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Right now, there's a certain nervous energy in the air around Wall Street, the kind you only feel when something truly strange is about to happen. Midtown bankers have been…
Markets Duke Energy CEO Compensation $13.6M Lands the Same Week the Utility Asks for a 16% Rate Hike
In the midst of a challenging winter, the headline number hit the mark. Harry Sideris, the new CEO of Duke Energy, received $13.6 million for about nine months of work.…
Business China’s Economy Grew 4.8% Last Year, The Real Number May Be Far More Troubling
As is typical with Chinese GDP figures, the number came in clean. It was nearly exactly what Beijing had asked the world to anticipate—four point eight percent for the third…
Business How San Diego County’s Treasurer-Tax Collector Became the Quiet Backbone of Local Government
The County Administration Center on Pacific Highway has a certain type of building energy. Completed in 1938 in the traditional Spanish Revival style, the building itself resembles a museum rather…
Business The Starbucks ‘Dream Hire’ Nightmare: Why Wall Street Suddenly Turned on the New CEO
Brian Niccol was the closest thing American corporate America had to a surefire wager for a few months last year. The stock increased by almost 25% on the day Starbucks…
Markets GameStop’s Secret Lifeline: The Covert Bitcoin Strategy Saving the Original Meme Stock
These days, you might still come across a GameStop in a suburban Texas strip mall, complete with buzzing fluorescent lights, a pyramid of used PS4 cases in the window, and…
Business The Wealth Tax Threat: How the Ultra-Rich Are Stress-Testing Their Portfolios Against Government Raids
"If a 2% annual levy hit your worldwide assets next April, what's your exit ramp?" is a question a private banker poses to his client in a quiet conference room…
Companies The Blue-Collar Boom: Why Plumbers and Electricians Are Now Out-Earning Ivy League Grads
I was watching a plumber retrieve a copper pipe from beneath a cabinet in a suburban New Jersey kitchen when it finally dawned on me. He was forty-one, had a…
Companies ASML Stock Price Climbs Again — But There’s a $410 Million Catch Nobody’s Talking About
With a 2.33 percent gain and a closing price of 1,249.60 euros on Euronext Amsterdam on Friday, ASML's market capitalization approached 484 billion euros. It's a big number, and it…
Companies AMD Stock Price Jumps 14% in a Single Day — And Wall Street Is Suddenly Paying Attention
Some days, like Friday for AMD, are days when a stock simply moves. The chip designer's market capitalization surpassed 567 billion dollars when it closed at 347.80, up 42.47 dollars,…
Companies VCX Stock Plunges 67% in a Month – What’s Really Happening at Fundrise Innovation Fund
The way VCX has traded in recent weeks has been almost theatrical. The Fundrise Innovation Fund, ticker VCX, ended Friday's trading session at 85.48 dollars, down 4.26 during the day,…
Companies Nvidia Stock Price Hits $208 — And Wall Street Still Thinks It’s Cheap
When Nvidia closed at $208.27 on Friday afternoon, there was an odd quiet. On the surface, the figure didn't seem particularly noteworthy, but when combined with the day's volume of…
Companies Anthropic Stock – The $350 Billion Question Wall Street Can’t Stop Asking
The way Anthropic consistently makes headlines without ever ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange has an almost theatrical quality. The business does not engage in trading. It…
Personal Finance The Demographic Time Bomb: Why Aging Populations Will Bankrupt Western Welfare States by 2035
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Property The Generational Wealth Trap: Why Millennials Have Officially Given Up on Homeownership
Last month, a millennial couple I know closed their Zillow tab and never opened it again on a soggy Saturday in Brooklyn. They had spent nearly six years looking. Despite…
Business Inside the $84 Billion Frenzy for Anduril Stock Ahead of Its Long-Rumored IPO
In a warehouse that resembles a Silicon Valley startup rather than a defense contractor, engineers are putting together the underwater drones that the U.S. Navy has begun referring to as…
Business Rex International Share Price Slides Again — Is the Bottom Finally Near?
The share price of Rex International closed at 0.091 SGD on a Thursday afternoon in Singapore, down 3.19% for the session. The print felt more like a quiet admission than…
Markets Hood Share Price Swings Again as Robinhood Bets $75 Million on OpenAI
In a single session, the Hood share price fell 5.53% to $83.54 on a spring Thursday in April. The 52-week high, $153.86, which now sits nearly 45% above the current…
Markets The Ethereum Flipped: Why Institutional Money is Suddenly Chasing Alternative Layer-1 Blockchains
One term that has been circulating on crypto Twitter for years is "the flippening." It meant Ethereum surpassed Bitcoin in market capitalization for the majority of the previous ten years.…
Markets Bitcoin Mining Was Supposed to Be Dead, Then AI Compute Changed Everything
A row of Antminer S19s sits in the dark somewhere in west Texas inside a low metal structure that appears from the highway to be a livestock barn. Fans are…
Markets Why Analysts Are Getting Nervous About AMAT Stock Price Even as It Keeps Climbing
On a weekday morning, the Applied Materials campus in Santa Clara doesn't appear to be the center of anything. buildings that are low. trees with palm trees. Any mid-sized Silicon…
Business Capital One Stock Tumbles After Double Miss — Is the Discover Bet Finally Cracking?
The market hasn't quite figured out how to price the peculiar activity taking place inside Capital One at the moment. The stock is the worst performer in the 24-company KBW…
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