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Warsh Fed outlook complicates rate path, raising risks for stocks
Kevin Warsh sat before the Senate Banking Committee in late April 2026 and said what Wall Street needed to hear: no one told him what...
First Western sees 2026 growth like 2025, targets 1% ROA by 2027
First Western Financial (NASDAQ: MYFW) posted a profitable first quarter on April 23, 2026, and delivered a message investors had been waiting to hear: this...
Warsh Fed hearing shifts 2026 rate-cut bets, rattling portfolios
Warsh Fed hearing shifts 2026 rate-cut bets, rattling portfolios Kevin Warsh sat before the Senate Banking Committee on April 21, 2026, and delivered a five-word...
Ford builds record U.S. volume but still posts an $8.2B loss
Ford Motor Co. delivered more vehicles to American buyers in 2025 than in any year in the company’s 122-year history. It also lost $8.2 billion....
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...
Goldman CEO David Solomon warns on $40T debt as rates stay high
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon warned last October that the United States is “heading for a debt reckoning if growth flags.” In the months since,...
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...
U.S. business formations hit record levels as startup filings surge
Americans filed more applications to start new businesses in the first quarter of 2026 than in any comparable period since the U.S. Census Bureau began...
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...
Anthropic hits $1T in secondary trading after a 3-month surge
Anthropic, the AI safety startup behind the Claude family of large language models, has crossed a striking threshold: secondary-market trades now price the company at...
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...
Intel jumps 24% to a record after earnings beat; AI is next test
Intel closed at an all-time high on Friday, April 25, 2026, after a blowout quarterly report sent shares surging roughly 24% in a single session....
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...
Tesla beat Q1 estimates but stock fell 3.6% after Musk revealed a $25 billion capex plan for AI and robotics — triple last year’s spending
Tesla’s first-quarter results cleared Wall Street’s bar, but the stock still dropped 3.6 percent on April 23, 2026, after Elon Musk told investors the company...
Texas Instruments surged 19% — its biggest single-day gain since 2000 — after data center revenue jumped 90% year over year
Texas Instruments hadn’t moved like this in a generation. On April 23, shares of the Dallas-based chipmaker rocketed roughly 19%, their largest single-day gain since...
IEA chief calls the Iran oil crisis “the biggest energy security threat in history” — 13 million barrels per day are gone with no fix in sight
Fatih Birol does not reach for superlatives lightly. The International Energy Agency’s executive director has navigated oil shocks from Libya to Russia without once labeling...
Trump’s economic approval just hit the lowest point of both his terms — 39% approve, and even Republican support dropped 17 points
Fewer than four in ten Americans now approve of how Donald Trump is handling the economy, and the most striking erosion is coming from inside...
Is the stock market ignoring the Iran war? The S&P 500 is near record highs while oil is at $105 — here’s why that gap can’t last
By late April 2026, Wall Street and the oil market are telling two completely different stories. The S&P 500 is trading near record highs, hovering...
Software stocks plunged after IBM and ServiceNow earnings reignited AI spending fears — Salesforce -9%, Adobe -7%, ServiceNow -18%
Enterprise software stocks suffered their worst single-session rout in months this week after ServiceNow and IBM both reported earnings that forced Wall Street to confront...
Trump’s Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh tells senators he won’t be the president’s “sock puppet” — but his confirmation is already stalled
Kevin Warsh looked directly at the senators who will decide his future and made a promise: he would not be President Trump’s “sock puppet” on...