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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…
D-Wave Quantum’s subsidiary Quantum Circuits, LLC received a $1,566,250 National Science Foundation grant on July 1, 2026, under the ERASE project. The grant gives researchers access to D-Wave’s superconducting dual-rail gate-model quantum computing resources, specifically to advance fault-tolerant technologies. The NSF-backed collaboration is led by Yale University and deepens D-Wave’s role in U.S. quantum innovation…
The 2026 NATO summit in Ankara concluded this week with sweeping announcements that sent shockwaves through global defense markets and reshaped alliance burden-sharing expectations. U.S. President Donald Trump made clear that European allies can no longer unconditionally count on American protection, forcing member states to aggressively step up their own commitments. NATO allies officially announced…
A looming generational shift in small business ownership threatens to reshape the American economy in ways few policymakers have fully reckoned with. Baby boomer owners of roughly six million American small and medium-sized companies will retire between now and 2035, according to research from McKinsey. McKinsey has described the coming wave as “a once-in-a-generation wave…
Blue Origin is raising $10 billion in its first-ever external funding round, valuing the company at $130 billion pre-money after 26 years of sole Bezos financing. Coatue Management is leading the round with approximately $4 billion, while Jeff Bezos himself is personally contributing $2 billion to the raise. The remaining $4 billion is drawing strong…
AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) is building a satellite network designed to let standard smartphones connect directly to satellites without any specialized equipment. This capability holds significant implications for military personnel and emergency responders who need reliable communications when ground-based networks go down or are disrupted. The company’s BlueBird low Earth orbit satellites deliver connectivity across remote…
Remittix (CRYPTO: $RTX) is pushing deeper into the broader crypto trading market with the announcement of a new perpetual futures platform called Remittix Markets. The expansion adds a second major product line to the RTX ecosystem, sitting alongside its existing PayFi platform that allows users to send crypto while recipients receive fiat directly into bank…
SK Hynix is set to make its long-awaited debut on the Nasdaq, giving U.S. investors direct access to South Korea’s second most valuable company for the first time. The company priced its American depositary receipts at $149 per share, raising $26.5 billion to fund an aggressive expansion into new factories and equipment. Demand for the…
The window to secure a competitive certificate of deposit rate is narrowing, and savers face a genuine decision about where to park their cash. Top U.S. CD yields still reach approximately 4.4% to 4.5% APY as of July 2026, but that figure has been sliding steadily in recent months. The Federal Reserve held its target…
A sharp sector-wide selloff in July has dragged down three of the most closely watched names in the commercial space industry. Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS), and Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) have each declined sharply over the past month despite growing contract backlogs and government awards. Investors should treat this group as…