Fragile Iran 'Pause' Shattered As US Base In Jordan Comes Under Attack, Oil Soars

Job Openings Drop But More Than Offset By Record Surge In Hiring Two months ago, the BLS reported that January job openings unexpectedly soared by 400K, the biggest increase since November 2024, to 6.946MM, the highest since last October. Then, one month later it turned out the jump was even higher than that when the BLS published the February JOLTS print, when we learned that the January job print was revised massively higher by another 300K to 7.240MM from 6.946MM, a surge of 690K and the biggest since 2022; February job...

Congress Demands Closed-Door Briefing With Nvidia's Jensen Huang Over His Alleged Chinese Spy Contact Three House Republican committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to sit for a closed-door briefing on Nov. 18 about his dealings with Alice Huang, the Megaspeed executive they describe in a Nov. 5 release as a publicly reported Chinese intelligence asset.Chairmen @RepBrianMast, @RepMoolenaar and @RepRickCrawford sent a letter to NVIDIA CEO @JensenHuang requesting that he appear before a joint, closed-door briefing on Huang's interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, a publicly reported People's Republic...

China Dominates The Humanoid Robot Race. Can Trump Close The Gap? It should surprise no one that new data from Smart Analytics Global, cited by Bloomberg, shows that Chinese humanoid robot makers accounted for a staggering 97% of global shipments in the first half of 2026. The figures come as the Trump administration increasingly recognizes that humanoids will be critical to the emerging physical AI era, creating an urgent need to build out America's robot supply chain, including motors, actuators, sensors, batteries, and AI models. via Barclays. Smart Analytics Global said global...