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A bull market does not die of old age. It dies when the money runs out. That sounds dramatic, but it is mostly mechanical. Every share someone buys is a share someone else sells, and every dollar chasing a new stock is a dollar pulled from something already owned. The pool of investable cash is […]

Big Tech has been laying off employees at a pace that would have been unthinkable in 2024. Meta cut 8,000 in May, framing it as a reallocation toward AI. Amazon eliminated 16,000 corporate roles in January. Verizon’s CEO told Bloomberg that AI will replace a large share of its customer service workforce. Each round has

Wall Street has plenty of reasons to run from Lululemon Athletica (LULU). The premium athletic apparel firm trimmed its full-year guidance, warned of lower demand in the second quarter, and highlighted further difficulties in its important Americas sector. But when a once-hot growth stock becomes so-so, investors do what they often do: sell first and

The healthcare sector has faced economic challenges this year that have included increased insurance liability premiums, a decline in reimbursement rates and ongoing Medicaid reductions, rising labor, product, and operating costs, and rising interest rates. While 21% fewer healthcare companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2025 than in 2024, according to Gibbins Advisors’ 2025

Oracle (ORCL) heads into its next earnings release on June 10 with plenty of reasons for investors to be concerned. The company has become one of Wall Street’s greatest bets on artificial intelligence infrastructure, but that has also elevated the stakes. Oracle is pouring money into growing its cloud capacity; investors are arguing about whether

For many people, checking a credit card statement comes with a familiar tension before the monthly charges are revealed. That feeling is becoming more common and is now shared by many Americans, according to a new survey of 1,000 U.S. credit card users. Credit One Bank surveyed consumers who each hold at least one personal

When you open a brewery, you’re rolling the dice, although failure rates may not be as high as the recent spate of closures suggests. “Fifty-one-point-five percent of the brewpubs and 76% of the microbreweries that have opened in the modern era (since 1980) are still open (so failure rates of 48.5% and 24% respectively),” Craft

As we head into summer, Americans are spending more money than ever. But they don’t seem to feel very good about it. In April 2026, consumer spending rose by $111 billion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. But confidence in the economy hit two-year lows, with 65% of consumers telling McKinsey & Company that

The trade disruption and inflation caused by President Donald Trump’s global trade war that began last year could pale in comparison to what happens once the U.S., Mexico and Canada begin negotiations over the USMCA. Since the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement went into effect on July 1, 2020, during the first Trump administration, it would be

Billions of dollars and a clear vision for the Artificial Intelligence infrastructure race may not be enough when a single rural county can bring the entire plan to a fall. Kevin O’Leary, the Shark Tank investor and chairman of O’Leary Ventures, is confronting that scenario across northern Utah’s Box Elder County. His proposed Stratos Hyperscale