As the 2025 calendar winds down, Wall Street appears to be entering a state of suspended animation, characterized by the "quiet drift" typical of the period between Christmas and the New Year. Following a year of robust gains, major U.S. indices edged slightly lower in the final full trading week of December, as investors weighed the year's AI-driven triumphs against…
The global race for Artificial Intelligence dominance is intensifying, and SoftBank Group Corp. (OTC: SFTBY), long known for its ambitious tech investments and sometimes volatile swings, is making a definitive power move. Recent reports from Nikkei Asia confirm that SoftBank has significantly enhanced its AI development infrastructure, launching a new computing platform on December 22, 2025, equipped with 1,244 advanced…
The energy market is currently being whipsawed by two disparate but equally critical events: the precision strike on Russia's Orenburg Gas Processing Plant and the catastrophic failure of Iranian gas exports to Iraq. The Orenburg facility, which processes both Russian and Kazakh natural gas, represents a vital artery in the Eurasian supply chain. Its disruption, coupled with Iran cutting 4,500…
The digital realm thrives on information, yet it's also prone to misinformation. A recent example saw a blogger claim that Xiaohongshu, a prominent social media and e-commerce platform and a benchmark client for Alibaba Cloud, had "de-clouded"—meaning it had moved its operations off Alibaba's cloud infrastructure. Alibaba Cloud swiftly responded via Weibo, unequivocally stating, "This is a rumor." Such incidents,…