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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...
Trump’s approval on the economy just hit 30% — the lowest of his presidency — as gas prices and the Iran war erode confidence
A gallon of regular gasoline now averages roughly $4.50 nationally, with prices running even higher in some metro areas. A military campaign against Iran is...
What Kevin Warsh’s “regime change” at the Fed actually means for your mortgage, your savings, and the next rate decision
The next Federal Reserve (Fed) chair has already told the Senate that he will not promise cheaper borrowing costs for consumers. The extent to which...
S&P 500 drops 0.63% to 7,064 as Iran ceasefire anxiety grips Wall Street — Dow sheds 293 points
Wall Street sold off on Tuesday as traders confronted a simple, uncomfortable question: what happens when a ceasefire expires and nobody has scheduled the next...
Crypto PACs have more money to spend on the midterms than some of the biggest Republican super PACs — $180 million and counting
Sometime in the first quarter of 2026, the crypto industry’s political war chest crossed a threshold that should make every midterm candidate pay attention. Fairshake,...
UnitedHealth’s stock jumped 8% after it beat earnings — by raising prices and dropping its sickest Medicare patients
UnitedHealth Group’s stock surged roughly 8% on April 21, 2026, after the company posted first-quarter earnings that cleared Wall Street expectations. Adjusted earnings per share...
GE Aerospace’s earnings beat every estimate on the board — and the stock still fell. Here’s why “beating expectations” doesn’t always mean what you think
GE Aerospace reported Q1 2026 results on April 21 that cleared every major Wall Street hurdle. Revenue, adjusted earnings per share (EPS), and free cash...
Consumer sentiment holds near 74-year low at 47.6 — and 51% of Americans now call gas prices a “financial hardship”
Americans are not just pessimistic this spring. They are historically pessimistic. The University of Michigan’s preliminary Index of Consumer Sentiment fell to 47.6 in April...
Uber just invested $500 million in Lucid and committed to 35,000 robotaxis — here’s what that means for ride prices and gig drivers
Somewhere in San Francisco right now, an Uber driver is sitting in traffic, watching a Waymo robotaxi glide past with no one behind the wheel....
Iran re-closes the Strait of Hormuz after U.S. Navy seizes cargo ship — oil jumps 6%, gas hits $4 nationally
The Strait of Hormuz is shut again. Hours after the U.S. Navy seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the narrow waterway that carries roughly a...
Nasdaq’s historic 13-day winning streak snaps as U.S.-Iran tensions drag markets lower
The Nasdaq Composite’s 13-session winning streak ended on April 20, 2026, after U.S. naval forces seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz...