Trump Says US To 'Substantially Reduce' Military Drills With S.Korea, Cites 'Very Good Relationship' With Kim

Micron Faces Taiwan Strike As Union Demands "Fair Profit-Sharing System" Neoclouds and hyperscalers face mounting pressure as scrutiny grows over AI's circular financing, while Morgan Stanley has outlined several scenarios that could derail the $1.6 trillion AI data-center buildout. Now, another potential pressure point is emerging in the chip supply chain. Reuters reported that a union locked in a pay dispute could launch a strike on Thursday at Micron’s Taiwan plant, raising the risk of disruption at a key manufacturing hub for memory chips used in AI servers. The Taoyuan union said the...

When Wall Street Says Sell, Check Who's Waiting To Buy  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Today let me offer up one of my patented periodic reminders to do your own work. As many have already pointed out, there was something almost too neat about Citadel’s timing before the Situational Awareness blowup. In late June, Citadel Securities published a market-structure review warning that U.S. equities had become unusually concentrated, that investors were increasingly expressing bullishness through leverage, and that leveraged exposure was piling particularly aggressively into technology and semiconductors. They also warned of a...

Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Allowing Release Of Biden Audio Tapes Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on July 20 ruled against former President Joe Biden, finding that he was not entitled to an injunction blocking the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with his memoir’s ghostwriter. “Biden has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits,” Circuit Judges Sri Srinivasan and Gregory Katsas in Washington said. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, sued the government in 2024, alleging it wrongly withheld most...