Exxon Triples Buyback To $30 Billion As Energy Giant Swim In Free Cash Flow

Exxon Triples Buyback To $30 Billion As Energy Giant Swim In Free Cash Flow

The best performing market sector of 2022 by a giant margin: energy. XOM remains the largest refiner of all the global integrateds and looks set to benefit the most from the recent run in refining margins. This morning, the two...
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Putin tells UN chief: Kosovo set Donbass precedent

Putin tells UN chief: Kosovo set Donbass precedent

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the Kremlin on Tuesday for talks revolving around the Ukrainian crisis. The two discussed the situation on the ground, with Putin explaining to the UN chief Russia’s reasons for...
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Fidelity To Allow Bitcoin Investments In Retirement Plans

Fidelity To Allow Bitcoin Investments In Retirement Plans

“We fully expect that cryptocurrency is going to shape the way future generations think about investing for the near term and long term.” Investment giant Fidelity will reportedly enable its 23,000 business clients to offer Bitcoin accounts for their wor...
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Over $13 Million In ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs Stolen By Hackers

Over $13 Million In ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs Stolen By Hackers

“The hacker posted a fraudulent link to a copycat of the Bored Ape Yacht Club website…” Millions in ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs were stolen after hackers breached the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project, then advertised a fake distribution of...
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FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants

FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants

FBI warns of targeted cyber attacks on food plants after mysterious rash of fires. “A significant disruption of grain production…”  The FBI’s Cyber Division published a notice this past week warning about increased cyber-attack thr...
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Sig Sauer Won The Big NGSW Gun Contract

Sig Sauer Won The Big NGSW Gun Contract

United States Army Awards NGSW Contract to Sig Sauer – Earlier this week, the United States Army announced that it had selected Sig Sauer to produce the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW), which will replace the legacy M4 carbine and M249 light machin...
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Carnaval Kicks Off In Rio

Carnaval Kicks Off In Rio

“I proudly announce the greatest show on Earth is back – Long live, carnaval,” Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes told a massive crowd at City Hall.  The Rio de Janeiro Carnaval is considered one of the largest in the world....
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Russian tax authority proposes using crypto as a foreign trade payment tool

Russian tax authority proposes using crypto as a foreign trade payment tool

Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS) has joined the debate around crypto regulation in Russia with an unexpectedly blunt proposition — to let Russian companies use digital currencies as a payment method when transacting internationally. On April 20, loca...
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Gaza – new combat drone becomes fully operational

Gaza – new combat drone becomes fully operational

New Iranian combat drone, called Gaza, has successfully passed flight tests and the unmanned aerial vehicle is now fully operational. The super heavy combat drone, which was unveiled in May last year, has a 21-meter wingspan and a 3,100-kilogram takeoff mass...
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Oil From Emergency SPR Release Is Heading For Europe

Oil From Emergency SPR Release Is Heading For Europe

Joe Biden’s decision to release 180 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve was meant to help lower US gasoline prices “because Putin price hike.” Instead, it is heading for Europe. According to Bloomberg, citing a pers...
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Teen Opioid Deaths Have Surge 350% Thanks To Rise Of Fentanyl

Teen Opioid Deaths Have Surge 350% Thanks To Rise Of Fentanyl

Data showed that deaths from opioid overdoses in teens aged 14 to 18 increased by a staggering 94% between 2019 and 2020 and by an additional 20% between 2020 and 2021. The latest data on opioid-related overdose deaths in the...
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Latest Climate-Policy Capitulation

Latest Climate-Policy Capitulation

Biden Opens More Public Land To Oil & Gas Drilling In Latest Climate-Policy Capitulation Following a punishing surge in natural gas prices this past week (in defiance of cooling demand for heat as the spring arrives, and despite China’s ongoing...
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