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UBS: Trump's Historic Military Budget Request Could Boost Beaten-Down Defense Stocks U.S. defense stocks showed signs of stabilizing in April after tumbling since Operation Epic Fury began in late February and sustaining a Mach bloodbath. The improvement followed Friday's White House proposal to lift military spending sharply, to roughly $1.5 trillion in 2027.  UBS analyst Allyson Gordon said Monday morning that the White House budget request "should help sentiment," which has deteriorated since the U.S.-Iran conflict began. Last week, Gordon asked, "Why is U.S. defense performance lackluster?" Earlier, the analyst said: Defense...

"Everything Rally" As Futures Rebound From Post-Fed Selloff; Yields And Oil Drop Stocks look set to recover from Wednesday afternoon’s selloff asmarkets digest the rate hike from the Federal Reserve with Warsh (in retrospect) calming markets with a rate hike and tough talk on curbing inflation. A second day of dropping oil prices (no overnight news from Iran is helping) is also helping. Meanwhile, the debate around AI pacing and safety is rumbling on. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures are up 0.8% with Nasdaq 100 contracts +1% as tech leads with Mag7, semis, memory,...

Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis Authored by Rachel Chiu via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s “blood quantum” requirement. To be eligible for a homestead lease—long-term, affordable leases for residential, agricultural, and pastoral purposes—an applicant must prove that he or she has 50 percent Native Hawaiian ancestry....