No Breakthrough After Two Days of Russia-Ukraine Talks

Oil Slides As Qatar Floats New Iran Deal, Bessent Promises Hormuz Breakthrough: 'May Have Deal Tomorrow' Another fake ceasefire in progress? Or are we to believe it's for real this time? There's nothing on the ground-level at all that currently suggests the warring sides are imminently about to agree to a new ceasefire, or are so much as back at the negotiating table. And yet Tuesday morning headlines are now being driven by a Qatari Foreign Ministry statement saying that "language" for a possible US-Iran resolution "has been drafted" and "is being circulated...

Apple Tests Chinese Memory Chips As Supply Crunch Pushes PC Giants Toward CXMT After months of lobbying the Trump administration for clearance to purchase Chinese memory chips, Apple appears to be nearing the point where it can tap China's domestic chip market. The push follows what the iPhone maker has described as "unsustainable" pricing from the memory "cartel," namely SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, and SanDisk, whose production has been soaked up by unprecedented demand from hyperscalers.  The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday morning that Apple is closer than ever to using memory chips...