Majority Of Americans Say It Would Be Good For Society If More People Were Religious: Poll

Trump Says Iran War To End 'Soon' As 'Practically Nothing Left' To Target  Top headlines of conflict  Trump says the war with Iran will end soon, as there is 'practically nothing left to target."  Yet U.S. and Israeli officials plan at least two more weeks of strikes U.S. forces destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels in the Strait of Hormuz Iran's drone production has been significantly degraded. The IEA is preparing its largest-ever emergency crude oil release to counter surging Brent and WTI prices. Casualty estimates: over 1,200 killed in Iran from U.S./Israeli strikes (plus civilian...

Thailand Emerges As Possible Hub In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Channel To Alibaba New details have emerged in the alleged AI chip diversion scheme involving the co-founder of Super Micro Computer. Bloomberg reports that some of the $2.5 billion worth of servers containing advanced AI chips were allegedly routed through a Bangkok-based company before reaching Chinese AI leader Alibaba. The Bloomberg report noted: US prosecutors this year outlined a scheme in which Super Micro's co-founder allegedly worked with an unnamed Southeast Asian company and a "rotating cast" of third-party brokers to divert the AI semiconductors...

US Industrial Production Rises For 4th Straight Month In February After a strong gain in January, US Industrial Production continued to expand in February, rising 0.2% MoM (better than expected +0.1%) - the fourth straight month of gains with Production up 1.44% YoY... Source: Bloomberg Manufacturing output also beat expectations, rising 0.2% MoM in February. Durable manufacturing output edged up 0.1 percent, with mixed results across categories; the index for motor vehicles and parts posted the largest gain, and the index for machinery posted the largest loss. Nondurable manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, with...