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Every gadget in your home reflects a quiet bet a company once made about you. The bet is simple. Build the thing for a certain cost, then price it at whatever you will tolerate paying. Game consoles have always been the strangest version of that bet. For about 20 years, the companies that make them […]

Michael Burry is not a name the market ignores. The investor behind the “Big Short” trade that predicted the 2008 financial crisis has made his bearish stance on Palantir Technologies one of the more talked-about positions on Wall Street. Now, something has shifted. According to GuruFocus: Burry’s latest disclosures show that he has halved his

Amazon (AMZN) is telling investors that the artificial intelligence boom comes with a very real price tag. And Wall Street needs to take note. Amazon Web Services quietly posted an update to the pricing for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a reservation product that allows customers to lock in accelerator capacity for machine learning

If you don’t have a spouse, children, or other close family members, estate planning isn’t simply about deciding who inherits your assets. It’s about deciding who will make financial, legal, and medical decisions if you’re no longer able to make them yourself. That’s the message from Harry Margolis, estate planning attorney and author of “Get

Some restaurant chains have reputations that are hard to change. Waffle House, for example, despite being a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week option for an affordable meal, has been lampooned on “Saturday Night Live” for the fights that sometimes happen there. That’s not actually typical for the restaurant, but social media amplifies any incident that does happen, and

Six years is all that stands between full Social Security checks and a 22% automatic cut to every recipient’s monthly benefit. The 2026 Trustees Report confirmed that the program’s primary retirement trust fund will exhaust its reserves by the fourth quarter of 2032. At the center of the debate is one key question that will

Cathie Wood, chief of Ark Investment Management, likes to double down on her favorite tech stocks when the prices are falling, hoping for a bargain. That’s what Wood just did, adding shares of Coinbase after weeks of tumbling. In 2025, Wood’s flagship Ark Innovation ETF gained 35.49%, far outpacing the S&P 500’s return of 17.88%

When Brian Niccol came to Starbucks almost two years ago, he took over a brand that had lost some of its focus. The cafe chain had pivoted during the Covid pandemic to a takeout and delivery model, dropping long-time CEO Howard Schultz’s vision of the brand as offering a third place between work and home.

Few congressional portfolios attract as much scrutiny as Nancy Pelosi’s.  Her husband, Paul Pelosi, who executes the family’s trades, has previously disclosed bets on Microsoft and Alphabet that outpaced the S&P 500.  His latest moves may draw even more attention.  Investing.com reports that Pelosi purchased call options on both Intel (INTC) and Uber (UBER) on

Verizon joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004, when AT&T was removed and the index needed a new telecommunications name. It held that seat for 22 years. S&P Dow Jones Indices revealed on June 23 that the seat now belongs to someone else. Alphabet (GOOGL) will replace Verizon Communications (VZ) in the 30-stock index