Author: Sam Allcock

Traders can check positions, place orders and manage risk through a chat with Claude or any other MCP-compatible AI assistant, without leaving the tools they use. ThinkMarkets has launched ChelseaAI. The product plugs a live ThinkTrader account into an AI assistant. Ask the AI to view your positions, place a trade, read the market or move a stop-loss. It runs the task. No second login. No app to switch. ChelseaAI sits on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open standard. It lets AI assistants link to outside services in a safe way. ChelseaAI works with any MCP-ready assistant.…

Political strategist Alberto Lage and psychologist Iracema Rezende examine how candidates think and behave under pressure — and what those patterns tell us about leadership and decision-making across many fields. “Inside the Candidate’s Head: The Psychology of Running for Office – Lessons from Brazil’s Campaign Trenches” is now on sale in English. The book first topped Amazon Brazil’s bestseller charts, then reached a wider audience through its Spanish edition in Latin America and Spain. Lage and Rezende first released the book in Portuguese in September 2025 as “Cabeça de Candidato”. It reached number one on Amazon Brazil in Elections, Politics,…

Evghenia Gutul, the elected Head (Baskan) of Gagauzia, a region that holds autonomous standing within Moldova, has compiled 30 letters written from prison into a book titled “The Gutul Case. Anatomy of Political Persecution.” The book gives a first-hand account of the conflict between Gagauzia’s regional government and Moldova’s central authorities, which she says drove her arrest and her placement in solitary confinement. The full text is available at no cost in English, Turkish, and Russian at www.egutul.com. International lawyers have taken note of the publication since its release. Gonzalo Boye, a lawyer with a track record in political persecution…

MODULE-T has launched MODULE-T UK, giving the company a permanent base in Britain from which to serve clients across the country. The UK is part of a wider European expansion as demand grows for modular buildings among industrial operators, public sector bodies and event businesses that need structures ready for use quickly and with little disruption to the sites where they are installed. Drawing on 15 years of experience and exports to more than 120 countries, MODULE-T supplies a range that includes portable office cabins, WC and sanitary units, changing rooms, storage containers, flat-pack cabins and prefabricated modular buildings through…

When it comes to upgrading your car, selling your current one privately can sometimes feel like more effort than it’s worth. You put the advert up, answer the same questions over and over again, wait around for people who never turn up, and then deal with buyers trying to knock hundreds off the price on your driveway. For a lot of people, that’s exactly why part exchanging has become the easier option. A part exchange basically means trading your current car in as part payment towards your next one. The dealership handles everything at the same time, which saves a…

Most people underestimate the bathroom. It’s small. It’s practical. Easy to overlook when thinking about home improvements — and yet estate agents will tell you, without hesitation, that it’s one of the first things buyers notice. Here’s the thing: designer baths  and well-planned bathroom upgrades consistently rank alongside kitchen renovations and energy-efficient improvements as the changes that genuinely move the needle on property value. A tired bathroom signals neglect. A fresh, considered one signals care — and in a competitive UK housing market, that distinction matters more than most sellers expect. Small Room, Outsized Impact Bathrooms punch above their weight.…

Electric vehicles are truly hitting their stride across the UK. If you’ve kept an eye on the latest data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, you will know that roughly one in six new cars hitting our roads is now fully electric. This shift is only going to accelerate as we head toward the 2030 milestone, which is the point where the government plans to end the sale of new petrol and diesel models. If you’ve been out and about lately, you might have spotted cars sporting a distinctive green strip on their registration plates. These are known…

Supported Hyundai vehicles now feed GPS, maintenance alerts, and EV metrics directly into MyGeotab via the cloud, with no aftermarket installation required Geotab has rolled out a telematics integration for Hyundai vehicles in Europe that works through connectivity already embedded in supported models at the factory. Vehicle data travels from those built-in systems to the MyGeotab platform via the cloud, bypassing the need for any additional hardware. That approach removes the equipment and installation costs that fleet operators typically face when connecting vehicles to a telematics platform. The integration covers both internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric vehicles (EV), giving…

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will host the Jordan–EU Investment Conference 2026 on 21 April at the Dead Sea. His Majesty King Abdullah II will serve as patron of the event, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will attend alongside senior European and international officials and investors. Regional conditions at the time of the conference are likely to remain complex. Against this backdrop, Jordan’s political steadiness and sound economic institutions position it as a stable and attractive base for European and international investors. The conference will present a portfolio of projects that investors can evaluate and engage with…

The Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association (TURKCIMENTO) has issued a statement on the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), following the European Commission’s publication of omnibus legislative amendments on 17 October 2025 and the entry into force of implementing regulations in December 2025. TURKCIMENTO says the mechanism places Turkish cement producers at a disadvantage that has nothing to do with their actual carbon output. Its members use national monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems that follow EU methodology to record their emissions. The EU does not currently accept this data under CBAM, and instead applies default emission values that are far…