China shrugs off Trump's tariffs with a world-record $1 trillion trade surplus

China is emerging from Trump’s 2025 trade wars more or less intact, replacing U.S.-bound exports with other partners

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Everyone hates Microsoft Copilot. Does it even matter?

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Welcome to America's dollar store economy

Discount retailers have been the stealth winners of a challenging 2025. Dollar General's earnings show that millions of shoppers are trading down

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The business of baldness

For as long as there have been men with power, there have been men terrified of losing the appearance of it

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Dollar Tree is one of 2025's hottest retailers — and that should worry everyone

A record Halloween and near-10% sales growth at Dollar Tree shows 2025's great trade-down

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The short-seller who bet against Enron has a new warning about Nvidia and AI

Jim Chanos, most famous for his prescient Enron call in the early 2000s, is warning that Nvidia has created a risky new corner of the debt market

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The stock market zooms toward a Thanksgiving feast as AI plays surge

Google has added almost $1 trillion in market cap over the last six weeks, driven by positive reception to its newest Gemini AI model

26.11.2025 6

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Who's afraid of an AI bubble? Alibaba stock surges on tech rally and strongest growth in years

Instant commerce surged 60% and cloud revenue soared on AI workloads, sending shares higher for a second straight day

26.11.2025 20

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Google is soaring toward a $4 trillion market cap as Nvidia stock slumps

A.I. Google is soaring toward a $4 trillion market cap as Nvidia stock slumps Google stock has shot up almost 35% in the last six weeks, adding...

26.11.2025 10

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Flight cuts are causing widespread pain. Here's what you need to know

Even if the government shutdown ends this week, a top official has signaled that disruptions could stretch well into the holiday season

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The FAA is cutting flights at 40 major airports. Here's what it means for travelers

A record-long government shutdown has the agency set to throttle flight volumes by 10% at dozens of airports, with the holiday travel season coming

06.11.2025 3

Catherine Baab

Trump's economy is worse than it looks

The headline numbers average out the extremes, but the underlying picture is one of wealthy consumers thriving and everyone else trading down

06.11.2025 20

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Consultants rule the Earth

From the Fortune 500 c-suite to the White House to the Vatican, consultants are everywhere. What do they actually know?

06.11.2025 20

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McDonald's offers a snapshot of a $5 Meal Deal America

The fast food giant’s earnings showed solid global demand. But U.S. momentum was flat as the "bifurcated" economy persists and lower-income diners...

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U.S. adds 42,000 private-sector jobs, but white-collar layoffs mount

ADP’s October report shows modest hiring and flat pay, with white-collar layoffs spreading even as the shutdown dragging on

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The AI boom that built the bull market is starting to wobble

The selloff in Palantir and the Nasdaq highlights a tense dynamic: America’s entire stock market has arguably become a leveraged bet on AI

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They bought homes during the pandemic. Now they're underwater and stuck

A growing number of American homeowners are finding themselves underwater. Here's what that means for the economy

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The restaurant recession could be here

Young Americans are ditching $15 burritos for groceries — worrying CEOs and sending fast-casual stocks plunging as much as 80%

03.11.2025 10

Catherine Baab

Is 'learn to craft' the new 'learn to code?'

AI can write code, but it can’t fix an air conditioner. So some white-collar professionals are trading PowerPoints for power tools

02.11.2025 20

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Are Visa and Mastercard the new “hyperscalers”?

As growth in card spending slows, the two giants are now reframing themselves as the AWS and Azure of money movement — but are such claims legit?

30.10.2025 10

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OpenAI is paying former investment bankers $300,000 a year to train its AI models

The company is recruiting banking dropouts to join a secretive effort called Project Mercury. What does it mean for Wall Street's future?

30.10.2025 8

Catherine Baab

The Fed is 'flying blind' into a widely expected interest rate cut

It’s a move that Wall Street has already priced in with near certainty, even as the government shutdown has deprived policymakers of data

29.10.2025 4

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The skies are clearing for Boeing. But a $5 billion hit has the stock grounded

CEO Kelly Ortberg said the company is hitting an "important milestone," even as charges related to its 777X tanked the numbers

29.10.2025 4

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UnitedHealth's 'recovery' reveals what's really sick in American healthcare

UnitedHealth’s earnings are a powerful reminder that the country's healthcare math, whether corporate or federal, just does not add up

28.10.2025 20

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Ray Dalio sees a vast American underclass increasingly dependent on the top 1%

The billionaire hedge fund manager says that U.S. economic strength now rests on high-productivity workers, with the bottom 60% “unproductive”

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The Dow plunges 1,000 points and the Nasdaq reels as Trump attacks Powell again

Tesla stock slides and markets go backwards as earnings season meets trade war chaos

23.10.2025 3

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Hedge fund assets just hit a record $5 trillion. Here's why

Hedge funds are seeing their best growth in years, driven by a mix of fresh money, strong returns, and a flight to uncorrelated performance

23.10.2025 3

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Luxury travel is booming as Delta and Hilton thrive on wealthy spenders

The skies may not be friendly for everyone, but for those still flying — and sleeping — at the top end, they remain remarkably cloudless

22.10.2025 4

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Walmart and Target are cutting back for the holidays. That's bad news for Mattel

For toy companies, the quarter preceding the holiday season functions as a preview — with Walmart and Target revealing their holiday sales estimates

22.10.2025 9

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GM shows it can navigate tariffs and EV woes — and the stock soars 10%

GM’s profits still come from a very old-fashioned source — gas-powered pickups and SUVs built in North America

21.10.2025 2

Catherine Baab

A hiccup at Amazon Web Services briefly broke half the internet

The widespread failure highlights just how centralized the internet-as-we-know-it has become. It also highlights AWS’s critical role

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China's economic growth slows — even as it wins the trade war

China's factories are booming, but a deepening real estate slump is weighing on the country's economic growth

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The student loan 'default cliff' is coming

Millions of Americans are in trouble with their student loans. But the Department of Education remains largely shuttered during the government...

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Bank of America earnings show why the whole banking sector is flying high

A blowout quarter from America's second-largest bank illustrates larger trends in data and the economy

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Bank earnings tell a story of 2 economies

Wall Street's banks posted strong profits on the back of dealmaking and trading activity. But consumer business lines raise the prospect of...

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Trump is threatening more tariffs. But it looks like China is winning the trade war

New data shows China's dependence on American consumers is shrinking, offering an early verdict on Trump's renewed trade wars

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Wall Street's biggest banks are about to report earnings. Washington is paying attention

As bank CEOs take the mic during a government shutdown, their coded messages to policymakers may carry extra weight

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Ray Dalio warns that America's 'deficit-and-debt bomb' is 'like plaque in the arteries'

At the same time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb called the federal debt a “white swan,” or a crisis hiding in plain sight

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Retail investors are snatching up stocks — and that has Wall Street on edge

Is this the bull market's final act? As mom-and-pop investors pile in, Wall Street observers hear echoes of past bubbles

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Delta's latest results signal friendly skies, even amid the shutdown

Delta's Q3 results show the business increasingly looks like an airline-financial services hybrid. Here's why

09.10.2025 4

Catherine Baab

The job market is flashing warning signs even as stocks keep climbing

With the government shut down, Wall Street's own data sources are flashing warning signs for job seekers, even as stocks rocket to new highs

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Catherine Baab

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20 billion — but won’t call it a raise

The raise uses a special-purpose vehicle to keep debt off Musk's balance sheet and hardware in investors’ hands

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Gold's surge has Wall Street worried. Here's why

Gold keeps shattering records, an extreme move for an asset that typically posts single-digit annual gains. Citadel's Ken Griffin calls it “really...

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Wall Street's rally makes no sense — and perfect sense at the same time

Gold is soaring, Bitcoin is back, and the dollar is sliding — even as jobs vanish and the government shuts down. What gives?

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OpenAI just became the world's most valuable startup

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Horror is hot right now

From TikTok to the box office, fear is selling better than ever

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Taiwan says Trump’s chip production demand wasn't even discussed in recent talks

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had floated the idea that half of chips for the U.S. market would need to be produced domestically

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Trump's new timber tariffs could drive up housing costs

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September stock slump? Not this year

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Trump wants Taiwan to move half of its U.S. chip supply to America. Don't count on it

The White House is pressing Taiwan to relocate fabs and suppliers to the U.S. in a bid to counter China. But the numbers strain credulity

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