A salesman at Moscow-based online retailer shopozz.ru has supplemented his usual business of peddling vacuum cleaners and dashboard phone mounts by selling dozens of Starlink internet terminals that wound up with Russians on the front lines in Ukraine.Although Russia has banned the use of Starlink‚ the satellite-internet service developed byElon Musks SpaceX‚ middlemen have proliferated in recent months to buy the user terminals and ship them to Russian forces. That has eroded a...

Potential jurors in former President Donald Trump';s upcoming trial in New York City on charges of falsifying business records can';t be asked about their political party‚ history of voting‚ or past political contributions‚ according to restrictions set by Judge Juan Merchan. However‚ they are facing a series of questions likely to indicate their political leanings‚ and both Democrats and Republicans can serve on the jury if the court is sure they can remain impartial and judge the case on the...

Homebuyers who pay cash for a property can spend 10% less on average than those who take out a mortgage‚ new research from UC San Diego';s Rady School of Management suggests. Why it matters: The discount gives cash buyers another advantage in a competitive and expensive real estate market‚ where they';re already favored over mortgage borrowers. Between the lines: Sellers prefer cash‚ even when it means leaving money on the table‚ because the deals are quicker and less risky than a mortgage offer...

Donald Trumps net wealth is evaporating fast as stock in the parent company of Truth Social plunges to fresh depths since its recent market debut. Shares in Trump Media and Technology Group have tumbled to their lowest level since just before its first trading day‚ and are now down 50% from its $79.38 peak price. The former President owns roughly 79 million shares or nearly 60% of the company‚ which began trading under the DJT ticker symbol late last month following a reverse merger with a...

Spring has sprung (from a very strange winter) here in cheese-land so time to write is going to be scarce again. This also means lots of solar and wind energy generation in the western half of the USA. Im a bit late but we set a record of two days where our number two source of electricity was wind generation! The chart is shown below for daily production and wind is second for March 24 and 25‚ just above nuclear. Below is the hourly chart showing that wind was above...

A man checks the label of a vitamins jar at a Costco Wholesale store on April 3‚ 2024 in Colchester‚ Vermont. Small business confidence hit its lowest level in more than 11 years for March as proprietors worried that inflation is still very much a problem. At a time when other data points show inflation receding‚ the National Federation of Independent Business reported Tuesday that its survey showed a reading of 88.5‚ down nearly a point from February to the lowest since December 2012. A...