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Tracking The Caribbean Super Yacht Migration The superyacht season across the Caribbean and the Gulf of America has shifted into the off-season, with hurricane season now roughly a month in. As tropical activity risks rise across the Atlantic basin, some owners and charter fleets have shifted pleasure yachts and sailboats toward the Mediterranean, where the summer season is now in full swing.  Ship-tracking and maritime intelligence platform MarineTraffic tracked the great migration of superyachts, including 2,156 departures of pleasure craft and sailing vessels from top Caribbean hubs between March and...

The lad who inspired Aesop to write, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (also known as “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”), has grown up and is now President of the United States. Since February 28, 2026, Donald Trump has released 11 statements suggesting the war with Iran was over or that a negotiated deal is […]

DOJ Probes BlackRock Private Credit Fund Valuations After Dramatic Repricings It all started in late January, just before the Blue Owl debacle and the SAAS-palcypse sparked a historic crash in private credit.  It was then that in a rare off-cycle disclosure, BlackRock TCP Capital Corp., a publicly traded private-credit fund structured as a business development company (BDC), disclosed a 19% markdown in net asset value as troubled loans weighed on performance. The news not only sent shares of the fund plunging 13% on Jan. 26, the most since March 2020 but market...