Iran Counter-Blockade Bites As No Tankers Load At Kharg For 10th Day

Houston, We Have Shareholders Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance SpaceX’s highly anticipated Starship test flight never made it off the pad Thursday evening. Instead, the launch was scrubbed after what appeared to be an automatic abort during engine startup, marking the first major operational disappointment since the company became publicly traded just weeks ago. As of this writing, the company has not released a detailed explanation for what happened. SpaceX has only said there will be no launch today, that engineers will review the issue, determine the cause, and announce the next...

Walgreens Gives Bodycams To Employees After Rise In Retail Assaults As most Americans are now well aware, national retail theft has seen a significant spike since 2021, with total shoplifting incidents increasing by roughly 53% between 2021 and 2024 based on industry data.  This has led to sweeping policy changes to retail businesses, specifically in urban locations, and long aisles of locked glass cases are only the beginning.   In the case of Walgreens, the company has closed a significant number of locations in high crime areas since 2024 as part...

Brazil Braces For Election Volatility As Bolsonaro Gains On Lula, Bullish Options Bets Explode The big election focus this weekend will be on Sunday, with the latest polling data showing right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are statistically tied. Polymarket, meanwhile, shows Bolsonaro with a wide lead. Bloomberg reports that neither Bolsonaro nor Lula is expected to secure an outright victory in Sunday's first round of voting. This suggests that a second round on October 25 is highly possible. For weeks, we've outlined that high...