Category: 3. Business

  • Lundin Mining Announces Updated Share Capital, Provides Update on Share Buybacks and Announces Filing of ESTMA Report and Modern Slavery Report

    Lundin Mining Announces Updated Share Capital, Provides Update on Share Buybacks and Announces Filing of ESTMA Report and Modern Slavery Report

    Lundin Mining Announces Updated Share Capital, Provides Update on Share Buybacks and Announces Filing of ESTMA Report and Modern Slavery Report

    June 30, 2025

    VANCOUVER, BC, June 30, 2025 /CNW/ – (TSX: LUN) (Nasdaq Stockholm: LUMI) Lundin Mining Corporation (“Lundin Mining” or the “Company”) reports the following updated share capital and voting rights, in accordance with the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. View PDF.

    The number of issued and outstanding shares of the Company has increased by 179,029 to 855,997,663 common shares with voting rights as of June 30, 2025. The increase in the number of issued and outstanding shares from May 31, 2025 to date is a result of the exercise of employee stock options or the vesting of employee share units. During this period, the Company did not purchase any shares for cancelation under its Normal Course Issuer Bid program.

    Normal Course Issuer Bid

    Under the Company’s shareholder distribution policy, the Company is committed to allocating up to US$150 million in annual share buybacks through the NCIB program. So far during 2025, Lundin Mining has acquired 12,629,000 common shares at a cost of approximately US$104 million.

    ESTMA Report and Modern Slavery Report

    Lundin Mining has filed its ESTMA Report and Modern Slavery Report for the year ended December 31, 2024, which can be found on the Company’s website (lundinmining.com).

    About Lundin Mining

    Lundin Mining is a diversified base metals mining company with operations or projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States of America, primarily producing copper, gold and nickel.

    The information in this release is subject to the disclosure requirements of Lundin Mining under the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out below on June 30, 2025 at 16:00 Pacific Time.

    Lundin Mining Announces Updated Share Capital, Provides Update on Share Buybacks and Announces Filing of ESTMA Report and Modern Slavery Report (CNW Group/Lundin Mining Corporation)

    SOURCE Lundin Mining Corporation

    For further information, please contact: Stephen Williams, Vice President, Investor Relations: +1 604 806 3074; Robert Eriksson, Investor Relations Sweden: +46 8 440 54 50

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  • Households’ subjective expectations: Disagreement, common drivers, and reaction to aggregate shocks

    Household expectations are usually thought to play a central role in the transmission of macroeconomic policy. Yet we still know too little about how households perceive and interpret the complex relationships and feedback between relevant economic variables that are at the core of general equilibrium. In a recent project (Ferreira and Pica 2025), we use new euro area household level survey data to show that households interpret contractionary demand and supply shocks as inflationary, contrary to conventional macroeconomic models. Our paper contributes to a recent literature investigating households’ mental models about economic relationships (e.g. André et al. 2022, Piccolo et al. 2025).

    The misalignment we uncover emerges consistently across time, countries, demographic groups, and levels of financial literacy. Although disagreement is pervasive, there is a clear structure in household expectations: two common factors explain a large share of the variation in beliefs within and across individual households in different countries.

    These patterns challenge standard assumptions in macroeconomic models and raise important questions about the communication and effectiveness of monetary policy. When central banks raise interest rates, they do so partly to influence expectations. However, if households’ understanding of and attention to transmission mechanisms differ from those assumed in the models that justify such rate changes – and if the households act on these beliefs – the impact of a policy may diverge from its intended effect. The links between expectations, real outcomes, and monetary policy has been explored in other Vox columns (e.g. Gorodnichenko et al. 2019, 2021, Weber et al. 2021).

    The effect of aggregate demand and supply shocks on expectations

    A natural way to explore the mental models that households entertain about economic dynamics is to evaluate the impact that exogenous shifts in demand and supply curves have on beliefs. Under rational expectations, these shifts should affect expectations about prices and quantities in a specific direction. We study how households in six major euro area economies – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain – respond to aggregate shocks using the ECB’s high-frequency Consumer Expectations Survey. This monthly panel captures detailed, household-level expectations about inflation, unemployment, interest rates, the general economic outlook, and other variables.

    Our first key finding is that contractionary monetary policy shocks raise inflation expectations. Specifically, following an ECB rate increase, households expect not only slower economic growth and higher unemployment, but also higher inflation over the next 12 months (Figure 1). This response is surprising. In textbook New Keynesian models, tighter monetary policy reduces demand and dampens inflation. Households’ expectations in our data move in the opposite direction and do so persistently. This result is in line with André et al. (2022) and Piccolo et al. (2025). One of our contributions to this literature is to validate these results internally across different identification strategies – including an event-study around ECB meetings – using alternative data sources going back to 2000. In addition, we show a surprising robustness across countries and demographic groups.

    Figure 1 Impulse responses of household expectations to a contractionary monetary policy shock

    Note: Impulse response functions of household expectations following a contractionary monetary surprise that raises the short rate by 25 basis points on impact. These responses are estimated using the panel local projections with Newey-West standard errors clustered at the monthly level. The 95% confidence intervals are shown in light blue; the 68% confidence intervals in dark blue. The estimation sample spans April 2020 to January 2024 for all variables except interest rate expectations, which are available from September 2020 onward.

    Turning to oil shocks, household-level responses align closely with the expected effects of a stagflationary shock: a rise in the real oil price leads to higher expected inflation while lowering expected economic growth (Figure 2).

    We therefore conclude that households consistently interpret contractionary supply and demand shocks as inflationary.

    Figure 2 Impulse responses of household expectations to a contractionary oil shock

    Notes: Impulse response functions of household expectations following a contractionary oil shock that raises the real oil price by 10% on impact. These responses are estimated using panel local projections with Newey-West standard errors clustered at the monthly level. The 95% confidence intervals are shown in light blue; the 68% confidence intervals in dark blue. The estimation sample spans April 2020 to June 2024 for all variables except interest rate expectations, which are available from September 2020 onward.

    Common drivers of beliefs

    Despite significant and persistent disagreement, household expectations move together in systematic ways. We uncover two latent drivers (principal components) that explain around 40% of the variation in expectations across households and countries.

    The first component reflects a broad perception that inflation is bad for the economy due, for example, to its origin on supply side shocks or to its erosion of disposable real incomes (Kamdar and Ray 2024, Binetti et al. 2024). Households that expect higher inflation also anticipate slower growth and weaker labour markets. This ‘inflation pessimism’ dominates the structure of expectations and suggests a mental model wherein price increases are interpreted as a sign of worsening real conditions.

    The second component captures concerns about interest rates and unemployment. Households that expect higher interest rates also expect weaker economic outcomes, suggesting that they associate rate hikes with cost increases and labour market deterioration, rather than with disinflationary effects.

    Strikingly, these latent drivers are not systematically linked to observable characteristics like age, education, housing tenure, or financial literacy. Nor are they specific to any one country. This points to a shared cognitive framework – a simplified but common view of the business cycle – that shapes how households interpret macroeconomic developments.

    Building on this, we estimate a two-factor structure for the cross-section of all expectations. The structure is general enough to capture individual time-invariant biases and disturbances, and can be mapped onto most equilibrium models with a generalised expectation formation process. The first factor, which explains the bulk of the time-series variation, tracks inflation-related sentiment potentially emerging from attention to media outlets, including the supply bottlenecks of 2021, the energy crisis, and ECB rate hikes from mid-2022 onward. The second factor correlates closely with unemployment dynamics, suggesting that demand-side perceptions are linked primarily to real activity (Figure 3).

    Figure 3 Evolution of identified factors over the sample period

    Note: Figure plots factors identified through sign restrictions on household expectations data; sample covers the period from September 2020 to December 2024. The two thick lines represent the optimal uncorrelated factors, identified using a standard Euclidean metric. The thinner lines show the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles of the distribution of distances for alternative valid models (i.e. rotations). Blue lines correspond to the first factor, identified by loadings that capture opposite correlations between expected economic growth and expected inflation. Red lines correspond to the second factor, identified based on demand-type signs on expected economic growth and expected inflation. Vertical solid lines mark key events: (1) disruptions in the Suez and Panama Canals (May 2021), (2) the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022), and (3) the ECB’s first post-pandemic interest rate hike (July 2022).

    Conclusions and implications for policy

    Understanding how households interpret macroeconomic policy is vital for the effectiveness of central bank action. Our study shows that households often react in ways that contradict the standard theoretical playbook. This misalignment is systematic and rooted in a shared structure of beliefs, not idiosyncratic noise.

    These findings have important implications. If households believe that contractionary monetary policy fuels rather than curbs inflation, then standard policy levers may be less effective than models suggest. Communication strategies that rely on rational expectations may fall flat if the public’s mental model of the economy diverges fundamentally from that of policymakers.

    Moreover, if inflation expectations are not anchored by policy signals but are instead shaped by perceived cost pressures, there is a risk of self-fulfilling inflation dynamics. Policymakers may inadvertently reinforce inflation fears if rate hikes are seen as signs of economic trouble rather than tools to stabilise prices.

    Our evidence suggests that households interpret shocks through a lens shaped by recent crises – such as the energy shock following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – and by deep-rooted concerns about real purchasing power. Addressing these perceptions may require more than technical briefings or forecasts. Clear, relatable narratives about how policy affects inflation and the broader economy are essential.

    References

    Andre, P, C Pizzinelli, C Roth and J Wohlfart (2022), “Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Experts and Representative Samples”, Review of Economic Studies 86(6): 2958–91.

    Binetti, A, F Nuzzi and S Stantcheva (2024), “People’s understanding of inflation”, Journal of Monetary Economics 148, 103652.

    Coibion, O, Y Gorodnichenko and M Weber (2022), “Monetary Policy Communications and Their Effects on Household Inflation Expectations”, Journal of Political Economy 130(6): 1537–84.

    Ferreira, C and S Pica (2005), “Households’ Subjective Expectations: Disagreement, Common Drivers, and Reaction to Monetary Policy”, Banco de Espana Working Paper No. 2445.

    Gorodnichenko, Y, M Weber and O Coibion (2019), “Monetary policy communications and their effects on household inflation expectations”, VoxEU.org, 22 February.

    Gorodnichenko, Y, M Weber and O Coibion (2021), “How inflation expectations affect households’ spending decisions”, VoxEU.org, 19 March.

    Kamdar, R and W Ray (2024), “Attention-Driven Sentiment and the Business Cycle”, University of Oxford Working Paper.

    Piccolo, J, A Russo, E Granziera and E Castelnuovo (2025), “Households’ Macroeconomic Beliefs: The Role of Education”, Marco Fanno Working Paper 316, Universita Degli Studi di Padova.

    Weber, M, G Kenny, D Georgarakos, Y Gorodnichenko and O Coibion (2021), “The effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on household spending”, VoxEU.org, 31 July.

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  • Household energy bills fall but may not go much lower

    Household energy bills fall but may not go much lower

    Kevin Peachey

    Cost of living correspondent

    Getty Images Couple cook on a hob in a kitchen.Getty Images

    Energy prices will fall from Tuesday for 21 million households in England, Scotland and Wales but uncertainty remains over whether costs will stay down for winter.

    The bill for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity is dropping by £11 a month, under regulator Ofgem’s latest price cap.

    While billpayers have welcomed the 7% cut, there is concern that bills will still hit hard later in the year when it is colder and darker.

    People are being encouraged to shop around to see whether a fixed deal which could provide more certainty over payments would be more suitable.

    The future direction of prices is hard to predict. While little change had been expected for prices this autumn, uncertainty in the Middle East could still have an impact on wholesale prices, with a knock-on impact on household bills.

    Analysts at the energy consultancy Cornwall Insight have forecast a further 1% drop in October.

    This would take the annual bill for a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity to £1,697 a year – but Cornwall Insight said there was “significant uncertainty” over the forecast.

    “The cap still remains hundreds of pounds above pre-pandemic prices, even when adjusting for inflation. Furthermore, there is little indication that prices will reduce substantially over the next few years,” it said.

    Ofgem is urging people to consider fixed deals, which the regulator said could lead to a £200 annual saving.

    Those already on fixed deals will not see any change to their monthly payments following Tuesday’s price cap change.

    Currently 35% of billpayers are on a fixed tariff, up from just 15% a year ago when fewer offers were available.

    However, a fixed deal only sets the unit rate. Actual household bills depend on how much energy is used.

    At this time of year heating is usually off, so families typically focus on the cost of cooking, particularly as food prices have been rising sharply.

    Budgeting

    Nadina Hill, a mother-of-two who works part-time at an emergency services control room, has been trying to keep on top of her cooking and energy costs.

    “It is a struggle, because the price of everything always goes up,” the 45-year-old said. “I have to budget carefully.”

    She took part in an eight-week course with her daughter Gracie, 14, that taught them about cooking healthy food more cheaply.

    “We made some meals we’d never made before and used different types of ingredients,” she said.

    Hannah Marsh, Gracie and Nadina Hill stand on the pitch at Stevenage Football Club with stands in the background

    Nadina (right) and her daughter gathered tips through a project run by Stevenage Football Club’s Hannah Marsh (left)

    The Community Kitchen, run by Stevenage Football Club Foundation, has helped hundreds of families, and focuses on menus with portions costing £1 or less.

    Hannah Marsh, head of health and wellbeing at the foundation – the charitable arm of the club, who created the programme, said key tips included:

    • Using recipes like pizza in a pan, to avoid having to use the oven
    • Bulk cooking meals, some of which can be frozen for later
    • Planning and budgeting for what you will cook throughout the week
    • Considering using tinned or frozen vegetables which could be cheaper

    Gracie said that even her pet rabbit Clover, and guinea pigs, Miles and Patch, benefitted from the course.

    “Instead of wasting all the peelings and putting them in the bin, we would give those as a treat,” she said.

    How the price cap works

    Every three months, the regulator’s price cap sets a maximum that suppliers can charge for each unit of energy, which applies to anyone on a variable tariff in England, Scotland and Wales. The price cap does not apply in Northern Ireland, which has its own energy market.

    Customers on variable deals can estimate how much their energy bill will fall by knocking 7% off their previous monthly direct debit.

    Ofgem illustrates the change in prices by showing the impact on the annual bill for a household using a typical amount of energy and paying by direct debit. This has dropped by £129, to £1,720.

    A bar chart showing the energy price cap for a typical household on a price-capped, dual-fuel tariff paying by direct debit, from January 2022 to September 2025. The figure was £1,216 based on typical usage in January 2022. This rose to a high of £4,059 in January 2023, although the Energy Price Guarantee limited bills to £2,380 for a typical household between October 2022 and June 2023. Bills dropped to £1,568 in July 2024, before rising slightly to £1,717 in October, £1,738 in January 2025, and £1,849 a year from April. From July to September, the figure will fall to £1,720.

    Prices are still considerably higher than before the Covid pandemic. That means people have had to adapt their lifestyles and finances.

    Jenny David, who lives in Bridgend with her husband, Mark and two children, Anwen and Hywel, said the family had worked out new ways to save.

    “It’s become [our] new norm,” she said “You don’t even notice you’re doing things.”

    Jenny David at home with a picture and door behind her.

    Jenny David says she plans food shopping meticulously

    She is a nurse and her husband works in his family’s kitchen and bathroom fitting business.

    They invested in an air fryer and meticulously plan their shops. Jenny said she was used to being active, but to save money on the cost of gym membership and classes she now attended a free weekly outdoor fitness class.

    New energy prices

    Another strategy for managing energy expenditure is for households to provide regular meter readings to suppliers, to ensure companies charge for energy use at the correct rate.

    The latest changes mean variable tariffs for a customer who pays by direct debit are as follows:

    • Gas prices are capped at an average of 6.33p per kilowatt hour (kWh) down from 6.99p
    • Electricity is capped at 25.73p per kWh down from 27.03p
    • Standing charges vary by region but have fallen on average to 51.37p a day for electricity, from 53.8p
    • Standing charges for gas have fallen to 29.82p a day for gas, from 32.67p

    In addition:

    • A typical household uses 2,700 kWh of electricity a year, and 11,500 kWh of gas
    • Households on pre-payment meters pay slightly less than those on direct debit, with a typical annual bill of £1,672
    • Those who pay their bills by cash or cheque pay more, with a typical annual bill of £1,855.

    The regulator is considering changes to the system of standing charges, although that has brought renewed debate over how they operate.

    Winter fuel payment U-turn

    The government’s decision last year to limit eligibility for the winter fuel payment, focused concern on the cost of energy for pensioners.

    However, opposition from charities, backbench Labour MPs and unions, led to a U-turn from the prime minister and chancellor.

    The reversal means 75% of pensioners in England and Wales will receive the payment in winter 2025, and the rules will be similar in Scotland.

    From this winter, the payment of £200 or £300 per pensioner household, will go to those with an annual income of £35,000 or less.

    The Warm Home Discount, which is worth £150, will also be extended this winter.

    Anyone on means-tested benefits will automatically see the money knocked off their bills no matter what size of property they live in.

    Additional reporting by Abi Smitton

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  • Accelerant Holdings Announces Public Filing of Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering – Business Wire

    1. Accelerant Holdings Announces Public Filing of Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering  Business Wire
    2. ARX IPO News – Specialty insurance marketplace Accelerant Holdings files for a $100 million IPO  renaissancecapital.com
    3. Accelerant files for IPO  businessinsurance.com
    4. Todd Boehly-backed Accelerant files for NYSE listing as IPO market gathers steam  MSN
    5. Todd Boehly-backed Accelerant files for US IPO By Reuters  Investing.com

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  • Bombardier Announces Significant Firm Order from New Customer for 50 Challenger and Global Jets Including First-of-a-Kind Maintenance Services Partnership

    Bombardier Announces Significant Firm Order from New Customer for 50 Challenger and Global Jets Including First-of-a-Kind Maintenance Services Partnership

    • Combined value of the 50-aircraft firm order and services agreement is US$1.7 billion; aircraft deliveries to begin in 20271
    • Order also includes 70 new aircraft purchase options; if all options are exercised, the total aircraft and services value would reach more than US$4 billion2
    • First-of-a-kind service agreement between an OEM and operator will deliver the most comprehensive and integrated maintenance offering for the fleet’s customers from Bombardier’s top-ranked service network

    Bombardier proudly announces a significant firm order for 50 of its performance-leading Challenger and Global aircraft, combined with a first-of-a-kind service agreement. Together, the firm aircraft and service agreements are valued at US$1.7 billion with deliveries set to begin in 20271. The first-time Bombardier customer will also hold 70 new aircraft purchase options. If all purchase options are exercised, the combined aircraft and service agreements’ value would reach more than US$4 billion2. The customer has selected Bombardier’s top-ranked maintenance offerings to create an innovative partnership that will deliver an unmatched level of care and convenience for customers. The customer has elected to remain anonymous prior to unveiling their offering in the marketplace.

    “This significant order underscores the competitive advantage Bombardier’s full scope of products and services brings to customers throughout the entire aircraft lifecycle, from design to delivery, then throughout the in-service journey,” said Éric Martel, President and CEO, Bombardier. “We build trust each day with each customer thanks to dedicated team members around the world who ensure their consistent satisfaction. Our more than 18,000 Bombardier employees are proud to welcome this new, important customer to our family.”

    Delivering impeccable aircraft and services to elevate its customers’ experience on all fronts, Bombardier’s offer sets the standard in business aviation. The company’s Global and Challenger families of aircraft are renowned for their exceptional performance, proven reliability and passenger-centric cabin. Leveraging Bombardier’s impeccable engineering, these jets are designed to deliver a seamless travel experience, boasting industry-leading landing capabilities and the company’s signature smooth ride. Additionally, Bombardier’s worldwide service network delivers the company’s unmatched expertise to operators around the world, ensuring they benefit from a seamless experience at every point in their journey.  

    (1) See forward-looking statements disclaimer hereinafter. 
    (2) Includes 50 firm aircraft orders, assumption that all 70 purchase options are exercised at the discretion of the customer and the service agreement. Such assumption is a forward-looking statement—see forward-looking statements disclaimer hereinafter.

    About Bombardier

    At Bombardier (BBD-B.TO), we design, build, modify and maintain the world’s best-performing aircraft for the world’s most discerning people and businesses, governments and militaries. That means not simply exceeding standards, but understanding customers well enough to anticipate their unspoken needs. 

    For them, we are committed to pioneering the future of aviation—innovating to make flying more reliable, efficient and sustainable. And we are passionate about delivering unrivaled craftsmanship and care, giving our customers greater confidence and the elevated experience they deserve and expect. Because people who shape the world will always need the most productive and responsible ways to move through it. 

    Bombardier customers operate a fleet of more than 5,100 aircraft, supported by a vast network of Bombardier team members worldwide and 10 service facilities across six countries. Bombardier’s performance-leading jets are proudly manufactured in aerostructure, assembly and completion facilities in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In 2024, Bombardier was honoured with the prestigious “Red Dot: Best of the Best” award for Brands and Communication Design.     

    For Information

    For corporate news and information, including Bombardier’s Sustainability report, as well as the company’s initiative to cover all its flight operations with a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blend utilizing the Book-and-Claim system visit 
    bombardier.com.

    Learn more about Bombardier’s industry-leading products and customer service network at bombardier.com. Follow us on X @Bombardier.

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    Forward-looking statements
    This press release contains certain forward-looking statements based on current expectations. By their nature, forward-looking statements require us to make assumptions and are subject to important known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results in future periods to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the “Forward-Looking Statements” disclaimer contained in Bombardier Inc.’s most recently published financial report for additional details.

    Bombardier, Challenger and Global are registered or unregistered trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries.
     

     

     

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  • Liberatech Space to offer custom Earth-observation products for commodity, energy and environmental monitoring

    Liberatech Space to offer custom Earth-observation products for commodity, energy and environmental monitoring

    SAN FRANCISCO – While working in finance years ago, Yasunori Yamazaki traveled to mines to conduct due diligence. Later, as Axelspace chief business officer and Astroscale head of brand management, he considered how satellites could simplify the task.

    As a result, one of the first products being developed by his new company Singapore-based Liberatech Space, is Earth-observation and analysis for mining-sector investors.

    Yamazaki co-founded Liberatech in 2024 with Tom James, co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based Tradeflow Capital Management, to use satellite data to address challenges in the commodity, energy and environmental industries.

    “The company utilizes space technology, primarily satellite-imagery data, to create products and services directly for the user,” Yamazaki, who serves as Liberatech CEO and chief marketing officer, told SpaceNews.

    Custom products

    To date, Liberatech has focused primarily on the finance sector. Instead of developing one-size-fits-all products, “we have been speaking to potential clients to understand the optimal product and services that will fit well with them,” Yamazaki said.

    Liberatech is working with Kongsberg Satellite Services of Norway. The strategic partnership announced June 10 was forged to marry KSAT’s extensive Earth observation and communications infrastructure with Liberatech’s artificial intelligence-enhanced analytics.

    KSAT joined forces with Liberatech because “what Yasu and Liberatech want to achieve fits very well with our mindset about bringing a wide portfolio of analyzed data to the clients on a very short timeline,” said Borre Pedersen, KSAT Earth observation sales director.

    In addition to operating a global ground station network, KSAT is known for collecting and sharing Earth-observation data products related to vessel tracking, oil and gas operations, and environmental monitoring.

    “We can do the analytics and processing,” Pedersen said. “Then Liberatech will integrate in our value-adding products to create solutions for clients.”

    For example, KSAT has expertise in combining synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with other types of Earth imagery to “reveal details that are not visible to human eye,” Pedersen said.

    For the mining sector, combining Yamazaki’s experience with KSAT’s decades of experience with SAR, “will create a very powerful solution that will help the owners and the investors to going forward,” Pedersen said.

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  • Hong Kong’s bull market leaves China behind – Financial Times

    Hong Kong’s bull market leaves China behind – Financial Times

    1. Hong Kong’s bull market leaves China behind  Financial Times
    2. Chinese money fires up Hong Kong shares  Reuters
    3. Trade deal, rate-cut bets lift Hong Kong stocks to best week in 4 months  South China Morning Post
    4. Mainland Capital Fuels Hong Kong Revival  DirectorsTalk Interviews
    5. HSI Soars 500+ Pts After Midday, DJIA Futures Expand Gains to ~380 Pts as Israel Agrees to Ceasefire  AASTOCKS.com

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  • Cambrian Works Announces Upcoming GigRouter Launch to the International Space Station

    Cambrian Works Announces Upcoming GigRouter Launch to the International Space Station

    LOS GATOS, CA– Cambrian Works, an innovator in technological connections between Earth and space, is proud to announce their GigRouter flight unit is ready for launch aboard Aegis Aerospace’s MISSE-21 carrier. With this launch to kick off their 2025 mission schedule, Cambrian Works is slated to achieve extended space heritage for the first time, expanding the possibilities for Internet-like network connectivity beyond the limitations of land.

    The GigRouter is a pioneering product in space communication devices, aimed at seamlessly integrating edge computing and networking into space systems. As a foundational piece in Cambrian Works’ vision to incorporate the terrestrial internet into space, the GigRouter reaches across spacecraft crosslinks to create a global fabric of widely dispersed space platforms. Bound for the Aegis Aerospace’s MISSE Flight Facility platform on the International Space Station, this is the first GigRouter to see space.

    “After extensive technology validation, comprehensive pre-launch environmental testing, and even radiation testing to validate lifetime and utility in multiple orbits, the GigRouter is ready for flight heritage – the badge of a technology that is ready for operational use in Space,” says Cambrian Works CEO, Victor Aguero. “The long duration operation in space enables us to fully validate performance under real-world effects encountered in Space to ensure our customers that we are ready to support their mission critical communications.”

    Taking off in the fall of this year, the GigRouter will be delivered to the Aegis Aerospace-operated MISSE platform for a six-month tenure in space. In this time, the Cambrian Works team will observe how the system works in the space environment, monitoring containerized applications, collecting telemetry including temperature and radiation data, and testing ethernet bandwidth on its 1 and 10 Gigabit per second ports.

    “For this mission, our first in orbit, we learned to operate ‘hands-off,’” says Integration Lead, Adam Orris. “We practiced this independent approach from the start, when the Aegis Aerospace team smoothly integrated the unit without our assistance. In most of our processes to date, we’ve been able to physically connect our GigRouter to our network to stream telemetry to our custom Console, or gather more detailed telemetry through other web-based tools. Even in long-duration tests where we are disconnected from outside networks, we had the ability to connect a test laptop via the debug terminal or secure shell. But with shared data bandwidth on the Space Station, we can only periodically download or upload files–we have no immediate connection. In preparation for this, we made our software more autonomous and fault-tolerant, with more detailed telemetry available. We also created periodic status messages that can be stored and downloaded. While installed on the station, Aegis Aerospace will provide a data and power interface. We are excited to continue working with the helpful and friendly Aegis Aerospace team as we check in on our GigRouter–our first telemetry from orbit!”

    For more information, contact Simon Lee at info@cambrianworks.com.

    About Cambrian Works
    Cambrian Works is pioneering foundational infrastructure and technology for the nascent space economy. Overcoming the constraints between the ground and space, Cambrian Works provides real-time, resilient, multi-orbit, self-healing mesh networking solutions that expand the terrestrial Internet, network data flow visualizations and management across constellations and multi-orbit regimes, and revolutionary technologies for in-space attachment that enhance space manufacturing capabilities and in-space servicing missions. The Cambrian Works team is dedicated to empowering an in-space, robotic workforce, operable collaboratively and from the ground, building up the machine-to-machine future in space, and addressing the need for seamless information sharing between diverse industries, companies, and domains.

    Cambrian Works is made up of radical engineers and programmers with wide industry experience, joined by their shared goal of forging an in-space economy that enables ideas to flourish, pushing forward a Cambrian explosion of new opportunities in space.

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  • Cutting Open RAN Funds Hurts U.S. Innovation and Helps China

    Cutting Open RAN Funds Hurts U.S. Innovation and Helps China

    Congress is on the verge of hamstringing a key tool in the fight against Chinese tech dominance. Today, Chinese companies, such as Huawei and ZTE, offer full-stack radio-access gear at basement prices, using global scale and unfair government policies to lock in carriers to unsecure equipment and steer emerging standards in Beijing’s favor.

    To counter this threat, technology companies are developing “Open Radio Access Network” (Open RAN) concepts that encourage interoperable interfaces for each RAN component so that mobile networks need not be beholden to any one RAN provider. In an Open RAN framework radios, base-band units, and software can mix and match across vendors—cutting costs, boosting innovation, and diluting single-supplier security risk. But Open RAN also presents technical challenges.

    The United States has been a leader in pushing the frontier of networking components and capabilities, including a $1.5 billion investment to create the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund as part of the Chips and Science Act of 2022. The first two rounds have already obligated $550 million across 35 projects, building U.S. testbeds and prototypes. Round 3 drew more than 90 proposals and could award up to $450 million.

    But now, just as funding is rolling out to innovators, Congress is seeking to cut it off. A section of the Senate Commerce portion of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts all the remaining funds for Open RAN innovation. This move would make the United States less innovative and less competitive in the fight against Chinese dominance over wireless communications. As Congress votes on amendments to the full bill it should remove this section of the Commerce Committee’s title to fully fund the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, not cut it off.

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  • Boeing recruits new CFO amid turnaround campaign – Financial Times

    Boeing recruits new CFO amid turnaround campaign – Financial Times

    1. Boeing recruits new CFO amid turnaround campaign  Financial Times
    2. Boeing Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition Plan  Boeing Newsroom
    3. Boeing appoints former Lockheed Martin CFO Jay Malave as new finance chief  Reuters
    4. Boeing Names Ex-Lockheed Martin Executive to Succeed CFO Brian West  WSJ
    5. Ex-Lockheed CFO Malave Heads To Boeing For Top Financial Job  Defense Daily

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