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Marc Benioff’s Salesforce Stake Gains Hundreds of Millions in Value After CRM Surges on Claudeforce Launch and Record Q2 Earnings

August 28, 2026

Nvidia Reports Fiscal Q2 Earnings on August 27 With $92 Billion Revenue Consensus and AI Infrastructure Spending in Focus

Nvidia Reports Fiscal Q2 Earnings on August 27 With $92 Billion Revenue Consensus and AI Infrastructure Spending in Focus

August 27, 2026

82% of Small Businesses Now Use AI Tools as Adoption Shifts From Experimentation to Revenue Generation

82% of Small Businesses Now Use AI Tools as Adoption Shifts From Experimentation to Revenue Generation

August 25, 2026

Treasury Doubles Long-Bond Buyback Operations to Relieve Pressure After 30-Year Yields Hit 19-Year Highs

Treasury Doubles Long-Bond Buyback Operations to Relieve Pressure After 30-Year Yields Hit 19-Year Highs

August 20, 2026

50% U.S. Tariffs on $20 Billion in Canadian Imports Take Effect August 19 Under First-Ever Section 338 Action

50% U.S. Tariffs on $20 Billion in Canadian Imports Take Effect August 19 Under First-Ever Section 338 Action

August 19, 2026

JPMorgan $1 Trillion Market Cap 2026 Record Profits

JPMorgan Chase Nears $1 Trillion as Wall Street’s Largest Bank Rewrites the Valuation Playbook

August 18, 2026

Michigan Consumer Sentiment August 2026 Index Falls

University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Drops to 51 in August as Inflation Expectations Rise and Business Outlook Deteriorates

August 15, 2026

Norway Wealth Fund Record $184B Profit SpaceX Stake

Norway’s $2.3 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund Posts Record $184 Billion First-Half Profit as Semiconductor Rally and SpaceX Disclosure Reshape Its Public Portfolio

August 14, 2026

July 2026 CPI Report Inflation Eases to 3.4% Fed Rate Outlook

July CPI Report Shows Inflation Easing to 3.4% as the Energy-Driven Surge Continues to Fade

August 13, 2026

Nvidia $500 Billion AI Financing Apollo BlackRock Goldman Sachs 2026

Nvidia Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR on $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Financing Initiative

August 12, 2026

Emirates NBD Partners With DFDF to Fast-Track FinTech and AI Deployment

Emirates NBD Partners With DFDF to Fast-Track FinTech and AI Deployment

August 11, 2026

Federal Reserve Banks Launch Pilot Survey Into $1.3 Trillion Private Credit Market

Federal Reserve Banks Launch Pilot Survey Into $1.3 Trillion Private Credit Market

August 8, 2026

Disney Beats Wall Street Earnings Estimates as Streaming Profits More Than Double Under New CEO

Disney Beats Wall Street Earnings Estimates as Streaming Profits More Than Double Under New CEO

August 7, 2026

SpaceX Q2 2026 Earnings $7.81B Revenue, Stock Falls

SpaceX Posts First Earnings as a Public Company With 92% Revenue Growth, but $18.4 Billion in Capital Spending Rattles Investors

August 6, 2026

Palantir Q2 2026 Earnings Revenue Surges 93%

Palantir Revenue Surges 93% in Q2 as Sovereign AI Demand Reshapes the Company’s Growth Trajectory

August 5, 2026

Consumer Spending Rose 0.3% in June as PCE Inflation Dipped

Consumer Spending Rose 0.3% in June as PCE Inflation Posted First Monthly Decline of 2026

August 4, 2026

Apple Posts Record $109.4 Billion Quarter in Tim Cook’s Final Earnings Call as CEO

August 1, 2026

The Treasury Market's Structural Shift: Fewer Dealers Reshape Trading

The Treasury Market’s Structural Shift: Fewer Dealers Reshape Trading

July 29, 2026

Bank of America Warns August–October Weakest for Stocks as Buffett Indicator Hits Record

Bank of America Warns August Through October Is the Weakest Stretch for Stocks as Valuation Alarms Flash Red

July 28, 2026

Understanding Commuting: How Much Time Should You Spend Traveling to Work?

Understanding Commuting: How Much Time Should You Spend Traveling to Work?

July 24, 2026

Nike Cuts China Online Distributors in Turnaround Bid

Nike Cuts Thousands of Online Distributors in China as Turnaround Strategy Faces Continued Headwinds

July 23, 2026

Fed Enters Blackout Ahead of July 29 FOMC Rate Decision

Fed Enters Blackout Period Ahead of July 29 FOMC Decision as Markets Price In a Hold

July 21, 2026

What Is a Recession How Economists Define One

What Is a Recession and How Do Economists Define One?

July 17, 2026

Stripe Bids $53 Billion for PayPal as Collison Brothers Reshape Fintech Dealmaking

Stripe’s $159 Billion Valuation and $53 Billion PayPal Bid Position the Collison Brothers as Fintech’s Most Ambitious Dealmakers

July 16, 2026

How Freelance Photographers Make a Living

How Freelance Photographers Make a Living

July 16, 2026

CPI Drops to 3.5% as Fed Chairman Warsh Eyes Rate Hike

Inflation Cools To 3.5% As Fed Chairman Warsh Signals A Tighter, Less Predictable Policy Era

July 15, 2026

Intel Commits €5B to Scale Ireland Chip Production

Intel Foundry Commits €5 Billion to Scale Advanced Chip Manufacturing at Its Ireland Campus

July 14, 2026

Machine Vision Market Set to Reach $23.6 Billion by 2030 as AI Transforms Factory-Floor Economics

Machine Vision Market Set to Reach $23.6 Billion by 2030 as AI Transforms Factory-Floor Economics

July 10, 2026

IMF Revises Global Inflation to 4.7% in July 2026 Outlook

IMF July Update Marks Global Inflation Up to 4.7% as Disinflation Trend Stalls

July 9, 2026

Foreclosures Hit 7-Year High as Pandemic Relief Ends

U.S. Foreclosure Filings Climb to Post-Pandemic High as Federal Relief Programs Expire

July 8, 2026

U.S. Services PMI Slows to 54% in June 2026

U.S. Services Sector Growth Cools in June as Hiring Rebounds

July 7, 2026

Semiconductor Stocks Pull Back After 80% First-Half Surge

Semiconductor Stocks Pull Back as Investors Take Profits After 80% First-Half Surge

July 3, 2026

Warsh Stresses Inflation Fight at ECB Forum, Dims Rate Cuts

Fed Chair Warsh Stresses Inflation Fight at ECB Forum, Dimming Rate-Cut Odds

July 2, 2026

U.S. Savings Rate Drops as Spending Outpaces Income in 2026

Personal Spending Outpaces Income as U.S. Savings Rate Declines, Raising Questions About Consumer Durability

July 1, 2026

The Popularity of Dystopian Films in the 2010s

The Popularity of Dystopian Films in the 2010s: How a $200,000 Book Deal Became a $3.3 Billion Franchise and Reshaped Studio Economics

June 29, 2026

BEA Confirms U.S. Q1 GDP Growth at 2.1% What the Numbers Reveal About an Economy Running on AI Investment

BEA Confirms U.S. Q1 GDP Growth at 2.1%: What the Numbers Reveal About an Economy Running on AI Investment

June 27, 2026