https://www.nocta.co.za Live financial and market news wire, refreshed every few minutes. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:49:54 GMT 5 Shares of SpaceX rose more than 6% before the bell on Monday, and were set to extend gains after a blockbuster debut last week that pushed the company's valuation past $2 trillion and into the ranks of Wall Street's most valuable companies. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:17:00 GMT New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has talked at length in recent years about the U.S. central bank's balance sheet, the need to say less about interest rates and why it should not dip into issues like climate change. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain is seeking a second four-year term as leader of the 400,000-member union, entering the race as the favorite after a walkout three years ago that was popular with workers. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT Futures tracking Wall Street's main indexes jumped on Monday after Washington and Tehran reached a preliminary agreement to end the Iran war and reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices tumbling to a three-month low. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:34:00 GMT U.S. and Iranian officials said they had reached an agreement to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a preliminary pact that sent oil prices falling but leaves the fate of Tehran's nuclear program to further negotiations. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:57:00 GMT Shares of SpaceX rose more than 5.6% before the bell on Monday, set to extend gains after a blockbuster debut last week that pushed its valuation past $2 trillion and into the ranks of Wall Street's most valuable companies. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:49:00 GMT Futures tracking Wall Street's main indexes jumped more than 1% each on Monday as investors cheered a preliminary pact struck between the U.S. and Iran to end the more than three-month conflict and reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:22:00 GMT U.S. President Donald Trump hosted mixed martial arts fights on the White House lawn on Sunday, an unprecedented spectacle highlighting his willingness to blend the pageantry of his office with his brutal brand of politics and his family’s business interests. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:17:00 GMT The Trump administration's push to boost critical minerals production by regulating prices is facing skeptical G7 allies and a divided mining industry, with negotiations for a Western trading bloc stumbling over concerns about the plan's cost and governance, according to diplomatic sources and a Reuters analysis of corporate policy recommendations. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:59:00 GMT Elon Musk said on Sunday that his rocket company, SpaceX, could bring in $1 trillion in revenue by 2030, making the statement two days after the company went public, valuing it at over $2 trillion. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:43:00 GMT Anthropic’s most powerful chatbots are living up to their names. On Friday, the White House placed severe export controls on Mythos, a model purported to function as a hacking super-weapon, and Fable, a sanitized variant meant for public consumption. Boss Dario Amodei responded by suspending access altogether. His $965 billion company’s breakneck progress has opened up its own regulatory Pandora’s box. Global allies may take it as a cautionary tale about depending on the United States. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:50:00 GMT U.S. and Iranian officials said on Sunday they had agreed on a framework to end their war, halt the U.S. blockade of Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a preliminary pact that sent oil prices falling but leaves the fate of Iran's nuclear program to further negotiations. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:17:00 GMT Eleven skydivers and a pilot died in the crash of a private plane on Sunday in Butler, Missouri, aircraft operator Skydive Kansas City said. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:12:00 GMT With an agreement on a framework for a peace deal with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump may have found a way to begin extricating himself from an unpopular war while setting global markets on a path toward easing energy prices that have spiked during the crisis. Reuters News Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:35:00 GMT Senior Anthropic technical staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try resolving a dispute that has taken the company's most advanced AI models offline, Axios reported on Sunday, citing a source close to the company. Reuters News Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:41:00 GMT Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur who has become a central figure in internet culture and amassed a fortune that has made him the world's first trillionaire. Reuters News Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:46:00 GMT A suddenly rocky U.S. stock market confronts a potential wildcard next week: A newly led Federal Reserve at a time investors are worried that interest rate hikes to fight inflation could dampen enthusiasm for equities. Reuters News Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:44:00 GMT Donald Trump hosts a card of seven mixed martial arts fights to be held on Sunday inside a specially built arena on the White House's South Lawn on his 80th birthday, a spectacle spotlighting his norm-defying style at a tense moment in his presidency. Reuters News Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among tech leaders who raised concerns to senior Trump administration officials this week about security risks in Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Reuters News Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:20:00 GMT A collective sigh of relief swept across Wall Street after trading for SpaceX’s landmark Nasdaq launch went smoothly, setting a new template for the trading firms and exchanges that are bracing for the giant IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic later this year. Reuters News Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT The U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division said it has cleared Paramount Skydance Corp's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it was unlikely to harm competition or consumers. Reuters News Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:51:00 GMT A coalition of U.S. state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters News Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:58:00 GMT A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative." Reuters News Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:56:00 GMT The U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division said it has cleared Paramount Skydance Corp's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Reuters News Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:02:00 GMT Hopes grew on Friday for peace between Iran and the United States after President Donald Trump said a deal could be signed as soon as this weekend, even as Tehran said it had not made a final decision on a pact. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:33:00 GMT The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it was sending the Republican-controlled Congress landmark California vehicle emissions rules for potential repeal, its latest effort to prevent tougher state tailpipe requirements. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:28:00 GMT SpaceX is set to begin trading on Nasdaq on Friday after investors poured $75 billion into the world's biggest IPO ever, betting that Elon Musk's lofty space, communications and AI ambitions can justify a $1.77 trillion valuation. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:11:00 GMT A suddenly rocky U.S. stock market confronts a potential wildcard next week: A newly led Federal Reserve at a time investors are worried that interest rate hikes to fight inflation could dampen enthusiasm for equities. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:50:00 GMT A key U.S. foreign surveillance law is set to expire at midnight on Friday amid a political fight over President Donald Trump's choice for an interim chief of U.S. intelligence. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:40:00 GMT A U.S. judge indefinitely blocked a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund supported by President Donald Trump on Friday, giving the administration one week to provide a sworn statement that the fund will not go forward. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:55:00 GMT Alphabet's Google will appeal a German court ruling which said it is legally liable for false claims appearing in AI Overviews, the U.S. tech company said on Friday, in a case that will likely impact other artificial intelligence developers. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:45:00 GMT U.S. consumer sentiment bounced off record lows in early June as easing gasoline prices offered households some relief, though concerns about inflation stoked by the Middle East conflict lingered. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:17:00 GMT BlackRock will have a chance to keep managing New York pension money as City Comptroller Mark Levine opened a rebidding process widely on Friday despite his predecessor's call for the city to drop the manager over its climate record. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:45:00 GMT While the Justice Department has said it has abandoned plans for President Donald Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund, some of his allies are shifting focus to a different way to make payouts to his supporters, including those who took part in the January 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:17:00 GMT About half of evangelical Christians - a core component of President Donald Trump's political base - believe his administration's approach to the Iran war and immigration enforcement is not in line with their understanding of Christianity, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT While the Justice Department has said it has abandoned plans for President Donald Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund, some of his allies are shifting focus to a different way to make payouts to his supporters, including those who took part in the January 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT As mixed martial arts fighters gather on Sunday on the South Lawn of the White House in a cage match to celebrate President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday — a spectacle kicking off a series of events commemorating the nation's 250th anniversary — actor and activist Jane Fonda will sponsor entertainment of a different sort from New York City. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT In recent years, Elon Musk has been picky about whom he allowed to buy in to SpaceX, the rocket ship company making its highly anticipated stock market debut this week. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT A suddenly rocky U.S. stock market confronts a potential wildcard next week: A newly led Federal Reserve at a time investors are worried that interest rate hikes to fight inflation could dampen enthusiasm for equities. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:00 GMT The United States plans to significantly reduce the aircraft and warships it makes available for NATO operations in Europe, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two senior European officials. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:44:00 GMT U.S. banking regulators are stepping up scrutiny of how lenders deploy artificial intelligence as the developing technology sweeps through the industry, pressing firms on everything from data access and governance controls to risks posed by third-party vendors, according to people familiar with the situation. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:59:00 GMT China's foreign ministry confirmed on Friday the arrest of Min Zin, a U.S. citizen who leads a think-tank focused on Myanmar, saying the American was suspected of spying and endangering Chinese national security. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:09:00 GMT U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing lawmakers to pass a resolution aimed at voiding his first-term impeachments, a White House official said on Thursday, confirming a report in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:52:00 GMT U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday filed an appeal of a court order that required Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy Center and blocked the Republican leader's bid to close the Washington performing arts venue for a two-year renovation. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:33:00 GMT A federal judge on Thursday blocked Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from continuing to pursue a lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue over its donation practices, saying he was retaliating for fundraising on behalf of his opponent in the race for the U.S. Senate. Reuters News Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:13:00 GMT The United States and Iran traded air attacks for a second straight day on Thursday, with President Donald Trump vowing further strikes if Tehran does not immediately agree to a peace deal. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:59:00 GMT President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Jay Clayton, the top U.S. attorney for Manhattan, to be the next U.S. spy chief, amid a political firestorm over a fierce loyalist Trump had picked to fill the role temporarily. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:48:00 GMT SpaceX on Thursday priced the biggest-ever U.S. initial public offering at $135 per share, making Elon Musk’s rocket and spacecraft manufacturer one of the world’s most valuable companies. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:08:00 GMT Hours before the World Cup kickoff, the boost to travel and tourism expected from this year’s biggest sporting event has yet to materialize. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:18:00 GMT U.S. stocks ended sharply higher on Thursday, with indexes extending gains after U.S. President Donald Trump said he canceled planned strikes against Iran, and on the eve of the market debut of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:16:00 GMT The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a short-term extension of foreign surveillance powers sought by President Donald Trump, deepening a political standoff over his selection of an inexperienced loyalist to serve as the top U.S. spy chief. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:14:00 GMT Wall Street's major indexes ended sharply higher on Thursday, with stocks extending gains after U.S. President Donald Trump said he canceled planned strikes against Iran, and on the eve of the market debut of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:00:00 GMT A U.S. appeals court on Thursday extended its block on a lower court ruling against the Trump administration's 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act, keeping the tariffs in place for three importers that had ​won a reprieve from the duties last week. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:59:00 GMT The United States has become the world's largest oil exporter, upending a decades-old order long dominated by Saudi Arabia and Russia, a shift that tightens American companies' grip on energy markets as Washington's war with Iran reshapes global energy trade. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:48:00 GMT U.S. producer prices increased more than expected in May, leading to the largest annual gain in 3-1/2 years as the Middle East conflict boosted the cost of energy products, suggesting inflation pressures were building up. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:00 GMT U.S. authorities were responding on Thursday to what appeared to be a large tracing of "8647" into the grounds of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:43:00 GMT Wall Street's major indexes were sharply higher in afternoon trading on Thursday, extending gains after U.S. President Donald Trump said he has canceled planned strikes against Iran. Reuters News Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:34:00 GMT A hazardous materials incident put the Pentagon on lockdown on Thursday as fire officials investigated the air quality issue, defense and fire officials said. 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