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Concerned about an AI bubble? Sign up for The Daily Upside for smart and actionable market news, built for investors. India has a $1.3 billion high-frequency trading firm competing on a global scale with the likes of Jane Street and Citadel, Bloomberg reported. It’s called Graviton, not to be confused with the “Gravitron” rides at the state fair or Amazon’s AI chips of the same name. The 11-year-old company quickly grabbed the majority of market share in block trades involving more than 0.5% of a company’s equity, maintaining its dominance on India’s NSE through last year. Graviton was primed and…

are trading higher Monday, with the front-month Nymex contract last printing at $2.853 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) — up 2.6% on the session as the dual catalysts of seasonal weather pattern shifts and global LNG supply disruption combine to lift the U.S. benchmark off recent range lows. The move comes as rally to nearly €49 per megawatt hour following fresh Iranian missile strikes against UAE infrastructure that shattered the tenuous ceasefire that had loosely held since early April. The contrast between domestic U.S. natural gas pricing and European pricing has rarely been wider, creating arbitrage incentives that ripple…

USAA, the military mutual insurer, has now successfully priced its largest catastrophe bond sponsorship ever at attractive spreads, with the Residential Reinsurance 2026 Limited (Series 2026-1) cat bond now set to provide the company a meaningful $825 million in additional catastrophe reinsurance limit, Artemis can report.It’s particularly notable when such a long-standing sponsor of catastrophe bonds opts to secure its largest issuance to-date and is indicative of currently attractive market conditions for sponsors that is helping to fuel cat bond market activity levels. USAA sponsored its first catastrophe bond way back in 1997, with that first Residential Re deal becoming…

Jada Jones/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.If you have Bluetooth speakers, you may think their use cases end with wireless pairing to one source device. The truth is, you can squeeze additional utility from your speakers around your house and in your home entertainment system, as long as you’re willing to get creative. Also: I traded my Sonos Era 300 for Denon’s new home speaker – and see no reason to go backWhether you connect a Bluetooth speaker directly to your TV to create a makeshift center audio channel, or you buy a small audio receiver to turn your…

(Oil & Gas 360) – The United Arab Emirates’ decision to exit OPEC after roughly six decades is one of the most consequential developments in the modern oil market, not because it alters global supply overnight, but because it exposes the structural limits of cartel governance in a world of diverging producer incentives. The move comes amid wider global fragmentation. Multilateral institutions are under strain, trade is increasingly bilateral, and energy is once again being treated as a strategic asset rather than a neutral commodity. That backdrop matters. But it is not sufficient to explain the UAE’s decision. The drivers are…

In the first quarter, there seemed to be one thing after another to create further uncertainty for markets.The artificial intelligence (AI)-related selloff that began late last year spilled into early 2026, as investors worried about spending on AI and the businesses it could disrupt.We also saw a(nother) partial government shutdown, impacting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which needs to review initial public offering (IPO) filings.Then came the Supreme Court decision to undo the International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, upending trade policy.And after all that, the Iran conflict has roiled markets.Iran conflict boosts energy commodities, but hurts bonds, stocks and goldFrom a macro and markets perspective, the biggest impact of the conflict has been on energy, which has rallied significantly from the start of the conflict through the end of March (the relevant period for our…

(Image credit: Getty Images)The weather is warming up and so is Americans’ urge to spend. And while spring doesn’t revolve around major shopping events in the same way as other seasons, that doesn’t mean we aren’t finding ways to part with our money.According to a report from Inmar Intelligence, 58% of Americans say convenient shopping matters more in the spring, and 95% say coupons and discounts are critical to making spring spending a possibility.Meanwhile, just 53% of Americans say they’re currently following a budget, according to a YouGov report. From just $107.88 $24.99 for Kiplinger Personal Finance Become a smarter,…

(Image credit: Future)For the fourth year, we’re pleased to present the winners of our annual Readers’ Choice Awards. In a survey we conducted on Kiplinger.com in January and February, more than 4,200 readers rated the financial products and services they use in 13 categories, from credit cards and banks to brokers, wealth managers and annuity providers. The results here offer valuable insight into the everyday experiences that Kiplinger readers have with their financial providers.Respondents made their judgments on such criteria as their interactions with customer service, the likelihood they would recommend the product or service to others, and their overall…

(Image credit: Future)For the fourth year, we’re pleased to present the winners of our annual Readers’ Choice Awards. In a survey we conducted on Kiplinger.com in January and February, more than 4,200 readers rated the financial products and services they use in 13 categories, from credit cards and banks to brokers, wealth managers and annuity providers. The results here offer valuable insight into the everyday experiences that Kiplinger readers have with their financial providers.Respondents made their judgments on such criteria as their interactions with customer service, the likelihood they would recommend the product or service to others, and their overall…

(Image credit: Future)For the fourth year, we’re pleased to present the winners of our annual Readers’ Choice Awards. In a survey we conducted on Kiplinger.com in January and February, more than 4,200 readers rated the financial products and services they use in 13 categories, from credit cards and banks to brokers, wealth managers and annuity providers. The results here offer valuable insight into the everyday experiences that Kiplinger readers have with their financial providers.Respondents made their judgments on such criteria as their interactions with customer service, the likelihood they would recommend the product or service to others, and their overall…