Costa Rica's President Cuts Off Diplomatic Ties With Cuban Regime

Spot The Odd One Out... While almost one million people crossed the $1 million wealth threshold in 2025, that growth was far from evenly shared across countries. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks the 31 countries that added the most new USD millionaires between 2024 and 2025, revealing where personal wealth expanded fastest over the past year. The data comes from the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026, which tracks individuals whose net worth exceeded $1 million USD. The U.S. Dominates Global Wealth Creation The United States added 441,078 new millionaires in one year,...

Oil Hits Session High After DOE Shows Lowest Midwest Gasoline Stocks On Record Oil prices rose to session highs after today's DOE inventory data refuted the latest cheerful API prints from Tuesday afternoon. Instead of the API-reported builds in distillates and gasoline, the DOE said that in the last week both products drew, with a modest increase in Cushing inventories, while crude inventories rose by 922K API     Crude +1.0mm     Gasoline +3.0mm     Distillates +0.3mm     Cushing +0.2mm DOE     Crude +0.922mm     Gasoline -1.684mm     Distillates -2.251k     Cushing +553mm As...

Drone-Attack Simulation Exposed A Grid Vulnerability By Robert Walton of UtilityDive U.S. electric utilities need new tools and regulatory authorizations to protect the power grid from drone attacks, experts and industry groups say. The issue has taken on new urgency recently. The Department of Homeland Security reportedly urged U.S. energy companies to increase security in response to potential threats from Iran, which has successfully used drones to target American military personnel and assets since the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran on Feb. 28. But power grid asset owners and operators...