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Today is the big day. If you want clues for what might happen, look to the proxy trades that have been the rage among options traders.Options volumes are booming in stocks with ties to SpaceX ahead of Friday’s historic debut of the newest public entity run by the world’s richest man. While Wall Street debates whether the $1.75 trillion IPO is an egregiously overpriced hype-machine or the future of mankind, traders are piling into calls on anything that might catch a bid by association.Shares of EchoStar, the Colorado-based networking business that owns an estimated 3% of SpaceX stock, surged 11%…

I used to stay with him in Bridlington, and there you saw his level of work is ferocious, daunting. When he was working on all those big paintings—which were exhibited in A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy in 2012—he would get everybody up to have a cup of tea while it was still dark. His argument was, the sun doesn’t wait for you. That’s what his life is.Zandra RhodesDavid became a cult figure at the Royal College, but that’s probably because he was already selling work. He was a third year when I was a first year, and when…

Markets head into the first Fed meeting run by new Chair Kevin Warsh with almost no idea what he thinks about the recent surge in job growth, the acceleration in inflation or the path of interest rates.And that may be by design.Warsh has strongly criticized Fed communications, saying they have led to policy errors and placed the Fed more at the center of market decisions and the economy than it should be. His plans for “regime change” include a rethink of how the Fed forecasts and talks about its plans for monetary policy. That appears to include both quantity and…

Ever since I watched The Talented Mr. Ripley at an age that was, frankly, far too young—despite the film’s sophisticated trappings, Jude Law does get brutally clubbed around the head with an enormous wooden oar—I have been a sucker for the glamorous promise of an Italian vacation. It may be a cliché, but the reason I’ll always return to Italy’s boot is that it’s filled with places that feel like they could exist nowhere else in the world, from thigh to heel; from the mind-boggling engineering of the Venetian waterways to the devil-may-care energy of Naples with its whizzing motorcycles…

Protesters gather with banners and placards outside the offices of Google Deepmind at a protest organized by PauseAI UK and other groups concerned in controlling the development of advanced Artificial Intelligence systems, in London on February 28, 2026. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty ImagesWith college graduates jeering mentions of artificial intelligence at commencement speeches, and voices as disparate as the Pope and technology giant Anthropic warning of the risks of unmitigated AI development, public sentiment toward the technology has sobered considerably since its early euphoria.Yet despite mounting public backlash, global AI…

“I am doing Paris Fashion Week,” insists Colm Dillane: “I’m just doing it from Miami.”KidSuper shows are always different, but its upcoming spring 2027 show will be especially so. That’s because this season its founder Dillane will present his new collection at the Nu Stadium in Miami during the World Cup.The show will kick off at the home ground of the David Beckham-founded Inter Miami CF on the evening (local time) of June 25. As ever, Dillane seems to be shooting for the stars: he says he’s planning for an audience of 2,500. But when you consider that the show…

APA Corporation’s Beryl Alpha oil platform in the North Sea.Courtesy: APA CorporationOil prices fell Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington had reached a framework agreement with Iran, raising hopes the Middle East conflict could be nearing its end.U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery fell 1.61% to $86.30 per barrel, while August futures for international benchmark Brent lost 1.75% to $88.8 per barrel.Speaking at the Oval Office, Trump said he expects an agreement to be signed “over the next few days,” assertions he has made several time during the conflict. He also said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen once a…

Welcome to the Scoop: a weekly email series in which I quiz fashion insiders on the stories of the week. This will be a way for the Vogue Business community to synthesize and reflect on the latest headlines and get a little inside scoop every Friday.This week’s guest is Bettina Korek, CEO of London’s Serpentine Galleries. Having spent the noughties making the LA art scene a thing outside LA, Bettina moved to London for the Serpentine job in 2020. She has been working on a variation of the same theme ever since: namely, to “bring the best of the world…

Kpop group BTS pose for photographs upon their arrival for ‘BTS The Comeback Live Arirang’ concert in central Seoul, South Korea, on March 21, 2026. Handout | Via ReutersOn Friday, tens of thousands of BTS fans will descend on Busan, South Korea, as the seven-member group stages its second stop in the country as part of their world-spanning Arirang tour. They will arrive with light sticks, banners and tickets — and money to spend.Pop culture making an economic impact is not new. The term “Swiftnomics” became shorthand for the impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which filled hotels, restaurants, and…

Still, there was a lot to take away from the event. There is a huge hunger for a place and occasion for fashion expression on a larger scale. Though the seeming lack of boundary between what went down the runway and what was seen on the street can be explained, in part, by the fact that the designers, being mostly of a type, were speaking directly to their own underground communities, it demonstrates that there are non-traditional ways for fashion to exist. Take, for example, Dustin Glickman, a self-taught half-American designer, who drew a huge crowd who were already working…