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Why metal prices are soaring to record highs
Precious and industrial metals are surging to record highs as the year ends, driven by economic and geopolitical uncertainty, robust industrial demand and, in some cases, tight supply.
Stocks tepid in thin pre-Christmas trade
European and Asian markets were tepid Wednesday in thin Christmas Eve trade as investors struggled to track a record day on Wall Street fuelled by forecast-topping US economic data.
Rome pushes Meta to allow other AIs on WhatsApp
Italian regulators ordered Meta on Wednesday to open its WhatsApp chat platform to rival AI chatbots as it and EU authorities pursue a probe that the US tech giant is abusing its dominant market position.
Festive lights, security tight for Christmas in Damascus
Christmas lights illuminate Damascus's Old City while government forces patrol its shadows as security fears haunt Syria's Christian community.
Asian markets mixed after US growth data fuels Wall St record
Asian markets went into the Christmas break Wednesday on a mixed note as investors struggled to track a record day on Wall Street fuelled by forecast-topping US economic data.
SOBRsafe Announces $2 Million Private Placement Priced At-The-Market Under Nasdaq Rules
DENVER, COLORADO / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / SOBR Safe, Inc. (Nasdaq:SOBR) ("SOBRsafe" or the "Company"), the leader in next-generation alcohol monitoring and detection technology, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements for the issuance and sale of 1,290,324 shares of its common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), Series C warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,290,324 shares of common stock and Series D warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,290,324 shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $1.55 per share (or pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) and associated warrants in a private placement priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. The warrants will have an exercise price of $1.30 per share and will be exercisable immediately upon issuance. The Series C warrants will expire five years after the effective date of the Resale Registration Statement (as defined below) and the Series D warrants will expire twenty-four months after the effective date of the Resale Registration Statement.
Why SMX's Execution Phase Favors Upside More Than Downside
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Once technology is validated and network effects begin to take hold, the next question investors should ask is simple: how efficiently can this platform scale? This is where SMX's valuation profile diverges sharply from how the market still tends to frame it.
SMX Is Being Valued By Monetizing Certainty, Not Sustainability Narratives
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / SMX's valuation story is one that the markets are finally coming to understand: monetization. Not revenue in the narrow, quarterly sense, but how proof converts into economic leverage once verification is embedded at scale.
SMX Is Earning Validation, and Valuation, Through Industrial Proof, Not Promises
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / SMX's valuation story has quietly crossed a critical threshold. The company is no longer asking the market to underwrite a concept. It is asking the market to recognize proof.
SMX's Valuation Is Anchored in Fixing a Structural Supply-Chain Failure Markets Learned to Ignore
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / One of the most misunderstood aspects of SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) valuation is the nature of the problem it is addressing. This is not a feature layered onto existing systems, and it is not a workflow improvement designed to shave costs at the margins. It is a response to a structural market failure that global supply chains have learned to tolerate because no viable alternative existed.
Gold's Quiet Molecular-Level Reckoning Is Happening Outside the Spotlight
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Gold rarely makes headlines for how it moves. Markets track prices, not pathways. Once refined, metal tends to lose its story. Where it came from, who handled it, and how it crossed borders have historically mattered less than what it weighed and where it settled.
SMX Is Transitioning From Single Deployments to Supply-Chain Infrastructure
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Once industrial validation is achieved, the next inflection point is not linear growth. It is compounding leverage. This is where SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) valuation story becomes far more interesting than any single contract or pilot.
Each SMX Partnership Opens a Market, the Portfolio Multiplies the Value
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / One of the most overlooked aspects of SMX's recent execution is how efficiently it is opening entire markets through partnerships rather than direct market entry. This is not expansion by brute force. It is expansion by design.
Why SMX's Partnerships Expand Value Faster Than Its Cost Base
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / In early-stage companies, partnerships are often treated as marketing events. Logos get added to slides. Press releases get circulated. Little changes economically. SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) recent partnerships do not fit that pattern. They are not designed to signal interest. They are designed to embed capability inside operating systems that already matter.
SMX's Integrated Value Proposition: One System, Many Markets, Compounding Leverage
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / At its core, the SMX value proposition is not fragmented, even though it touches multiple industries. It is unified. What appears on the surface as plastics, textiles, metals, partnerships, and verification tools is, in reality, a single system designed to solve one foundational problem: the absence of persistent truth in global supply chains.
Pantheon Resources PLC Announces TR-1: Notification of Major Holdings
LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings
US slams China policies on chips but will delay tariffs to 2027
US trade officials determined that China should be punished for employing unfair tactics to dominate the semiconductor industry, but will wait 18 months to impose tariffs, American authorities said Tuesday.
Libya's top military chief killed in plane crash in Turkey
The head of Libya's armed forces and four other passengers died on Tuesday when their business jet crashed shortly after taking off from Ankara, officials in Turkey's capital and Tripoli said.
Venezuela passes law to jail backers of US oil blockade
Venezuela's parliament passed a law Tuesday that carries lengthy prison terms for any national supporting a United States' oil tanker blockade Caracas has termed piracy.
US consumer confidence tumbles in December
US consumer confidence languished at a multi-month low in December as a slowing job market offset better sentiment after the government shutdown ended, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken found dead in hotel
Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken, 27, has been found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, Italy, the Norwegian Biathlon Association said Tuesday, adding that the cause of death was unknown.
Venezuela seeks to jail backers of US oil blockade
Venezuela's parliament is set to debate a law Tuesday that envisages lengthy prison terms for any national supporting a United States' oil tanker blockade Caracas has termed piracy.
Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken found dead
Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken, 27, has been found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, Italy, the Norwegian Biathlon Association said Tuesday, adding that the cause of death was unknown.
US economic growth surges in 3rd quarter, highest rate in two years
US economic growth in the third quarter came in at 4.3 percent on an annualized basis, easily topping expectations, according to Commerce Department data released Tuesday.
Stocks slip on strong US growth data
Wall Street's main stock indices briefly slid lower on Tuesday as much stronger-than-expected US growth figures befuddled hopes for further interest rate cuts, while gold and silver struck fresh records.
Russian strike could collapse Chernobyl shelter: plant director
A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has told AFP.
Italy fines Ryanair $300 mn for abuse of dominant position
Italy's competition authority said on Tuesday it had fined low-cost airline Ryanair more than 255 million euros ($300 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant position to block travel agencies' access to its services.
Stocks steady as rate cut hopes bring Christmas cheer
Stock markets steadied on Tuesday, while gold and silver hit fresh records as optimism for US rate cuts helped investors ease into the festive break.
In Bulgaria, villagers fret about euro introduction
In Bilyana Nikolova's grocery store in Chuprene, a village in northwestern Bulgaria, prices are now displayed in levs and euros on hundreds of food products and other items.
Delayed US data expected to show solid growth in 3rd quarter
The US economy is expected to post another solid economic growth reading Tuesday, but the much-delayed figures likely will not settle debate on the labor market, AI and other variables.
Trump says US needs Greenland 'for national security'
President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that the United States needed Greenland for "national security" after his appointment of a special envoy to the Danish Arctic island triggered a new spat with Copenhagen.
'Call of Duty' co-creator Vince Zampella killed in car crash
Vince Zampella, the acclaimed co-creator of the video gaming juggernaut "Call of Duty," has died in a car crash, gaming giant Electronic Arts confirmed on Monday.