China is unlikely to rush back into Persian Gulf crude purchases even after the Strait of Hormuz reopens, because 1.4 billion barrels of strategic reserves, weak refinery margins, narrowing Iranian discounts...
Veteran energy trader Dan Dicker warned on Bloomberg (June 21, 2026) that oil prices could spike from roughly $75 to $135 per barrel, arguing that depleted global inventories and a multi month timeline to re...
SK Hynix ended Samsung's 26 year reign as South Korea's most valuable company on June 22, 2026, reaching a $1.36 trillion market cap.
JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong publicly warned in June 2026 that robots will eventually replace all 700,000 delivery workers, yet just three weeks earlier he vowed no frontline employee would be laid off due t...
Chinese EV stocks tumbled on Monday, June 22, 2026, after reports that the EU is preparing countervailing tariffs on Chinese plug in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), closing a loophole that let automakers b...
On June 22, 2026, Meta invested $900 million in Indian fintech CRED for a roughly 20% minority stake at a $4.5 billion valuation, and appointed CRED founder Kunal Shah as WhatsApp's global head, succeeding W...
As of late June 2026, Bitcoin remains in a bear market: CryptoQuant's Cycle Momentum indicator reads 11.4 (firmly below neutral), a broad analyst consensus expects a bottom in Q4 2026, and a record 79% of ci...
The rift between Trump and Netanyahu is driven by a fundamental clash over how to end the war they started together: Trump wants a diplomatic exit via a deal with Iran, while Netanyahu insists on pursuing ma...
In mid June 2026, a resident near Rõuge, Estonia, discovered an intact Ukrainian drone carrying a 5 kg warhead that had gone undetected for roughly two weeks, exposing critical gaps in NATO's eastern flank s...
Goldman Sachs' late June research concluded that a surge in global EV adoption, supercharged by Hormuz crisis fuel prices, could cut oil demand by up to 320,000 barrels per day (bpd) by late 2027.
In June 2026, President Trump threatened that Iran 'won't have a country' if it closed the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran's IRGC declared the waterway shut and the U.S.
Meccha Chameleon, a $5.99 multiplayer hide and seek game built by a solo developer in two months, sold 7 million copies in 12 days entirely through viral word of mouth, reaching 340,534 concurrent players an...