI chip company as the data center boom took off in early 2023. Market experts have pegged Nvidia's data center GPU accelerator market share at 97%, a remarkable stat. Its GPU chips are ideal for training AI models, and Nvidia's CUDA programming platform has locked in customers who have now built billions of dollars of AI infrastructure on it. Expand NASDAQ : NVDA Nvidia Today's Change ( -0.80 %) $ -1.46 Current Price $ 180.47 Key Data Points Market Cap $4.4T Day's Range $ 180.47 - $ 183.38 52wk Range $ 86.62 - $ 212.19 Volume 5.2M Avg Vol 176M Gross Margin 71.07 % Dividend Yield 0.02 % So far, other AI chip companies have struggled to make a meaningful dent in Nvidia's grip on the AI chip market. A shift in AI has begun, with computing moving from training workloads to inference. That may have opened the door for competition, but Nvidia is on top of it. It has begun full production of its first Vera Rubin chip platform, which excels at inference and looks like another growth catalyst. Nvidia's opportunities will gradually shift from data centers to localized applications, such as humanoid robotics and autonomous vehicles. That should on...
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL, XETRA:APC) and Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA, XETRA:NVD) both posted China wins this week. The trade war that was supposed to shut American companies out has, for now, given the strongest ones a competitive edge. Two pieces of news arrived within 48 hours that tell a more...
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL, XETRA:APC) and Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA, XETRA:NVD) both posted China wins this week. The trade war that was supposed to shut American companies out has, for now, given the strongest ones a competitive edge. Two pieces of news arrived within 48 hours that tell a more...
Key Points Nvidia is at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) data center world, and will likely stay there. Meta Platforms is benefiting from AI across the front and back ends of its business. Alphabet is hitting on every level of the AI space, making it a no-brainer for the future. 10 stocks we like better than Nvidia › If it wasn't clear a year or two ago, the rapid progress of artific...
Key Points Nvidia is at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) data center world, and will likely stay there. Meta Platforms is benefiting from AI across the front and back ends of its business. Alphabet is hitting on every level of the AI space, making it a no-brainer for the future. 10 stocks we like better than Nvidia › If it wasn't clear a year or two ago, the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) thus far in 2026 means the world is going to change a lot over the next decade and beyond. Rapid innovation can make it difficult to pick winners. That said, some companies have already established early leads in the AI race. For the most part, winning AI stocks have fallen into two groups: companies that enable AI, often from a hardware and software standpoint, and companies that benefit the most from AI. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » Here are three stocks, pulled from both groups. They already dominate their respective fields. Dislodging them will be quite difficult at this point, making them as close to buy-and-hold-forever stocks as you'll find in such a fast-moving AI space. 1. Still the most important AI hardware company Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) immediately became the go-to AI chip company as the data center boom took off in early 2023. Market experts have pegged Nvidia's data center GPU accelerator market share at 97%, a remarkable stat. Its GPU chips are ideal for training AI models, and Nvidia's CUDA programming platform has locked in customers who have now built billions of dollars of AI infrastructure on it. So far, other AI chip companies have struggled to make a meaningful dent in Nvidia's grip on the AI chip market. A shift in AI has begun, with computing moving from training workloads to inference. That may have opened the door for competition, but Nvidi...
Manchester United's fans won't have a chance to see JJ Gabriel in Premier League action at Old Trafford this season, so a good proportion of the 2,516 who saw him feature in the 3-2 FA Youth Cup win over Sunderland made sure they got their selfies. As he only celebrated his 15th birthday in October, Gabriel currently falls foul of the Premier League regulation that players must be 15 by 31 August ...
Manchester United's fans won't have a chance to see JJ Gabriel in Premier League action at Old Trafford this season, so a good proportion of the 2,516 who saw him feature in the 3-2 FA Youth Cup win over Sunderland made sure they got their selfies. As he only celebrated his 15th birthday in October, Gabriel currently falls foul of the Premier League regulation that players must be 15 by 31 August of the season in question to be allowed to play. In other words, they have to be in Year 11 at school. That is what makes Gabriel such a special talent. Despite being a Year 10 in school terms and, physically, much smaller than the vast majority of the players he is playing with and against, he still tends to stand out. The victory against Sunderland that earned United an Old Trafford semi-final with Crystal Palace, who they also meet in the Premier League Under-18 Cup final at Selhurst Park next month, wasn't his best performance. But he still produced a couple of magical moments. There was the first-time lay-off to Chido Obi in the first half that really should have led to United going in front. There was the perfectly weighted pass to Junior Brown that was smashed home superbly for the winner. More thrillingly, there was the dazzling two-footed manoeuvre that took him into a shooting position at the end of the game. That's why those fans were after their selfies at the end. It is why Gabriel's name was cheered the loudest when it was read out just before kick-off. Youth coaches are notoriously reluctant to single out individual players for assessment. They know only too well the pressure they can place on youngsters who have so much growing up and so much development ahead of them. But, just as with Arsenal's Max Dowman - the 16-year-old who last weekend became the Premier League's youngest ever scorer - for Gabriel there is no escaping attention. In August, he was in the directors' box with his family for the league opener against Arsenal. In December, he was pictured w...
"They should've got me in straight away, they should've seen me as soon as I turned up to hospital because I was classed as high risk, they should have listened to the midwives that were watching that CTG (cardiotocography) quite closely but everything got overruled [by the doctors]," she told the BBC.
"They should've got me in straight away, they should've seen me as soon as I turned up to hospital because I was classed as high risk, they should have listened to the midwives that were watching that CTG (cardiotocography) quite closely but everything got overruled [by the doctors]," she told the BBC.