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Honda to exit South Korea after 23 years as car sales slump
On a quiet Wednesday morning in late April 2025, staff at a Honda dealership in Seoul’s Gangnam district began removing promotional banners from the showroom...
Priced out, some Americans are importing prefab homes from China
When a flat-pack house arrives from Guangdong Province in a pair of 40-foot shipping containers, it does not look like anyone’s dream home; it looks...
U.S. chip stocks hit records as Intel forecast supercharges AI rally
Intel delivered the jolt that semiconductor investors had been waiting for. On Friday, April 25, 2026, the chipmaker’s better-than-expected earnings forecast sent its shares sharply...
China to curb U.S. funding for local tech firms after Meta-Manus deal
China to curb U.S. funding for local tech firms after Meta-Manus deal For years, Chinese AI startup founders chased Silicon Valley money as a badge...
2 major loan defaults deepen losses for private-credit funds
In the span of roughly 90 days, a direct-to-consumer brand aggregator’s loan went from performing to worthless on the books of one publicly traded credit...
New York sues U.S. over canceled $73.5M in federal highway funding
New York sued the federal government in mid-May 2026 to recover $73.5 million in highway funding that Washington pulled after the state refused to revoke...
Lock 27 Brewing files Chapter 11, adding to craft beer bankruptcies
Downtown Dayton, Ohio is known for breweries, restaurants, and live-music venues that have long competed for customers. Some of these venues, however, are struggling to...
Report: Google weighs up to $40B more for Anthropic as Claude gains
Google is in talks to pour as much as $40 billion into Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal....
Gen Z grads turn to gigs and startups as entry-level hiring dries up
Gen Z grads turn to gigs and startups as entry-level hiring dries up Career counselors say the class of 2026 faces one of the toughest...
Mortgage rates dip again, easing the lock-in effect for would-be sellers
Mortgage rates dip again, easing the lock-in effect for would-be sellers The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped for the third straight week this spring,...
China tops the U.S. in research spending, reshaping global innovation
China spent roughly $500 billion on research and development in 2024, a sum so large it now rivals or exceeds what the United States invested...
Google and Microsoft reportedly bid to lease SoftBank’s U.S. data center
Two of the world’s largest cloud computing companies are competing for the same prize: a lease inside a massive artificial intelligence (AI) data center that...
Divorce can reshape kids’ money habits, from saving to risk-taking
Adults who experienced parental divorce as children accumulate less wealth, save at lower rates, and tolerate more financial risk than peers raised in continuously intact...
Gold rises but is set for its 1st weekly drop in 5 weeks, Reuters says
Gold prices ticked higher on Friday, with spot bullion trading near $3,225 an ounce, but the late-session bounce barely dented a weekly loss of roughly...
Economists lift U.S. inflation forecasts as Iran war keeps oil high
Economists lift U.S. inflation forecasts as Iran war keeps oil high When the Bureau of Labor Statistics published its March 2026 Consumer Price Index report...
TSMC shares climb after Taiwan loosens fund limits on holdings
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares rose in Taipei on Monday after Taiwan’s financial regulator more than doubled the cap on how much of a single...