You’ve heard of leasing a car—and now there’s a new way to lease your next iPhone, too.

Apple and Klarna announced a program Tuesday that will allow customers to lease rather than purchase the tech giant’s products, including iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads and Macs. Monthly payments start at $17.99 per month for the iPhone for 12- or 24-month periods.

The financing option comes as consumers have turned to the growing Buy Now, Pay Later industry to help offset rising prices. Apple, which became only the second company in history to reach a $5 trillion market cap on Tuesday, has continued to raise the cost of its products this year.

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BlackRock will take an 80% stake in Meta’s $14 billion AI data center in El Paso, one of the biggest such campuses in the U.S.—and a sign of Wall Street’s growing role in financing the AI race.

U.S. forces intercepted Iranian missiles in a “surprise attack” against American forces on Tuesday, U.S. Central Command said, ending a brief pause in fighting.

Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin, has rattled investors in recent weeks by retreating from founder Michael Saylor’s long-standing “never sell” bitcoin mantra. The fallout is also impacting decentralized-finance firms that looked to transform the company’s preferred stock’s hefty dividend into blockchain-based yield products.

Shares of EV maker Lucid Motors accelerated after billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud disclosed a 5% stake in the firm worth more........

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