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Eva Roytburg

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Astronaut costumes, teenage crypto millionaires, and a $300 million bet: Scenes from the SpaceX IPO

From a prop trader who bet “a car” to an early investor sitting on $300 million, the sidewalk outside the Nasdaq represented everyone in the AI...

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Bank of America told investors to ‘take profits.’ Then the Nasdaq fell 7%

Days before the worst chip rout since 2020, BofA warned that seven warning lights were flashing.

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Inflation is roaring back globally, 2022 style. The Iran war is only half the problem

Europe, China and the U.S. are straining to meet the demands of the AI boom

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Gates testifies on Epstein: previous Fortune investigation reveals payments to his ex-girlfriend, $1M Microsoft deal

Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Inflation is back above 4% for the first time since 2023—but Kevin Warsh might catch a break

Core inflation stayed tame, easing hawkish worries at the Fed.

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Wall Street dumped nearly $1 trillion in tech stocks by midday—then clawed it back and bought peanut butter and paint

A midday rout in the “Parabolic 7” chipmakers reversed by the close as money fled into the market’s dullest corners.

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The AI trade’s worst day in a year became a buying opportunity by Monday

Friday’s Nasdaq rout looked like the start of a real repricing. By Monday, chipmakers were rebounding.

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Trump stunned as stocks fall on great jobs report. Barclays explains why ‘we are entering the warning zone’

“With a great Jobs Report, like just announced, stocks should go up, not down," Trump posted. "That's the way it was for 200 years. Growth does not...

07.06.2026 7

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The May jobs report just blew past expectations—and maybe too far for markets

The labor market delivered 172,000 jobs in May, past the expectation for 88,000.

05.06.2026 5

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SpaceX reveals its share price and record valuation: 555.6 million shares at $135 apiece, at a $1.77 trillion valuation

The SpaceX filing starts the timer on a hot IPO summer complete with two other highly anticipated IPOs: Anthropic and OpenAI.

03.06.2026 5

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AI was supposed to be killing jobs. In spring, the labor market is opening up instead

"The data doesn't back it up," says Employ America's Skanda Amarnath, who sees backfilling behind a labor market that's stabilizing.

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Victoria’s Secret CEO rejected ‘woke-washing’ and endless sales cycles—and it’s paying off

Hillary Super ditched the performative playbook, brought back the glamour, and Wall Street is taking notice.

02.06.2026 6

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Buffett says Abel ‘has launched’ with his first big Berkshire deal: an $8.5 billion housing bet

The Taylor Morrison acquisition checks every box in Warren Buffett's playbook—except one.

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If S&P Dow Jones rewrites its listing rules, SpaceX and Anthropic will benefit—investors won’t

As SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI line up to go public, S&P Dow Jones is poised to waive the profitability rule that kept Tesla out for years.

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What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic didn’t just join the Series H club, it almost became the first $1 trillion private company ever

The $65 billion funding round was led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia, more than doubling the company's valuation in just three months.

28.05.2026 4

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Elon Musk’s best friend could make more than $100 billion from SpaceX’s IPO. His firm is also owed billions by SpaceX

Antonio Gracias' Valor entities hold a massive SpaceX stake—and are on the other side of nearly $20 billion in AI hardware financing deals...

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Elon Musk’s proposed pay package in SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals what the company actually is: a $1 trillion monster built to colonize Mars

‘We do not want humans to have the same fate as dinosaurs,’ the prospectus reads.

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The one number that will actually move Nvidia’s stock Wednesday night

A beat is almost a given—Nvidia has beaten expectations 21 of the last 23 quarters. Whether the stock rallies or falls depends on a number below the...

20.05.2026 10

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The 30-year yield hasn’t been this high since the Great Recession. Do the bond vigilantes ride again?

"Wow." Analysts can’t decide if the bond market rout is nothing or everything.

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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI founding member and inventor of ‘vibe coding,’ defects to Anthropic

Karpathy, one of AI’s most influential voices, posted a “personal update” on X: “I’ve joined Anthropic.”

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While Trump insisted the Iran war would end ‘soon,’ an account in his name was buying millions in oil, defense and gold

A brokerage account bearing the president's name made 3,642 trades in the first quarter of 2026—hedging against a war he publicly said was nearly won.

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How Trump’s ‘unusual’ brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions—selling hyperscalers and buying energy stocks during the war

A new filing reveals 3,642 trades in Q1 in an account held in Trump’s name. The Trump Organization and White House say the president has no role in...

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Bill Ackman has been quietly buying Microsoft since February, when AI fears were dragging the stock

The Pershing Square founder is betting that investors are wrong about Microsoft's Azure growth and $190 billion capex budget.

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Scott Bessent made a fortune spotting currency manipulation. He says Beijing’s $2.5 trillion black hole is ‘a problem for the Europeans’

Bessent has been a currency hawk ever since he worked for George Soros in 1992 and saw something off with the British pound.

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Top economist says $39 trillion national debt leaves government worse prepared for recession than ever

The Fed’s hands would be tied in the case of a downturn.

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Kevin Warsh confirmed as Fed chair in party-line vote amid Elizabeth Warren’s ‘sock puppet’ criticism

Every Republican voted for Warsh on Wednesday, as did Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.

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‘That doesn’t sound very healthy’: Amazon’s reported tokenmaxxing might gamify AI usage, analyst warns

Amazon employees are reportedly gaming internal AI leaderboards to inflate their token counts.

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‘It’s a miserable number’: Inflation surges as the Iran war and breakneck AI spending are crushing consumers

KPMG's Diane Swonk says the Iran war is in your groceries, AI is in your electricity bill, and the Fed has no easy way out.

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‘Americans are literally getting squeezed’: A top economist on why your wages are disappearing while the rich keep booking vacations

Heather Long, chief economist for the Navy Federal Union, explains why consumer sentiment just hit a 74-year low.

10.05.2026 10

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Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices—and powering OpenAI’s first push into hardware

The phone is dying. Cristiano Amon knows what's replacing it—he just won't tell you yet.

09.05.2026 10

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The job market is healing for everyone—except in the office

The April jobs report showed America is hiring again at the strongest pace in over a year, but white-collar sectors keep shedding workers, and AI may...

08.05.2026 9

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Elon Musk called Anthropic ‘evil’ 3 months ago. Now he’s taking $4 billion to become its data landlord

“He who controls the data center, really does control the application of artificial intelligence right now.”

07.05.2026 10

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The ‘PayPal Mafia’ built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is on life support

Fortune coined the term "PayPal Mafia" in 2007. Two decades later, the mafia is thriving, but PayPal isn't.

06.05.2026 9

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The viral TikTok $1.75 bid to save Spirit Airlines is fighting the wrong villain

Spirit isn’t being scooped up by private equity, as 22-year-old Hunter Peterson behind "Let's buy Spirit" claims.

05.05.2026 10

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‘You could say the ceasefire has ceased’: Iran is back on Wall Street’s radar as oil prices spike 6%

The U.S. and Iran traded shots, while the UAE was slammed by drone strikes.

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Fed whisperer splits on Powell: A+ as steward, but ‘I don’t think you could give him high marks on the economy’

"I think they made a lot of mistakes under his leadership, on the economics and the monetary policy."

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Former Fed economist raises alarm on Warsh after historically partisan vote: ‘this is not normal is going to be a theme’

Claudia Sahm worked with Warsh when they were at the Fed but doesn’t know him personally. She told Fortune that his disrespect for Democrats was...

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Half of Google’s and Amazon’s ‘blowout AI profits’ came from a stake in Anthropic—not from their actual business

Anthropic is the secret sauce this earnings season, as unrealized gains on the private company are so powerful they're adding billions of shareholder...

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‘They left me no choice’: Powell isn’t going anywhere—blocking Trump from another Fed appointee

Powell said he’ll step down when the DOJ’s investigation is “well and truly over,” with no threats of revival.

29.04.2026 10

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Jerome Powell defies Trump one last time, holding rates steady: ‘The facts have moved decisively in the hawkish direction,’ top economist says

Four dissents signal that incoming Fed chair Kevin Warsh inherits a committee far more hawkish than the White House wants.

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Elon Musk accuses Google co-founder of loving robots as much as people: ‘Larry Page called me a ‘specieist”

Musk pinned the entire story of OpenAI on a single insult he says Google co-founder Larry Page once hurled at him: "specieist."

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Musk vs. Altman: Burning Man, a ‘diary,’ and a trial almost no one thinks Musk can win

The lawsuit is a long shot for Elon Musk, nonprofit legal expert Sam Brunson warns.

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Kalshi and Polymarket are racing to ban insider trading. The economist who built the theory behind prediction markets says it’s the whole point

"You want the most accurate prices. That's pretty clear. The purpose of the market is to inform decisions."

26.04.2026 10

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Pirro drops Powell probe, handing Kevin Warsh a lifeline, though U.S. Attorney vows to restart probe ‘should the facts warrant doing so’

It’s unclear whether or not Powell will choose to stay on the board.

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The Gates Foundation is investigating its ties to Epstein—just weeks before Bill Gates faces Congress

After Fortune’s March investigation, the Microsoft founder's philanthropic foundation is opening one of its own.

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Trump extends Iran ceasefire after insisting he wouldn’t hours earlier, citing a ‘seriously fractured’ Iran

The president promised a “great deal” before the opening bell and extended the ceasefire after the closing one.

21.04.2026 20

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Meta will start tracking employees’ screens and keystrokes to train AI tools

To build AI workers, tech companies are now mining how humans actually work.

21.04.2026 20

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Apple is slipping on Tim Cook’s exit. Wall Street says buy anyway

Wall Street is betting a hardware lifer is exactly what Apple's AI problem needs.

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‘Tethered to a galaxy far, far away’: Former diplomats doubt Trump’s Iran talks can deliver in final 48 hours

Oil is already climbing again after the ceasefire started withering this weekend.

20.04.2026 20

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Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz—but experts say they now hold a card that works ‘almost like a nuclear deterrent’

Oil prices plunged 10% on Friday's announcement, but two veteran energy analysts say the celebration might be premature.

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