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AirGas Declares Force Majeure On Helium Shipments As Qatar Production Collapses
AirGas Declares Force Majeure On Helium Shipments As Qatar Production Collapses
Earlier this week we reported that global chip production was in peril as "Qatar Warns Helium Exports Set To Collapse." Best known as the gas that makes party balloons float, helium is far more important as a key input in chipmaking, space rockets and medical imaging. The problem is that Qatar supplies a third of the world’s helium, and the Gulf nation had to halt production after Iranian strikes against the region’s energy producing infrastructure crippled its LNG production which is...
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Apr 1, 2026 / Tyler Durden
SpaceX Files Confidentially For IPO, Setting Up Record-Breaking Offering
SpaceX Files Confidentially For IPO, Setting Up Record-Breaking Offering
SpaceX has confidentially filed for an IPO, potentially setting up a June listing on U.S. stock exchanges that could become the largest public offering ever. The offering could value the rocket, satellite, and AI company at more than $1.75 trillion and raise as much as $75 billion, far exceeding Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO record.
Bloomberg states that SpaceX has just submitted a draft IPO registration to the SEC for nonpublic review. That allows SEC staff to review the filing, ask questions,...
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Feb 28, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Fed Plans To Release Sweeping Bank‑Capital Rule By Late March: Top Regulator
Fed Plans To Release Sweeping Bank‑Capital Rule By Late March: Top Regulator
Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Long-awaited banking regulation—also known as the Basel III Endgame framework—will be released next month, said the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator.
Michelle Bowman, vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board, in Washington on July 22, 2025. Ken Cedeno/Reuters
Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman, appearing at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Feb. 26, confirmed that regulators are expected to release an updated Basel III proposal at the...
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Mar 31, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Job Openings Drop After Huge Upward Revision As Hires, Quits Unexpectedly Plunge To Six Year Low
Job Openings Drop After Huge Upward Revision As Hires, Quits Unexpectedly Plunge To Six Year Low
A few weeks ago, the BLS reported that January job openings unexpectedly soared by 400K, the biggest increase since November 2024, to 6.946MM, the highest since last October. Well, it turns out the jump was even higher than that because moments ago, the BLS published the latest February print, and while that number came in line with estimates, at 6.882MM, or just shy of the 6.890MM estimate, it was a big drop from January,...
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