IEA Chief Warns Gulf Flows May Take Six Months To Restore After Biggest-Ever Energy Shock

Seagate, Western Digital Crater After Toshiba Breaks Hard-Drive "Supply Discipline" Pact For most of 2026, the bull case for the HDD duopoly could be summarized in one sentence: nobody is building new factories. On Friday, someone did. Shares of Seagate (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) tumbled more than 10% on Friday, standing out like a sore thumb on a day when the Nasdaq hit all-time highs, after Nikkei reported that Toshiba plans to double its hard disk drive production capacity to grab a bigger slice of the AI data center storage...

'Covered In Blood': Family Says Canada Euthanized Christian Grandmother Against Her Will An 83-year-old Christian grandmother in Ontario was euthanized under Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program this summer, and her family says she never gave her final consent, Fox News reports. Brigitte Kranendonk gestures with her grandmother Brigitte Stegemann. (Family Handout)Brigitte Stegemann died by lethal injection on July 10 at The Pearl, a care home in Cannifton, Ontario, after being diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer. Family members claim that Stegemann, a devout Christian, had already turned down MAID because...

UBS Calls Brazil Election "Extremely Close" - Bolsonaro Win Would Cement LatAm's Political Shift Socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's polling lead over right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has eroded in recent weeks, leaving both statistically tied in UBS' latest runoff polling average.  Arend Kapteyn, UBS' global head of economics and strategy research, described the upcoming election in early October as "extremely close" in a note to clients on Monday. Lula (Left); Bolsonaro (Right) Kapteyn's note today puts Bolsonaro at 50.4% in a hypothetical runoff, against 49.6% for Lula, adding that the narrowing...