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Latest reporting from Business, page 2.
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IndustrialSage's tracker counts $1.668 trillion in U.S. manufacturing commitments as of May 14, but 69% is semiconductors and AI infrastructure. The electronics construction wave behind those figures peaked in July 2024 and has since fallen 44%.
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Equity markets cleared the 3.8% CPI beat by reading the tariff truce as a temporary inflation ceiling. The 30-year auction cleared at 5.046% on weak demand, with supply pressure doing work the inflation read alone cannot explain.
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The ICE BofA High Yield OAS compressed to 279 basis points after the May 2026 US-China summit, its tightest reading since June 2007. In each of the two prior credit-driven episodes at this percentile, the index widened by more than 500 basis points.
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Palantir wrote in January 2026 that ELITE targets 'specific individuals with final orders of removal.' Court testimony placed the tool at the center of quota-driven neighborhood sweeps that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional two months later.
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PJM's market monitor confirmed Q1 2026 wholesale prices at $136.53/MWh, up 75.5% from a year earlier. Capacity costs rose 262% in 2025; the $23.1 billion data-center tab across three auctions includes $6.2 billion from the latest auction against facilities with no commercial operation date.
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Five P&I clubs cancelled Persian Gulf war-risk cover on March 5; Washington answered with $40 billion in reinsurance. The cost is landing at a plant in Uttar Pradesh that needed gas, not a voyage guarantee.
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JSR, government-owned since Tokyo's $6.4 billion acquisition completed April 2024, is beginning metal oxide resist production for Samsung in 2026. The equivalent plant for TSMC opens no earlier than 2028, in a different chemistry tier.
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Reuters documented $7 billion across four windows of oil-complex trades, each placed minutes before an Iran announcement. The DOJ opened an examination May 7; Craig Holman of Public Citizen says the CFTC's Chicago enforcement desk is down to zero active cases.
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The Army's sole-source hypersonic contract folds the Navy's production buy into Army accounts, obscuring a per-service commitment that no single budget document captures.
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Supermicro's December 2024 special committee found no evidence that anyone at the company circumvented export controls. The co-founder those words implicitly cleared was already routing $2.5 billion in AI servers to China.
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The 90,300-unit office-to-residential pipeline is the preferred resolution for $148 billion in maturing CMBS debt. From Lower Manhattan to downtown Washington, the units it produces land at rents that do not touch the affordability crisis they are credited with solving.
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April's back-to-back CPI and PPI prints tripled December 2026 rate-hike odds in 48 hours. On both days, equities closed at records.
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US high-yield spreads compressed to 279 basis points in May after a 56-point tariff-and-Iran shock was reversed and undercut in three weeks. The OAS is 38 points above the June 2007 pre-crisis floor, while Moody's pessimistic default scenario for October 2026 sits at 8.3%.
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Palantir's ELITE converts federal health records into address-confidence scores, and ICE raids on those numbers as if they were facts. The 27-to-80 percent improvement ICE's own data official cites has no named baseline and no audit.
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PJM's market monitor said May 15 the grid's 76% price surge will not reverse. The December 2025 capacity auction committed $16.4 billion in annual ratepayer obligations and missed the reliability target for the first time, by 6,625 megawatts.
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CMA CGM posted a $3,000-per-FEU conflict levy on March 1, effective March 2. The 12 ships still anchored inside the Gulf were loaded before that date.
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JSR's Inpria unit holds the only publicly disclosed commercial qualification for high-NA EUV metal oxide resist. A joint venture formed in April embeds that chemistry inside TSMC's development cycle; the ministry that paid ¥909 billion for JSR in 2024 controls when it arrives.
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CME and ICE pressed the CFTC to require Hyperliquid's registration over manipulation and sanctions fears. The same commission is demanding Tag 50 trader identifiers from CME and ICE's own platforms in a $2.65 billion oil-trade probe.
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Three of four bearish oil bets, totaling $1.69 billion, cleared within 20 minutes of a Trump or Iranian announcement. The fourth, $960 million on April 7, arrived nearly three hours early. DOJ and CFTC are working backward from all four.
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A $100.3M modification in May doubled an IDIQ awarded in November 2024 to replace a 40-year-old data backbone. FY2027 budget justification documents carry no named line item for the replacement.
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