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Canada GDP Growth Slows: Mining Holds Up While Manufacturing Faces Pressure

Global FYI Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction

Canadas real GDP rose 0.1% in March 2025 afte...

Resource extraction jumped (mining, quarrying...

Services improved with retail trade up 0.8% a...

Momentum faded in April as GDP slipped 0.1% w...

How FTC’s New Merger Regime Raises the Bar for Deal Makers in 2025 +

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The FTC under Chairman Andrew Ferguson is req...

Mars’s $36B acquisition of Kellanova received...

Synopsys’s $35B acquisition of Ansys was appr...

For 2025, HSR thresholds and fees increased, ...

Florida & U.S. Short-Term Rental Trends: Demand, Costs & Smart Investor Moves

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U.S. second-home mortgage originations fell t...

Florida led the pullback, with major metros l...

Higher insurance, HOA fees, property taxes, m...

Short-term rentals remain active as hosts shi...

Stranger Things Expands: New Live-Action Spin-Off & Tales from ’85 Under Netflix’s IP Strategy

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The Duffer Brothers are developing a live-act...

The project is still early, with its title, c...

It will sit alongside the animated Tales from...

The move extends the franchise beyond Season ...

Stranger Things Finale Ends Hawkins Saga, Sets Stage for Ambitious Spinoff Mythology

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The Stranger Things series finale plants a ke...

The Duffers say the spinoff will explain that...

Netflix is treating the main saga as complete...

An animated project, Stranger Things: Tales F...

What We Know About Stranger Things Season 5 & the Upcoming Netflix Spinoff

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“Stranger Things” ends its main Hawkins story...

Matt and Ross Duffer are fast-tracking a stan...

The spinoff aims to explain a key loose end f...

No release date is set, and the Duffers resum...

Why Netflix’s Deal Beats Paramount’s $108.4B Offer for Warner Bros Discovery

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Warner Bros. Discovery’s board unanimously ur...

The board flags Paramount’s financing as shak...

Though lower headline value, the Netflix tran...

Next steps hinge on whether Paramount sweeten...

Short Interest Spikes in Trump Media Amid Massive TAE Merger & Investor Concerns

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Short interest in Trump Media (DJT) has risen...

The stock surged more than 30% after a propos...

Rising short interest alongside the rally sig...

Trump's roughly 40% stake (about 115 million ...

ICE Unveils TTF Daily Options & Hits Record Liquidity in TTF & JKM Markets

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ICE launched TTF Daily Options (Dec. 8, 2025)...

ICE’s TTF futures and options hit a 2025 reco...

TTF 1st Line Financial and JKM LNG futures ea...

ICE plans to extend European gas and power tr...

How Metalmark Capital’s Stake in T. Parker Host Shapes Maritime Infrastructure & Logistics

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Metalmark Capital made an undisclosed growth ...

Host is expanding its terminal and bulk/break...

Plans include linking Avondale to six Class I...

The deal fits Metalmark's focus on founder-le...