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Fed minutes, Target, Walmart, and more: Stocks and data to watch this week

Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole address caps a week stacked with housing reports, retail earnings, and fresh clues on the Fed’s policy path

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Embattled UnitedHealth gets a boost from Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire’s bet on UnitedHealth lifted its shares around 11%, but it didn't lift its burdens — the insurer is still under federal scrutiny

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PPI shows the economy isn’t getting a fairytale ending

Goldilocks isn’t dead, but any economic margin for error is. The PPI just put the burden of proof on the data — and has September cuts squarely in...

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Meet the BLS nominee who economists on the left, right, and center agree is unqualified

With a thin résumé and MAGA bona fides, E.J. Antoni faces rare bipartisan skepticism — and puts the BLS’s credibility under the Senate’s glare

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Wholesale prices surged in July, reigniting inflation worries

July’s PPI jump was the biggest in three years, raising the risk that consumer inflation will follow — and that any rate cuts will stall

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CoreWeave's worse-than-expected losses outpace AI demand

CoreWeave’s revenue is soaring, but deep losses, mounting debt, and power bottlenecks are making investors question the cost of its rapid expansion

13.08.2025 2

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How U.S. tariffs are hiding in plain sight

There haven't been sudden spikes at the register, but economists and Fed officials expect prices to rise soon

13.08.2025 4

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July inflation holds steady, masking emerging pressures from tariffs

Steady headline CPI numbers masked higher core prices in July, underscoring the Fed’s challenge in bringing inflation back to 2%

12.08.2025 4

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Markets on edge ahead of high-stakes CPI release

Tariffs, sticky rents, and a cooling labor market set the stage for a CPI release that could shift Fed bets and send markets spinning

12.08.2025 2

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Ford doubles down on EVs with $5 billion bet

The automaker’s Kentucky factory revamp is the first step in its plan to deliver affordable, mass-market EVs — starting with a truck in 2027

11.08.2025 1

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Nvidia and AMD will give a 15% cut to the government for chip sales in China

Nvidia and AMD can sell AI chips to China again under a first-of-its-kind export deal

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Ether breaks $4,000 for the first time in 8 months

Rising ETF demand and corporate stockpiling thrusts Ethereum further into the spotlight — just after its 10th birthday

09.08.2025 3

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Is it time to worry about stagflation?

Inflation is climbing. Growth is stalling. The Fed is stuck. And major economists say we’re entering dangerous territory

08.08.2025 2

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AI giants are dodging Trump’s 100% chip tariffs — for now

While Trump’s new semiconductor tariffs threaten global supply chains, years of U.S. buildout plans have left AI’s biggest firms largely insulated

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Trump to sign executive action for 401(k)s to include crypto and private equity

The $12.5 trillion 401(k) market will soon be open to alternative assets — and with it, a wave of legal, political, and financial uncertainty

07.08.2025 2

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UnitedHealth faces Senate probe over nursing home care model

UnitedHealth’s alleged bonus model for nursing homes is drawing congressional scrutiny over whether patients were denied emergency care

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Meta’s latest features are straight out of 2017

The social media app's latest “features” include a Snap Map clone, TikTok-style reposts, and a friend activity tab you might have seen before

07.08.2025 10

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The new bottleneck in the AI race

U.S. export controls on chips to China are forcing AMD to rewrite its AI strategy in real time — and slashing $800 million from its margins

06.08.2025 2

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The U.S. is risking a data credibility crisis

What happens when presidents and governments rewrite the data — and what the U.S. should learn from other countries before it’s too late

05.08.2025 2

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Palantir has become the AI arms dealer of the West

Big margins. Bigger contracts. Palantir is continuing to evolve from shadowy tech to core infrastructure for the West

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Tesla just gave Elon Musk a $29 billion stock bonus

Musk gets billions in new Tesla stock — and, gradually, even more voting power — while legal challenges to his old compensation deal drag on

04.08.2025 3

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Tesla ordered to pay over $300 million for fatal Autopilot crash

The EV-maker loses a rare federal case, as jurors assigned the company blame for a 2019 Florida death — awarding plaintiffs $329 million in damages

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The job market’s warning lights are flashing red

Employers pulled back on hiring in July, adding just 73,000 jobs in July, while job gains for the previous two months were revised lower — the...

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Mark Zuckerberg is trying to buy the future

The ad engine keeps printing money. The CEO keeps spending it. Meta’s latest reinvention is ambitious, expensive — and working?

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Microsoft joins Nvidia in the $4 trillion market cap club

Microsoft has successfully transformed itself into the AI backbone of the corporate world. New earnings showed it's all‑in on AI infrastructure

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Meta's AI moonshot just crushed its first real Wall Street test. The stock pops 10%

Profits are up, expectations are high, and Meta is spending like the future depends on it — because, in Zuckerberg’s world, it does.

31.07.2025 3

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Tesla signs $4.3 billion battery deal with LG, cutting back its reliance on China

Tesla’s reportedly signed a three-year, $4.3 billion contract with LG Energy Solution to source U.S.-made batteries, a China tariff workaround.

30.07.2025 5

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Novo Nordisk cuts sales forecasts for its once-blockbuster weight loss drugs

Novo Nordisk cut its guidance for the second time this year as compounded competition and international underperformance hit Wegovy sales

29.07.2025 4

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Meta earnings will be a litmus test for Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar AI gamble

Meta has been riding a four-quarter beat streak — but with sky-high capex and unproven returns from AI and hardware, Q2 could be harshly scrutinized

29.07.2025 3

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Samsung will make AI chips for Tesla in a $16.5 billion deal

Samsung soared to its highest stock price since September on the news, while Elon Musk can continue to position his company as a big player in AI

28.07.2025 2

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American Airlines CEO calls out Delta's 'bait and switch' AI tactics

While Delta experiments with AI fare models, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom says the move risks customer trust

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Even Elon Musk sounds unconvinced by Elon Musk

The Tesla CEO once sold the future with nothing but confidence. But after a downbeat earnings call and a rocky quarter, even he sounds like he’s...

24.07.2025 2

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Tesla's profits shrink as Elon Musk's distractions grow

Tesla’s core EV business continues to weaken — but the company (and investors) are all in on AI and robotaxis as its future

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What's left for Nvidia to conquer?

Nvidia, with its $4 billion market cap, makes AI chips that are critical to companies from Tesla to Amazon to OpenAI. That might be just the beginning

23.07.2025 3

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Tesla’s California sales tumbled 21% — and it’s bad news for the EV boom

Tesla’s sales in California fell for the seventh-straight quarter, dragging down the state’s EV market — and raising questions ahead of earnings

23.07.2025 3

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Elon Musk asks if you want burgers and fries with your Tesla

Elon Musk’s latest project is part roadside attraction, part Supercharger hub, and part content machine. Fries are optional.

22.07.2025 5

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Wall Street braces for Tesla's worst quarter in years — and a familiar distraction

Margins are shrinking, sales are sliding, and Q2 could be Tesla’s worst in years. But Elon Musk is still pitching a high-tech future

21.07.2025 5

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Trump Media buys $2 billion in Bitcoin — and the stock jumps 7%

Truth Social's parent company now has roughly two-thirds of its liquid assets in crypto, leaning into a strategy that echoes other Bitcoin...

21.07.2025 3

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Amazon said it wouldn't raise prices because of tariffs. Then it hiked them on hundreds of products

The collision of stealth inflation and revived U.S. tariffs is starting to show up in consumers' shopping carts

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Elon Musk's Neuralink called itself a 'small disadvantaged business.' Then it was worth $9 billion

Musk’s brain-chip startup used a label that could help it unlock federal perks, raising questions about optics and ownership

18.07.2025 3

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Netflix had a strong quarter. That’s the problem

As the company posted strong second quarter earnings, some analysts warn that Netflix's growth is increasingly dependent on higher prices and ad...

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Netflix stock slips despite the streamer beating Wall Street expectations

Concerns have flared among Republicans that Trump could set off a bond-market meltdown if he tries installing an acolyte before Powell's term ends

17.07.2025 1

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Netflix’s growth engine is changing. Earnings will show if it still works

Netflix stock is priced like a must-watch blockbuster — and investors are demanding a sequel to the first quarter’s massive numbers

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Chipmaking giant ASML says it can't be certain of growth in 2026

The chipmaking powerhouse posted €2.3 billion in profit — and then warned that trade tensions could freeze demand in 2026.

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Nvidia just re-entered China. CEO Jensen Huang is already talking upgrades

Fresh off Nvidia regaining limited market access, CEO Jensen Huang is pushing for deeper ties into China — and more powerful AI chip exports

16.07.2025 3

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Trump to announce $90 billion in new AI and energy investments

At a Carnegie Mellon summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Trump is expected to unveil a number of massive deals in AI and energy projects

15.07.2025 2

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Inflation speeds up as tariffs start to leave a mark on the economy

The latest inflation data complicates the Fed’s path to interest rate cuts. And now Trump is threatening a broader tariff escalation

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Nvidia is back in China — and the stock pops 5%

Nvidia says the U.S. will let the company sell H20 AI chips in China, days after CEO Jensen Huang met with Trump and as he visits Beijing

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Nvidia’s CEO says AI won’t take your job — but it will change it

As AI transforms industries, Jensen Huang says success won’t come from resisting change but from mastering it faster than everyone else

14.07.2025 4

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Elon Musk's other companies could soon pour billions into his AI startup

SpaceX, the rocket company Musk founded and controls, is reportedly investing $2 billion into xAI, his AI startup best known for the chatbot Grok

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