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When deciding whether to claim Social Security early or late, most advice focuses narrowly on maximizing the total lifetime benefit received from the government. But one critical question gets far less attention: what happens to your investment portfolio while you wait for those larger monthly checks? If you delay claiming until age 70, you will…
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) shares edged lower in Friday afternoon trading despite the company announcing a key milestone in its satellite deployment program. BlueBird 11 has arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of its planned first-half August orbital launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite communications company confirmed the development in a post on…
BAE Systems (BAESY) is deepening its foothold in the global armored vehicle market, leveraging a broad portfolio of advanced combat platforms and decades of military ground systems expertise. The company designs and produces highly survivable tracked and amphibious combat vehicles that serve the U.S. military and allied nations across a range of battlefield roles. A…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is set to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on July 14, followed by the Senate Banking Committee on July 15. The back-to-back appearances mark Warsh’s inaugural semiannual monetary policy address to Congress since taking over as Fed chair. It has been more than a month since Warsh assumed…
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) has been removed from the Russell 2500 Index, along with the Russell 2500 Growth and Russell 2500 Value benchmarks, a move that carries real consequences for index-linked investor positioning. The removal from major Russell benchmarks can trigger automatic selling from funds that track those indexes, adding technical pressure on top of existing…
L3Harris Technologies (LHX) is aggressively expanding its footprint in the counter-unmanned systems market through a growing lineup of advanced drone defense technologies. As unmanned aerial systems proliferate across military and commercial sectors, L3Harris is positioning itself to meet demand with affordable, rapidly deployable solutions capable of detecting, tracking, and neutralizing drone threats. A centerpiece of…
The yen carry trade, once blamed for a dramatic global market selloff in 2024, has staged a powerful comeback and is reshaping currency markets worldwide. Goldman Sachs strategist Stuart Jenkins wrote in a recent report that betting on carry “bears more relevance in the Group of 10 foreign-exchange space than at almost any point since…
Quantum technology has firmly established itself as a top U.S. national security priority, drawing the direct attention of White House officials and industry leaders alike. The shift in Washington’s posture comes as China identified quantum computing as one of its seven future industries, raising alarms among American policymakers and defense strategists. A recent White House…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Northern District of California, alleging a months-long scheme to steal confidential information and trade secrets. The complaint states directly that “this case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI,” signaling an aggressive legal posture from the iPhone maker. Apple…
Shares of SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) are trading near $148 on Friday, essentially unchanged from where they opened one month ago following the company’s high-profile market debut. That flat performance may look unremarkable in isolation, but against a battered peer group, it represents the strongest showing in the space sector over the past four weeks. SpaceX…