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On March 18, 2026, MidOcean Energy announced that it had secured more than $1.2 billion in financing, led by private‑equity firm EIG and backed by 16 partner investors, to fund offshore wind developments across the U.S. and Europe.
On March 18, 2026, OpenAI disclosed it is negotiating a $10 billion joint venture with top private‑equity firms to commercialize its enterprise AI suite. TPG would act as anchor investor, joined by Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management, while...
On March 18, 2026, Akamai Technologies announced the launch of its AI Grid, a distributed inference platform that leverages thousands of NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs across 4,400 edge locations worldwide. The rollout, built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise and BlueField DPUs,...
On March 15, 2026, EchoStar’s DISH Wireless unit announced it would void roughly $9 billion in long‑term tower lease contracts, invoking force majeure after the FCC warned it failed to meet spectrum‑buildout benchmarks. The move has triggered lawsuits from tower owners...
On March 10, 2026 Pakistan concluded a landmark IMT spectrum auction that added 480 MHz of 5G‑ready bandwidth, raising total assigned spectrum to nearly 754 MHz. The auction generated about $507 million for the government and lifted Pakistan from 14th to 7th place...
On March 16, 2026, AT&T announced a $250 billion, five‑year capital program to upgrade its U.S. fiber and wireless infrastructure for generative AI and edge computing, targeting more than 100 million customers. Industry analyst Jeff Kagan highlighted the move as a bellwether...
On March 17, 2026, Ofcom announced a five‑year extension of its regulatory framework for BT Openreach, widening wholesale price caps to 80 Mbit/s and laying out new rules for the final phase of the UK’s full‑fibre broadband rollout. The decision, made...
Rob Arnott, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates, told Fortune that the S&P 500 is likely to deliver only about 3% annual total returns over the next ten years. The warning came in a recent interview as the index has...
On March 18, 2026, the Federal Reserve began its policy meeting while U.S. investors turned to real‑time data from Investor's Business Daily's Stock Market Today column to watch the Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow Jones and Russell 2000. The column provides...
On Monday, March 10, 2026, U.S. equities surged— the S&P 500 rose 1%, the Dow added 387 points and the Nasdaq climbed 1.2%— marking the best trading day since the Iran war began. The rally was sparked by a 5.3%...
On March 17, 2026, Google released version 2.12 of its Google Ads Editor, a desktop tool used by millions of paid‑search advertisers worldwide. The update adds expanded video limits, vertical asset support, and total‑campaign‑budget controls, giving marketers finer creative and...
On March 17, 2026, AI startup Okara unveiled its AI‑CMO, a subscription‑based platform that automates SEO, content creation and growth hacking for founders worldwide. The service, priced at $99 per month, is live and promises to deliver marketing workflows within...
Candid, a marketing technology firm, launched its Live Marketing platform on March 18, 2026, announcing that AI will perform 90% of all operational marketing tasks. The press release, distributed via PR Newswire, positions the solution as a turnkey tool for...
Independent agency Butler/Till, partnered with PubMatic, completed its first agentic media‑buying pilot for Geloso Beverage Group across CTV, online and mobile publishers in December 2025‑January 2026, reporting an 82% cut in supply‑chain fees, a 40% rise in impressions and a...
On March 16‑17, 2026, Brent crude surged past $103 a barrel after Iran's attacks on the Strait of Hormuz halted most tanker traffic. U.S. President Donald Trump warned NATO allies they would not be called upon, while U.S. allies hesitated...
On March 18, 2026, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced the launch of a new enterprise‑focused AI platform in China, aiming to ride the rapid growth of generative‑AI agents across Chinese businesses. The service, delivered through Alibaba Cloud, is positioned as...
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) said UK convenience retailers recorded 5.8 million shop‑theft incidents in the past year, down from 6.2 million the year before, while spending £313 million on crime‑prevention technology. The decline, reported in the ACS Crime Report released this...
On March 18, 2026, Saks Global announced that senior secured bondholders approved an additional £225.4 million of its bankruptcy financing package, completing the pre‑emergence funding needed to execute its five‑year restructuring plan. The deal, confirmed in Texas, gives the luxury retailer...
On March 18, 2026, Walmart disclosed that it will repurpose its recently shuttered Walmart Health clinics across the United States as clinical research sites. The move, announced by Walmart’s health‑care leadership, aims to leverage the retailer’s extensive store network to...
On March 17, 2026 the Reserve Bank of Australia raised its cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.1% in a narrow 5‑4 board vote. The decision, driven by lingering inflation and Middle‑East oil shocks, was immediately flagged by Australian...
On March 17‑18, 2026, major pharmaceutical companies, represented by Medicines Australia, began diverting critical medicines from the Strait of Hormuz sea lane to air freight and alternative routes to ensure delivery to Australia. CEOs Liz de Somer and Leyla Hannbeck...
TerraPower Isotopes announced on March 18, 2026 that it will build a new cGMP‑compliant manufacturing facility designed to raise actinium‑225 output by twenty times. The plant, slated for construction later this year, aims to address the growing demand for the...
On 6 March 2024, EU ambassadors in the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) reached a political compromise on a continent‑wide pharma reform. The deal tightens launch obligations for centrally authorised medicines, restricts the transferable exclusivity voucher, and creates a new antibiotic...
On March 18, 2024 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AstraZeneca’s all‑oral, fixed‑duration combination of Calquence (acalabrutinib) and venetoclax for first‑line treatment of adult chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). The decision follows the Phase III Amplify...
On March 17, 2026, The Hershey Company announced a strategic overhaul that consolidates its Sweet, Salty and Protein portfolios into a single U.S. commercial operating model. CEO Kirk Tanner said the move will enable the company to act faster on...
On March 18, 2026, the Trump administration announced a plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal employees in policy‑influencing roles into a new “Schedule Policy/Career” category that would strip many civil‑service protections. The proposal, defended by OPM head Scott Kupor...
On March 16, 2025, a three‑judge panel of the Boston‑based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld a district‑court injunction that stopped the Trump administration’s categorical freeze on roughly $3 trillion in federal financial assistance. The ruling, favored by Democratic...
On Monday, a coalition of CEOs led by Christopher Sununu, president and CEO of Airlines for America, publicly urged Congress to end the partial federal government shutdown. Speaking on NPR’s All Things Considered, Sununu highlighted the impact on tens of...
On March 17, 2026, Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), announced his resignation in Washington, D.C., saying he could not in good conscience support President Donald Trump’s war against Iran. Kent’s departure sparked an immediate rebuke...
On March 18, 2026, major multifamily owners such as Related Companies and AvalonBay announced a surge in purchases of rent‑stabilized apartments across New York City, as small family‑run landlords retreat under newly‑enforced rent‑stabilization reforms and mounting policy pressure.
On March 12, 2026, the U.S. Senate voted 89-10 to advance the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding affordable housing. The legislation caps institutional investors at 350 single‑family homes and requires build‑to‑rent owners to...
In January 2026, Blackstone announced a strategic reallocation of its commercial real‑estate investment trust, selling legacy assets while ramping up purchases of data‑center facilities, logistics warehouses and trophy‑grade office properties across the United States. The move, reported by CNBC and...
On March 26, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $500 million funding opportunity to fast‑track domestic processing, recycling and manufacturing of battery‑critical minerals. Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson said the program will award four to ten U.S. companies between...
On March 17, 2026, Ghana's mining regulator announced it is assessing three local bids—Engineers & Planners, BCM International and a Vortex Resources consortium—to take over the Damang gold mine near Abosso. The takeover would require up to $1 billion to revive...
On March 17, 2026 Resolution Copper, a Rio Tinto‑BHP joint venture, completed a federal land exchange that transferred roughly 2,400 acres of Oak Flat in the Tonto National Forest to the company. The move follows a Ninth Circuit ruling on March...
On March 16, 2026, Iran fired missiles and drones at several Persian Gulf states, including a strike that hit Kuwait City. President Donald Trump responded from Washington, urging regional partners to step up protection of commercial shipping in the Strait...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated State Department Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers to become CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). The move follows a federal judge’s ruling that invalidated the staff reductions and other...
On March 15‑17, 2026, President Donald Trump and his aides, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, publicly berated reporters aboard Air Force One and used social media to denounce news coverage of the Iran‑Saudi conflict. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr echoed the...
A Social Market Foundation survey released on March 17, 2026 reveals that 54% of UK workers born between 1965 and 1980 have inadequate retirement savings, and two million have no housing or investments to rely on. The study, citing Standard...
President Donald Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by Congress last year, creates a tax‑advantaged “Trump Account” for U.S. children born between Jan. 1 2025 and Dec. 31 2028. Each eligible child receives a $1,000 government contribution, and parents can contribute up to...
Late last week a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue funding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The administration, which has been seeking to gut the agency since President Donald Trump returned to office, is now proposing deep...
On March 16, 2026, attorneys general from 13 states—including New York, Colorado, and Maryland—sued OneMain Financial, alleging the lender adds costly insurance products to loans without borrowers' knowledge. The complaint seeks restitution, penalties, disgorgement of unlawful profits, and an injunction...
German industrial giant Siemens announced Tuesday that it will add 350 jobs in Wake County, North Carolina, over the next few years to support the U.S. AI and data‑center boom. The 131,000‑sq‑ft Raleigh facility will open in April with 100...
On March 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Interior confirmed that Tesla is the buyer in LG Energy Solution's $4.3 billion lithium‑iron‑phosphate (LFP) battery supply agreement. The deal will fund a new prismatic cell factory in Lansing, Michigan, with production...
On March 17, 2026 Accenture announced the completion of its acquisition of London‑based AI specialist Faculty, a deal first disclosed in early January and valued at more than $1 billion. The transaction brings over 400 Faculty AI engineers and data scientists...
On March 17, 2026 IBM announced the closing of its all‑cash acquisition of Confluent, Inc. for $31 per share, valuing the data‑streaming firm at roughly $11 billion. The deal brings Confluent’s Apache Kafka platform into IBM’s Watsonx, hybrid‑cloud and Z‑series portfolio,...
On March 18, 2026, Google announced it has completed a $32 billion acquisition of cloud‑security firm Wiz, marking the largest transaction in Google’s history and the biggest deal involving a venture‑backed startup. The deal, finalized in the United States, brings Wiz’s...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced on Tuesday at Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney that it has built an in‑house, agentic AI threat‑hunting platform. The move follows the bank’s frustration with third‑party security vendors that, according to...
Nvidia announced its OpenClaw platform at the GTC 2026 conference in San Jose, positioning it as the GPT‑like breakthrough for agentic AI. Within four months the open‑source project amassed over 250,000 GitHub stars and peaked at more than 2 million weekly...
Accenture announced the completion of its acquisition of UK‑based AI specialist Faculty, integrating more than 400 AI engineers and data scientists into its global workforce. The deal, first disclosed in January, places Faculty co‑founder Dr. Marc Warner in Accenture’s top...
