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A nation of 1.4 billion people, a leader who fancies himself a soccer fan, billions of dollars poured into the sport since the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

That momentum continued into Tuesday, as leveraged bets on SpaceX generated billions of dollars of additional trading volume in what Balchunas called a “total feeding frenzy.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

Thames Water's main group of lenders - known as London & Valley Water - has put forward a rescue plan that would involve injecting billions in fresh investment.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

Amazon has also invested billions in Anthropic and supplies them with chips to train their AI models.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

You’re still not acknowledging billions of dollars in losses on subprime mortgage bonds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis