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(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon is accelerating defense production with multiyear mega contracts as the Trump administration seeks to enhance the armed forces and the Iran war intensifies demands on a dwindling US weapons stockpile.Most Read from BloombergStocks Fall as 30-Year Bond Yields Surge After Fed: Markets WrapWarner Bros. Deal Collapse Would Cost the Ellisons $9.8 BillionTrump Says US Will Strike Iran Hard as War Escalates AgainUS Intercepts Iran Attack on Bases, Puncturing Days of CalmAppl
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Global defense spending is entering a historic expansion phase, driven by geopolitical flashpoints from Ukraine to the Indo‑Pacific and record Pentagon budgets. NATO allies are racing to meet or exceed 2% of GDP defense commitments, while the U.S. has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for FY2027. Against this backdrop of rising military allocations and […]
With 83 hedge funds holding stakes in the stock, Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) is among the 8 Best Stocks to Buy Following Federal Reserve Pivot Expectations. On July 9, Wells Fargo lowered its price target on Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) to $575 from $650 while maintaining an Equal Weight rating on the shares. The firm continues to […]
Defense primes are doing what they were built to do: compound through political noise. With the FY2027 Department of War budget request landing at $1.45 trillion, a $440.9 billion or 44% increase from the FY 2026 enacted level, and NATO members committing to 5% of GDP on defense by 2035, the multi-year demand picture has ... 3 Resilient Defense Stocks to Buy Now
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) is a stock worth owning for decades because its revenue is effectively underwritten by the U.S. government and a global alliance system that does not negotiate down its threat environment to suit a recession. For a retirement investor who has already paid tuition chasing momentum, it fits the profile of a long-duration ... 1 Rare Dividend Stock Built to Survive Any Recession
Investing.com -- Investors are closely watching Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s first FOMC meeting and the outlook for crypto legislation in Congress, according to Wolfe Research.
GM’s stock, however, is up more than 40% over the past five years even as its market cap clocks in around $75 billion today. The magic is share repurchases: GM has spent roughly $30 billion retiring 500 million shares over that span. Since 2021, GM has generated about $53 billion in free cash flow, despite Covid, inflating prices, tariffs, and ever-changing EV policies.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn pad will take a minimum of a year to rebuild after a hot fire test obliterated the company’s only launch infrastructure for the vehicle, marking the first pad explosion since the Soviet N1 rocket in 1969. NASA’s Artemis lunar rover ride just vaporized, SpaceX inherits the entire federal manifest by default, ... Top 5 Stocks That Will Profit From SpaceX’s NASA Launch Monopoly After Blue Origin’s Pad Collapse
SpaceX’s S-1 just handed legacy defense investors a number they cannot ignore. And you can bet they won’t. In 2025, roughly one-fifth of SpaceX revenue came from U.S. federal agencies, primarily NASA, the Department of War, the General Services Administration, and certain Intelligence Community agencies, focused on launch services, spacecraft development, satellite deployment, and artificial ... One-Fifth of SpaceX Revenue Comes From Uncle Sam: The Defense Contractors That Should Worry
Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government. Among the Trump trades in a recent report filed with a federal ethics agency was as much as $6 million in Nvidia, whose advanced chips Trump approved for sale to China last year. “If he were defense secretary, he would be committing a crime,” said Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration and a big critic of congressional trading, too.
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Markets can handle bad news. What they struggle with is uncertainty. That’s why investors have spent much of 2026 reacting just as much to geopolitical headlines as to earnings reports — from Iran tensions to tariff threats to the growing militarization of trade routes. Now President Donald Trump has opened another front investors may need ... Trump Says U.S. Ground Forces Will Fight Mexico’s Drug Cartels: ‘If They’re Not Gonna Do the Job, We Will.’