President Donald Trump met with the CEOs of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell at the White House on Wednesday, pressing them to speed up weapons production hours after the White House asked Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental spending tied largely to the Iran war, according to CNBC. The timing cuts against the administration’s other
Every investor eventually buys one thing not for the upside but for the comfort. It is the asset you tuck away so you can sleep through a bad headline, the one that is supposed to hold its value when stocks wobble, when inflation bites, when the dollar feels shaky. For a generation of savers, precious
Reducing heat indoors during summer months has always been a cost, but for most of modern history, it was a manageable one. You ran the air conditioner harder in July, your electricity bill ticked up, but by October the whole thing faded into background noise. Utilities planned around it. Investors rarely thought about it. That
Reels came from TikTok’s rise. Threads came from Twitter’s implosion. Mark Zuckerberg has spent the better part of a decade identifying fast-growing categories, building Meta’s version, and running it through a user base that no other company can match. He just found his next one. The New York Times reported on June 23 that Zuckerberg
The United States and Iran signed a memorandum on June 17 to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices fell back toward $80 a barrel, down from a peak of $118 in March. Shipping companies started moving vessels that had been sitting idle across the Gulf for months. For a lot
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered the nation’s six largest grid operators to justify or rewrite the rules governing how data centers connect to the power grid. The action answers years of complaints that interconnection queues move too slowly for an industry building AI infrastructure on an 18-month product cycle. It does not settle
While airlines face a particularly challenging landscape with the current cost of jet fuel, many travel companies and agencies selling various holiday travel packages are also struggling with a high cost of operations and travelers who can book their own travel online. Travel Bespoke, Great Little Escapes, Salamander Voyages, and Jetline in the United Kingdom
President Donald Trump has been trading health care stocks unusually frequently in 2026. Across the first three months of the year, his accounts ran 377 separate health care trades, a mix of buys and sells, worth at least $13 million and as much as $37 million by the disclosed ranges. That activity sits inside a
Google stock investors were, for the most part, bracing for another AI spending headache. For some context, the tech giant had already bumped its full-year 2026 capex guidance to $180 billion to $190 billion, saying demand for AI compute is “unprecedented.” At the same time, 2027 capex is expected to rise significantly from 2026, according
After this week’s Federal Reserve meeting, things aren’t looking great for homebuyers. While new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh officially ended “forward guidance” on future rate movements, the central bank’s dot plot — a member-submitted projection of possible rate cuts and hikes — showed an overall hawkish stance for the rest of 2026. As I noted