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Après deux semaines de négociations, un accord inattendu vient d’être conclu entre le gouvernement vénézuélien héritier de Maduro et l’opposition. Cet accord, sous le patronage des Etats-Unis, va mettre fin à un litige de longue date : celui de l’or stocké à la Banque d’Angleterre.Les partisans de Nicolas Maduro et leurs opposants politiques se sont entendus pour réclamer, d’une seule et même voix, les 4 milliards de dollars d’or encore conservés dans les coffres de la capitale britannique.

BANDAR ABBAS, IRAN – AUGUST 10: Two youths sit on the shoreline as ships are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026 off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran. (Photo by Ali Saeedi/Getty Images)Getty Images | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesIran rebuffed U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that the Strait of Hormuz would soon become U.S. territory, as a ship in the crucial waterway was reportedly struck and negotiations with Tehran appeared no nearer to resuming.”The Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian; this strait will only be closed and…

In October 2006, the spot price of uranium went from $19 per pound (lb) to $143/lb in seven months. That move was so violent it altered how I thought about commodity markets entirely. That parabolic acceleration is not an accident. It is the direct expression of uranium’s inelasticity when it comes to demand. Reactors cannot simply switch fuels, utilities cannot defer fuel purchases indefinitely, and once a supply deficit opens, the market has no choice but to bid until demand destruction forces equilibrium.There is no substitute, no workaround, no patience. Uranium either arrives or it does not, and when it…

CompaniesToilet seat sales double in 5 years, but there is still room to growA sales representative explains the features of a Toto Washlet in Chicago. (Photo by Azusa Kawakami)AZUSA KAWAKAMIAugust 16, 2026 06:33 JSTNEW YORK — Japanese bathroom fixture maker Toto has doubled U.S. sales of its bidet toilets over the past five years, but with the products still relatively unknown here, the company has turned to a partnership with Major League Baseball.

Quick Read XMAG has returned 16% YTD versus MAGS’s 5%, with Tesla’s 27% decline dragging down the equal-weighted Mag 7 basket. MAGS holds only 34% of net assets in actual equities, with 53% parked in Treasury bills and the rest in swap derivatives. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest users up to $3,000 in stock for a limited time, and all it takes is a $50 deposit to get started.2 See for yourself (Sponsor) The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (CBOE:MAGS) was designed to provide investors with clean, equal-weighted exposure to the seven mega-caps that drove the…

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran. In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.” “That ship is moving right now,…

Blackstone, the world’s third-largest private equity firm by fundraising, is exploring ways to expand its private markets offerings in the US defined contribution market as it looks to better tap the trillions held in the country’s retirement ecosystem. The firm last month said it had launched two private wealth vehicles as part of its partnership with Wellington and Vanguard.

Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAnthropic’s revenue surged more than 14-fold in the second quarter from a year earlier, Bloomberg News reported Friday, underscoring the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering.The AI company reported preliminary revenue of more than $11.5 billion for its latest completed quarter, up from $787 million in the same period last year and $4.73 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News. Anthropic also posted positive adjusted operating income in the second quarter, according to the documents. The…

The company runs a betting exchange in the UK and also operates in Ireland, Malta, Sweden and in Indiana, United States.Courtesy: SmarketsSmarkets, a UK-based betting exchange, is making its way into the U.S. by pursuing two separate avenues.The company, which was founded in 2008, filed for a license with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in March. The platform — which has over $60 billion in lifetime trading volume — also has pending applications to operate as a sportsbook in Illinois, Iowa and Michigan, according to Smarkets founder Jason Trost. “The reason we’re doing the dual track is because the legal situation…

My Amazon shipment is postponed from this fall until April 11, 2028 (!). Will it ever come? Of course this is the fantastic, and long, Bioy Cesares book Borges, his memoir of their friendship. How can the reoptimization both be so distant and so exact in timing?