Increasing use by retail investors or ‘ants’ of leveraged products to gain fast exposure to market upside is amplifying market volatility on Korea’s rollercoaster exchange.
Increasing use by retail investors or ‘ants’ of leveraged products to gain fast exposure to market upside is amplifying market volatility on Korea’s rollercoaster exchange.
claffra/iStock via Getty Images I have covered Okeanis Eco Tankers Corp. ( ECO ) before , where I outlined the investment case and explained why I considered it an attractive company in the tanker segment. Since then, the company has reported great Q1 results , beating estimates. The company has also managed to get Nissos Keros out of the Strait of Hormuz, freeing the vessel for more lucrative voy...
claffra/iStock via Getty Images I have covered Okeanis Eco Tankers Corp. ( ECO ) before , where I outlined the investment case and explained why I considered it an attractive company in the tanker segment. Since then, the company has reported great Q1 results , beating estimates. The company has also managed to get Nissos Keros out of the Strait of Hormuz, freeing the vessel for more lucrative voyages. Despite this and given the risk of a long Strait of Hormuz closure, I am downgrading the stock to hold. Background Okeanis Eco Tankers is one of the highest-quality crude tanker companies in the public market. Okeanis operates a pure crude tanker fleet consisting of 8 VLCCs and 8 Suezmaxes, all built with eco specifications and fitted with scrubbers, with an average fleet age of approximately six years, the youngest fleet among listed tanker peers. Moreover, the company has two remaining new builds that will be delivered shortly. Nissos Tigani is scheduled for delivery during Q2, while Nissos Vous is expected in July. After that, no additional vessels remain on order. Investor presentation Commercial execution also remains a major differentiating factor for the company and is the best in class in the sector. Management estimates that such outperformance has generated approximately $256 million extra for shareholders versus the peer average rate. This outperformance has been achieved across both VLCCs and Suezmaxes, and, given the quality of the fleet and the team’s consistency, I expect it to continue. Investor Presentation This outperformance allows Okeanis to pay the highest dividends among peers. The dividend policy remains unchanged, and management reiterated its intention to continue with an elevated payout: Absolutely, our capital allocation policy will remain the same. We have been committed to distributing out as much as possible within the constraints of our capital structure, of course. Investor Presentation The Hormuz situation remains a key topic. Nissos K...
Nebius (NASDAQ:NBIS) has introduced the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month initiative designed to give robotics startups across the UK and Europe access to NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) physical AI software tools alongside Nebius’s cloud-based AI computing platform. The programme is intended to help early-stage robotics companies overcome common challenges related to obtaining the large-scale simulation...
Nebius (NASDAQ:NBIS) has introduced the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month initiative designed to give robotics startups across the UK and Europe access to NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) physical AI software tools alongside Nebius’s cloud-based AI computing platform. The programme is intended to help early-stage robotics companies overcome common challenges related to obtaining the large-scale simulation capabilities, synthetic data generation and high-performance computing resources required to develo
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi chatbot, reportedly launched a new funding round valuing the company at $30 billion, well above its $4.3 billion valuation in December. NEWS SUMMARY The National Data Administration released an implementation plan to support the development of high-quality industry datasets.
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi chatbot, reportedly launched a new funding round valuing the company at $30 billion, well above its $4.3 billion valuation in December. NEWS SUMMARY The National Data Administration released an implementation plan to support the development of high-quality industry datasets.
Getty Images Physical AI is giving robots the ability to perceive, decide, and adapt in the real world. Here’s what that looks like today and what it means for investors. Physical AI is the idea that robots don’t just execute instructions anymore. They perceive their environment, process what they’re seeing in real time, and make decisions on the fly. At NVIDIA’s ( NVDA ) 2026 GTC Conference, CEO ...
Getty Images Physical AI is giving robots the ability to perceive, decide, and adapt in the real world. Here’s what that looks like today and what it means for investors. Physical AI is the idea that robots don’t just execute instructions anymore. They perceive their environment, process what they’re seeing in real time, and make decisions on the fly. At NVIDIA’s ( NVDA ) 2026 GTC Conference, CEO Jensen Huang put it plainly: every industrial company will become a robotics company. That’s not a prediction. It’s a description of what’s already underway. On the Warehouse Floor: Robots That Read the Room Warehouse automation has been around for a while. But the older version of it was rigid. A robot knew its route, knew its task, and couldn’t do much if something unexpected showed up. That’s the automation of the past. At MODEX 2026 in April, FANUC America ( FANUY ) demonstrated what the next generation looks like. Their CRX-30iA mobile manipulator works alongside the OTTO 600 autonomous mobile robot from Rockwell Automation ( ROK ) in a fully integrated system built for warehouse and distribution environments. What makes it different from traditional automation: AI-driven perception. The system uses payload estimation, box-locating vision, and barcode-based decision logic to automatically adapt to varied box sizes, pallet conditions, and routing requirements without being told what to do in advance. Sources: CRX-30iA by Fanuc. OTTO by Rockwell Automation. Think about what that means in practice. A pallet of mixed-size boxes shows up. The robot scans, assesses, figures out what it’s dealing with, and adjusts. No human required. That’s the Physical AI difference. And it’s not just FANUC and Rockwell. Across the broader robotics landscape, the pattern is the same: AI perception layers being added to hardware that used to run on fixed logic. The warehouse is becoming one of the most interesting testing grounds for what Physical AI can do at scale. In the Hospital: Less Leg...
Global airlines' push to attract premium customers is making fast in-flight Wi-Fi an increasingly important perk, turning a once-patchy paid service into an emerging battleground between Elon Musk's Starlink and Jeff Bezos' Amazon Leo satellite network. Starlink, which operates around two-thirds of all satellites in space and is the major driver of revenue for SpaceX, has signed up 11 new airline...
Global airlines' push to attract premium customers is making fast in-flight Wi-Fi an increasingly important perk, turning a once-patchy paid service into an emerging battleground between Elon Musk's Starlink and Jeff Bezos' Amazon Leo satellite network. Starlink, which operates around two-thirds of all satellites in space and is the major driver of revenue for SpaceX, has signed up 11 new airline customers globally so far in 2026, after 22 in 2025 and eight in 2024, compared with three in 2022, according to Valour Consultancy, an aviation intelligence firm. Amazon, which is still building out its Leo satellite constellation, faces a potential setback after a Blue Origin rocket failure last month.