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The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, and one relatively obscure U.S. company seems ready to reap the benefits of a surge in global natural-gas prices following the U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran and the widening conflict in the Middle East.

November 2023 (Revised March 2026) Debt Flexibility Rhys Bidder, Nicolas Crouzet, Margaret M. Jacobson, and Michael Siemer Abstract: How flexible are corporate loans after origination? Theory predicts coordination problems should make syndicated loans harder to modify than single-bank loans. We show the opposite. Using comprehensive regulatory data, we document that syndicated loans are modified frequently and respond to borrower distress, while single-lender loans are half as likely to be modified. This gap is not explained by covenants or performance pricing. Instead, syndicated loans are monitored more intensively. We show theoretically and empirically how fixed monitoring costs generate scale economies: larger…

Defense spending is set to get “more urgent and less controversial,” an analyst notes, and numerous stocks could benefit.

Airline stocks drop as the Iran conflict sparks worries about rising fuel costs.

President Donald Trump (L), and JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon.ReutersJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Monday that while President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking $5 billion in damages for shuttering his accounts was without merit, he sympathized with the president’s anger over the episode.Trump is accusing JPMorgan and others of closing his accounts for political reasons in what his conservative supporters have called discrimination. “The case has no merit,” Dimon told CNBC’s Leslie Picker in an interview on the sidelines of a JPMorgan conference in Miami.”But I agree with them,” he said. “They have the right to be angry. I’d be…

A billion dollars down. Most people would panic. Cut losses. Blame the market. This SOL whale did not flinch, fueling bullish price prediction.Forward Industries, now one of the largest institutional Solana holders, is sitting on nearly $1 billion in unrealized losses. They bought big. Around $230 per SOL on average. Today, SOL trades near $85. Do the math.Their original position cost roughly $1.59 billion. It is now worth close to $605 million. That is a brutal drawdown.And yet, no capitulation. No exit headlines.Instead, the company doubled down on a long term vision. CIO Ryan Nafi says the goal is to…

While today’s headlines are dominated by the escalating kinetic conflict with Iran, capital continues to pour into artificial intelligence infrastructure at an extraordinary pace.Over the weekend, OpenAI announced what is being described as the largest single venture capital raise on record, a $110 billion financing round at a $730 billion valuation. The funding includes $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia (NVDA), and $30 billion from SoftBank. To put that in perspective, the raise alone represents roughly 21.5% of all venture capital invested in 2025 and amounts to nearly half of total US venture investment in 2024, which was…

Wall Street ends narrowly mixed, trading volatile after air strikes on Iran

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Daktronics Inc. (Symbol: DAKT), where a total volume of 3,020 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 302,000 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 46.7% of DAKT’s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 647,060 shares. Especially high volume was seen for the $22.50 strike call option expiring October 16, 2026, with 3,000 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 300,000 underlying…

is trading in the $154–$160 band after a gap higher from a previous close at $152.59, with a fresh 52-week high at $159.60 against a one-year low of $97.80. Market capitalization is roughly $640–$642 billion, the trailing P/E ratio sits near 23.1x, and the forward dividend yield is about 2.6–2.7%. The tape tells you how the market sees it: not as a distressed cyclical, but as a core, heavy-asset compounder that benefits from both higher oil and structurally tight supply. The latest U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran pushed front-month WTI above $70 and through $75, both contracts adding roughly 8% as…