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Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal! AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous. Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy. In fact, AI is already pushing global power grids to the brink. Wall Street is pouring hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence—training smarter chatbots, automating industries, and building the digital future. But there’s one urgent question few are asking: Where will all of that energy come from? AI is the…

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Prices of Gold and Silver have opened with losses of 6% each on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) on Sunday, February 1, after the sharp sell-off witnessed in the global markets overnight. Prices have now extended their losses to 9%.Silver prices had declined as much as 37% intraday on Friday, while Gold prices fell 12% in the spot market. The fall in gold was the biggest in a single session since the early 1980s, while the fall in Silver was the biggest on record. Price adjustments will also take place in ETFs, despite the 15% to 20% fall seen on…

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 11, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersStocks rose on Thursday as traders anticipated that the latest reading of a key consumer inflation gauge won’t stand in the way of the Federal Reserve lowering its benchmark interest rate next week.The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 617.08 points, or 1.36%, at 46,108.00, while the S&P 500 ended up 0.85% at 6,587.47. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.72% to 22,043.07. All three major averages scored new intraday all-time highs in the trading day and closed at record…

The advocacy group Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) has warned New York State lawmakers and officials that it is prepared to mount a legal challenge to prevent the purchase of Israel bonds. “Our city and state public officials should ensure that there are no further investments in Israel Bonds because such investments breach their international legal obligations not to aid and abet Israeli crimes and their fiduciary duties to taxpayers,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Dawn’s executive director, said in a statement shared with Middle East Eye on Friday. “For too long, our public officials have prioritized politically expedient support for Israel,…

Trinidad and Tobago is once again trying to bring its long-idled one-and-only oil refinery back to life, but this time the government is talking to Indian Oil Corp about making it happen.The 165,000-barrel-per-day Guaracara refinery sits in southern Trinidad, near the town of Point-a-Pierre, along the Gulf of Paria and within sight of Venezuela’s coast on a clear day. It has been shuttered for years—since 2018 when the previous government pulled the plug, citing mounting losses, runaway upgrade costs, and a balance sheet that had gone well past the point of salvage.Energy Minister Roodal Moonilal says discussions with Indian Oil…

Gold’s biggest plunge in decades is being compounded by trading in the options market. Bullion fell more than 12% on Friday while silver posted its biggest intraday decline on record as a selloff swept through the broader metals market.A so-called gamma squeeze may be adding to gold’s retreat. That’s where dealers that are short options need to buy more futures — or shares, in the case of the gold exchange-traded funds — as prices rise and sell when they fall in order to keep their portfolios balanced.“It very well could be a gamma squeeze from dealer hedges,” said Aakash Doshi,…

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Athene announced that it has declared the following preferred stock dividends on its non-cumulative preferred stock (represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/1,000th interest in a share of preferred stock), payable on March 30, 2026 to holders of record as of March 15, 2026. Quarterly dividend of $396.875 per share on the company’s 6.35% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series A (the “Series A Preferred Stock”); holders of depositary shares will receive $0.396875 per depositary share.Quarterly dividend of $351.5625 per share on the company’s 5.625% Fixed-Rate Perpetual Non-Cumulative…

The initiative could irritate the US, which has warned against any moves to bypass the dollar; US President Donald Trump has previously said the BRICS alliance is “anti-American” and he threatened to impose tariffs on its members. | Photo Credit: istock.com The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed that ‍BRICS countries link their official digital currencies to make cross-border trade and tourism payments easier, two sources said, which could reduce reliance on the ​US dollar as geopolitical tensions rise.The RBI has recommended to the government that a ‌proposal connecting the central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) be included on the…

TLDR: Global markets erase $12trillion as Silver’s unprecedented nine consecutive green monthly candles preceded a violent 39% single-day crash.  Paper-to-physical silver ratios of 300:1 created severe stress between derivatives and actual metal demand.  Exchanges raised silver margins by 36% in three days, forcing automatic liquidations in falling markets.  Kevin Warsh’s Fed Chair probability ended policy uncertainty that previously supported precious metals rallies.   Over $12 trillion vanished from global markets within 48 hours, exceeding the combined GDP of Germany, Japan, and India. The unprecedented collapse hit precious metals hardest, with silver plunging nearly 39% while gold dropped over 16%. Equities…