Economy
UNCHAIN 2026: The CEE Fintech Festival Taking Place Inside a Medieval Fortress
UNCHAIN 2026 takes over Oradea Fortress on June 17-18. Two days of CEE fintech: AI banking, payments, digital assets, startup tournament. Finonity readers get 20% off tickets.
Commodities
Iran Attacked Fujairah Three Days After the UAE Left OPEC. That Is Not a Coincidence.
The UAE left OPEC on May 1. Iran struck Fujairah three days later. The connection runs through a 406-kilometre pipeline that Iran cannot close and keeps trying to destroy.
Americas
Palantir Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever but… The Stock Fell 7%.
Palantir Q1 2026: revenue +85%, EPS beat by 18%, guidance raised to $7.66B — yet PLTR fell 7% on May 5 as 111x forward P/E and AI competition keep the valuation war unresolved.
Americas
The War Nobody in Latin America Started Is Splitting the Region in Two
Latin America's Iran war divide: Brazil posts a record $14.2B trade surplus as Argentina's inflation forecast jumps to 29% and Ecuador's transport sector threatens shutdown.
Economy
Europe’s Consumer Confidence Is in Free Fall. The ECB Waited.
Eurozone consumer confidence hit -20.6 in April, the lowest since December 2022. Inflation rose to 3%. GDP slowed to 0.1%. The ECB held rates and said wait.
Commodities
World Bank: War Is Development in Reverse
The World Bank forecasts commodity prices rising 16% in 2026 amid the largest oil supply shock in history. Brent at $111 is already above the adverse scenario.
Europe
Nordex Profits 7x as Europe Burns Oil
Nordex net income surged 7x to €53.6M in Q1 as EBITDA jumped 64%. The stock hit a 52-week high. Europe's energy crisis is wind power's biggest catalyst. (152 zn.)
Economy
Data Science Next Conference 2026: Europe Spends Big on AI
European AI spending is set to top $140 billion in 2026. The DSC Next Conference in Amsterdam on May 7-8 brings data science practitioners together.
