angelp Three scientific papers used by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies to justify changes to the U.S. vaccination policy are facing fresh scrutiny, The Guardian reported on Thursday. The journals that published the papers have either removed or retracted them or initiated investigations into the studies over the past two months, according to the publication...
angelp Three scientific papers used by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies to justify changes to the U.S. vaccination policy are facing fresh scrutiny, The Guardian reported on Thursday. The journals that published the papers have either removed or retracted them or initiated investigations into the studies over the past two months, according to the publication. All three studies had a common narrative: vaccinated children are at a higher risk of facing health issues compared to unvaccinated children. RFK Jr. used two of the studies when he co-wrote the book Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak, which argued that unvaccinated children were healthier than vaccinated children. The CDC cited one of the studies when it acted against scientific consensus and revised its long-held view that vaccines do not cause autism in children. Aaron Siri, who has previously served as Kennedy’s lawyer, relied on all three studies when he called for changes to the U.S. childhood immunization schedule before a federal vaccine advisory committee in December. Toxicology Reports, which published a study in 2024 suggesting a link between vaccines and sudden infant death syndrome, has removed the paper after identifying “serious methodological flaws” following an investigation. Sage Open Medicine, which published another study in 2020 indicating that vaccinated children are more vulnerable to certain health issues, such as asthma, has attached an expression of concern to the paper on May 18 amid an ongoing investigation. The third study, which suggested a higher risk of autism in male children vaccinated for Hepatitis B during the first month of life, was retracted by the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health on May 21. The HHS was not immediately available for comments on the report. Dear readers, We recognize that politics often intersect with the financial news of the day, so we invite you to click here to join the separate political discussion. M...
Puget Sound Energy CEO Mary Kipp says that wildfires and Washington state's aggressive clean energy policies have led to higher costs to customers. Kipp spoke with Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall on the sidelines of the Edison Electric Institute 2026 Conference in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)
Puget Sound Energy CEO Mary Kipp says that wildfires and Washington state's aggressive clean energy policies have led to higher costs to customers. Kipp spoke with Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall on the sidelines of the Edison Electric Institute 2026 Conference in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)
Palantir Technologies (NasdaqGS:PLTR) highlighted new partnerships and AI deployments at its AIPCon 10 event. The company announced its first publicly disclosed commercial customer in Mexico through a deal with insurer GNP. Palantir introduced an enterprise AI solution with law firm Kirkland & Ellis for private equity use cases. The company also expanded its work with McCarthy Building Companies t...
Palantir Technologies (NasdaqGS:PLTR) highlighted new partnerships and AI deployments at its AIPCon 10 event. The company announced its first publicly disclosed commercial customer in Mexico through a deal with insurer GNP. Palantir introduced an enterprise AI solution with law firm Kirkland & Ellis for private equity use cases. The company also expanded its work with McCarthy Building Companies to apply AIP in large construction projects. Palantir focuses on data integration and AI...
US regulators have closed a key export loophole that had allowed NasdaqGS:AMD and Nvidia to ship advanced AI chips to Chinese customers via non Chinese subsidiaries. The change directly affects AMD's addressable international AI chip market and introduces new considerations for supply chains and compliance. AMD has updated its long term view of the CPU market, now estimating a total opportunity of...
US regulators have closed a key export loophole that had allowed NasdaqGS:AMD and Nvidia to ship advanced AI chips to Chinese customers via non Chinese subsidiaries. The change directly affects AMD's addressable international AI chip market and introduces new considerations for supply chains and compliance. AMD has updated its long term view of the CPU market, now estimating a total opportunity of more than US$120b by 2030, linked to rising agentic AI demand. AMD, traded as NasdaqGS:AMD, is...
Shares of Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO, XETRA:1YD) fell more than 14% on Thursday after the chipmaker's fiscal third-quarter AI revenue guidance and its reiteration of a full-year 2027 target fell short of investor expectations, overshadowing strong second-quarter results. Broadcom guided for AI...
Shares of Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO, XETRA:1YD) fell more than 14% on Thursday after the chipmaker's fiscal third-quarter AI revenue guidance and its reiteration of a full-year 2027 target fell short of investor expectations, overshadowing strong second-quarter results. Broadcom guided for AI...
Energy sector consolidation has accelerated through 2026 so far, with majors and large independents acquiring scale, inventory, and strategic infrastructure. With Henry Hub-linked LNG demand expanding—U.S. LNG export capacity is projected to reach 27.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by 2030—and marketed natural gas production averaging 120.2 Bcf/d in Q1, up 4% year over ... Consolidation Wave ...
Energy sector consolidation has accelerated through 2026 so far, with majors and large independents acquiring scale, inventory, and strategic infrastructure. With Henry Hub-linked LNG demand expanding—U.S. LNG export capacity is projected to reach 27.7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by 2030—and marketed natural gas production averaging 120.2 Bcf/d in Q1, up 4% year over ... Consolidation Wave Reshapes Energy Sector: 3 Stocks Vulnerable to Acquisition, Ranked
2026 is shaping up to be the biggest year for IPOs in stock market history. SpaceX is lined up to go public as soon as next week, targeting June 12 as its debut date. Anthropic just filed confidentially to go public, meaning that it could hit the markets in just a couple of months, and OpenAI is targeting an IPO by the end of the year. SpaceX is the only one of the three to have revealed its finan...
2026 is shaping up to be the biggest year for IPOs in stock market history. SpaceX is lined up to go public as soon as next week, targeting June 12 as its debut date. Anthropic just filed confidentially to go public, meaning that it could hit the markets in just a couple of months, and OpenAI is targeting an IPO by the end of the year. SpaceX is the only one of the three to have revealed its financial results in its S-1 prospectus, giving investors key insights into the company, but shortly after that, Anthropic announced a major funding round and declared its own intentions to go public. Continue reading
Standard Chartered Sees Bitcoin Bottom "Almost In" As Crypto Crashes To 3-Month-Lows Authored by Naga Avan-Nomayo via TheBlock.co, After a brutal week for bitcoin (down over 20% in the last 9 days), Standard Chartered said the worst may soon be over for the largest cryptocurrency and the broader digital asset market. The bank's Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoffrey Kendrick, said in a n...
Standard Chartered Sees Bitcoin Bottom "Almost In" As Crypto Crashes To 3-Month-Lows Authored by Naga Avan-Nomayo via TheBlock.co, After a brutal week for bitcoin (down over 20% in the last 9 days), Standard Chartered said the worst may soon be over for the largest cryptocurrency and the broader digital asset market. The bank's Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoffrey Kendrick, said in a note entitled "The Low Is Almost In" , the bitcoin market is close to a bottom, arguing that structurally resilient spot exchange-traded fund holdings and an anticipated large buyback by Strategy make a compelling case that the worst of the current sell-off is over. "This week has been painful in crypto. There is really no other way of putting it," Kendrick wrote in a client note on Thursday. "But I think when we look back at the end of 2026 with BTC at $100,000 and ETH at $4,000, we will say this was the buying zone we all wanted." Bitcoin was trading around $64,000 at the time of writing, down roughly 2% on the day (after bouncing back from deeper losses), 14% on the week, 22% over the past month, and more than 40% over the past year. Ether was flat on the day (also bouncing back from 6%-plus losses earlier, and 26% over the past month, trading around $1,780. What changed since February The note is a direct bookend to a February 12 call in which Kendrick warned of "pain and final capitulation" for digital assets, cutting his near-term bitcoin target to $50,000 and ether to $1,400. The Block reported on that note at the time. The key variable that has shifted, Kendrick argued, is the holdings of spot bitcoin ETFs. In February, he flagged ETF capitulation as a real downside risk . It has not materialized, in his view. ETF holdings went from 682,000 bitcoin to a peak, then settled back to around 674,000 - broadly flat over the period. "This tells me that ETF holdings are more structurally strong than I had feared in February," he wrote. The Strategy factor The proximate cause...
REalloys is securing heavy rare earth supply outside China as the Pentagon's 2027 sourcing deadline approaches, locking in processing capacity, feedstock, and metallization assets across North America and Greenland
REalloys is securing heavy rare earth supply outside China as the Pentagon's 2027 sourcing deadline approaches, locking in processing capacity, feedstock, and metallization assets across North America and Greenland
Russian teen reaches French Open final in 6-1, 6-3 win Kostyuk swerves pose with Andreeva in pre-match photo Marta Kostyuk believes her breakthrough run at the French Open and her determination to speak out about Russia’s war in Ukraine successfully served as a reminder, to people who may have forgotten, about the horrors unfolding in her home country as she suffered a heavy loss to highest ra...
Russian teen reaches French Open final in 6-1, 6-3 win Kostyuk swerves pose with Andreeva in pre-match photo Marta Kostyuk believes her breakthrough run at the French Open and her determination to speak out about Russia’s war in Ukraine successfully served as a reminder, to people who may have forgotten, about the horrors unfolding in her home country as she suffered a heavy loss to highest ranked Russian player, Mirra Andreeva, in the semi-finals. “Yeah, for sure,” Kostyuk said. “I will never forget the ovations I received after my match [against fellow Ukrainian Elina Svitolina] in the quarter-finals. This is something I will carry with me forever. I will never believe anyone who is at the world stage of this sport saying they have zero influence or anything, because I experienced this myself.” Continue reading...
US president alleges there is ‘big cheating’ in elections for governor and Los Angeles mayor as results are pending Donald Trump has alleged without evidence that Democrats are cheating in California ’s primaries and claimed in a late-night social media post that the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles was investigating. As counting continues in the most populous state in the US, the president’s u...
US president alleges there is ‘big cheating’ in elections for governor and Los Angeles mayor as results are pending Donald Trump has alleged without evidence that Democrats are cheating in California ’s primaries and claimed in a late-night social media post that the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles was investigating. As counting continues in the most populous state in the US, the president’s unfounded remarks are likely to further alarm election observers, who have warned of the risk of escalating misinformation in the absence of a final result. Continue reading...
Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images Pfizer ( PFE ) has signed an agreement with Chai Discovery to use that company's AI platform to discover new treatments. Financial details were not disclosed. Chai provides " generative AI software that can predict and reprogram the interactions between molecules, enabling scientists to design biomolecules with specific functional properties," per a news releas...
Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images Pfizer ( PFE ) has signed an agreement with Chai Discovery to use that company's AI platform to discover new treatments. Financial details were not disclosed. Chai provides " generative AI software that can predict and reprogram the interactions between molecules, enabling scientists to design biomolecules with specific functional properties," per a news release. Pfizer will have access to the Chai-3 model plus a custom model designed to work with Pfizer's proprietary data and workflows. More on Pfizer Pfizer Inc. (PFE) Presents at Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference 2026 Transcript Pfizer: Reduced TrumpRx/Patent Risks Meet Accretive M&A Efforts - Reiterate Buy FQ1 Healthcare Dividend Roundup: Johnson & Johnson Keeps Outshining Pfizer These 10 large-cap healthcare companies rank among the market's most attractively valued stocks EU to target XFG variant for next COVID vaccines