Defense stocks in Europe are continuing to see their prices surge amid all the global instability, with its main index, the STOXX Europe TM Aerospace and Defense index, increasing by 14 percent to begin the year, according to a report.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, both of which specialize in structuring mergers and acquisitions, posted hefty earnings from 2025’s final quarter, closing out investment banking’s richest year since the COVID War.
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EU PARLIAMENT MAY LINK U.S. TRADE DEAL TO GREENLAND
The European Union’s (EU’s) parliament has yet to approve the trade agreement EU officials negotiated with the U.S. in July. Now the body is considering refusing to ratify the deal unless Donald Trump pledges to not seize control of Greenland.
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WALL STREET JUMPS INTO THE BETTING INDUSTRY
With betting now legal on everything from sports events to whether it will rain in Tulsa on Tuesday, Wall Street wants in.
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U.S. SEIZES SIXTH OIL TANKER TIED TO VENEZUELA
The U.S. seized its sixth oil tanker tied to Venezuelan oil last week that was accused of violating Washington’s “established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.”
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U.S. POUNDS SOMALIA WITH NEW AIRSTRIKES AS MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORES TRUMP’S QUIET WAR
The U.S.’s AFRICOM has carried out at least 10 airstrikes on Somalia since the start of the year, including at least two last week, matching the total number of strikes in all of 2024, AntiWar.com reported.
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CAR BUYERS ARE TAKING OUT EIGHT-YEAR LOANS
U.S. car prices have grown by 33 percent since the COVID War began and the average selling price surpassed $50,000 this fall, compared to $38,000 in early 2020, according to pricing standard Kelley Blue Book.
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TRUMP’S FAMILY LOOKS TO EXPAND CRYPTO EMPIRE INTO BANKING
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company led by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons and the son of his top envoy Steve Witkoff, announced last week that one of its entities filed paperwork to obtain a banking license.
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TRUMP: IF THE U.S. DOESN’T TAKE GREENLAND, ANOTHER COUNTRY WILL
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that he still intends to take Greenland because if Washington doesn’t take the territory, “Russia or China will.”
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OIL THEFT: TRUMP SAYS U.S. WILL CONTROL VENEZUELAN OIL SALES ‘INDEFINITELY’
Chris Wright, the U.S. energy secretary, said last week that the Trump administration plans to oversee Venezuela’s oil output “indefinitely” and will “sell the production that comes out of Venezuela into the marketplace,” just days after the U.S.’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.