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Apple's iPhone 17 event bets on a design overhaul to keep you hooked

Cupertino’s fall ritual delivered a slimmed-down iPhone, AI-infused AirPods, and fresh Watches, all in a bid to prove Apple can still set the pace

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CoreWeave stock is back rising after it announces an AI venture fund

After a turbulent summer, CoreWeave’s stock got a nice boost as it unveiled a venture fund designed to make its AI infrastructure indispensable

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The iPhone is reportedly going skinny. But Apple’s bigger AI story still looks unfinished

Apple’s “Awe Dropping” fall show is expected to replay the company’s careful hand: Polish the hardware, bundle the ecosystem, delay the hard questions

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Tesla offers a trillion-dollar leash to keep Elon Musk focused

Tesla’s board is betting $1 trillion that Musk can trade side quests for routine. The fall vote will test whether investors get what they’re...

06.09.2025 3

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Tesla sets up a potential $1 trillion pay day for Elon Musk

Tesla’s board wants shareholders to approve a $1 trillion pay package that could cement Musk’s control — if he clears new valuation and AI targets

05.09.2025 2

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Friday's jobs report could cement expectations for a Fed interest rate cut

Economists expect about 75,000 to 80,000 jobs in August, unemployment near 4.3%, and cooling wages — a mix the Fed is watching closely

05.09.2025 3

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Apple wins the Google trial it never fought

Regulators tried to crack Google’s monopoly. Instead, they handed Apple a richer default deal and the keys to auction off the web’s front door

04.09.2025 3

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Google’s search monopoly just became a utility

A judge's ruling was the business equivalent of a ceasefire: Google keeps the pipes, Apple keeps the tollbooth, and the government gets to claim it...

03.09.2025 3

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Pepsi’s new challenger isn’t Coke — it’s Elliott

Pepsi has hidden a sluggish drinks business behind a fortress of chips. Now, with a $4 billion stake, Elliott wants the board to prove soda can pay

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Microsoft joins Google in offering billions in cloud discounts to the U.S. government

A new OneGov deal cuts Microsoft cloud prices across agencies — with Copilot free for some — days after Google’s own AI-and-cloud agreement

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How matcha, tariffs, and hype are colliding to magically drain your wallet

A hot crop, hotter tariffs, and cooler-than-you marketing have turned a powdered leaf into a premium habit — with policy padding the bill

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Netflix reinvented TV — so why are we back where we started?

On Netflix's 28th "birthday," it looks more like cable than a disruptor — with primetime nights, bundles, ads, and even a channel guide of its own

30.08.2025 3

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Shoppers aren’t cutting back — they’re cutting deals

America’s shopping spree hasn’t ended, it’s been re-priced. Consumers are buying smarter, turning bargains into the new badges of honor

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Nvidia drives the AI economy. It just hit a new speed limit

Nvidia just delivered one of the biggest quarters in history, but the AI gold rush is colliding with power limits, politics, and investor fatigue

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Warren Buffett turns 95. Here are his 5 best stock market bets — and his 5 worst

Buffett’s 95th birthday is a scorecard: Apple, Coke, and BofA built his legend, while others proved that even he is capable of missteps

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Nvidia sheds China concerns, and its blowout quarter keeps the AI rally alive

Nvidia topped expectations with $46.7B in quarterly revenue, proving AI demand is still surging — even as U.S. curbs cut China out of the picture

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Wall Street braces for a Fed that bends to political power

Trump's bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook isn’t just a legal fight. It tests if the central bank can stay independent in a political age

27.08.2025 5

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What Trump's move to fire Lisa Cook means for the Fed and the markets

The White House says “for cause” is grounds for Cook's removal. She says it’s illegal. Markets, courts, and the Fed’s credibility are now all...

26.08.2025 4

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Has the tide finally turned on AI’s trillion-dollar boom?

For over a year, AI was gospel. Now, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and regulators are asking the same question: What if it’s not?

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Morgan Stanley joins the parade of analysts forecasting a September rate cut

The Fed’s focus on jobs over inflation has nudged Morgan Stanley to surrender its hawkish view and call for a September rate cut alongside its peers

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Investors want more than another Nvidia earnings beat

Nvidia is expected to deliver big on Wednesday, but investors want guidance clarity on China, Blackwell shipments, and AI demand durability

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Nvidia, core PCE, and Dollar General: Stocks and data to watch this week

A packed week brings housing reads, AI earnings, and PCE inflation — each one a stitch in the macro quilt markets are still trying to piece together

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Canada removes billions in tariffs on U.S. imports after Trump-Carney call

Ottawa dials back retaliatory tariffs on consumer goods, leaving core fights over metals and autos in place ahead of the 2026 USMCA review

22.08.2025 1

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What this week's mixed retail earnings say about the economy

Consumers are still standing but with shifting habits — trading down, delaying big buys, and forcing companies to fight margin with muscle

22.08.2025 1

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Walmart tripped on profit — but still sprinted past its rivals

Tariffs and costs are climbing, but Walmart’s scale and low-price "Rollback" playbook helped it keep traffic flowing and shoppers filling carts

21.08.2025 3

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Google bets on everyday AI to make Pixel 10 stand out

Google’s new Pixel 10 lineup presented Gemini AI as the core feature, not just another spec

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Wall Street braces for CEO Trump

From chip royalties to steel veto rights, Washington has become a shareholder, forcing Wall Street to price politics like cash flow

20.08.2025 4

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The U.S. housing market is in the Twilight Zone

Builders keep digging even as permits fade and confidence plunges, producing what looks like motion without momentum in today’s housing cycle

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McDonald's leans on BTS' fandom to fuel Happy Meal sales

McDonald’s is launching a two-part BTS Happy Meal with TinyTAN toys, hoping to repeat the frenzy that made the 2021 collaboration a global...

19.08.2025 2

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Home Depot steadies guidance as big projects stall

Big-ticket remodels slowed, traffic dipped, and tariffs loomed — but Home Depot held its guidance and showed just enough promise to send shares up 4%

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China’s robot Olympics just ended. Will humanoids be in our homes in the next year?

The World Humanoid Robot Games turned pratfalls into policy theater — showcasing just how far robots still have to go

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Sam Altman sees an AI bubble forming

OpenAI's CEO called AI both the most important technology in decades and an overhyped bubble — warning that some investors are bound to get burned

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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

15.08.2025 6

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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...

15.08.2025 6

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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 3

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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

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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 2

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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

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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

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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 3

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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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