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Switzerland Air Defense Budget Gets a $1.2 Billion Advance Push
The Switzerland air defense budget is about to expand again: the Swiss Federal Council is asking parliament to approve an additional 970 million Swiss francs ($1.2 billion) in…
Shawon Hannan
Shawon Hannan is a markets writer at Primary Ignition, covering equities in defense and aerospace, industrials, automotive and electric vehicles, and the energy and technology names tied to them. He writes about the catalysts that actually move these stocks: procurement budgets and order books, production milestones, earnings and guidance, and the capital flowing into next-generation defense systems, AI infrastructure and electrification. His coverage runs from earnings, dividends and IPOs to market commentary, with an emphasis on the numbers behind the narrative rather than the headline itself.
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Canada Auto Tariff Cut to 15% Lands With Strings Attached
The proposed Canada auto tariff cut from 25% to 15% sounds cleaner than it is: the rate applies only to non-US content in Canadian-built vehicles, the figure is…
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Chery UK Research Centre Plants Flag at Millbrook as Tariff Gap Widens
Chery’s announcement of a dedicated UK research centre at the UTAC Millbrook proving ground in Bedfordshire is not a routine expansion decision: it is the clearest sign yet…
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Ulchi Freedom Shield Drills Cut to Five Days as Trump Resets Korea Policy
The Ulchi Freedom Shield drills, the largest annual joint exercise on the Korean Peninsula, have been cut from eleven days to five and stripped of their counterattack phase,…
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Lowe’s Narrows Full-Year Guidance to Low End as DIY Spending Softens
Lowe’s (LOW) narrowed its full-year guidance to the bottom of its prior range on Wednesday, a move that confirms what CEO Marvin Ellison said plainly: the do-it-yourself consumer…
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Target Comparable Sales Growth Clears the Bar, but the Stock’s Rally Prices
Target (TGT) comparable sales growth came in at 3.8% year over year in fiscal Q2 2026, according to the company’s official earnings release, reversing the 1.9% decline the…
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Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Hits $65 Billion, Sevenfold Jump in a Year
Anthropic’s revenue run rate reached $65 billion annualized at the end of July, a sevenfold increase from a year earlier, according to three sources cited by CNBC. At…
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Einride’s Tesla Semi Deployment of 500 Trucks Targets $800M ARR
The Einride Tesla Semi deployment of 500 trucks across North America is the clearest signal yet that electric heavy freight has crossed from pilot programs into commercial-scale operations.…
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Air Force Target Drones RFI Exposes a Gap No Current System Can Fill
The U.S. Air Force has issued a Request for Information seeking Air Force target drones capable of replicating everything from hobby-grade quadcopters to supersonic stealth fighters, and the…
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Trump Cuts Back South Korea Exercises, Rattling a Key Alliance
President Donald Trump’s order to substantially reduce Trump South Korea exercises reframes what looked like a cost dispute into something more geopolitically loaded: a deliberate signal toward Pyongyang…