The executive order marks a significant shift in US arms sales policy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The Trump administration’s calls to increase military spending will make it difficult to set US defense priorities straight.

Despite ballooning ‍demand for arms due to ​rising geopolitical conflicts, capital expenditure growth at large defense firms has stayed sluggish ​since 2022. ⁠However, companies have reversed course ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on the US military in 2027. He said that the raised budget would secure the country during ...

President Donald Trump has a dream. Of a U.S. military — already the best trained and equipped fighting force on the planet — ...

US President Donald Trump has publicly called for raising the 2027 US defense budget to US$1.5 trillion, a sharp increase of more than 50% from the current US$901 billion. In a social media post, ...

Defense and aerospace stocks had a big year in 2025, helped by soaring geopolitical tensions and rising defense spending.

In early trading on Jan. 8, after President Donald Trump declared he would seek a $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 defense budget, shares of US defense contractors appreciated by as much as 5%. Bulls say: ...

By Kanishka Ajmera and Rashika Singh Feb 3 (Reuters) - Shares of Palantir Technologies jumped 6.9% in early trading on ...

Three US senators posted on social media saying that Taiwan's opposition is blocking a special defense budget needed to ...

He said that the raised budget would secure the country during "very troubled and dangerous times." The budget would be financed from "tremendous" tariff revenue, he said on Truth Social. President ...