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Latest reporting from Business, page 3.
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On November 6, 2025, Coty CEO Sue Nabi named five Consumer Beauty brands and called fiscal 2026 trends 'steadily improving.' The Q3 10-Q, filed six months later, recorded $362.8 million in impairments against four of them; Rimmel, already under a strategic divestiture review Nabi had announced six weeks earlier, does not appear in the write-down.
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In January 2026, Ottawa formally committed to a $2.4 billion purchase of American-made rocket systems. Weeks later it published a "buy Canadian" defense strategy. The Pentagon named Canada as a customer on April 29 anyway.
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Space Systems Command awarded 20 Golden Dome space-based interceptor contracts to 12 companies on April 24. The FY2027 base budget carries $398 million against a $17.5 billion Pentagon request.
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Eight AI vendors now hold classified-network clearance under the War Department's 'lawful operational use' standard. The phrase displaced Anthropic's categorical bans on autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
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Tokyo's bond market closed at a 29-year yield high before either official spoke. The $34.5 billion in dollar sales came more than three hours later.
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Continental Electronics won a $234.5 million sole-source contract for the Air Force's homeland-defense radar transmitter with $46.3 million obligated at signing from prior-year R&D funds. The remaining $188 million ceiling waits on FY2026 R&D appropriations not yet enacted when the contract was signed, for a program that has never carried a dedicated procurement line.
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On January 28, Musk told investors the $2 billion xAI stake was 'what shareholders asked us to do.' The November 6 proxy record shows the authorization was voted down: 473 million abstentions, treated as opposition under Tesla's bylaws, overwhelmed the 1.06 billion in favor, and the amended annual report filed April 30 shows those xAI preferred shares have since become SpaceX common stock.
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On February 19, CEO Matthew Reintjes told investors that brand strength helped the company exceed margin expectations even in an intense tariff environment. The proxy filed 35 days later told the compensation committee they had missed the bonus floor entirely.
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Since March 23, traders placed $2.1 billion in crude futures bets minutes before each of Trump's Iran policy announcements, each position correct, each arriving before the news. The CFTC is investigating, and the trades kept coming anyway.
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Raytheon's $441.6 million PATRIOT GEM-T contract, signed 22 days after the ceasefire and funded with fiscal 2026 special funds, tells you what the base budget request was never designed to say.
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