Taiwan's Opposition Leader Tours US, Fresh Off Xi Meeting, As Trump Nixes Call With Taiwanese President

Prime Minister Keir Starmer Resigns As UK Faces 7th Leader In A Decade The Keir Starmer experiment is officially over, as was growing increasingly clear over the weekend, especially with an interestingly-timed Trump Truth Social statement. Just under two years after capturing the keys to Number 10, the British Prime Minister has thrown in the towel after succumbing to an internal party mutiny following days of intense, closed-door speculation regarding his political survival. Stepping up to the lectern outside Downing Street on Monday morning, a visibly defeated Starmer delivered the inevitable...

Wall Street Bonus Pool Hits Record Despite "Domestic And International Upheavals" As the K-shaped economy rages on, gasoline and diesel prices at the pump spike, and risks of food inflation later this year mount, Wall Street's bonus pool surged to a record in 2025, even as the Trump administration insists the inflationary shock is temporary. On Thursday, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a new report showing that the Wall Street bonus pool surged to a record $49.2 billion in 2025, up 9% from the previous year, while the average...

META Erases Most Afterhours Gains After CFO Warns "Significant Investment" Will Raise Serving Costs Update: We concluded our prompt earnings wrap (below), by saying that the question now is whether Zuck will scare investors on the call by noting that capex may raise much more." Well, CFO Susan Li did not help the case saying that “Muse's compute intensity means that expanding its user base will require significant investment, and we expect total serving costs to rise. At the same time, we expect to improve compute cost efficiency by more than 10-fold...