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  • Oil falls after U.S. and Iran extend talks and Venezuela plans export ramp-up, reducing near-term supply disruption risk and pressuring prices.
  • Asian equities slip as AI stock enthusiasm cools and Middle East uncertainty keeps energy markets cautious.
  • Australian dollar outperforms as traders price a hawkish RBA while yen weakens on BOJ policy uncertainty.
  • Hyundai commits 9 trillion won to Saemangeum AI, robotics and energy projects, signaling large-scale industrial investment in Korea.
  • Gold steadies near monthly gains as investors seek safety amid geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty.
  • Philippines, U.S., and Japan conduct South China Sea naval exercises to boost interoperability and maritime domain awareness.

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Ethiopian Media Authority Withdraws Reuters Accreditations Amid Controversial Report

Ethiopian Media Authority Withdraws Reuters Accreditations Amid Controversial Report

Ethiopia's Media Authority has refused to renew credentials for three Reuters journalists based in Addis Ababa and revoked Reuters' accreditation to cover the 39th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on February 14-15. The action followed a Reuters investigative report alleging the existence of a training camp for fighters linked to Sudan's Rapid S…

Unusual "Inside-Out" Planetary System Defies Standard Formation Models

Unusual "Inside-Out" Planetary System Defies Standard Formation Models

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops space telescope have identified a compact four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf LHS 1903, roughly 117 light-years away. The arrangement - a rocky planet closest to the star, two gaseous mini-Neptunes in the middle, and a rocky outermost planet - runs counter to common planet-formation expecta…

Rubio Urges Transatlantic Unity While Reiterating Critiques of European Policy

Rubio Urges Transatlantic Unity While Reiterating Critiques of European Policy

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a conciliatory message to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, asserting that Washington does not seek to abandon the transatlantic alliance while also repeating criticism of European policy choices on issues such as mass migration and climate change. His speech was largely welcomed for i…

GFL: Debt Paydown and Buybacks Create a Tactical Long Opportunity

GFL: Debt Paydown and Buybacks Create a Tactical Long Opportunity

GFL Environmental's sale of a majority stake in its Environmental Services arm and subsequent capital allocation plan (debt repayment plus buybacks) materially improves the balance sheet. At $43.32, shares trade at a modest P/E (~6.2) versus an enterprise value of $20.3B and an EV/EBITDA of ~27. The combination of durable waste cash flows, lower in…

Jefferies Says U.S.-Japan Economic Pact Is Underpriced by Institutions

Jefferies Says U.S.-Japan Economic Pact Is Underpriced by Institutions

Jefferies analysts argue that a new $550 billion U.S.-Japan investment arrangement presents material commercial and strategic opportunities that institutional investors have not yet fully priced. The deal reduces reciprocal tariffs, prioritises energy, AI infrastructure and critical minerals processing, and carries firm timelines and profit-allocat…

Walmart: Defensive Compounder Poised for Omnichannel Margin Re-rating

Walmart: Defensive Compounder Poised for Omnichannel Margin Re-rating

Walmart is a low-risk core holding with clear optionality: steady cash flow, a $1.1T market cap and a high-return retail engine that can expand margins through omnichannel efficiency and Sam's Club membership growth. Valuation is full today, but the risk/reward becomes attractive on measured entry. This trade targets margin re-rating catalysts over…

Qfin (QFIN): A High-Yield, Deep-Value Swing — Upgrade to Buy

Qfin (QFIN): A High-Yield, Deep-Value Swing — Upgrade to Buy

Qfin trades at roughly 0.60x book and a sub-3x P/E while yielding more than 9%. That combination argues for a tactical long with a mid-term horizon: entry at $15.71, stop at $13.50 and a target of $22.00 over the next ~45 trading days. The trade rests on stable cash generation, an attractive dividend, and a technical setup that suggests a base is f…

Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet: What It Would Mean for Markets and Liquidity

Shrinking the Fed's Balance Sheet: What It Would Mean for Markets and Liquidity

Kevin Warsh has long criticized the Federal Reserve's large bond holdings and favors a smaller balance sheet. Analysts at BofA and Morgan Stanley caution that any meaningful reduction would be technically difficult, slow, and could produce funding and market volatility unless accompanied by changes to bank liquidity liabilities or regulations. The …

Skip Uber, Take a Short Ride in Lyft: A Contrarian, Time-Limited Buy

Skip Uber, Take a Short Ride in Lyft: A Contrarian, Time-Limited Buy

Lyft's post-earnings sell-off has left the stock technically oversold and fundamentally cheap: free cash flow of $1.116B and EV around $5.07B imply a low multiple that could snap back quickly. This is not a long-term endorsement of rideshare competition dynamics - it's a tactical, short-term trade to capture a mean-reversion bounce to near-term mov…

Germany’s Fiscal Boost Shows Early Impact, but Bank of America Sees Limited Upside for European Stocks

Germany’s Fiscal Boost Shows Early Impact, but Bank of America Sees Limited Upside for European Stocks

Bank of America says Germany’s delayed fiscal stimulus is beginning to show up in activity data and has prompted modest upward revisions to growth forecasts for 2026. However, the bank warns that much of the equity market’s recent gains may already price in a stronger recovery than fundamentals support, leaving European stocks vulnerable to a pullb…

Doha Meeting Signals Three Directions for AI Development

Doha Meeting Signals Three Directions for AI Development

More than 30,000 attendees at Web Summit in Doha converged on three recurring themes for artificial intelligence: its capacity to amplify small teams and startups, a pivot toward specialized, domain-specific AI solutions rather than commoditized large language models, and an emphasis on regional compute resilience and energy-backed data center stra…