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Oil Rose Above $100 A Barrel, And Some Folks Are Betting It Sticks – While US 30-Year Mortgage Rates Topped 7%

2

AI Leaders Agree That It’s Time To Slow Down, And The Music Industry Is Battling Bots Over Streaming Fraud

3

Global Bond Yields Continued To Climb, And US Inflation Stayed Stubbornly Hot

4

The ECB Hiked Rates As Expected, And Chinese Regulators Want To Keep IPOs Poppin’

5

China’s Prices Are Climbing, But Mostly For The Wrong Reasons – And The US Treasury Secretary Issued A Warning To Traders

6

Robinhood Is Underwriting Oura’s $11 Billion IPO, And European AI Firm Mistral Just Got $3.5 Billion In Fresh Funding

7

Germany’s Factory Output Slowed Way Down In July, And Apple’s New CEO Is Leaning Hard On Design With… A Foldable iPhone

8

August’s Job Market Numbers Came In Way Better Than Expected, And Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Looking To Trim Its US Bond Holdings

9

Diesel Prices Climbed This Week – And Look Like They’ll Stay High – While Banks Just Loaned TikTok-Parent ByteDance A Big Stack Of Cash

10

Unitree’s Share Price Has Taken A Tumble, But It’s Still Pretty High – And The World’s On Track To Spend $31.6 Trillion On Data Centers By 2050

11

Investors Sold Government Bonds, Driving Borrowing Costs To Serious Highs – And Anthropic’s Latest Compute Agreement Is Yet Another Nvidia-Backed Deal

12

The Fed Chair Says America’s Inflation Showdown Ain’t Over, And US Company Profits Are Up, But Workers Aren’t Feeling It

13

Nvidia’s Latest Earnings Were Strong, But Investors Are Still Worried – And The US Economy’s July Data Was A Bit Of A Washout

14

America’s Coming Out Swinging At Canada And China, And Leveraged ETFs Are Looking A Lot Less Attractive

15

Chinese Fast-Fashion Firm Shein Is (Finally) Going Public, And Nvidia’s Investing In Its Own Customers… Again

16

The UK Economy Had A Gloomy July, But August Is Looking Brighter – And Samsung Wants To Buy Back Shareholders’ Love

17

Walmart’s Solid Earnings Show Folks Are Still Spending, Just Cautiously – And Bitcoin’s Rally Caught Crypto Pessimists Off Guard

18

Investors Backflipped For Unitree’s Stock, And Carlsberg’s Beer Sales Sank Last Quarter

19

The Nasdaq Is Moving To Nearly Non-Stop Weekday Trading, And Home Depot’s Earnings Handily Beat Expectations

20

Chinese Tech Stocks Are The Priciest In The World, And US Borrowing Costs Hit A 25-Year High

21

Anthropic’s Eyeing An October IPO At A Whopping $2 Trillion Valuation, And The World Cup And Sunshine Lifted The UK Economy

22

Neocloud Nebius Posted Stratospheric Sales Growth, And Investors Have Been Ditching South Korea For Taiwan

23

Nvidia Wants To Bankroll Its Customers’ AI Build-Outs, And European Stocks Have Been Calling To Investors

24

Greg Abel’s Doing Things Differently At Berkshire Hathaway, And TSMC’s Sales Jumped 45% Last Month

25

The US Economy Unexpectedly Lost Jobs Last Month – And Crude Prices Have Fallen, But Refined Fuel’s Still On The Up

26

Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Is Upping Its Prices, And Ad Agency WPP’s Less Bad Results Were Enough To Push Its Stock Up

27

Wall Street’s Biggest Lenders Want To Offload AI Data Center Debt – And After Some Strong Earnings, US Stocks Are On The Rebound

28

Severe Drought In Europe Is Wreaking Economic Havoc, And European Stocks Are Giving Investors A Break From Tech-Heavy Indexes

29

Alibaba’s New Model Might Give US Rivals A Run For Their Money, And AstraZeneca And Bristol Myers Squibb Could Join Forces

30

China’s DeepSeek Might Be Digging Itself A Data Center, While The Japanese And European Central Banks Kept Rates Steady

31

Apple And Amazon Showed Us What’s In The Box, And Hedge Funds Are Struggling With The Tech Selloff

32

It Was A Good Quarter For Microsoft – And A Mixed One For Meta, And The Fed Kept Interest Rates Steady

33

The Cost Of Europe’s Heatwave Is Mounting, And Mercedes-Benz Lowered Its Forecast For The Year

34

China’s Big Memory Maker Just Made A Blockbuster Debut, And Nvidia Might Back OpenAI’s Massive Data Center Deal

35

The US Has A Tariff For Everyone, And ETFs Are Being Launched At A Record Rate

36

Lockheed Martin, RTX, And Thales Gained Ground, And Oil Giant Total Just Had Its Slickest Quarter Since 2023

37

Alphabet’s Solid Second-Quarter Results Show That It’s Still Got It, And The US Is Threatening 100% Tariffs On Foreign-Made Generic Drugs

38

The US Is Threatening A 50% Tariff On Canadian Goods, And The LSE Is Gearing Up To Start – Almost – All-Day Trading Next Year

39

Cable-Maker Prysmian Just Plugged Into A $6.3 Billion Data Center Deal, And Ryanair’s Latest Profit Landed Lower By A Third

40

China Wants “AI For All” – Especially If It’s Made In China – And US Chip Stocks Had A No Good, Very Bad Week

41

Japan’s Putting $2.4 Billion Into Building A Humanoid Robot Army (Of Workers), And Energy Firms Are Raising Money Through IPOs At The Fastest Rate This Century

42

China Posted Its Slowest Economic Growth In Three Years, And Stripe And Advent Reportedly Made An Offer For PayPal

43

Five Banks Kicked Off Earnings Season With A Feast Of Profit, And The Russell 2000 Is On Track For Its Best Year In Decades

44

Apple’s Got Beef With OpenAI, And TSMC’s Sales Surged

45

Chipmaker SK Hynix’s US Debut Went Big, And EasyJet Just Got A Better Offer

46

PepsiCo’s Second-Quarter Results Left Investors Flat, And Memory Giant CXMT’s Getting Ready For Its Shanghai Debut

47

Samsung’s Stellar Earnings Weren’t Enough To Keep Investors From Selling, And Amazon Is Selling Bonds – Again – To Bankroll Its AI Ambitions

48

American Firms Are Snapping Up British Companies Left And Right, And Spacex Officially Landed In The Nasdaq 100

49

OpenAI Is Considering Giving The US Government A 5% Stake, And US Hiring Slowed In June, And Some Folks Just Quit Looking For Work

50

Meta Might’ve Found A Way To Bring In Some Serious Cash, And Anthropic’s Fable 5 Is Coming Out Of Its Cage

51

The Shine’s Rubbing Off The Magnificent Seven, And Japan’s Yen Fell To A 40-Year Low

52

Anthropic’s Mythos 5 Is Back – But Only For Government-Approved “Cyber Defenders”, And Comcast Is Spinning NBC Universal Off Into Its Own Company

53

OpenAI Might Delay Its IPO, And Europeans Are Buying More Chinese Cars Than Ever Before

54

Kalshi Is Targeting A $40 Billion Valuation The US Central Bank’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Hit Its Highest Level Since October 2023

55

Chinese AI Firm Zhipu Is Up 2,000% This Year, And Global Defense Spending Is Rising

56

America Is Pushing Quantum Computing Hard, And Perpetual Futures Have Traditional US Exchanges Worried

57

SpaceX Is Preparing A Bond Sale Worth $20 Billion Or More, And Emerging Markets Beat Earnings Expectations For The First Time In Four Years

58

Alphabet And Amazon Are Taking A Page Out Of Nvidia’s Playbook, And Asia’s Tech-Heavy Indexes Hit Yet Another Record High

59

Apple’s Raising Product Prices As The Chip Shortage Bites, And The Bank Of England Kept Interest Rates Steady

60

HSBC Just Signed An AI Deal – And It’s Thinking About Job Cuts – While The Green Economy Hit $10 Trillion In Market Value

61

Nvidia Waltzed Into The Bond Market And Raised $25 Billion, While The Bank Of Japan Raised Interest Rates To A 31-Year High

62

The US And Iran Announced A Ceasefire Deal, And America Told Anthropic To Block Foreign Users From Its Latest Models

63

SpaceX Lifted Off In The Biggest IPO Of All Time, And The Nasdaq 100 Shuffled Its Lineup

64

For The US, Hosting The World Cup Might Not Be Worth The Hassle – And The ECB Raised Interest Rates For The First Time In Over Two Years

65

Stateside Stock Supply Could Finally Rise Again, And US Inflation Ran Hot In May

66

OpenAI Made A Confidential IPO Filing, China’s Exports And Imports Blew Past Expectations

67

Tech Stocks Have Been On A Rollercoaster, And Germany’s Factory Activity Slid

68

Weight-Loss Drugs Are Hitting Clothing Companies, And The US Job Market Stayed Strong In May

69

SpaceX Wants An IPO That’s Out Of The Stratosphere, And Broadcom’s Results Were Good – But That Wasn’t Enough

70

Bitcoin’s Biggest Fan Just Sold Some Tokens, And The US Is Back With Another Round Of Tariffs

71

Alphabet’s Selling New Shares For The First Time In More Than Two Decades, And Eurozone Inflation Came In Hot

72

Berkshire Hathaway’s Betting Big On The US Housing Market, And Nvidia Wants To Turn Your PC Into A Personal AI Agent

73

Anthropic Just Overtook OpenAI, And Dell’s Stock Shot Up

74

Software Company Snowflake’s Been Using AI For Good, And US Inflation Came In As Expected: Hot

75

Rumors Of A SpaceX And Tesla Merger Are Getting Louder, And South Korea’s Kospi Index Keeps Smashing Records

76

Taiwan’s Stock Market Eggs Are In TSMC’s Basket, And Ferrari’s New EV Is Getting Toasted

77

The US Government Poured $2 Billion Into Quantum Companies, While Estée Lauder And Puig Called Off Their Engagement

78

SpaceX Filed For An IPO – And It Could Be The Biggest One Ever – While Nebius And Bloom Energy Are Going Off-Grid Together

79

Nvidia Beat Expectations For The 14th Quarter In A Row, And America’s Government Bonds Are Plunging

80

Alphabet And Blackstone Are Building A New Neocloud Company, And British Bank StanChart Is Cutting Jobs In Favor Of AI

81

Berkshire Hathaway’s New CEO Is Making Some Serious Moves, While NextEra And Dominion Could Become A Power Couple

82

America And China’s Talks Ended With… More To Say, And Famed Investor Bill Ackman Took A Big Stake In Microsoft

83

Chipmaker Cerebras Pulled Off The Biggest IPO Of The Year, And Honda Posted Its First Loss Since 1957

84

AI Compute Could Soon Become A Tradable Asset, And SoftBank’s Better-Than-Expected Earnings Owe A Lot To OpenAI

85

US Inflation Jumped In April, And Uber-Backed Lime Filed For An IPO

86

China’s Deflation Streak Is Ending, And India’s Prime Minister Asked People To Stop Buying Gold

87

Cautious American Consumers Have Companies On Edge, And Wall Street’s New Favorite Trade Comes With A Side Of Bad News

88

SpaceX Wants To Show That It’s More Than Just Rockets, And AI Gave Japanese Stocks A Kick Up The Charts

89

Samsung Just Entered The $1 Trillion Club, And DeepSeek Is…Seeking Its First-Ever Round Of Funding

90

Anthropic Could Surpass OpenAI As The World's Most Valuable AI Startup, And GameStop Made A Bid On eBay

91

US Stocks Just Had Their Best Month Since Late 2020, And Japan’s Leading Toilet Maker Is Getting Into AI

92

Apple Delivered Record Returns, While Taiwan And South Korea Are Rising On The AI Boom

93

Cloud Made It Rain For Big Tech, And The United Arab Emirates Is Saying Goodbye To OPEC

94

OpenAI’s IPO Is Looking A Bit Iffy, And CATL’s New Sodium-Ion Batteries Could Be A Game-Changer

95

Chinese Factories Seem To Be Thriving Despite Higher Oil Prices, And OpenAI Might Be Getting Into Smartphones – Literally

96

SoftBank Wants To Power The AI Boom With Its Own Batteries, And Intel’s Quarterly Revenue Showed That The Dot-Com Dino’s Still Got It

97

Memory Chipmaker SK Hynix Shared Blockbuster Results, And A Suspicious Temperature Spike Has Prediction Markets In Hot Water

98

CATL May Have Just Cracked The EV Charge And Range Roadblocks, And UK Inflation Rose In March

99

Anthropic’s Deal With Amazon Did Little To Calm AI Bubble Worries, And British Retailer Primark Is About To Strike Out On Its Own

100

Global Electricity Demand Is Growing, And The AI Boom Could Tamp Down Inflation

101

US Stocks Hit New Highs As The Strait Of Hormuz Reopened, And OnlyFans Could Be Worth Over $3 Billion

102

AI Chip Demand Drove TSMC’s Profit To A New Record, And China’s Economy Grew By A Peppy 5% In The First Quarter

103

ASML Raised Its 2026 Outlook, And Hermès Posted Weaker-Than-Expected Sales

104

Wall Street’s Biggest Names Brought In The Big Bucks Last Quarter, And China’s Exports Went From Strong To… Wrong

105

Oil Prices Popped Higher As The US Imposed A Blockade On Iran, And Goldman’s Profits Sounded The Opening Bell On Earnings Season

106

Prediction Markets Are Turning The Weather Into A Tradable Asset, And US Inflation Just Hit A Two-Year High

107

Meta Unveiled Its Spark AI Model, And China Shipped A Record Number Of EVs

108

The US-Iran Ceasefire Calmed Jittery Markets, And Bill Ackman Made A Bid For Universal Music

109

Anthropic Is Spending Billions On Chips And Cloud, And Private Equity Deals Are Way Down This Year

110

With No End In Sight, The War Is Causing Market Chaos, And Amazon’s Eyeing A Deal With Satellite Operator Globalstar

111

OpenAI’s Latest Round Of Funding Is Practically Mythical, And Warren Buffett Still Loves Apple – Just Not That Much

112

The Eurozone Just Reported A Big Bump Up In Inflation, And Chipmakers Saw Their Luck Run Out

113

Eli Lilly’s Got A Sparkling New AI Biopharma Deal, And European Inflation Fears Are Rising

114

Anthropic Wants A Big IPO – And Everyone Wants Anthropic – While Alphabet’s New AI Algorithm Is Rattling Memory Chip Firms

115

Infinite Scroll Got Its Day In Court, And Lost – While SpaceX Wants To Make Its IPO Launchpad Even Bigger

116

SK Hynix Wants A US Stock Listing, And UK Inflation Captured A Bygone Era

117

Revolut’s Results Told A Bigger Story About The Market, And Ares Became The Latest Symbol Of Private Credit Uncertainty

118

Stocks Bounced As The US Backed Off On Iran, And Berkshire's First Big Buy Under Its New CEO Has A Very Buffett Feel To It

119

The Middle East Conflict Is Driving Food Costs Higher, And OpenAI Is Developing A Desktop Super-app

120

Oil And Gas Prices Rose, And A Trio Of Central Banks Held Interest Rates Steady

121

Nvidia’s CEO Thinks He’s Spotted The Next ChatGPT, And The Fed Kept Interest Rates Unchanged

122

The Memory Chip Crunch Is Probably Sticking Around, And Private Credit Defaults Could Be About To Swell

123

Foxconn Posted Weaker Profit, And Neocloud Nebius Shook Hands With Meta

124

The US Is Trying To Build A Case For Fresh Tariffs, And The UK’s Economy Flatlined In January

125

Revolut Got A Full UK Banking License, And The IEA Ordered The Biggest-Ever Release Of Emergency Oil Reserves

126

JPMorgan’s Clamping Down On Some Lending, And US Inflation Didn’t Budge

127

TSMC's Chip Sales Have Boomed This Year, And Saudi Aramco Reported A Slight Dip In Profit

128

Novo Nordisk Is Giving Him & Hers Another Chance, And The G7 Is Hatching A Plan To Bring Oil Prices Down

129

The US Economy Dropped Jobs In February, And Oil Prices Kept Rising – Sending Shocks Through Stock Markets

130

China Pulled Its Economic Growth Target Down, And Trading Volumes On Prediction Markets Exploded

131

South Korea’s Main Stock Index Had Its Worst Blow On Record, And Surveys Showed The Global Economy Heading In The Right Direction

132

Oil And Gas Prices Rose Again, And Investors Pulled Billions From Blackstone’s Biggest Fund

133

Conflict In The Middle East Sparked Higher Energy Prices, And Berkshire Hathaway’s Final Results With Warren Buffett As CEO Were… Just Okay

134

Fintech Firm Block Said It’ll Cut Nearly Half Of Its Workforce, And Netflix Backed Out Of The Warner Bros. Bidding War

135

Two British Firms Released Spiffin’ Results, And The US President’s New Pledge Could Encourage Big Tech To Cover More Power Costs

136

Nvidia’s Results Came In Ahead Of Analyst Estimates, And Paramount Crashed Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal

137

Meta Agreed To Buy Billions Worth Of Chips From AMD, And Investors Bailed On Software Stocks

138

The Supreme Court Ruled America’s Sweeping Tariffs Illegal, And Novo Nordisk’s New Weight‑loss Drug Came Up Short

139

US Economic Growth Slowed And Inflation Came In Higher Than Expected, While Retail Investors Rushed To Leave A Private Credit Fund

140

OpenAI Could Raise $100 Billion, Valuing It At Nearly $850 Billion – And The IMF Thinks China Needs To Lean More On Its Own Consumers

141

Berkshire Hathaway Made Some Uncharacteristic Cuts, And UK Inflation Landed At Its Lowest In Ten Months

142

BHP Made More Money From Copper Than Iron Ore, And The US Dollar Fell Toward A Four-Year Low

143

Japan’s Economy Barely Budged Last Quarter, And China’s Stock Markets Paused For Lunar New Year Festivities

144

US Inflation Came In Better Than Feared, And Chinese Companies Spent $12 Billion Buying Foreign Firms In January

145

SoftBank Celebrated A Year Of Straight Profit, And Investors Dumped Stocks In Three Sectors At Existential Risk From AI

146

The US Jobs Report Bore Good News – But With Caveats – And Fresh Data Showed China Battling The Same Old Problems

147

TSMC Outdid Itself, Setting The Tone For The Industry, And The US Government Planned Its Biggest-Ever Regulatory Rollback

148

China Celebrated A Record Trade Surplus, And Japan’s Election Got Stocks And Bonds Moving

149

Investors Changed Their Minds About The Software Sector, And The US Government’s New Drug Platform Could Discount Pharma Stocks

150

Amazon Beat Expectations, But Its Spending Plans Did Too, And Elon Musk Wants SpaceX To Skip The Stock Market Index Waiting List

151

Alphabet Beat Expectations, But Investors Weren't Impressed, And Bitcoin Fell To Its Lowest Price Since 2024

152

The US And India Struck A Trade Deal, And China Made A Record-Breaking Investment In Its Power Grid

153

Investors Kicked Gold And Silver To The Curb, And Elon Musk Wants To Merge SpaceX And xAI

154

The US President Appointed The Next Chair Of The Federal Reserve, And Exxon And Chevron Both Beat Expectations

155

Apple Revealed Better-Than-Expected Results, And OpenAI And Anthropic Are Raising Fresh Billions

156

Meta And Microsoft Both Beat Expectations, And The US Dollar Hit A Four-Year Low

157

Analysts Expect China’s Tech Sector To Make 50% More Profit This Year, And Shares In SK Hynix Hit An All‑Time High

158

Big Tech Earnings Could Make Or Break The “Buy America” Trade, And Europe’s IPO Market Is Topping Records

159

Elon Musk Had A Busy Week, And A European Defense Firm Pulled Off A Record-Breaking IPO

160

The US Economy Grew At Its Fastest Pace Since 2023, And Apple Will Finally Give Siri An AI Upgrade

161

The World Economic Forum Hosted The US President And Nvidia’s CEO, While Gold Nabbed Another Record High

162

Investors Bailed Out Of Japanese Government Bonds, And UK Unemployment Stayed High

163

The US President Threatened Eight European Nations With Tariffs, And China Hit Its 5% Economic Growth Target

164

China And Canada Marked A Relationship Milestone, And Money Managers Issued A Warning About Corporate Bonds

165

TSMC’s Profit Sailed Past Analysts’ Expectations, And The UK Economy Grew By The Most Since June

166

China Booked A Record-Breaking Trade Surplus, And A Possible Election In Japan Sent Its Stock Market And Currency In Opposite Directions

167

JPMorgan Revealed Worse-Than-Expected Results, And Alphabet Joined The $4 Trillion Club

168

South Korea And China Broke Records, And US Prosecutors Opened An Investigation Into The Fed Chair

169

TSMC’s Results Offered Fresh Reassurance On The AI Boom, While Rio Tinto And Glencore Revived Their Earlier Merger Talks

170

Samsung Celebrated A Profit Milestone, And Convertible Bonds Are The Most Popular They’ve Been In 24 Years

171

Rare Earth Stocks Climbed, And European Inflation Landed Bang On Target

172

Copper Prices Reached A Record High, And Shares In A Chinese Tech Firm Picked Up Over 90% In A Year

173

Investors Pushed Oil Stocks Up, And Goldman Sachs Raised Its Price Forecast For TSMC’s Shares

174

South Korea's Kospi Index Hit A Record High, And BYD Is Lining Up To Overtake Tesla As The World's Largest EV-Seller

175

Economists Are Predicting A 'K-shaped' Economy In 2026, And Billions Flooded Into AI In 2025, But Confidence Could Fade In 2026

176

US Stocks Scored Three Straight Wins, And Global Markets Rewrote The Rules

177

ByteDance Is Planning A $23 Billion Investment In AI Infrastructure, And US Regulators Approved Novo Nordisk’s Once-A-Day Wegovy Pill

178

Macro Hedge Funds Had Their Strongest Year Since 2008, And Apollo Is Selling Some Riskier Assets And Stacking Up Cash

179

“Vibe Coding” Startup Lovable Landed $330 Million, And Japan Pushed Interest Rates To Their Highest In 30 Years

180

US Inflation Data Looked Better Than Expected, But There’s A Hole In The Numbers – And India Proved Itself As A Real AI Hotspot

181

Amazon Might Invest $10 Billion Into OpenAI, And Waymo Could Double Its Valuation To Over $100 Billion

182

November’s US Jobs Report Disappointed, And The European Union Made A U-Turn On Its Gas Guzzler Ban

183

China Posted The Worst Retail Sales Growth Since The Pandemic, While La Niña Created Storm Potential In Markets

184

Silver’s Price Shot Up To More Than Double Gold’s Rally, And OpenAI Rolled Out A New Version Of ChatGPT

185

Oracle Went On An AI Shopping Spree, While Microsoft And Amazon Pledged To Invest $53 Billion In India

186

SpaceX Is Pushing Ahead With Its IPO Plans, And The Biotech Sector Has Seen The Most Dealmaking In A Decade

187

The US Will Let Nvidia Sell Advanced Chips To China – For A Cut – And Global Temperatures Are On Track To Set An Unwelcome Record

188

China’s Exports Have Overshadowed Imports By $1 Trillion, And Hedge Funds Moved More Operations To The United Arab Emirates

189

Netflix Is Buying Warner Bros.’ Studio And Streaming Business, And Christiano Ronaldo Bought A Stake In AI Search Firm Perplexity

190

Chinese Chipmaker Cambricon Expects To Triple Its Chip Sales Next Year, And China’s Biggest Beauty Brand Looked To Challenge Europe’s Luxury Names

191

AI Startup Anthropic Started Preparing To Go Public, And Indian Stocks Had Their Weakest Showing Against Other EMs In Decades

192

Costco Is Sueing The US Government, And Strategy’s Stock Has Followed Bitcoin Down

193

Alphabet’s Gemini 3 Beat OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 In a Range Of Tests, While Silver's Doubled Its Price Since The Start Of The Year

194

OpenAI’s Partners Are Footing Its Breakneck Buildout Bills, And A Major US Exchange Went Dark For Hours

195

The UK Announced Higher Taxes, And HSBC Thinks OpenAI Will Need To Supplement Revenue With Fundraising

196

Alphabet’s Chips May Have Stolen Another High-Profile Customer From Nvidia, And The S&P 500 Welcomed Memory Provider Sandisk

197

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s Stock Fell 5%, And Alibaba’s Answer To ChatGPT Got Over Ten Million Downloads

198

US Stocks Had A Wild Week, And Japan’s Betting Big On Stimulus

199

ByteDance Secured A $480 Billion Valuation, And India’s Nifty 50 Index Hit An All-Time High

200

Nvidia Smashed Expectations And Raised Forecasts, While Xiaomi’s EV Unit Crossed The Profit Finish Line

201

Stocks And Crypto Saw The Worst String Of Selloffs Since April, And Oil Giant Total Bought Some Power Plants In Europe

202

Warren Buffett Made Big Bet On Alphabet, And Icy Relations With China Sent Shivers Through Japan’s Tourism And Retail Stocks

203

Bitcoin Fell Into A Bear Market, And China Got Hit By Weak Economic Updates

204

Microsoft And OpenAI Are Sharing Custom Chips, While The US Government Shutdown Ended With A New Spending Bill

205

Wall Street And Big Tech Have Been Teaming On Creative AI Deals, And The IEA Thinks Oil Demand Could Keep Climbing For Another 25 Years

206

SoftBank Dumped Its Entire Nvidia Stake, While American Companies Just Posted Their Best Results In Four Years

207

Chipmaker TSMC Posted Slower Sales Growth, And US Lawmakers Are Talking About Ending The Government Shutdown

208

Tesla Shareholders Approved Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package, And China’s Exports Fell For The First Time Since April

209

Apple Wants To Use Google’s AI Tech To Make Siri Smarter, And Qualcomm Pulled In Solid Sales Last Quarter

210

Novo Nordisk Trimmed Its Forecasts, And Investors Offloaded Crypto

211

Some Big Wall Street Names Think Stock Prices Need A Reset, And Tesla Reported Worse-Than-Expected Sales

212

Microsoft Shook On A $10 Billion Deal With A Data Center Provider, And Berkshire Hathaway Sold More Stocks Than It Bought Yet Again

213

ExxonMobil and Chevron revealed better-than-predicted results, while Nvidia signed deals with some of South Korea’s smartest firms

214

Amazon And Apple Revealed Decent Takings, While The US And China Agreed To Call Off Their Tariff War For A Year

215

Alphabet, Meta, And Microsoft Delivered Big Numbers, And The Federal Reserve Cut Interest Rates

216

The US Government Went Nuclear, And Amazon Culled 14,000 Corporate Jobs

217

Stock Markets All Over The World Notched Record Highs, And China's Government Brought Industrial Profit Back From The Brink

218

US Inflation Was A Touch Lower Than Expected, And Google And Anthropic Struck A Deal Worth Tens Of Billions

219

The US Government May Take Stakes In A Handful Of Quantum Computing Startups, And Europe And The US Tightened Sanctions On Russia’s Biggest Energy Firms

220

Investors Dumped Alphabet After OpenAI Took On Google, And Sports Betting Site DraftKings Is Expanding Into All Sorts Of Wagers

221

Apple’s Stock Climbed 4%, And Japan Revealed The Latest Stage Of Its Stock-Market Makeover

222

Bitcoin Miners Swapped Shovels For AI, And China’s Economy Stayed Close To Target

223

US Bank Stocks Plummeted, And The Dutch Government Seized Nexperia

224

TSMC Profits Soared 40%, And Big Banks Both Praised And Criticised AI

225

A Group Of Heavy-Hitting Tech And Investment Companies Bought A Big Data Center Operator, And LVMH’s Stock Picked Up 12%

226

The Biggest US Banks Posted Better-Than-Expected Results, And Investors Sent LG India’s Brand-New Stock Up Over 50%

227

China Exported 8% More Stuff This September Than Last, And The US Might Loosen Its Banking Rules

228

Investors Pushed Record Sums Into Global Stock Funds That Exclude The US, And Amazon Launched Its New AI Assistant

229

“The Black Swan” Author Thinks We’re Looking At The Next Economic Crisis, And AI Automation Startup n8n Secured A $2.5 Billion Valuation

230

SoftBank Struck A Deal To Buy A Robotics Unit, And Goldman Sachs Issued A Warning For Retail Investors

231

Gold And Bitcoin Both Broke Records, And Investors Sent Trilogy Metals’ Stock Flying

232

AMD Struck A Deal With OpenAI, And Investors Sent Japanese Stocks To The Heavens

233

Traders Expect The US Government Shutdown To Last For Weeks, And Sweden’s Set To Rank As The World’s Fifth-Biggest IPO Market

234

OpenAI Became The World’s Most Valuable Startup, And Japan’s Asahi Group Was The Latest Victim Of A Cyberattack

235

Berkshire Hathaway Is Closing In On Its Biggest Deal In Three Years, And European Bank Stocks Just Had Their 12th-Straight Winning Quarter

236

The US Government Could Shut Down, And Gold Reached A Record High

237

Three Chinese Stocks Turned Out A Dizzying Performance, And Two Bankruptcies Shook The Private Credit Market

238

Investors Are Crowding Into American Tech Bonds, And US Inflation Came In Above Target

239

Apple Might Invest In Intel, And An Unexpected Mine Closure Sent Copper’s Price Higher

240

OpenAI Announced Five New Data Centers, And Stablecoin-Issuer Tether Is Chasing A Valuation Near $500 Billion

241

Nvidia Promised To Invest $100 Billion In OpenAI, And Bain Warned That Companies Might Be Lacking In Revenue To Fund Their AI Costs

242

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sold Its BYD Stake, And The US President Imposed A $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

243

Nvidia Pledged To Invest $2.7 Billion In The UK’s AI Sector, And The US Government Decided Where To Spend Japan’s $550 Billion

244

Investors Are Betting On The US But Avoiding The Dollar, And Huawei Claims Its New AI System Is The World’s Best

245

The Federal Reserve Cut Interest Rates, And China Put Its Homegrown Chip-Making Machine To The Test

246

US Government Bonds Ranked First In Major Markets, And British Smartphone Maker Nothing Raised $200 Million

247

China’s Economy Is Struggling To Keep Up With Its Own First-Half Performance, And FuriosaAI Is Preparing To Raise Over $300 Million

248

The Convertible Bond Market’s Picking Up Steam, And Inflation Expectations In UK Households Hit A Two-Year High

249

A Billion-Dollar Crypto Deal Is In The Works, And Fresh US Inflation Data Reinforced Rate Cut Expectations

250

TSMC Proved That It Has Both AI Brains And iPhone Beauty, And Slipping US Producer Prices Made A Rate Cut Look Likely

251

Nebius Bagged A Near $20 Billion Deal With Microsoft, And US Small Business Owners Are The Most Optimistic They’ve Been All Year

252

OPEC+ Agreed To Pump Up Oil Production Again, And European Defense Startups Raised A Record Amount Of Cash

253

The US Had One Of Its Weakest Hiring Months In Years, And Gold Broke Its $3,500 Record

254

Chinese Stocks Hit A Decade High – And Regulators Want The Rally To Stick – While Europe Nabbed Some Seats At Tech’s Top Table

255

Alphabet And Apple Stock Rose After A Court Ruling, And Kraft Heinz Is A Casualty Of The Consumer Staples Sector’s Tough Year

256

China’s Leading The Robot Rollout With Digital Factory Workers, And British Borrowing Costs Hit A Near Three-Decade High

257

Yale’s Investing Strategy Lost Some Prestige Points, And Gold And Silver Climbed Toward Record Highs

258

The US Closed A Tax Loophole, And The UK Government Might Help Itself To British Banks’ Cash

259

Europe Was Kind To Most Carmakers Last Month – But Not Tesla – And Apple Announced A Partnership With TuneIn

260

Nvidia Did What Analysts Expected But Investors Still Wanted More, And UnitedHealth's Shares Fell After News Of Escalating Investigations

261

The US President Moved To Fire A Fed Governor, And Europe’s Racing To Mint A Digital Euro

262

DeepSeek's New AI Model Is Made To Run On Chinese Chips, And Fresh Data Showed That Germany’s Economy Shrank 0.3%

263

Meta Put A Pin In Its AI Hiring Efforts, And BlackRock Told Big Investors To Put More Money Into Hedge Funds

264

Americans Hunted For Bargains But Left Luxury Items On The Shelves, And British Inflation Picked Up More Than Expected

265

SoftBank Said It’d Buy A Stake In Intel, And A Basket Of European Defense Shares Fell Nearly 6%

266

China’s Stock Market Has Been Making A Comeback, And Retail Investors Have Been Lured Into “Pump And Dump” Stocks

267

Warren Buffett Gave Berkshire Hathaway’s Portfolio A Health Check, And China’s Economy Dragged In July

268

Apple’s Plotting Its AI Comeback With A New Lineup Of In-Home Tech, And Bullish’s Stock More Than Doubled On Its IPO Day

269

Perplexity Made A $34.5 Billion Swing For Chrome, And The IEA’s Predicting Oil Supply To Greatly Outstrip Demand

270

Fund Managers Are Moving Toward Emerging Market Stocks, And The US And China Extended Their Time-Out

271

Nvidia And AMD Will Be Allowed To Sell Chips In China, And Investors Piled Into Lithium After News Of A Major Mining Shutdown

272

The US President Just Let 401(k)s Invest In Alternative Assets, And Meta Teed Up A Massive $29 Billion AI Investment

273

The US President Announced A 100% Tariff On Foreign Chips, And SoftBank Shot The Lights Out Last Quarter

274

The US President Ousted America’s Chief Number‑Cruncher, And OpenAI Is Negotiating A Secondary Share Sale

275

SoftBank's Big AI Bets Have Been Paying Off, And Aramco Ramped Up Oil Production But Profit Didn't Budge

276

Sales Fell At Luxury Brands LVMH, Prada, And Moncler, And The US President Is About To Make Two Very Important Hires

277

American Investors Paid A Record Premium For TSMC’s US-Listed Shares, And Switzerland, Canada, And Taiwan Were Handed Steep Tariffs

278

Apple And Amazon Both Beat Expectations, While Countries Rushed To Strike Last-Minute Trade Deals With The US

279

Stockpicking Hedge Funds Are Finally Seeing Results, And Anthropic Could Become One Of The World’s Most Valuable Startups

280

Fidelity Thinks That Gold Is Set To Rise, And Software Startup n8n Could Be Worth $1.5 Billion

281

The US And The European Union Struck A Trade Deal, And Samsung Landed Its Biggest-Ever Chipmaking Contract

282

Volkswagen Downgraded Its Profit Forecast After Tariffs Hit, And Chinese Investors Pushed Record Cash Into Hong Kong Markets

283

Deutsche Bank’s Stock Broke A Decade-Long Record, And Blackstone Won Over The World’s Rich Investors

284

Retail Investors Are Piling Into Meme Stocks, While The US And Japan Struck A Trade Deal

285

The S&P 500 And Nasdaq 100 Celebrated Record Highs, And South Korea’s FuriosaAI Won A Chip Contract With LG

286

The Federal Reserve Is Refusing To Cut Interest Rates, And The London Stock Exchange May Launch 24-Hour Trading

287

Major Crypto Legislation Was Approved By US Lawmakers, And Chinese Carmakers Flooded Foreign Markets With Cheap EVs

288

Anthropic Could Be Worth Over $100 Billion, And Chipmaker TSMC Revealed A Record Profit

289

ASML Beat Expectations But Investors Ditched Its Stock, And America’s Biggest Rare Earth Producer Landed A Major Government Contract

290

Meta’s Building AI Data Centers The Size Of Small Cities, While JPMorgan Chase And Citigroup Both Beat Expectations

291

Elon Musk Is Using SpaceX’s Cash For A $2 Billion Bet On xAI, While The European Union's Prepping For A Tariff Breakup With The US

292

Bitcoin Topped $118,000 For The First Time, And The US President Threatened New Tariffs

293

TSMC Had Another Record-Breaking Quarter, And Revolut’s In Talks To Raise $1 Billion

294

The US President Threatened A 50% Import Tax On Copper, And China's Factory Prices Fell By The Most In Nearly Two Years

295

Samsung’s Expecting A Big Profit Drop, And Amazon’s Prime Day Might Be A Little Lackluster

296

The US President Extended His Tariff Truce, And Hong Kong Became The World’s Busiest IPO Market

297

The US Economy Created A Lot More Jobs Than Expected, And OpenAI Signed A $30 Billion Deal With Oracle

298

The US Set A Deadline For A Trade Deal With Japan, And Honor Released The World’s Thinnest Foldable Phone

299

Robinhood Unveiled Plans To Offer Tokens For OpenAI And SpaceX, While Apple’s Considering Outsourcing Its AI Development

300

China Just Approved A New Weight-Loss Drug, And American Utility Firms Are Powering Up On Infrastructure Spending

301

The US And China Struck A Rare Earth Mineral Deal, And Xiaomi Branched Out From Smartphones To Smart Cars

302

Nvidia Is The World’s Most Valuable Company Again, And Crypto Could Be Used To Qualify For US Federal Home Loans

303

Carmakers Are Driving Off Without Apple’s Carplay Upgrade, And Novo Nordisk Dumped Telehealth Platform Hims & Hers

304

The UK Wants To Use Strict New Rules To Bring Google To Heel, While Crypto Platform Circle’s Stock Fell After Surging 750%

305

Tesla Rolled Out Robotaxis In Texas, And America’s Housing Market Showed A Flicker Of Light

306

SoftBank’s Planning To Build A Trillion-Dollar US Hub, And Chinese Firm Pop Mart’s Stock Is Soaring

307

Big American Firms Are Cutting Office Jobs, And Switzerland Trimmed Interest Rates All The Way To Zero

308

xAI Wants To Raise Over $9 Billion, And Netflix Struck A Deal With France’s Biggest TV Network

309

Walmart And Amazon Are Eyeing Up Stablecoins, And Mitsubishi’s In Talks To Buy A US Gas Producer

310

China Might Hit Its Growth Target This Year, And Chinese Biotech Stocks Are Beating Tech Ones

311

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Is Eyeing Up BP, And Mattel’s Teaming Up With OpenAI To Create Smart, Talking Toys

312

China Agreed To Send More Rare Earths Stateside, While Nvidia And Samsung Bought Into Robotics Startup Skild AI

313

Moody's Warned Against Opening Up Private Markets, And Blackstone’s Planning To Invest $500 Billion In Europe

314

Two Big Chinese Coffee Chains Are Expanding Into The US, And The UK’s Betting Big On Small Nuclear Reactors

315

Meta’s Considering A $10 Billion Investment In Scale AI, And The UK’s Planning To Let Retail Investors Buy Coin-Tracking Crypto Funds

316

Tesla’s Stock Suffered A Record One-Day Loss, And India’s Central Bank Announced A Jumbo Interest Rate Cut

317

Deliveroo’s New Drone Service Took Off, And The European Central Bank Cut Interest Rates Again

318

Chinese AI Startup Manus Launched A Text-To-Video Tool, And US Carmakers Are Considering Moving Some Production To China

319

Rheinmetall Bagged A Spot In The Euro Stoxx 50 Index, While Thoma Bravo Closed A $34 Billion Fundraiser

320

China Pointed The Finger Back At The US, And America’s Factory Sector Slowed Down Yet Again

321

The US President’s Tax Bill Could Threaten $31 Trillion Of Foreign Investment, While Stateside Inflation Cooled Off In April

322

An American Court Blocked The US President’s Sweeping Tariffs, And The Labor Department Relaxed Its Guidance On Crypto In 401(k)s

323

Nvidia Smashed Earnings, And US Consumer Confidence Perked Up

324

Tesla’s European Sales And Market Share Fell Dramatically, While China Reportedly Drafted Plans For A Self-Sufficiency Push

325

Big Wall Street Banks Might Mint A Stablecoin, And Apple Shuttered Plans For Cameras On Its Watches

326

Alphabet Released “AI Mode” Ror Google Search, And Chinese Tech Firm Baidu Broke Its Losing Streak

327

JPMorgan’s CEO Warned Investors About Market Risks, And Poland’s Benchmark Stock Index Has Been On A Tear

328

The US Received A Credit Downgrade, And China’s Industrial Sector Stayed Stronger Than Expected

329

Berkshire Hathaway Made An Exit From Wall Street, While Japan Reported A Worse-Than-Expected Update

330

Dick’s Sporting Goods Made An Offer On Foot Locker, While The UK, Norway, And Switzerland All Outperformed

331

The US President Made A $600 Billion Deal With Saudi Arabia, And Tech Titan Tencent Posted Better-Than-Expected Results

332

US Inflation Landed Lighter Than Feared, And Perplexity Planned A $500 Million Funding Round

333

The US And China Agreed To A 90-Day Tariff Delay, And CATL Is Getting Ready To List On Hong Kong's Stock Market

334

Coinbase Just Scored The Biggest Crypto Deal Ever, And The US And China Will Break The Ice This Weekend

335

The US Struck A Trade Deal With The UK, And Apple’s Looking For Alternatives To Google Search

336

China Revealed A $138 Billion Stimulus Plan, And The US President Signed An Order To Have Medicine Made In America

337

Warren Buffett Announced His Retirement, And OpenAI Settled On A Mission Versus Money Compromise

338

The US Economy Added More Jobs Than Predicted, And The World Health Organization Will Greenlight Obesity Drugs

339

Apple And Amazon Beat Expectations But It Wasn't All Good News, And A Wall Street Analyst Slapped A “Sell” Sign On Nvidia’s Stock

340

Microsoft And Meta Beat Expectations, While Major Companies Pulled Their Outlooks For The Year

341

The US President Wants Tariffs To Pay For Tax Cuts, And Alibaba Unveiled Eight New AI Models

342

The US Is Expecting Fewer Chinese Imports Than Usual, And DoorDash Made A Bid For British Rival Deliveroo

343

S&P 500 Firms Are Downgrading Forecasts, And Apple's Planning To Make All US-Bound iPhones In India

344

Alphabet Beat Expectations, And Revolut Made A Billion-Pound Profit For The First Time

345

SAP’s Shares Had Their Best Day In Six Years, While Philip Morris And Danone Delivered Steady Revenue

346

Investors Dipped Out Of US Stocks, And Gold Hit A New Record Price

347

TSMC Beat Expectations And Kept Its Optimistic Forecast, While The European Central Bank Trimmed Interest Rates

348

China’s Economy Perked Up Last Quarter, While ASML Missed Order Expectations

349

Fund Managers Are Losing Faith In US Stocks, And LVMH Reported Worse-Than-Expected Sales

350

The US Is Sparing Phones And Laptops From Steep Tariffs, And Goldman Sachs Thinks Gold Could Reach $4,000

351

JPMorgan And Morgan Stanley Made More Profit Than Expected, And Chinese Firm Shein Could Delay Its London IPO

352

US Inflation Was Surprisingly Low In March, And TSMC’s Revenue Breezed Past Expectations

353

US Tariffs Were Put On Pause For All But China, While Investors Remain Spooked

354

The US President Threatened China With Even Higher Tariffs, And Firms Like Apple Stockpiled Goods Before Tariffs Took Hold

355

Investors Pulled Trillions From US Stocks, And Major Funds Rushed To Sell Their Private Equity Investments

356

The US Created More Jobs Than Expected, And OPEC+ Announced A Surprise Production Increase

357

The US President Announced Tariffs On Over 60 Countries, And American Tariffs Could Cut China’s Economic Growth In Half

358

Tesla’s Sales Hit An Almost Three-Year Low, And Startups Worth A Collective $100 Billion Are Set To List In India

359

The S&P 500 Just Had Its Worst Quarter Since 2022, And Eggs Will Cost You A Lot More This Easter

360

China’s Manufacturing Industry Showed Some Momentum, And Goldman Sachs Lowered Its S&P 500 Forecast

361

US Inflation And Consumer Spending Came In Worse Than Expected, But Gold Set A Brand-New Record

362

OpenAI’s Closing In On A Record-Breaking Fundraising Round, And The US Announced A New 25% Tariff On Cars And Auto Parts

363

Individual Investors Have Been Piling Into US Stocks, And Cloud Startup CoreWeave Is About To Go Public

364

Well-Off Economies Spent More On Debt Than On Defense Last Year, And Two Trading Platforms Made It Easier To Invest In Private Companies

365

FuriosaAI Turned Down An $800 Million Offer From Meta, And Copper Could Soar To Record Heights

366

Elon Musk Tried To Keep Tesla Employees From Ditching Shares, And The US President Bolstered American Mining

367

A New, Multi-Billon-Dollar Investment In US Data Centers, And European Defense Stocks Went On A Tear

368

Investors Finally Valued X At The Price Elon Musk Paid For It, And Tencent's Enviable Earnings Kept The Focus On Chinese Tech

369

Investors Slashed Their US Stock Allocations, And BYD Revealed A System That Can Charge An EV In Five Minutes

370

Warren Buffett Bought In Japan Once Again, And Americans Lost Even More Faith In Their Finances

371

A Defense Play Has Become Europe’s Top-Performing Stock, And Investors Threw Out US Shares In Favor Of Gold

372

Lyft Is Planning A Simplified App For Seniors, And US Regulators Are Looking Into Microsoft

373

US Inflation Took A Breather, And Europe And Canada Announced Tariffs On American Goods

374

Citigroup Downgraded US Stocks And Upgraded Chinese Ones, While Lego Made Record-Breaking Sales

375

TSMC’s Revenue Eased Fears Of A Tech Spending Slowdown, And The US President Refused To Rule Out A Recession

376

Alibaba Launched Its Latest AI Model, And The European Central Bank Trimmed Interest Rates

377

The US President Doubled Down On Tariffs, And China Set An Ambitious Growth Target

378

Saudi Arabian Oil Company Aramco Slashed Its Dividend, While Canada And China Fought Back Against American Tariffs

379

The US President Announced Plans For A Strategic Crypto Reserve, And European Defense Stocks Went On A Tear

380

American Stocks Could Be In A “Super Bubble”, And China Responded Ominously To US Tariff Doubling Threats

381

Investors Bolted Out Of Bitcoin, While The US President Announced 25% Tariffs On European Imports

382

Nvidia Lived Up To Increasingly Lofty Expectations, And BP Announced A Pivot Back Into The Oil And Gas Business

383

Europeans Bought More EVs But Left Tesla Out, And Anthropic Closed In On A $62 Billion Valuation

384

Warren Buffett Gave US Stocks A Wide Berth But Cozied Up To Japan, And Microsoft Reportedly Walked Away From Some Data Center Leases

385

Alibaba’s Stock Made A Comeback, And Investors Gave Nissan’s Shares Another Chance

386

Walmart's Strong Quarter Didn’t Keep Its Stock From Falling, And US Households Could Be In Line For $5,000 Checks

387

Elon Musk's xAI Released Its Grok 3 Chatbot, And UK Inflation Came In Hotter Than Expected

388

Baidu Announced Mixed Quarterly Results, And Investors Bolstered European Defense Stocks

389

Broadcom And TSMC Could Break Up Intel, And Figure AI’s Heading Toward A $40 Billion Valuation

390

US Retail Sales Came In Weaker Than Predicted, And Hermès Announced Stronger-Than-Expected Results

391

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Gave An Update, And Nestlé’s Results Pleased Investors – But Rival Unilever’s Did Not

392

CATL Filed For A Listing That Could Raise $5 Billion, While SoftBank Revealed A $2.4 Billion Loss

393

Elon Musk Threw A Surprise Bid At OpenAI, And Europe Will Retaliate Against New US Metal Tariffs

394

The US President Announced New Tariffs On Metal Imports, And France Revealed A €109 Billion Investment In AI

395

The US Economy Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected, And India Finally Cut Interest Rates

396

Amazon Beat Expectations But Investors Weren't Impressed, And The US President Has A New Monetary Tactic

397

Figure AI Bowed Out Of Its OpenAI Partnership, And Novo Nordisk Reported Better-Than-Expected Sales

398

Alphabet’s Shares Fell After The Firm Posted Mixed Results, And China Hit Back Against New US Tariffs

399

OpenAI Launched Its “Deep Research” Tool, And US Tariffs On Canada And Mexico Were Put On Hold

400

OpenAI’s Funding Round Could Value It Near $300 Billion, And Exxon And Chevron Posted Different Results

401

Apple Mostly Beat Expectations, And The European Central Bank Cut Interest Rates

402

Microsoft, Meta, And Tesla Reported Mixed Results, But ASML’s Earnings Were Chunkier Than Expected

403

Ray Dalio Warned That US Stocks Are Looking Like They Did In The '90s, And SAP Revealed Expectation-Beating, AI-Driven Revenue

404

Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Is Rivaling US Firms, And China’s Factory Activity Slowed Down

405

American Express Posted Illuminating Quarterly Results, And Reliance Is Planning To Build The World’s Biggest Data Center

406

US Stocks Are Expensive Right Now, And GE Aerospace Beat Expectations

407

The Stargate Project Plans To Spend $500 Billion On AI Infrastructure, And The US President Threatened China And Europe With Tariffs

408

Netflix Broke Records, And The New US President Threatened Fresh Tariffs

409

Bitcoin Broke A Record, And The US Ban On TikTok Lasted Mere Hours

410

Analysts Have High Hopes For S&P 500 Firms, And China’s Economy Outran Predictions

411

Bank Of America And Morgan Stanley Beat Expectations, And TSMC Unveiled Big Growth Forecasts And Expansion Plans

412

Core US Inflation Landed Cooler Than Expected, And Investors Plowed Into S&P 500 Equal-Weighted Funds

413

The US President-Elect Is Considering A Softer Approach To Tariff Hikes, And Chinese Banks Made Fewer Loans Last Year

414

Oil Prices Jumped To A Five-Month High, And Global Temperatures Broke A Key Climate Threshold

415

The US Economy Created Far More Jobs Than Expected, And TSMC Posted Record-Smashing Revenue

416

Global Bond Markets Sold Off, And Updates From Two UK Grocery Chains Hinted At Lower Inflation

417

China Amped Up Its Stimulus Machine, And AI Startup Anthropic Is Closing In On A $60 Billion Valuation

418

Nvidia Took Showing Off To The Next Level, And The Pentagon Blacklisted Tencent And CATL

419

Foxconn Posted A Record-Shattering Quarter, And The US Could See An IPO Revival

420

Mined Diamonds Had A Rough Year, But Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds Did Well

421

China’s Factories Stumbled, And ​​British Home Prices Perked Up

422

Goldman Sachs Sees Strong Growth In The US, But 2025 Might Not Be The Best Year For Stocks

423

The Global Economy Held Up Impressively Well This Year, And Stocks Rallied Like It Was 2021 Again

424

Novo Nordisk’s Stock Went On A Crash Diet, And Investors Demonstrated Their Love For Oura

425

Perplexity’s Latest Funding Round Tripled Its Valuation, And The US Dollar Rose To A Two-Year High

426

Honda And Nissan Might Join Forces, And AI Firm Databricks Just Raised $10 Billion

427

Bank Of America’s Latest Survey Warned About Stocks, And UK Wage Growth Outpaced Expectations

428

Apple Might Be Zhuzhing Up The iPhone, And China Got A Retail Reality Check

429

BlackRock Thinks Bitcoin Has A Place In Your Portfolio, And The UK’s Latest Data Came In Weaker Than Expected

430

The Nasdaq Charged Up To New Record Highs, And Central Banks In Europe Announced Interest Rate Cuts

431

US Inflation Was Exactly As Expected, And London’s IPO Market Has Fallen

432

Obscure Wall Street Bonds Have Been Booming, And Coffee Prices Hit Record Highs

433

China Unveiled A Dramatic Policy Change, And Omnicom And Interpublic Might Team Up

434

US Electricity Demand Is Set To Surge, And Bank Of America Is Warning Of A Bubble In Stocks And Crypto

435

Bitcoin Hit Six Figures, And Games Workshop Joined The FTSE 100

436

Amazon’s Building An AI Supercomputer Using Its Own Chips, And Retail Investors Are Expecting A Strong 2025

437

SpaceX Might Boost Its Valuation With An Insider Share Sale, And More Americans Had Loan Applications Rejected This Year

438

OpenAI Plans To Quadruple ChatGPT’s User Base Next Year, And China's Manufacturing Grew In November

439

European Inflation Jumped, And India’s Economic Growth Slowed

440

France’s Bonds Hit A Milestone, And Chip Stocks Feast On Thanksgiving Cheer

441

US Inflation Sped Up, And The Mood In Germany Slumped

442

Weight-Loss Drugs Could Become Covered By Medicare And Medicaid, And The US President-Elect Pledged New Tariffs

443

Amazon Doubled Its Stake In Anthropic, And Markets Approved Of The US Treasury Secretary Pick

444

MicroStrategy Raised $3 Billion, And Business Activity In Europe Slowed

445

Google May Be Forced To Sell Chrome, And xAI Raised Funds At A $50 Billion Valuation

446

Nvidia Reported Record Sales, And UK Inflation Came In Hot

447

Nestlé’s New Boss Is Hoping To Lift Its Share Price, And Europe Might Need To Double Its Defense Spending

448

Goldman Thinks Gold’s On The Up, And Morgan Stanley Has A Sunny Forecast For US Stocks

449

Warren Buffett Bought Domino’s, And Retail Sales In China Jumped

450

ASML Delivered An Optimistic Outlook, And The IEA Predicted An Oil Glut

451

US Inflation Heated Up, And Klarna Finally Filed For An IPO

452

Home Depot Nailed Its Update, And Investors Are Optimistic About US Stocks

453

Bitcoin Surged Past $80,000 For The First Time, And China’s Trade Surplus Is On Track To Hit A Fresh Record

454

Defense And Energy Companies Are Preparing For Growth, And China Announced A $1.4 Trillion Spending Boost

455

The Fed And The Bank of England Both Cut Interest Rates, While Investors Upped Their Bets On Higher-Risk Assets

456

Markets Are Responding To Fading Election Uncertainty, And Sales Of Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs Boomed

457

Saudi Aramco’s Earnings Slipped, And Foreign Investors Pulled Out Of Indian Stocks

458

Buffett Swapped Apple For Cash, And Nvidia Got Ready To Join The Dow

459

US Job Growth Slumped To A Four-Year Low, But Exxon And Chevron Beat Expectations

460

Amazon And Apple Both Topped Expectations, And Global Demand For Gold Hit An All-Time High

461

Meta And Microsoft Served Up Wins, And The UK Announced Plans To Hike Taxes And Borrowing

462

Alphabet Posted Strong Third-Quarter Results, But McDonald’s Update Wasn’t Quite A “Happy” Meal

463

Companies In The S&P 500 Have Been Falling Short Of Analyst Estimates, And Oil Prices Slumped

464

Colgate’s Solid Earnings Weren’t Enough To Make Investors Smile, And Germany’s Business Morale Lightened Up

465

Hermès Made A Statement With Its Latest Results, And Ozempic Was Linked To A Lower Risk Of Alzheimer’s

466

Goldman Sachs Downgraded India’s Stocks, And BlackRock Launched Two AI-Focused ETFs

467

General Motors Beat Expectations, And SAP’s Shares Hit An All-Time High

468

Perplexity Is Looking To Raise Funds At An $8 Billion Valuation, And China Cut Its Interest Rates

469

Gold’s Price Hit A New All-Time High, And China Just Barely Beat Growth Forecasts

470

The ECB Trimmed Interest Rates Again, And Blackstone Announced A New Record

471

Global Stocks Slipped After Updates From LVMH And ASML, And Overseas Investors Have Been Selling India’s Stocks

472

Three Big Banks Beat Profit Expectations, And The IMF Reported That Government Debt Is Growing

473

China Announced A Stimulus Plan But Left Out The Details, And A Drought In Vietnam Is Impacting Coffee Growers

474

JPMorgan Chase ​​Beat Expectations, And BlackRock Announced A Record-Breaking Quarter

475

US Inflation Came In Ahead Of Expectations, And Delta Predicted A Profitable Fourth Quarter

476

Rio Tinto Announced That It’s Acquiring Arcadium Lithium, And TSMC Posted Dazzling Revenue

477

China's Stock Market Rally Fizzled Out, And PepsiCo Announced Disappointing Results

478

UK House Prices Rose Again, And Tokyo Metro Is On Track For A Big IPO

479

The US Added Far More Jobs Than Predicted, And The EU Voted For Import Taxes On Chinese EVs

480

OpenAI Raised $6.6 Billion, And Tesco Lifted Its Profit Forecast For The Year

481

Investors Are Forecasting S&P 500 Companies Will Pump Up Their Profits, And Tesla Delivered Fewer Vehicles Than Expected

482

HSBC Lowered Its Oil Price Forecasts, And Eurozone Inflation Came In Below The ECB’s Target

483

Chinese Stocks Just Had Their Best Week Since 2008, And DirecTV And EchoStar Are Teaming Up

484

Money Market Funds Hit Record Levels, And Japan’s Leadership Result Shocked Markets

485

OpenAI Is Pushing To Become For-Profit, And China's Stock Market Jumped Again

486

The Global AI Market Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2027, And Canva Is Gearing Up For An IPO

487

China’s Stocks Rallied On News Of Financial Support, And The US Election Could Threaten The Country’s Climate Plans

488

Qualcomm’s Considering A Friendly Takeover Of Intel, And The Eurozone’s Private Sector Shrank

489

Three Big US Money Managers Have Been Snubbing ESG, And The UK’s National Debt Is Now The Size Of Its Economy

490

Demand For Expensive Swiss Watches Ticked Up, And India Overtook China In A Big Stock Market Index

491

BlackRock, Microsoft, And MGX Are Launching A New AI Fund, And UK Inflation Held Steady Last Month

492

Intel Plans To Spin Off Its Manufacturing Business, And US Retail Sales Came In Strong

493

More Americans Have Been Defaulting On Their Debts, And BHP Warned That AI Will Exacerbate A Copper Shortage

494

UniCredit Revealed A 9% Stake In Commerzbank, And China Agreed To Increase Its Retirement Age

495

OpenAI’s Valuation Is Set To Hit $150 Billion, And The ECB Cut Interest Rates

496

US Inflation Cooled, And A Popular Type Of ETF Launched In Europe

497

Big Tech’s Been Dominating Private Markets, And China’s On The Precipice Of Deflation

498

Elon Musk Wants Tesla And xAI To Buddy Up, And Kering’s Stock Has Tanked

499

The Latest US Jobs Report Left Markets Guessing, And American Companies Broke Records In The Bond Market

500

Intel Failed An Important Test, And Investors Have Put Nearly $1 Trillion Into Active ETF

501

Stock Markets Fell Down Yet Again, And The US Department of Justice Is Looking At Nvidia

502

Volkswagen Might Have To Shut Up Shops At Home, And A Record Number Of 401(k) Accounts Hit The $1 Million Mark

503

A US Federal Clean-Energy Fund Is Dishing Out Cash, And Steel Prices Have Plunged

504

Inflation In Tokyo Picked Up, And European Stocks Hit A Record High

505

OpenAI’s Aiming For A Valuation Over $100 Billion, And Foreign Investors Are Fleeing Indian Stocks

506

Nvidia Beat Expectations Yet Again, And Europe’s Tough Rules Are Scaring Off Tech Companies

507

Coffee Prices Surged, And Defense Giants Are Likely To Bring In Record Cash

508

The Fed Hinted At An Interest Rate Cut, And China Stoked Fears Of A Trade War

509

Coal Giants Arch And Consol Struck A Deal, And The British Pound Hit A Six-Month High

510

China’s Taking A Hard Look At Cheese Imports From Europe, And The US Added Far Fewer Jobs Than Previously Thought

511

A Single Bar Of Gold Now Costs $1 Million, And Apple’s Going To Make High-End iPhone Models In India

512

7-Eleven’s Parent Company Got A Buyout Proposal, And US Startup Failures Have Risen

513

Warren Buffett Bought Into Ulta Beauty, And Revolut Scored A $45 Billion Valuation

514

China's July Growth Figures Fell Short, And US Retail Sales Beat Expectations

515

Google Is At Risk Of Being Broken Up, And US Inflation Rose By Less Than Expected

516

America’s Manufacturing Industry Looks Tired, And US Producer Prices Rose Less Than Expected

517

US Tourists Have Been Spending Less On Travel, And Bonds Are Making A Comeback

518

Perplexity Is Going Up Against Google, And Major Firms Are Turning Their Attention To India

519

China’s Export Growth Slowed, And US Jobless Claims Were Lower Than Expected

520

Japan Vowed To Keep Interest Rates Steady, And House Prices Picked Up In The UK

521

Nvidia’s Battling Production Delays, And Markets Have Started To Recover From Monday’s Sell-Off

522

Warren Buffett Cut His Stake In Apple By Nearly Half, And Japanese Stocks Plummeted

523

The US Created Fewer Jobs Than Expected, And Nvidia Rival Cerebras Filed For An IPO

524

Apple Reported Record Revenues, Amazon's Stock Tumbled, And The Bank Of England Cut Interest Rates

525

Meta Reported Stronger Than Expected Sales, And The Bank Of Japan Raised Its Benchmark Interest Rate

526

Microsoft’s Stock Fell After Disappointing Cloud Results, And Germany Lagged Behind Other Eurozone Economies

527

McDonald's Sales Fell For The First Time Since 2020, And Europe’s Wealthiest Man Bought A Stake In Richemont

528

Bill Ackman Slashed His New Fund’s Target, And The Latest US Inflation Data Looks Promising

529

The US Economy Grew Faster Than Expected, And AI Jitters Sent Markets Into A Tailspin

530

European Firms Are Struggling With Slow Chinese Demand, And British Business Activity Is Looking Brighter

531

Alphabet Beat Expectations, And Ether Spot ETFs Just Launched

532

Warren Buffett Sold Bank Of America Stock, And Elliott Management Picked Up A Stake In Starbucks

533

CrowdStrike Sparked A Massive Global Tech Outage, And OpenAI Buddied Up To Broadcom

534

Shipping Troubles And Tariff Threats Could Stoke Global Inflation, And TSMC Unveiled Strong AI-Powered Results

535

ASML’s Stock Fell Despite Strong Results, And The Russell 2000 Had Its Best Streak In Years

536

Bank Of America And Morgan Stanley Beat Expectations, And Saudi Arabia Is Struggling To See Its Plans Through

537

Google May Possibly Buy Cybersecurity Firm Wiz, And China’s Economy Dragged In Disappointing Numbers

538

JPMorgan Chase Crushed Expectations, And Analysts Are Optimistic About This Earnings Season

539

Retail Investors Are Optimistic, And Professional Investors Are Worried About Round-The-Clock Trading

540

Microsoft And Apple Stepped Away From OpenAI, And China Inched Closer To Deflation

541

User Growth At X Was Slow Last Quarter, And Passive Funds Are Beating Active Ones This Year

542

Global Temperatures Breached A Climate Threshold, And France Is In Political Deadlock

543

The Labour Party Won The UK Election, And The US Added More Jobs Than Expected

544

Tesla Turned A Corner With The Help Of AI, And Japanese Wages Are Set To Rise

545

Revolut Made A Record Profit, Tech Firms Went Nuclear To Power AI

546

The “Roaring Kitty” Disclosed A New Stake, And China’s Economic Data Disappointed

547

Novo Nordisk's Wegovy Got The Green Light In China, And Denmark Approved A Carbon Tax On Agriculture

548

Airbus Lowered Its Profit Outlook, And The EU Charged Apple And Microsoft

549

Apple Might Collaborate With Meta, And Copper Prices Have Started To Fall

550

Revolut’s Share Sale Could Value It At $40 Billion, Birth Rates In OECD Countries Are Falling

551

The Bank Of England Held Interest Rates Steady, The European Central Bank Cautioned Over Heavy Debt

552

UK Inflation Came In On Target, US Carmaker Fisker Filed For Bankruptcy

553

A Major Tech ETF Is Set To Load Up On Nvidia, The S&P 500 Broke Another Record

554

The US Is Attracting A Third Of Global Capital, Paris Is No Longer Europe’s Biggest Stock Market

555

“Roaring Kitty” Changed Up His GameStop Play, US Corporate Cash Piles Swelled To A Record $4.1 Trillion Last Quarter

556

Europe Hit Chinese EVs With New Tariffs, The Eurozone’s Industrial Output Dipped

557

The Fed Signaled Just One Rate Cut This Year, The World Bank Lifted Its Global Outlook

558

Apple Launched Its Own AI System, Activist Investor Elliott Took A Stake In Southwest

559

The S&P 500 Shuffled Its Deck, Insurers Braced For A Tough Hurricane Season

560

The US Added More Jobs Than Expected, Nvidia Split Its Stock Ten To One

561

The ECB Cut Interest Rates, The NBA Looks Set To Score Three Deals

562

Elliott Management Is Targeting SoftBank, China’s Risking Even More Tariffs

563

India’s Journey To Market Highs Hit A Pothole, Bill Ackman Sold A Stake In Pershing Square