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Rising gas prices caused by the on-again, off-again Iran War are wreaking havoc on drivers who are paying hundreds of dollars more to fill up their tanks. But the rise in fuel costs hasn’t been even. In fact, some models have added more than double the national average to fill their gas tanks. But according […]

NASA spent Tuesday, May 26, handing out the keys to its next chapter on the moon. When the contracts were tallied, Firefly Aerospace (FLY) had an edge that its rivals could not offer investors. Firefly, which has traded on the Nasdaq since its August 2025 IPO, was the only publicly listed company among the winners.

Every Jamie Dimon appearance gets parsed like a Federal Reserve statement. Markets move on a single sentence. Reporters strip-mine each quote for hints. That is the price of running the country’s largest bank. For most of his two-decade run at JPMorganChase (JPM), Dimon has been the patient CEO. He grew the bank the slow way

Snowflake just posted one of its best quarters ever. And the market took notice. The data cloud company delivered a blockbuster first quarter for fiscal 2027 on May 27, topping expectations on revenue growth, margins, and customer additions.  Snowflake (SNOW) stock jumped 38% in pre-market trading as investors processed a string of good news, including

When you sell franchises, you run the risk of the franchise operator’s problems making it look like you have a struggling brand. Burger King, for example, in 2024 saw Carrols Restaurant Group, one of its largest franchise operators, close dozens of restaurants. The franchise operator blamed rising costs for its struggles. “Both labor and commodity

Peace deals tend to be very good for gas prices. Markets sell off, traders unwind risk hedges, and within weeks the cost of filling a tank drifts back toward whatever was normal before the bombs started falling. That has been the muscle memory of every oil shock since the 1991 Gulf War, and it is

If you have been waiting for used car prices to cool down, the latest data from Edmunds suggests your patience could start paying off soon. Three-year-old vehicles reached an average transaction price of $31,548 in the first quarter of 2026, just below the all-time high set four years ago.  The number looks alarming on its

Artificial intelligence agents are no longer a pilot project for Salesforce, but a key driver for the software behemoth.  That was the core message Salesforce (CRM) Chair and CEO Marc Benioff delivered during the company’s fiscal first-quarter 2027 earnings call on May 27.  The numbers he cited were hard to ignore, and his tone made

Grocery prices are rising, and shoppers are feeling it across the supermarket.  While value-price-driven stores are still attracting customers with discounts, the pressure is evident amid rising prices. The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Price Outlook said food prices were 3.2% higher in April 2026 than a year earlier. Grocery store prices, or food-at-home

There is a version of the Boeing story that has dominated headlines for the past two years. It’s the version with production caps, regulatory scrutiny, quality lapses, and a January 2024 door-plug blowout that grounded investor confidence as thoroughly as it grounded the affected aircraft. On May 27, CEO Kelly Ortberg began telling a different