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With Dismissed Lawsuits And DOE Support, Holtec Delays Palisades Nuclear Plant Restart Further Holtec announced last week that the major refurbishment projects at Palisades are complete. Reactor vessel inspections, head penetration replacements, steam generator tube refurbishment, primary system decontamination, and operator training all wrapped up. New fuel now sits on site, ready for loading. The company called it a "watershed moment" and shifted focus to grinding through the remaining work. Yet there is still no restart date…      “Holtec International remains on track to restart operations at Palisades in October 2025” These are...

Baltic Dry Index Nears Breakout As "Perfect Storm" In Global Shipping Emerges The daily benchmark measuring the cost of shipping raw materials across major global maritime routes is breaking out to a nearly three-year high this week, as Bloomberg reports that typhoons are squeezing the supply of Capesize vessels just as mining companies increase iron ore shipments across the Pacific and Atlantic. The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight rates for several vessel classes, including Capesize, Panamax and Supramax vessels, jumped 5.5% to 3,331 points in London on Wednesday, its highest...

Bitcoin Tops $72k After Largest Single-Day Crypto Short Liquidation In History Bitcoin surpassed $70,000 for the first time in over two months, propelled by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s 'Operation Twist'-like move pushing US bond yields (and the dollar) lower followed by a high-stakes meeting President Trump held with crypto industry leaders. “When yields drop and the dollar weakens, risk assets tend to rally, and we’ve already seen Bitcoin move higher on the news,” said Jeff Mei, chief operating officer at BTSE. This morning, bitcoin has extended those gains, tagging $72,000... And Ethereum...