State Department Official: No ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ With Russia on Maintaining New START Limits

Germany's Anti-immigration AfD Party Jumps To Record 9-Point Lead Over CDU In Latest Poll Via Remix News, The Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to run away from its main rival, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Socialist Union (CSU) in a new poll, which shows the AfD nine points ahead. The AfD achieved a new record in the current YouGov poll, reaching 29 percent, while the CDU/CSU and SPD have hit all-time lows. The results are expected to pile on the pressure on a governing coalition the...

Barclays Maintains Bullish Stance On Nuclear Barclays is out with a report on nuclear and how the industry is progressing from conviction to construction. The report highlights year-to-date regulatory developments, demand and execution signals and market pricing across the industry.  Last year, Barclays argued three core points regarding nuclear energy: A nuclear renaissance is underway driven by energy security, decarbonization, and AI power demand The nuclear fuel cycle is likely to be an upstream bottleneck that requires reshoring As the theme matures, practical hurdles will take center stage, such as speed to power, labor,...

Pinky Promise By Molly Schwarz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank Iran is feeling some of the economic pressure of Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast” with reports from Al-Hadath suggesting that Iran has agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for the relaxing of US sanctions. This, of course, is the uranium that Iran was apparently never enriching, and even if they were enriching it in facilities that no one is allowed to check, it would only be for peaceful purposes. Pinky promise. But, should these reports be verified, this could suggest some meaningful...