/* SubMedium mock content — fictional but plausible (June 2026) */ const MARKETS = [ { sym: "S&P 500", val: "5,842.10", pct: +0.62 }, { sym: "NASDAQ", val: "19,104.7", pct: +0.94 }, { sym: "DOW", val: "42,388", pct: -0.18 }, { sym: "FTSE 100", val: "8,471.2", pct: +0.31 }, { sym: "10Y", val: "4.21%", pct: -0.04 }, { sym: "BTC", val: "$71,420", pct: +2.18 }, { sym: "WTI", val: "$78.04", pct: -1.12 }, { sym: "GOLD", val: "$2,388", pct: +0.40 }, { sym: "EUR/USD", val: "1.0914", pct: +0.07 }, ]; const SECTIONS = ["Top", "World", "Tech", "Business", "Markets", "Politics", "Culture", "Science"]; // source registry: tier 1 = wire/record, used for cluster avatars const SRC = { reuters: { name: "Reuters", tag: "Wire" }, ap: { name: "Associated Press", tag: "Wire" }, bloomberg:{ name: "Bloomberg", tag: "Markets" }, ft: { name: "Financial Times", tag: "Record" }, wsj: { name: "The Wall St. Journal",tag: "Record" }, nyt: { name: "The New York Times", tag: "Record" }, guardian: { name: "The Guardian", tag: "Record" }, bbc: { name: "BBC News", tag: "Public" }, economist:{ name: "The Economist", tag: "Analysis" }, verge: { name: "The Verge", tag: "Tech" }, axios: { name: "Axios", tag: "Brief" }, politico: { name: "Politico", tag: "Politics" }, nature: { name: "Nature", tag: "Science" }, cnbc: { name: "CNBC", tag: "Markets" }, }; function initials(name) { return name.replace(/^The\s+/, "").split(/\s+/).slice(0, 2).map(w => w[0]).join("").toUpperCase(); } // Each story is a CLUSTER. `sources` lists outlets w/ their own angle headline. const STORIES = [ { id: "ecb-rate", section: "Markets", kicker: "Monetary Policy", headline: "ECB holds rates as inflation cools, signals first cut could slip to autumn", dek: "Policymakers in Frankfurt left the deposit rate unchanged for a third meeting, even as core price growth fell to its slowest pace in two years.", brief: "Twelve outlets agree the ECB held rates; coverage splits on timing — wires frame a steady hold, while FT and Bloomberg read the statement as quietly hawkish on the autumn cut.", region: "Europe", time: "18m", live: true, lead: true, image: true, sourceCount: 14, sources: [ { k: "ft", h: "ECB's cautious hold leaves markets guessing on timing", time: "18m" }, { k: "bloomberg", h: "Lagarde keeps door open but won't 'pre-commit' to a cut", time: "22m" }, { k: "reuters", h: "European Central Bank keeps rates steady for third meeting", time: "31m" }, { k: "economist", h: "Why the ECB is right to wait — and what it risks", time: "1h" }, { k: "cnbc", h: "Euro climbs as traders push first cut to September", time: "44m" }, ], }, { id: "ai-chips", section: "Tech", kicker: "Semiconductors", headline: "Cloud giants race to lock in next-gen AI accelerators amid supply crunch", dek: "A scramble for high-bandwidth memory is reshaping multi-year supply deals as hyperscalers pre-buy capacity through 2027.", brief: "Reporting converges on a tightening HBM market; The Verge and WSJ add that two unnamed cloud providers signed exclusive allocations, a detail wires have not confirmed.", region: "Global", time: "41m", image: true, big: true, sourceCount: 9, sources: [ { k: "wsj", h: "Memory shortage hands chipmakers rare pricing power", time: "41m" }, { k: "verge", h: "Inside the quiet war for AI memory capacity", time: "55m" }, { k: "reuters", h: "Chip suppliers lift outlook on AI-driven demand", time: "1h" }, { k: "bloomberg", h: "HBM lead times stretch past 40 weeks, buyers say", time: "1h" }, ], }, { id: "climate-summit", section: "World", kicker: "Climate", headline: "Coastal nations press for binding adaptation fund at Nairobi summit", dek: "Delegates from forty low-lying states are demanding a financing floor, setting up a tense final 48 hours of negotiation.", brief: "Outlets agree on the demand for a financing floor; the Guardian and BBC emphasize island-state framing, while Reuters leads on the diplomatic stalemate.", region: "Africa", time: "1h", image: true, sourceCount: 11, sources: [ { k: "guardian", h: "'We are not negotiating our survival,' island leaders say", time: "1h" }, { k: "bbc", h: "Nairobi climate talks enter make-or-break phase", time: "1h" }, { k: "reuters", h: "Adaptation fund stalls as donors resist fixed targets", time: "2h" }, ], }, { id: "labor-report", section: "Business", kicker: "Labor", headline: "Hiring slows but wages hold, painting a muddled picture for the Fed", dek: "Payrolls rose less than forecast while average earnings ticked up, complicating the case for a near-term rate cut.", brief: "A classic split: markets desks read 'soft landing intact,' while AP and the NYT foreground the cooling labor market for households.", region: "U.S.", time: "2h", image: false, sourceCount: 16, sources: [ { k: "ap", h: "U.S. employers add fewer jobs as labor market cools", time: "2h" }, { k: "wsj", h: "Wage resilience keeps the Fed boxed in", time: "2h" }, { k: "nyt", h: "What a slower jobs market means for workers", time: "2h" }, ], }, { id: "election-court", section: "Politics", kicker: "Courts", headline: "High court agrees to hear challenge over redistricting maps", dek: "The decision sets up a ruling that could reshape dozens of contested districts before the midterm cycle.", brief: "Coverage is uniform on the facts; Politico adds strategic implications for both parties, while wires keep to procedure.", region: "U.S.", time: "3h", image: false, sourceCount: 8, sources: [ { k: "politico", h: "Redistricting case could redraw the midterm map", time: "3h" }, { k: "ap", h: "Supreme Court takes up congressional maps dispute", time: "3h" }, { k: "reuters", h: "Justices to weigh partisan gerrymandering test", time: "3h" }, ], }, { id: "fusion", section: "Science", kicker: "Energy", headline: "Fusion startup reports net-energy shot sustained past five seconds", dek: "Independent reviewers are cautious, but the milestone marks the longest controlled burn yet from a private reactor.", brief: "Nature urges caution pending peer review; tech and wire outlets are more bullish on the commercialization timeline.", region: "Global", time: "4h", image: true, sourceCount: 6, sources: [ { k: "nature", h: "Private reactor's claim awaits independent verification", time: "4h" }, { k: "verge", h: "The five-second burn that could matter", time: "5h" }, { k: "reuters", h: "Fusion firm says latest test beats prior record", time: "5h" }, ], }, { id: "merger", section: "Business", kicker: "Deals", headline: "Payments rivals confirm $34bn all-stock merger talks", dek: "The combination would create the largest non-bank processor in the region, drawing immediate antitrust scrutiny.", brief: "Bloomberg and FT broke the talks; the companies' confirmation aligns figures, though regulators' posture remains unreported.", region: "Global", time: "5h", image: false, sourceCount: 10, sources: [ { k: "bloomberg", h: "Processors near deal to form payments heavyweight", time: "5h" }, { k: "ft", h: "Merger would test regulators' appetite for scale", time: "5h" }, { k: "cnbc", h: "Shares jump on confirmation of merger talks", time: "5h" }, ], }, { id: "culture-archive", section: "Culture", kicker: "Heritage", headline: "A vast newspaper archive goes public, and historians are recalibrating", dek: "Two centuries of regional press, newly digitized and searchable, are already rewriting small assumptions at scale.", brief: "A rare single-source story for now; the NYT feature stands alone, with no competing coverage yet in the cluster.", region: "Global", time: "6h", image: true, sourceCount: 2, sources: [ { k: "nyt", h: "What a fully searchable past does to history", time: "6h" }, { k: "guardian", h: "The archive that swallowed two centuries", time: "7h" }, ], }, { id: "energy-grid", section: "World", kicker: "Infrastructure", headline: "Heatwave pushes regional grids to record demand, holds without blackouts", dek: "Operators credit battery storage and demand response for averting outages during the season's first major heat event.", brief: "Consensus that the grid held; analysts disagree on whether storage or curtailment did the heavier lifting.", region: "U.S.", time: "7h", image: false, sourceCount: 7, sources: [ { k: "ap", h: "Grid sets demand record but avoids rolling outages", time: "7h" }, { k: "reuters", h: "Battery storage credited as heat strains power supply", time: "8h" }, ], }, ]; const TOPICS = ["Central Banks", "AI & Compute", "Climate Policy", "Elections", "Energy", "Semiconductors", "Markets", "Geopolitics"]; const TRENDING = [ { t: "ECB rate decision", n: 14 }, { t: "AI memory shortage", n: 9 }, { t: "Nairobi climate summit", n: 11 }, { t: "Payments merger", n: 10 }, { t: "Redistricting case", n: 8 }, ]; Object.assign(window, { MARKETS, SECTIONS, SRC, STORIES, TOPICS, TRENDING, initials });