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The April jobs report crushed estimates — 115,000 jobs vs. 65,000 expected — but white-collar sectors keep shedding workers, and AI may be the reason why
Hospitals kept hiring. Warehouses kept hiring. Retail floors kept hiring. And for the 115,000 Americans who landed nonfarm payroll jobs in April 2026, the labor...
PayPal is cutting 4,760 jobs — 20% of its workforce — because its new CEO says the company “lost ground to rivals” and needs to become a “technology company again”
PayPal is eliminating roughly 4,760 jobs, about 20% of its workforce, in the deepest round of cuts the payments company has ever undertaken. CEO Alex...
The S&P 500 just hit a record 7,399 — while consumer confidence crashed to its lowest point in 74 years of tracking
The S&P 500 closed at a record 7,398.93 on May 8, 2026, pushed higher by a strong April jobs report and broad buying across technology,...
Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers — 20% of its workforce — while posting record revenue, because AI usage inside the company surged 600% in three months
On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare told roughly 1,100 employees their jobs were being eliminated. The same day, the company filed first-quarter earnings with the SEC...
Consumer sentiment just crashed to the lowest level in recorded history — and gas hit $4.55 the same week the president said prices “came down very substantially”
Americans have not felt this grim about the economy since the University of Michigan began asking them in the 1950s. The university’s consumer sentiment index,...
Uber’s stock surged 8% after trips grew 20% to 3.6 billion and gross bookings hit $53.7 billion — then the CEO called robotaxis a “$1 trillion opportunity”
Uber Technologies delivered first-quarter 2026 results on May 6 that beat Wall Street expectations across nearly every metric, and then CEO Dara Khosrowshahi went further:...
Bitcoin held above $81,000 — spot ETFs pulled in $1.63 billion since May 1, and Tom Lee says the crypto winter is over if BTC closes May above $76,000
Bitcoin was trading above $81,000 in mid-May 2026, holding a level it had not touched in more than three months. The rally did not hinge...
The S&P 500 just closed above 7,365 for the first time — the CAPE ratio is at 39, and the last time it was this high was March 2000
On the final trading day of May 2026, the S&P 500 closed above 7,365 for the first time in its history. The milestone, confirmed through...
AMD surged 18.6% in a single day after AI chip revenue hit $5.8 billion — while Coinbase lost $394 million as crypto trading collapsed
Advanced Micro Devices jumped 18.6% on May 6, 2026, after the chipmaker reported that quarterly revenue from its AI-focused data center business reached $5.8 billion....
Disney’s theme park attendance fell 1% — but per-visitor spending hit a record, streaming profit surged 88%, and the stock jumped 8%
Disney’s U.S. theme parks drew slightly fewer guests during the fiscal second quarter. The visitors who did walk through the gates spent more per person...
Coinbase cut 700 employees, replaced managers with “player-coaches,” and just posted a $394 million loss — its CEO says mass AI layoffs are coming to “every company”
On May 5, 2026, Coinbase Global told the Securities and Exchange Commission it was eliminating roughly 700 jobs, about 14% of its worldwide workforce. The...
Oil crashed 15% on a reported Iran peace deal — gas is still $4.50 and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed
By energy desk staff | May 5, 2026 Brent crude dropped roughly 15% in a single week after reports of a diplomatic breakthrough between Washington...
Kevin Warsh’s Fed chair vote hits the Senate floor May 11 — four days before Powell’s term expires — and it was the first fully partisan committee vote for a Fed chair in history
No Federal Reserve chair nominee has ever reached the Senate floor on a purely partisan vote. Kevin Warsh is about to be the first. On...
AMD’s data center revenue jumped 57% to $5.8 billion — and Disney posted its strongest streaming quarter ever under its new CEO
AMD just reported $5.8 billion in data center revenue for the quarter ended March 28, 2026, a 57% leap from the year-ago period, according to...
Oil plunged 15% to $88 a barrel on Iran deal hopes — then bounced back above $100 because the Strait of Hormuz is still closed
On April 17, Brent crude collapsed roughly 15 percent in a single session, dropping to about $88.90 a barrel after reports circulated that a diplomatic...
Coinbase cut 700 employees and replaced managers with “player-coaches” — its CEO says mass AI layoffs are coming to “every company”
On May 5, 2026, Coinbase told roughly 700 employees their jobs were gone. The crypto exchange cut about 14% of its workforce, gutted layers of...
Oil crashed 15% in a single session after Axios reported a 14-point deal to end the Iran war — but gas is still $4.50 and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed
On Tuesday, May 19, 2026, energy markets did something they had not done since the early weeks of the Iran conflict: they collapsed on hope....
I bonds just reset to 4.26% — the highest rate since October 2023 — and the 0.90% fixed rate locks in for 30 years
The Treasury announced on May 1, 2026, that Series I savings bonds now carry a 4.26% annualized composite rate, a notable jump that makes the...
Tyson beat earnings estimates on chicken sales for the 6th straight quarter — then raised its chicken profit forecast to $2 billion
Tyson Foods extended its earnings winning streak to six consecutive quarters on May 5, 2026, reporting fiscal second-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.06, above...
Moody’s says sustained $125 oil triggers a global recession — Brent closed at $112, just $13 away
Oil is $13 away from the price that Moody’s Analytics says would push the global economy into recession, and the gap is closing fast. Brent...