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Fairfax Financial Takes 22% Stake In Under Armour As UBS Sees “Turnaround Stock”

Fairfax Financial Takes 22% Stake In Under Armour As UBS Sees "Turnaround Stock" Fairfax FinancialStruggling apparel brand Under Armour, founded and currently led by Kevin Plank, has seen its market capitalization collapse after years of strategic missteps, brand erosion, and tough global competition. However, a newly disclosed filing

Vistra Jumps After Buying 10 Nat Gas-Fired Power Plants For Billion

Vistra Jumps After Buying 10 Nat Gas-Fired Power Plants For $4 Billion

Vistra Jumps After Buying 10 Nat Gas-Fired Power Plants For $4 Billion It didn't take long for markets to get a reminder of the screaming shortage of energy assets needed to energize the AI revolution. Late on Monday, electricity supplier Vistra agreed to pay $4 billion for 10 natural

Resilience Of US Economy Showing “Signs Of Cracking” As US Services PMI Disappoints

Resilience Of US Economy Showing "Signs Of Cracking" As US Services PMI Disappoints Following yesterday's US Manufacturing ISM survey disappointment, this morning we get yet more soft survey data – this time a look at the Services sector via S&P Global. The final (December) US Services PMI data

Colombia & Brazil Bolster Armed Forces At Borders, Bracing For Venezuelan Refugee Influx

Colombia & Brazil Bolster Armed Forces At Borders, Bracing For Venezuelan Refugee Influx After the weekend US military action in Venezuela, which triggered mixed reactions around the globe, Colombia and other nations in the region are preparing for a possible influx of refugees. Sunday saw Colombian Defense Minister

EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live And Trade Partners Are Not Amused

EU's Carbon Border Tax Goes Live And Trade Partners Are Not Amused Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism launched on January 1 aims to level the playing field for European steel, cement, and power producers by taxing the carbon content of imports

Survey: Men More Financially Confident in the New Year

Erin El Issa writes for NerdWallet. Email: erin@nerdwallet.com. The article Survey: Men More Financially Confident in the New Year originally appeared on NerdWallet. Erin El IssaSource

The Leaf Leafs Anyway

Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche, New York Times bestselling author, once told a story about how she was on a long walk around Central Park when she saw the most perfect leaf she had ever seen in her life. It was fall in New York City and many of

Congress Is Back: What To Watch

Congress Is Back: What To Watch Via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Following the holiday break, Congress returns this week with a lot to do. The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Dec. 21, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times On the top of the agenda is funding the

Major Data Breaches Put Hundreds Of Thousands Of New Zealanders At Risk

Major Data Breaches Put Hundreds Of Thousands Of New Zealanders At Risk Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders could have their personal information exposed online after hackers breached two major websites and stole large amounts of data. In

Trump DOJ Admits Venezuela’s ‘Cartel De Los Soles’ Isn’t An Actual Organization

Trump DOJ Admits Venezuela's 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't An Actual Organization A major plank in the Trump administration's case for military intervention in Venezuela is looking thinner today, as the Department of Justice has retreated from the notion that captured President Nicolas Maduro was the head of an

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