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Boomers hold nearly 1/3 of U.S. wealth, widening the generational gap
A generation that no longer makes up the largest share of the U.S. population still controls the largest share of its wealth. Americans born between...
Nvidia trades at about half AMD’s P/E as investors debate growth outlook
Nvidia Corp. earned more than $70 billion in data center revenue last fiscal year and posted GAAP net income north of $55 billion, yet the...
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon warns markets are complacent as inflation risks linger
Jamie Dimon has never been one to whisper when he thinks Wall Street is getting it wrong. In his annual letter to JPMorgan Chase shareholders,...
Amazon to shutter Homestead, FL, warehouse for 2 years; 600+ affected
More than 600 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Homestead, Florida, will be out of a job when the facility shuts down on July 2,...
U.S. companies post broad profit surge beyond tech and Wall Street
The companies that built America’s profit recovery were supposed to be familiar names: chipmakers riding the artificial-intelligence wave, megabanks harvesting trading fees, a handful of...
Saxo Bank warns gold’s rally may be shaky despite fresh price gains
Gold punched above $3,300 an ounce in April 2026, extending a rally that has made it one of the best-performing major assets of the past...
Morgan Stanley cuts Oracle target to $207, keeps equal-weight rating
Morgan Stanley lowered its price target on Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) to $207 from $215 in May 2026, keeping its equal-weight rating on the stock....
Intel jumps 23% to a record after upbeat sales forecast lifts shares
Intel shares surged 23% in a single trading session on April 24, 2026, closing at a record high after the chipmaker delivered quarterly results and...
Buffett explains Berkshire’s cash pile and warns on trend chasing
Warren Buffett spent six decades teaching investors that the hardest thing in markets is doing nothing. In his final shareholder letter before handing the CEO...
JPMorgan adds 400 Charlotte jobs with new 145,000-sq.-ft. SouthPark office
JPMorgan Chase is planting another flag in Charlotte. The nation’s largest bank by assets has leased 145,000 square feet of office space in SouthPark, a...
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...