The best product doesn’t always win. In most markets, the winner is the product that’s good enough at a price nobody can ignore. Toyota understood that. Southwest Airlines built an empire on it. Now the same playbook is being tested in the most expensive technology race in history. Artificial intelligence labs have spent the past […]

Gold investors were bracing for a familiar problem. Higher real rates, a stronger dollar, and a Federal Reserve that could continue to hammer one of the year’s hottest trades. For context, according to GoldPrice.org, gold is trading in the early $4,100s per ounce, still up an impressive 23% over the past year, while its 30-day

At age 55, some people are still scrambling to fund their 401(k)s. But if you’ve been steadily making contributions and taking advantage of employer matching dollars since your 20s, you may reach your mid-50s with a pretty impressive pile of cash — enough cash that you can conceivably decide you’re retiring early to start enjoying

A single weak jobs report moved more money on Wall Street on Monday than any independent company’s earnings ever could. That is what played out on Monday, July 6, 2026, and Jim Cramer thinks it handed patient investors a rare opening. The CNBC host argues that big investment funds sold off shares in several strong

The risk that ends a rally is rarely the one on the front page. Investors fixate on the loud threat, the one with missiles and emergency meetings, while a quieter one compounds in the background. By the time the quiet one shows up in a brokerage statement, the front page has usually moved on. Right

While JetBlue Airways was initially established out of New York’s JFK with the goal of expanding connectivity on the East Coast, the airline has over the last few months significantly reduced its presence out of airports like Newark and LaGuardia. Along with cuts of its seasonal routes between EWR and Los Angeles and Las Vegas

What if AI could help older adults stay healthy and independent—without replacing the human care they still need? In this conversation, Karen Eggleston, PhD. discusses Stanford Health AI Week and shares insights from health systems across East Asia, including how AI is being used to support aging in place. We explore the importance of ethical

Short sellers usually do not receive much sympathy when stocks are climbing. And when the surge is linked to artificial intelligence, record highs, and a White House keen to take credit for investor gains, they make even easier targets. Which is what made U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest sally against gloomy investors more than just

Wall Street has spent the first half of 2026 worrying about SpaceX and its Starlink satellite service crashing the wireless party. Shares of T-Mobile are down 10% in 2026 in light of investor concerns about competition from SpaceX (SPCX) and peers.   Yet one of Wall Street’s biggest banks just doubled down on the telecom stock

Mortgage rates have been hovering around 6.5% for eight weeks, according to Freddie Mac data. It looked like there may be clearer roads ahead the week of July 3, when the 30-year fixed rate decreased. But now mortgage rates have bounced back up. The national average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has increased by six basis