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The Fed meets June 17 with markets betting 98% it does nothing — meaning your 6.5% mortgage and 21.5% credit card rate are locked in deep into 2026
Put 10 percent down on a $400,000 house today and the 30-year fixed principal-and-interest payment runs about $2,270 a month. The same loan at the...
One-fifth of the world’s oil is now trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz — the largest energy supply shock ever recorded, and it just pushed gas to $4.53
The pump reads $4.53. For millions of American drivers filling up in June 2026, that number is the most visible consequence of a crisis unfolding...
Jet fuel prices are up 80% since the Iran war started — Delta says higher fuel costs alone will add $2 billion this quarter, and that bill lands on every summer flight
A round-trip flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles cost about $280 last June. This summer, the same route is pricing north of $400 on many...
Goldman Sachs models $80 billion in Nvidia revenue Wednesday — $2 billion above consensus, and the data center number alone tops New Zealand’s entire GDP
Nvidia is expected to report fiscal first-quarter revenue of roughly $80 billion when it releases results on Wednesday, according to Goldman Sachs, a figure that...
Brent settled near $108 the morning Iran’s counteroffer collapsed — refiners typically pass crude hikes through to the pump in 7 to 10 days
Drivers filling up this week are still paying late-spring prices. That window is closing fast. Brent crude, the international benchmark that sets the cost of...
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled out $1 billion last week — the worst exit since early February, as BTC slid under $77,000 over the weekend
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed roughly $1 billion in net outflows during the trading week ending Friday, June 6, 2025, their steepest weekly drawdown since...
Meta starts laying off 8,000 workers Wednesday — the same quarter the company posted $26.8 billion in net profit and pledged $135 billion on AI
About 8,000 Meta Platforms employees began receiving termination notices on Wednesday morning, a cut that erases roughly 10 percent of the company’s workforce. The layoffs...
Block just laid off 40% of its workforce — 4,000 jobs at Cash App and Square as fintech faces its steepest contraction in three years
Four thousand people at Block, Inc. learned in late February 2026 that their jobs were being eliminated, a cut so deep it erased roughly 40...
Wall Street now gives 71% odds of a Fed rate HIKE by March — because inflation hit 3.8% in April and the Fed’s last meeting had 4 dissents
The Federal Reserve hasn’t raised interest rates in over a year, but Wall Street is betting that streak is about to end. As of May...
Bitcoin dropped below $79,000 over the weekend — institutional ETFs pulled out $635 million in a single day, the biggest crypto exit since January
Bitcoin dropped below $79,000 over the weekend – institutional ETFs pulled out $635 million in a single day, the biggest crypto exit since January Investors...
SpaceX is filing its IPO paperwork this week at a $1.75 trillion valuation — 10x the largest IPO ever, and every S&P 500 fund will own it soon
SpaceX has filed confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public at a valuation that would shatter every record in IPO history....
Meta starts laying off 8,000 workers Wednesday — the same week the company is spending more on AI than the GDP of 130 countries
Starting Wednesday, roughly 8,000 Meta employees will begin receiving notifications that their jobs no longer exist, according to the Associated Press. The cuts represent about...
Wall Street expects $78 billion in Nvidia revenue Tuesday — at 7% of the S&P 500, the chipmaker now moves every 401(k) and IRA holding an index fund
Nvidia will report first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, and the number that flashes across trading screens will land, within seconds, inside the...
Brent crude hit $111 the morning Iran’s ceasefire expired — Trump posted “there won’t be anything left of them” as a drone hit the UAE’s nuclear plant
A single drone crossed into the western United Arab Emirates on the morning of May 17, 2026, and struck an electricity generator on the outer...
Oil markets need until 2027 to rebalance even if the Iran war ends tomorrow — Aramco says Hormuz exports take months to restart, and the consumer pays the bill
Saudi Aramco’s chief executive told investors during the company’s first-quarter earnings call that restarting full crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz would take “many...
The Iran war just hit Day 77 — Brent is up 45%, gas is up 41%, and Wall Street still expects the Fed to do nothing about it
The fuel pump at a Costco outside Dallas read $4.23 a gallon on a recent weekday afternoon, and the line of cars stretched into the...
Gold dropped 1.4%, silver fell 2%, and Bitcoin slid below $81,000 — investors fled inflation hedges the same day Treasury yields hit 18-year highs
At 1:03 p.m. Eastern on May 15, 2026, the U.S. Treasury closed the books on a new 30-year bond auction. The clearing yield came in...
All three biggest investment banks now agree the Fed won’t cut rates in June — Warsh takes over with 98% market-priced odds of holding
JPMorgan Chase was the last to fall in line. With its research team now calling for a hold at the Federal Reserve’s June meeting, all...
Americans haven’t been this pessimistic about their finances since 2018 — 32% of households now expect things to get worse in 2026
A gallon of milk costs 26% more than it did in January 2020. Average rents in major metro areas have jumped by a similar margin....
Friday wiped out stocks, bonds, gold, silver, and Bitcoin in the same session — the kind of synchronized everything-down day that hasn’t happened since 2022
By the time trading ended on a Friday in late May 2026, there was nowhere left to look for green. The S&P 500 dropped more...