Fintech innovators are starting to gain ground again, with names like SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) leading the upward charge, rising more than 180% over the past year. And while it’s tempting to go with one of the less-heated names in the space, such as Block (NYSE:XYZ) as some sort of catch-up trade, I do think investors should…
As agentic AI and the automation of workplace tasks become a bigger story in the second half, I think it’s becoming tough to ignore shares of UiPath (NYSE:PATH) any longer. At this juncture, it’s one of the most interesting AI automation stocks to give a second look while it’s still well over 80% from its…
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Global Stocks, US Futures Trade In Record Territory After US-Japan Trade Deal US equity futures are higher again and trading in record territory following the US, Japan trade deal, which was largely unexpected (Polymarket odds of a deal before August 1 were just 20%), triggering a global risk-on rally. Japan will pay a 15% tariff…
Many investors in 2025 need dependable passive income, and one outstanding way to achieve this is to invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Unlike open-end mutual funds, ETFs trade on major exchanges like stocks. They own financial assets, including stocks, bonds, currencies, debt, futures contracts, and commodities such as gold bars. The more passive income can…
Shares of Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) have surged 68.9% over the past 90 days, despite pulling back 2.5% in the past week. That has brought the stock back to 24.4% higher than at the beginning of the year, and shares have hit an all-time high above $174. This rebound from the spring low has sparked…
24/7 Wall St. Insights We use Global Firepower’s 2024 military strength report Additional data about air force and overall military strength provides a well-rounded picture of each The #1 country has a long history of being a Military Superpower Also, Discover “The Next NVIDIA” As of June 2025, the first successful test flight of an…
Goldman Sees Boycott Easing For Target – But Says “Still Too Early For Turnaround” Story With earnings season just kicking off for corporate America, it’s hard not to recall what Target CEO Brian Cornell told investors in May—blaming a soft quarter on a consumer boycott over the retailer’s decision to scale back its DEI initiatives….
Pressure Mounts For Pope Leo To Make Risky Gaza Visit: ‘Break The Siege’ Via Middle East Eye Pope Leo is facing growing calls to take direct action in Gaza, as critics urge him to lead an aid mission to the besieged enclave after Israeli air strikes and amid worsening humanitarian conditions. The push is in response…
It’s The Meme Craze Of 2021 All Over Again: Here Are The Most-Shorted Stocks That Could Soar For all those basement-dwelling retail traders, whose one dream in life has been to reprise the infamous Roaring Kitty of Gamestop fame, and short squeeze their way to fame and riches (while crushing a hedge fund or two…
Japanese Auto Stocks Soar On Trump Trade Deal President Donald Trump announced overnight on Truth Social that he had secured a “massive” trade agreement with Japan. The deal will lower tariffs on Japanese imports to just 15% and includes a pledge from Tokyo to invest $550 billion in the U.S. The new trade deal is…
Microsoft Says China-Linked Hackers Used Recent Security Exploit In Hacking Spree Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has observed Beijing-backed hackers exploiting widespread attacks against organizations using collaboration software from the tech giant. A member of an alleged hacking group, in a file photo. Nicolas…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. How GEV performed after past earnings 6:00 am GE Vernova has delivered four straight EPS beats, with steadily improving price reaction as execution confidence builds. Quarter EPS Surprise 1-Day Move 7-Day Move 14-Day Move Q1 2025 +11.11% +3.8% +5.2% +6.9% Q4 2024 +7.69% +2.1%…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. Light on future guidance 7:58 am AT&T issued updated full-year and long-term guidance that underscores management’s intent to reinvest aggressively into its fiber footprint—yet key questions remain around earnings power and margin resilience. Specifically with 2025 EPS still flat to slightly down, cash flow…
Germany Agrees To Deliver 5 More Patriots To Ukraine, Which Will Take US Years To Replace In a major breakthrough and short-term diplomatic ‘win’ for the Zelensky government, Germany and the United States have agreed to supply Ukraine with five more Patriot air defense systems, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Monday. The defense…
UK Approves $51 Billion Nuclear Plant Authored by Evgenia Flimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The UK government gave the final go-ahead on Monday for the Sizewell C nuclear power plant to be built in eastern England after securing investment from Canadian pension fund La Caisse, Centrica, and Amber Infrastructure. EDF Energy’s Sizewell B…
Romania Strong-Armed Into Buying $2.3 Billion Israeli Anti-Aircraft Systems Having managed to derail populist, NATO-skeptical presidential candidates through a variety of extraordinary means, Romania — bowing to pressure from NATO and President Trump — announced it will spend $2.3 billion on Israeli anti-aircraft systems to fend off the supposed Russian menace. The big-ticket, Israel-benefitting purchase…
Gold once again blasted through the $3,400 per ounce mark on Monday, sending a not-so-subtle message to anyone still clinging to the idea that we’re in a “normal” market cycle that things are, in Wharton school terminology, starting to get really fucky. I’ve been saying for years that something has been “breaking” ever since gold…
Orbán: 20% Of EU’s New 7-Year Budget Would Go To Ukraine, 10-12% Goes To Debt Repayments Via Remix News, The European Commission’s seven-year budget is already facing backlash, with Ursula von der Leyen’s request for €2 trillion from member states being slapped down by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other leaders. One of the main…
Vaccination Rates Are Stagnating Data published last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF confirm that global vaccination coverage has stagnated in recent years. In 2024, 14.3 million children worldwide were classified as “zero-dose”, meaning they had not received a single vaccine. This number has barely changed over the past two years (14.5…
Trump Announces “Largest Trade Deal Ever” With Japan, Sets Tariffs Rate At 15%; JGBs Plunge President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he reached a “massive” trade deal with Japan that will set tariffs on Japanese imports at 15% and see the key American trading counterpart and ally invest $550 billion into the US (with…
Brace For Soaring Electricity Bills: Biggest US Power Grid Sets Power Costs At Record High To Feed AI Very soon if you want AI (and even if you don’t), you won’t be able to afford AC. Just this morning we warned readers that America’s largest power grid, PJM Interconnect, which serves 65 million people across 13…
Maté: Russiagate’s Architects Suppressed Doubts To Peddle False Claims Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClearInvestigations, Although Robert Mueller failed to find an election conspiracy between Donald Trump and Moscow, the former Special Counsel threw a lifeline to the Russiagate narrative by alleging that the Kremlin had engaged in a “sweeping and systematic” effort to get Trump…
Protests Kick Off In Kiev After Zelensky Shuts Down US-Backed Anti-Corruption Agency In one of the largest demonstrations against the Ukrainian government since Russia invaded more than three years ago, WSJ reports that more than 2,000 people gathered near the president’s office, shouting “shame” and “veto the law,” after President Zelensky signed a law gutting…
Trump Orders US Exit From UNESCO, Reversing Biden-Era Reentry Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The United States will withdraw from the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of 2026, the State Department confirmed on July 22, citing ideological differences and what it described as an anti-Israel bias and…
In this economic/financial news report we discuss will price gouging and greed bring the Las Vegas house of cards down and is this city a canary in the coalmine for the rest of the U.S. economy? This channel contains news and analysis that often includes ‘one mans opinion’. The information conveyed should never be taken…
These Are The World’s Most Critical Oil Chokepoints The total volume of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz stands around a staggering $600 billion. While a blockade of the strait is considered a distant possibility, its closure could ripple across global supply chain networks. In particular, Japan, China, and India would be impacted the…
VDH: The War Between Trump’s Chemotherapy & The Biden Cancer Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Chemotherapy can be a life-saving though sometimes toxic effort to eliminate lethal cancer cells before they kill the patient. As such, it can serve as a bitter metaphor for the often-controversial efforts of the Trump administration to undo the metastasizing…
‘Catastrophic’: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Wipes Out Company’s Entire Database SaaS industry veteran Jason Lemkin’s attempt to integrate artificial intelligence into his workflow has gone spectacularly wrong, with an AI coding assistant admitting to a “catastrophic failure” after wiping out an entire company database containing over 2,400 business records, according to Tom’s Hardware. Lemkin was…
Trump Considering Eliminating Capital Gains Tax On Houses Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump has confirmed that he is considering abolishing the capital gains tax on houses. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House in Washington on July 14, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images “We’re thinking about…
You don’t have to convince insurance companies that 2025 has been “the year of the disaster”, because they have been getting pummeled by record high losses. As you will see below, there have been tens of thousands of wildfires in the U.S. so far this year, and we just keep getting hit by one “1,000…
Revised and Expanded Edition Available Today! By Scott Walter Publisher: Encounter Books Hardcover / 312 pages / $21.99 While figures like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg are known for their hefty political donations, few Americans have heard of Arabella Advisors. Even more powerful than these standalone billionaires, Arabella is a secretive “dark money”…
Alarm After Key Nuclear Testing & Monitoring Office At State Dept Gutted Veteran national security correspondent Laura Rozen has claimed that the entire State Department’s Office of Multilateral Nuclear Affairs was dismissed last week, citing a report in the Council on Foreign Relations. Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability (ADS)…
This post The Parts are Wearing Out appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Elizabeth rounded the edge of the house. There, in the back yard were two of Pierre’s prize cows. Sleek. Fat. Muscled. They were the kind of limousine cows that butchers must dream about. “Oh no….they’re going to eat our flowers.” She called Pierre….
The Autopen Presidency Controversy Is Just Beginning Authored by Michael Thielen via RealClearPolitics.com, Now that investigations into the autopen presidency are underway, left-leaning media and Democratic politicians are finally confronted with the truth that was right in front of our faces for years: Joe Biden was not running the country, and America was being led…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. Full-Year 2025 Guidance vs. Pre-Earnings Expectations 4:25 pm The company did not provide explicit updated FY 2025 guidance in the release, but pre-earnings forecasts align with ongoing expectations post-Discover acquisition. Key pre-earnings figures: Revenue: $53.29 billion (+36.3% YoY implied). EPS: $15.25 (+9.2% YoY implied)….
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. More Earnings Details 4:32 pm by Eric Bleeker TXN | Texas Instruments Q2’25 Earnings Highlights: Adj. EPS: $1.41 ; UP +16% YoY Revenue: $4.45B []; UP +16% YoY Net Income: $1.30B []; UP +15% YoY Operating Profit: $1.56B []; UP +25% YoY Free Cash…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. SAP now down 4.5% after hours 4:28 pm Conference call will kick off at 5 PM EDT and more questions will be answered then. The stock is down 4.5% so far after-hours . Management notes 4:20 pm Christian Klein (CEO): “We have delivered yet…
Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. What’s Depressing Shares? 4:25 pm by Eric Bleeker Shares are down 3.5%. This earnings season has seen plenty of stocks posting strong earnings beats fall in after-hours trading. We can now add Intuitive Surgical to that list. The likely reason for the fall is…
Investors love dividend stocks, especially those with high yields, because they provide a substantial income stream and offer significant total return potential. Total return includes interest, capital gains, dividends, and distributions realized over time. In other words, the total return on an investment or a portfolio consists of income and stock appreciation. At 24/7 Wall St.,…
Nike Averts ‘Bud Light’ Moment With Pro-Family Ad Pivot Amid Overton Window Shift The Overton Window of what is socially acceptable in America has shifted sharply back to the center-right—after spending over a decade artificially anchored to the far-left. Progressive causes like drag queen story hour for children, body positivity, and other woke-Marxist trends that arguably…
AG Pam Bondi Drops Charges Against Utah Doctor Who Issued Fake COVID Vaccination Cards Via American Greatness, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has dropped all charges against a Utah physician who was accused of issuing fake vaccination cards and destroying thousands of vials of mRNA vaccine. 58-year-old plastic surgeon Dr. Kirk Moore was facing up…
We are saddened to learn that Dr. Edwin J. Feulner Jr., a good friend and adviser to Capital Research Center, passed away on Friday, July 18, at age 83. As many of you will know, Ed Feulner was a founder of the Heritage Foundation and its longtime president (1977–2013). He can justly be called one…
UBS Finds iPhone Demand “Fizzled” In June, Expects Weak Momentum Ahead of September Launch Apple is set to report 3Q25 earnings next Thursday, with investor focus on iPhone performance, services growth, and progress on Apple Intelligence. UBS analysts flagged Monday that “iPhone demand fizzled” in June, following a front-loaded sales surge linked to tariff fears earlier in the quarter. “Following…
Democrats’ All-Electric USPS Fleet Sees Each Truck Come With A $6.8 Million Price-Tag Authored by Olivia Murray via AmericanThinker.com, Another Joe Biden boondoggle numbering in the billions… According to a recently published New York Post report, the Biden administration played a major role in the push to massively electrify the United States Postal Service mail truck fleet….
The Magnificent Seven group of tech stocks, as a whole, may still be fantastic long-term bets. That said, we’ve witnessed a performance discrepancy between the members. And it’s only grown more striking in recent months, with the likes of Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) continuing to blast off while iPhone maker and perceived AI laggard Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has…
Lockheed Tumbles Most In Months After Slashing Outlook On $1.6 Billion Hit Shares of Lockheed Martin fell the most in months on Tuesday, pressuring industry peers, after the defense giant reported second-quarter earnings that missed the Bloomberg consensus. The company also slashed its full-year outlook after taking charges on a classified program tied to its aeronautics business segment…
Western Union Joins Stablecoin Race, Eyes Crypto Partnerships; CEO Says Authored by Adrian Zmudzinski via CoinTelegraph.com, Western Union is exploring ways to integrate stablecoins into its services as the firm seeks to modernize cross-border payments. During a Monday interview with Bloomberg, Western Union CEO Devin McGranahan said that the company views stablecoins as an opportunity. He also…
“Go F**k Yourself”: Colbert Now Ranting About Trump After Show Canceled Late-night propagandist Stephen Colbert slammed his own network and parent company and told President Trump to ‘go fuck yourself’ in a Monday night rant, after CBS canceled “The Late Show” – which was losing upward of $40 million a year. $40 million “is a big number,” Colbert…
People who think a lot about economics often have reactions that strike others as unusual. For example, I recently finished registering for a 10k run in Astoria, Oregon. As part of the registration process, you had to select when you’ll be picking up your race packet (a prepacked bag that would have, among other things,…
Schiff: Central Bankers Vs The Dollar Via SchiffGold.com, If Donald Trump has his way and recent reports are accurate, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is considering stepping down from his position. While extremely rare, Fed Chairs resigning before the end of their term isn’t entirely unheard of. Powell’s obligations would ordinarily extend to May 2026. But if…
