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AST SpaceMobile just proved biggest skeptics wrong, for now
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AST SpaceMobile just proved biggest skeptics wrong, for now

AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) launched three satellites into orbit on Wednesday, 17th June, and the stock jumped 6% in response. The reaction looks like a simple relie…

SpaceX stock sinks 3% as the post-IPO surge finally stalls
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SpaceX stock sinks 3% as the post-IPO surge finally stalls

Shares pulled back Wednesday after a roughly 40% run since the company's Friday debut pushed its market cap past Amazon…

Bank of America sees Exxon differently than oil market
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Bank of America sees Exxon differently than oil market

Exxon Mobil (XOM) stock hasn’t been moving as much, considering the loud warnings from the oil market. The Guardian reports that Brent crude has been dropping f…

LGBTQ shoppers are pulling back from Target, Walmart, and Amazon over DEI rollbacks
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LGBTQ shoppers are pulling back from Target, Walmart, and Amazon over DEI rollbacks

Nearly 72% of LGBTQ+ consumers say they buy fewer products from companies they see as reducing diversity commitments, a new HRC survey found…

Mizuho sees something in QBTS stock the market is missing
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Mizuho sees something in QBTS stock the market is missing

2026 has not been the best year for shares in quantum computing darling D-Wave Quantum’s (QBTS). The company kept posting engineering wins and a fast-growing or…

Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going
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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going

Before leading Google to a $4.5 trillion empire, Sundar Pichai had to rally his Chrome team after a public jab from Microsoft's CEO.…

Lennar’s big housing bet has Wall Street sounding alarms
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Lennar’s big housing bet has Wall Street sounding alarms

Lennar’s (LEN) asset-light strategy was intended to make the homebuilder more nimble. Bank of America also said it might complicate the earnings story. The brok…

Goldman Sachs spots stock market’s next winners
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Goldman Sachs spots stock market’s next winners

Goldman Sachs is telling stock market investors that the old winning formula is breaking. For years, investors have been following the same playbook: falling ra…

SpaceX acquires Anthropic and OpenAI rival in $60B deal
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SpaceX acquires Anthropic and OpenAI rival in $60B deal

Elon Musk just made his biggest bet yet on artificial intelligence. Days after SpaceX's record-breaking stock market debut, the company confirmed it would acqui…

Boring, quiet & crushing the market for the last 5 years
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Boring, quiet & crushing the market for the last 5 years

This is the third piece in a series examining "boring" large-cap stocks that have outperformed the Nasdaq-100 over the past five years. The first piece introduc…

SpaceX stock surges past Amazon in market cap, keeps climbing
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SpaceX stock surges past Amazon in market cap, keeps climbing

SpaceX stock has risen around 50% since its Nasdaq debut last Friday, pushing its valuation above $2.66 trillion at Tuesday's close…

Warren Buffett’s successor Greg Abel makes another $10 billion bet
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Warren Buffett’s successor Greg Abel makes another $10 billion bet

Greg Abel has been running Berkshire Hathaway for barely six months, and he has already reshaped the contours of the conglomerate’s stock portfolio.  His l…

SpaceX's $60 billion Cursor deal more than doubles its young cofounders' net worths
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SpaceX's $60 billion Cursor deal more than doubles its young cofounders' net worths

Forbes estimates each of the four MIT-educated founders will be worth $2.7 billion once the all-stock deal closes…

Snap thinks it can beat Apple, Meta and Google to your face
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Snap thinks it can beat Apple, Meta and Google to your face

The company that ends up defining a new gadget is rarely the one that ships it first. Being first means being early, and being early means paying to teach every…

Trump warns that he can go 'back to dropping bombs' if he doesn't like the final Iran deal
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Trump warns that he can go 'back to dropping bombs' if he doesn't like the final Iran deal

The agreement to end the war has sent oil prices to their lowest level in roughly three months and driven broad stock market gains…

Elon Musk has made the impossible work. But AI data centers in space won't be easy
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Elon Musk has made the impossible work. But AI data centers in space won't be easy

Elon Musk built Tesla and SpaceX by riding cost curves down. Orbital data centers need the same collapse, but terrestrial rivals keep getting cheaper…

The startups racing to put AI data centers in space before Big Tech gets there
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The startups racing to put AI data centers in space before Big Tech gets there

Starcloud, Axiom Space, Lonestar, and others are betting they can stake claims in orbit before Google and SpaceX scale up…

AI data centers — in space
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AI data centers — in space

As resistance to massive data centers grows on Earth, companies like SpaceX and Google are exploring AI infrastructure in orbit instead…

Amazon shoppers are racing to buy a $99 DeWalt power drill — here's why
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Amazon shoppers are racing to buy a $99 DeWalt power drill — here's why

DeWalt has been making rugged power tools for over a century.…

The former Goldman boss who day trades without a computer
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The former Goldman boss who day trades without a computer

The billionaire ex-banker told the "My First Million" podcast he treats stock trading like a hobby, with nothing left to lose or gain…

Mark Zuckerberg admits mistakes in leaked memo after Meta layoffs
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Mark Zuckerberg admits mistakes in leaked memo after Meta layoffs

The Meta CEO is reassessing key decisions after laying off thousands of employees.…

Bank of America takes firm position on inflation, economy
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Bank of America takes firm position on inflation, economy

Every month, Bank of America surveys some of the world's largest institutional investors to build a picture of how professional money managers see the global ec…

What is Amazon’s free cash flow in 2026?
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What is Amazon’s free cash flow in 2026?

Amazon’s growth over the past three decades has been phenomenal. The company initially started out selling books online at the start of the internet boom in the…

Bezos says cost is the only barrier to space data centers — and AI will create more jobs
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Bezos says cost is the only barrier to space data centers — and AI will create more jobs

The Amazon founder also pushed back on fears that AI will eliminate jobs, predicting a labor shortage instead…

Schwab shares critical advice on credit scores
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Schwab shares critical advice on credit scores

Most Americans say improving their credit score is a priority, yet a striking number cannot explain the specific behaviors that move the number. A spring 2026 H…

The Fed, Warsh, and a falling oil market: What's driving stocks today
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The Fed, Warsh, and a falling oil market: What's driving stocks today

The Fed is expected to hold rates steady, while SpaceX stock continues its post-IPO climb and chip stocks also advance…

Vermont becomes the latest state to limit private equity's influence over healthcare
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Vermont becomes the latest state to limit private equity's influence over healthcare

Gov. Phil Scott signed H.583, barring corporate entities from making medical decisions and requiring healthcare companies to disclose ownership…

Amazon is selling solar string lights for just $14 with easy setup
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Amazon is selling solar string lights for just $14 with easy setup

Over 6,000 have been sold in just the last month.…

The government wants a piece of the AI book
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The government wants a piece of the AI book

The Trump administration is weighing AI equity stakes and a public wealth fund that could send returns to Americans, and critics see potential bailout…

BofA says investors may be too skeptical of Chipotle
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BofA says investors may be too skeptical of Chipotle

Chipotle’s (CMG) biggest stock-market problem may not be burritos, menu prices or slowing comparable sales. It might be investor skepticism. Bank of America thi…