With World Seemingly At War, DARPA Finds Time To Unveil The X-76 Before Operation Epic Fury began, corporate media published a few very concerning headlines: Fast forward to Monday afternoon: Operation Epic Fury against Iran has entered its 10th day. Jared Cohen, President of Global Affairs and Co-Head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, warned investors on the GS Weekend Macro Call that region...
With World Seemingly At War, DARPA Finds Time To Unveil The X-76 Before Operation Epic Fury began, corporate media published a few very concerning headlines: Fast forward to Monday afternoon: Operation Epic Fury against Iran has entered its 10th day. Jared Cohen, President of Global Affairs and Co-Head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, warned investors on the GS Weekend Macro Call that regional spillover risks worldwide were among his top concerns. Latest headlines in the Middle East: Iran Signals 'Fight To The End' Under New Ayatollah, As US Struggles To Define Israeli-Coordinated Endgame "Let Them Keep Playing Games": Iran Warns Of $200 Crude Oil G-7 Leaders Reject SPR Release Plan, But 'Stand Ready' After Initial Jawbone Efforts Fade The focus of this note is not the energy market or global spillover risks. Rather, it is the fact that DARPA found time to publish a press release about an experimental aircraft with a historic lineage of X-planes. DARPA said the new aircraft, called the X-76 and being built by Bell Textron, is designed to solve one of military aviation’s biggest trade-offs: combining airplane-like speed with helicopter-like runway independence. The program, run jointly with U.S. Special Operations Command, aims to produce an aircraft that can cruise above 400 knots, hover in austere environments, and operate from unprepared surfaces. DARPA said the X-76 has passed the Critical Design Review, and the program is moving into manufacturing, integration, assembly, and ground testing. "For too long, the runway has been both an enabler and a tether, granting speed but creating a critical vulnerability," said Cmdr. Ian Higgins, U.S. Navy, serving as the DARPA SPRINT program manager. "With SPRINT, we're not just building an X-plane; we're building options. We're working to deliver the option of surprise, the option of rapid reinforcement, and the option of life-saving speed, anywhere on the globe, without needing any runway." It seems like DARPA found a...
During the five-week trial, 11 women - including several who said they were minors at the time of the incidents - testified against the brothers, alleging they gave them gifts and flew them to locations and parties where they fed them drugs before assaulting them.
During the five-week trial, 11 women - including several who said they were minors at the time of the incidents - testified against the brothers, alleging they gave them gifts and flew them to locations and parties where they fed them drugs before assaulting them.
(RTTNews) - Franklin Street Properties Corp. (FSP) announced Loss for fourth quarter of -$7.32 million The company's earnings totaled -$7.32 million, or -$0.07 per share. This compares with -$8.53 million, or -$0.08 per share, last year. The company's revenue for the period fell 8.2% to $26.04 million from $28.38 million last year. Franklin Street Properties Corp. earnings at a glance (GAAP) : -Ea...
(RTTNews) - Franklin Street Properties Corp. (FSP) announced Loss for fourth quarter of -$7.32 million The company's earnings totaled -$7.32 million, or -$0.07 per share. This compares with -$8.53 million, or -$0.08 per share, last year. The company's revenue for the period fell 8.2% to $26.04 million from $28.38 million last year. Franklin Street Properties Corp. earnings at a glance (GAAP) : -Earnings: -$7.32 Mln. vs. -$8.53 Mln. last year. -EPS: -$0.07 vs. -$0.08 last year. -Revenue: $26.04 Mln vs. $28.38 Mln last year. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
William_Potter/iStock via Getty Images By Elior Manier The US dollar has been on a significant run since the beginning of the US-Iran-Israel war, quickly breaching its prior 2026 records. When the night falls, the wolves step out . Dollar bears have dominated the narrative since early 2025 and have kept insisting on a weaker dollar despite largely range-bound action since July. This bearishness ha...
William_Potter/iStock via Getty Images By Elior Manier The US dollar has been on a significant run since the beginning of the US-Iran-Israel war, quickly breaching its prior 2026 records. When the night falls, the wolves step out . Dollar bears have dominated the narrative since early 2025 and have kept insisting on a weaker dollar despite largely range-bound action since July. This bearishness had largely been covered throughout our previous dollar analyses and reached a peak after the recent Bank of America's Fund Manager survey . When the market is short and a catalyst for shortage lands, it leads to explosive moves, and that's precisely what happened with the USD. The US-Iran war sparked a swift need for dollars to protect against currency volatility, particularly to purchase oil at a much higher price. Hence, firms and institutions require dollar hedging to defend against a double-edged squeeze. The Petrodollar trade – Oil and Dollar correlation (bottom) and Relative Performance. Source: TradingView This added to the momentum throughout last week's Globex Open and this week's spike. In case you missed the historic moves, WTI and Brent oil prices have moved 25% on both sides throughout the overnight and morning sessions and are now settling closer to $95 as G7 nations expressed a desire to control the situation by releasing strategic reserves, as maritime traffic near the Strait of Hormuz slowly picks up again. WTI (US) Oil 1H Chart – March 9, 2026. Source: TradingView Note: Things just took an unexpected turn as I just posted this chart; oil gapped lower to $83. Remaining below $85 would bring back sellers in control, but tomorrow's close will be necessary; expect volatility to remain high before that. We will look at the Dollar Index, EUR/USD, and AUD/USD to assess the current state of the market and whether more upside is warranted for the dollar after its market-sweeping rises. Dollar Index 1H Chart Dollar Index 1H Chart, March 9, 2026 – Source: TradingView ...
Aluminum extended its retreat from a four-year high after US President Donald Trump signaled a possible end to the Iran war, which has disrupted supplies of the metal from the Middle East. Prices of the most widely used metal fell as much as 3.5% on the London Metal Exchange after Trump said the war with Iran would be resolved “very soon” as he confronted mounting economic and political pressures ...
Aluminum extended its retreat from a four-year high after US President Donald Trump signaled a possible end to the Iran war, which has disrupted supplies of the metal from the Middle East. Prices of the most widely used metal fell as much as 3.5% on the London Metal Exchange after Trump said the war with Iran would be resolved “very soon” as he confronted mounting economic and political pressures after days of dramatic fluctuations in oil markets. Aluminum prices had already slipped on Monday amid a broad selloff across financial markets after earlier touching $3,544 a ton, the highest since March 2022, on the escalating conflict. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut off Persian Gulf shipments of the metal, which account fro about 9% of global supply. The cash to three-month aluminum spread also eased to $22.47 a ton on Monday, from as high as $59 earlier in the session, pointing to less concern over supply tightness. Trump’s comments have eased concerns around Middle East supplies, said Jon Li, an analyst with Guangzhou Finance Holdings Futures Co. Prices are unlikely to fall much further though, and aluminum in Shanghai could find support around 24,000 yuan ($3,475) a ton on rising spring demand in China, he added. Aluminum fell 2% to $3,315 a ton on LME as of 9:38 a.m. in Shanghai time. Prices on Shanghai Futures Exchange were down 1.6% to 24,540 yuan a ton. Copper rose 0.5% to $13,024.
Electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation responded to a lawsuit Monday with its own counterclaims that rival Joby Aviation allegedly defrauded the U.S. government and its competitors by falsely presenting itself as an American-made company. The counterclaim, filed in federal court, alleges Joby relied on a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary to source critical components from Chinese suppliers wit...
Electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation responded to a lawsuit Monday with its own counterclaims that rival Joby Aviation allegedly defrauded the U.S. government and its competitors by falsely presenting itself as an American-made company. The counterclaim, filed in federal court, alleges Joby relied on a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary to source critical components from Chinese suppliers with Chinese government support. Archer further alleges that Joby tried to conceal its “deep ties” to China by fraudulently misclassifying thousands of pounds of Chinese-origin aircraft materials as consumer goods — labeling them as hair clips, socks, and photo albums — to evade U.S. tariffs and foreign-influence oversight. Joby was founded in 2009 in Santa Cruz, California, where it has maintained its corporate headquarters. The company also has facilities in several other U.S. cities and operates internationally in Germany, Austria, Costa Rica, and Shenzhen, China, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Alex Spiro, an attorney for Joby, said in an emailed statement that the company “doesn’t respond to nonsense.” “Archer’s constant legal issues and flailing business operations have left it no choice but to resort to invented nonsensical theories,” Spiro said. “We will see them in court.” The countersuit comes four months since Joby sued Archer over allegations of trade secret theft. In that lawsuit, filed in November in the Superior Court of California in Santa Cruz County, Joby alleges that former Joby employee George Kivork took trade secrets with him when he left to join Archer, which then used them. Both Joby and Archer, which is based in San Jose, California, went public in 2021 via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies. The competitors are pursuing similar, often overlapping markets. Both are developing electric air taxis as well as pursuing defense applications for their technology. Techcrunch event Disrupt 2026: The...