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Caterpillar’s stock jumped 10% because of AI — yes, the tractor company. Here’s why data centers need bulldozers.
On April 30, 2026, Caterpillar Inc. posted first-quarter results that sent its stock up roughly 10% in a single session, as reflected in the day’s...
The Fed just held rates steady in Powell’s final meeting as chair — and 4 members dissented, the most since 1992
Jerome Powell’s last policy meeting as Federal Reserve chair ended not with consensus but with a fracture. On April 29, 2026, the Federal Open Market...
Oil briefly hit $126 a barrel today — then dropped $12 in a single session. Here’s what just happened.
At 8:14 a.m. London time on May 19, 2026, Brent crude futures touched $126.20 a barrel. By the close of the New York session, the...
Lloyds tops estimates, warns war-driven energy shock could hit UK growth
Lloyds Banking Group posted first-quarter profits ahead of City expectations on April 29, but paired the upbeat numbers with a stark warning: an energy price...
U.S. leads in oil output, but refining and taxes keep gas prices high
American oil fields pumped a record 13.2 million barrels per day in 2024, more than Saudi Arabia or Russia, according to the U.S. Energy Information...
China’s biggest banks post Q1 profit gains; bad-loan ratios hold steady
China’s six largest state-owned banks collectively grew first-quarter net profit by more than 3% year-on-year, according to earnings filings released in late April 2026, even...
Boomer retirements are starting to drag on U.S. economic growth
About 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day in the United States. Most of them will never hold a full-time job again. And the cumulative...
Traders bet Fed holds rates into 2027, with rising odds of a hike next year
Traders bet Fed holds rates into 2027, with rising odds of a hike next year Wall Street’s rate-cut dreams are fading fast. When the Federal...
Amazon beats AWS estimates on AI demand, but shares slip
Amazon Web Services posted its strongest quarterly growth in over a year, fueled by surging demand for artificial intelligence services, but the results were not...
Rivian paid CEO RJ Scaringe $403M in 2025 despite losses
RJ Scaringe founded Rivian Automotive more than a decade ago on a bet that electric trucks and SUVs could compete with the biggest names in...
Powell says U.S. economy growing at solid pace despite Iran war
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told a packed audience at Harvard University on March 28, 2026, that the American economy continues to grow at a...
Pentagon official: Iran war has cost the U.S. $25B so far
The U.S. war with Iran has already burned through $25 billion in taxpayer money, a senior Pentagon official told the House Armed Services Committee on...
FedEx, UPS pledge to pass along tariff refunds—up to $5B
Thousands of businesses that paid tariffs on goods shipped through FedEx and UPS could soon see money coming back. Both carriers have pledged to pass...
Visa profit rises as payment volumes climb on steady consumer spending
Visa Inc. reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $6.0 billion, fueled by a 9% rise in payment volumes and a 12% jump in cross-border transactions,...
BP profit more than doubles as oil trading gains on Iran war volatility
BP earned $3.842 billion in the first quarter of 2026, more than double the year-ago figure, after its oil trading desks turned the chaos around...
Oracle and CoreWeave slide as OpenAI growth worries hit AI stocks
Oracle and CoreWeave both saw their shares drop in late April 2026, punished by investors who looked past headline-grabbing deals and focused instead on a...
Foreign automakers warn cheap models may exit U.S. without deal
A new Nissan Versa starts at roughly $17,000, making it one of the last new cars in America that a buyer earning the median income...
Rare Earths Americas starts IPO roadshow, seeks $368M valuation
When Beijing restricted exports of gallium, germanium, and other critical minerals in mid-2025, procurement officers at defense contractors and EV makers faced a blunt question:...
Hotter inflation outlook clouds Fed rate-cut path for 2026
Federal Reserve officials walked into their March 18 meeting expecting to debate the timing of rate cuts. They walked out having raised their inflation forecasts...
GM eyes $500M tariff refund after Supreme Court ruling, tops EPS
General Motors told investors in its first-quarter 2026 earnings report that it expects to collect roughly $500 million from the federal government, money the automaker...