# Continental

> Continental covers finance, politics, and world news for readers tracking how markets and power move across the globe.

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## Sections
- [World](https://continental.today/category/world): Global news and the events reshaping countries and regions.
- [Politics](https://continental.today/category/politics): Elections, policy fights, and the people holding power.
- [Geopolitics](https://continental.today/category/geopolitics): Diplomacy, alliances, and the conflicts between states.
- [Markets](https://continental.today/category/markets): Indices, bonds, rates, and what moves money around the world.
- [Business](https://continental.today/category/business): Companies, earnings, deals, and the people running them.
- [Economy](https://continental.today/category/economy): Growth, inflation, trade, and the numbers behind the headlines.

## Articles
- [India's Proprietary Trading Firms Saw Derivatives Profits Fall to 4.7 Billion Dollars](https://continental.today/article/india-prop-traders-derivatives-profits-fall): Gross profit for prop trading firms in Indian equity derivatives slipped nearly 3 percent in the year through March as regulatory curbs cooled speculative activity, even as the firms remained the market's biggest winners while retail traders kept losing. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/india-prop-traders-derivatives-profits-fall/md)
- [Invesco Cuts Fees 20 Percent to Stop Investors From Pulling Money Out of Its Property Fund](https://continental.today/article/invesco-fee-cut-property-fund-redemptions): The firm is cutting management fees on its 12.7 billion dollar core real estate fund through 2027 and offering a tender to exit at 95 percent of asset value, an attempt to work through a 2.2 billion dollar redemption queue. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/invesco-fee-cut-property-fund-redemptions/md)
- [Private Credit Is Pivoting Away From Direct Lending as Fundraising Dries Up](https://continental.today/article/private-credit-pivot-direct-lending-shrink): Fundraising for non traded business development companies fell 82 percent in the second quarter to its lowest level since 2020, pushing private credit managers to look beyond traditional direct lending as investors pull a record amount of cash from the sector. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/private-credit-pivot-direct-lending-shrink/md)
- [HSBC Leveraged Finance Banker Vikram Lamba Has Left the Bank for ICG](https://continental.today/article/hsbc-vikram-lamba-departs-icg): Lamba, a Hong Kong based managing director in HSBC's leveraged and acquisition finance team, has departed and joined alternative asset manager ICG as head of its Asia Pacific corporate business. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/hsbc-vikram-lamba-departs-icg/md)
- [Deutsche Bank Is Rebuilding Its Energy Trading Desk With a String of Senior Hires](https://continental.today/article/deutsche-bank-rebuilds-energy-trading-unit): More than a decade after largely exiting commodities, Deutsche Bank has hired former Goldman Sachs traders Madhav Janakiraman and Benoit Bosc along with senior Morgan Stanley sales executives to relaunch its energy trading business. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/deutsche-bank-rebuilds-energy-trading-unit/md)
- [CME Group Chief Duffy Clashes With CFTC Chairman Over Policing Prediction Markets](https://continental.today/article/cme-duffy-cftc-selig-prediction-markets): Terry Duffy told regulators the agency needs to do more to prevent manipulation as prediction market platforms grow into multibillion dollar businesses, while CFTC chairman Michael Selig pushed back on one of his examples. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/cme-duffy-cftc-selig-prediction-markets/md)
- [Smaller Asian AI Companies Are Driving This Month's Rebound in Emerging Market Stocks](https://continental.today/article/asia-smaller-ai-firms-em-bounce-back): Names like King Slide Works, Henan Shijia Photons and EverProX Technologies have posted gains of up to 90 percent this month as investors rotate away from chipmaking giants toward smaller firms that supply the rest of the AI data center buildout. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/asia-smaller-ai-firms-em-bounce-back/md)
- [Chinese Robotics Startup Dexmal Is Seeking a 3 Billion Dollar Valuation in New Funding](https://continental.today/article/dexmal-alibaba-robot-firm-3-billion-valuation): Dexmal, an Alibaba backed startup working on physical AI for robots, is in talks for a fresh funding round that would value the company at around 20 billion yuan, the latest sign of strong investor appetite for China's robotics sector. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/dexmal-alibaba-robot-firm-3-billion-valuation/md)
- [Monte dei Paschi Offers 34 Billion Euros for Banco BPM and Banca Generali in One Move](https://continental.today/article/paschi-lovaglio-twin-bids-intesa-defense): The world's oldest bank has put forward two separate all share offers at once, an unusual dual bid designed to grow Monte dei Paschi past the point where Intesa Sanpaolo's unwanted takeover attempt still makes sense. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/paschi-lovaglio-twin-bids-intesa-defense/md)
- [Robert Friedland Says Sunrise Energy Metals May Become an American Company](https://continental.today/article/sunrise-energy-metals-friedland-us-redomicile): The mining billionaire says his scandium focused company is weighing a move to the United States after securing a 400 million dollar conditional loan commitment from the Pentagon for its Syerston project in Australia. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/sunrise-energy-metals-friedland-us-redomicile/md)
- [AI Cloud Company Nscale Is Said to Be Seeking Up to 3 Billion Dollars in a US IPO](https://continental.today/article/nscale-ai-cloud-ipo-3-billion): The London based data center operator is working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on a US listing that could arrive as soon as September, joining a wave of AI infrastructure companies heading to public markets. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/nscale-ai-cloud-ipo-3-billion/md)
- [Eric Trump Agreed to Limit His Influence Over World Liberty's New Bank](https://continental.today/article/eric-trump-world-liberty-bank-limits): As a condition of federal approval for a national trust bank tied to the Trump family's crypto venture, Eric Trump signed an agreement promising the entity he represents will not try to direct the bank's management or operations. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/eric-trump-world-liberty-bank-limits/md)
- [Apollo Global Management Confirms Data Breach After Employees Were Tricked Over the Phone](https://continental.today/article/apollo-data-breach-social-engineering): Apollo says hackers used a phone based social engineering technique to trick employees into handing over passwords and login codes in early July, exposing names, Social Security numbers and other personal data. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/apollo-data-breach-social-engineering/md)
- [Anthropic Is Preparing an IPO It Expects to Match or Beat SpaceX's Record Setting Size](https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-spacex-record-size): The maker of Claude is said to be readying a public filing as soon as the end of this month, with expectations that its offering could rival or exceed the 86 billion dollars SpaceX raised in the largest first time share sale ever. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-spacex-record-size/md)
- [Hamza Lemssouguer's Arini Hedge Fund Lost About 8 Percent in July After a Soured Credit Bet](https://continental.today/article/arini-lemssouguer-hedge-fund-loss-july): The former Credit Suisse star trader's Arini Capital Management fell around 8 percent last month after a group of Aston Martin bondholders it led was sidestepped by a new BlackRock backed financing deal, triggering a bond selloff. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/arini-lemssouguer-hedge-fund-loss-july/md)
- [Goldman Sachs Is Breaking Into India's Government Share Sales, a Market Local Banks Long Controlled](https://continental.today/article/goldman-sachs-india-government-share-sales): Goldman Sachs has advised on five of the last ten major Indian state share sales since December, including Life Insurance Corp of India's 3.3 billion dollar offering, a sharp break from a segment of dealmaking domestic banks have dominated for years. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/goldman-sachs-india-government-share-sales/md)
- [The Collapse of Subprime Lender Tricolor Is Fueling a Boom for Firms That Verify Collateral](https://continental.today/article/tricolor-fallout-collateral-checkers-boom): Fraud allegations tied to Tricolor Holdings, including claims that the auto lender pledged the same collateral to multiple lenders, have sent demand soaring for firms that check whether loan collateral actually exists. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/tricolor-fallout-collateral-checkers-boom/md)
- [JPMorgan Hires Bank of America Veteran David Fishman to Lead North America Tech M and A](https://continental.today/article/jpmorgan-hires-fishman-tech-ma): David Fishman is leaving Bank of America after more than fifteen years to become a vice chair at JPMorgan and head of its North America technology mergers and acquisitions business, reuniting him with a former colleague who moved to the bank last year. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/jpmorgan-hires-fishman-tech-ma/md)
- [Ken Griffin's Citadel Has Already Sold Off More Than 4 Billion Dollars of the Stocks It Bought From a Distressed AI Hedge Fund](https://continental.today/article/citadel-situational-awareness-block-trades): Citadel has unwound over 80 percent of the risk from a stock portfolio it acquired last month from Situational Awareness, the AI focused hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after heavy tech losses forced a rushed sale. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/citadel-situational-awareness-block-trades/md)
- [Banca Generali Says It Is Reviewing Monte dei Paschi's Unsolicited Takeover Offer](https://continental.today/article/banca-generali-evaluating-paschi-offer): The wealth management arm of insurer Assicurazioni Generali confirmed it is evaluating an unsolicited all share bid from Monte dei Paschi that values the bank at 8.7 billion euros as part of a wider defense against Intesa Sanpaolo. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/banca-generali-evaluating-paschi-offer/md)
- [Hong Kong and Singapore Are Racing to Cut Taxes for Hedge Fund Managers](https://continental.today/article/hedge-fund-tax-race-hong-kong-singapore): Hong Kong's push to erase taxes on carried interest has set off a scramble among hedge funds weighing a move from Singapore, and Singapore has responded within days by promising its own tax breaks for fund managers who deliver strong returns. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/hedge-fund-tax-race-hong-kong-singapore/md)
- [Honor Built a Smartphone With Its Own Robot Arm and Calls It a New Species of Phone](https://continental.today/article/honor-robot-phone-articulating-arm-smartphone): Honor's Robot Phone pairs a normal Android handset with a small articulating arm and a 200 megapixel gimbal camera, aiming to shoot steadier video and give the device its own expressive personality. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/honor-robot-phone-articulating-arm-smartphone/md)
- [Gemini Passes 1 Billion Monthly Users, and Most of Them Are Talking to It Instead of Typing](https://continental.today/article/gemini-1-billion-users-voice-mode): Sundar Pichai says Gemini is Google's fastest growing product ever after crossing a billion monthly users, and the surprise inside that growth is how many people are choosing to speak to it rather than type. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/gemini-1-billion-users-voice-mode/md)
- [Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says the Backlash Against Tech Is Really About One Word: Trust](https://continental.today/article/dario-amodei-trust-tech-companies): Dario Amodei argues that public anger at technology companies has less to do with artificial intelligence itself than with a broader belief that companies and governments are always working an angle against ordinary people. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/dario-amodei-trust-tech-companies/md)
- [How David Heacock Turned a Struggling Family Machine Shop Into a 260 Million Dollar Air Filter Company](https://continental.today/article/filterbuy-air-filter-king-talladega-boring-business): David Heacock left a job trading options at Goldman Sachs in 2012 to take over his family's fading manufacturing business in Talladega, Alabama, and rebuilt it as Filterbuy, an air filter maker he argues proves boring businesses can be the most reliable path to real money. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/filterbuy-air-filter-king-talladega-boring-business/md)
- [Tracee Ellis Ross Spent Ten Years Chasing a Yes Before Pattern Beauty Ever Reached a Shelf](https://continental.today/article/tracee-ellis-ross-decade-pattern-beauty): The actor first pitched what became Pattern Beauty back in 2008 and spent a decade being turned down before a conversation with Ulta's then chief executive finally opened the door to a 2019 launch. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/tracee-ellis-ross-decade-pattern-beauty/md)
- [MacKenzie Scott Has Given 461 Million Dollars to California Public Education Since 2021](https://continental.today/article/mackenzie-scott-461-million-california-public-education): The billionaire philanthropist has quietly sent unrestricted gifts to sixteen California schools and universities over four years, with most of the money going to colleges that serve first generation and underrepresented students. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/mackenzie-scott-461-million-california-public-education/md)
- [How Dave Cote Turned Vertiv Into One of the Best Performing Stocks in the S and P 500](https://continental.today/article/dave-cote-vertiv-stock-surge-ai-data-center-cooling): Vertiv, an 80 year old cooling company David Cote took over in 2020, has grown its market value nearly tenfold as data centers built for artificial intelligence turned its once unglamorous business into one of the market's biggest winners. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/dave-cote-vertiv-stock-surge-ai-data-center-cooling/md)
- [A 172 Billion Dollar Child Care Problem Is Also a Real Estate Problem, Fortec Chairman Argues](https://continental.today/article/child-care-172-billion-problem-real-estate-investors): Pablo Marcelo Barreiro of the early education real estate firm Fortec says America's child care crisis is usually framed as an affordability fight, when the deeper constraint is a shortage of licensed classrooms that investors have largely ignored. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/child-care-172-billion-problem-real-estate-investors/md)
- [Melinda French Gates Says Ten Minutes of Self Care a Day Changed How She Shows Up as a Parent](https://continental.today/article/melinda-french-gates-ten-minutes-self-care-parenting): The Pivotal Ventures founder says a short daily habit of quiet time, phone put away, made her a steadier parent during the early years of raising three children, and she argues the same habit matters most during any major life transition. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/melinda-french-gates-ten-minutes-self-care-parenting/md)
- [Iran War Delays Trump's Xi Summit as China's Navy Drills With Tehran Near Cape Town](https://continental.today/article/iran-war-delays-trump-xi-summit-china-navy-drills-cape-town): The war in Iran has pushed Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping back by roughly six weeks, and a joint naval exercise China ran with Iran and Russia off Cape Town in January shows how tangled Beijing's ties to Tehran have become. (clean markdown: https://continental.today/article/iran-war-delays-trump-xi-summit-china-navy-drills-cape-town/md)

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