I covered Chevron CEO Mike Wirth’s stark warning about oil price pressure building through June and July, and the IEA data showing global inventories drawing down at a record pace.  This week, on July 7, ExxonMobil gave investors the first concrete look at what those dynamics are actually worth in dollar terms. The numbers are […]

With the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran and subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz sending the price of jet fuel up to highs unseen in years, multiple small and mid-size airlines have had to file for bankruptcy in the first half of 2026. While the collapse of Spirit Airlines is the most high-profile, Mexican holiday

I have covered AMD twice this July. First, Goldman Sachs raised its price target to $640 from $450 on July 5. And before that, when Wells Fargo made the same fundamental argument at the start of the month.  Both times, the central thesis was the same: The server CPU story is being underappreciated, while the

Live sports are the last thing on American television that everyone still watches at the same moment. Scripted hits get binged alone. Award shows shed viewers every year. But when the national team plays a knockout match in July, tens of millions of people show up at once, and advertisers pay dearly for the privilege.

Food manufacturing companies continue to grow even as the jobs behind familiar grocery products shift. For shoppers, the change may not be immediately obvious, as snack bars, candy, crackers, and pet-food brands can still be on shelves at Walmart, Target, Costco, and other grocery chains.  But behind the scenes, companies are consolidating plants, moving production

Sadly, higher oil prices are making a comeback. For how long is unknown. Also unknown: how will the latest increase in tensions in the Persian Gulf affect pump prices in the United States over the next few weeks or months. What we do know is that crude oil prices jumped about 5% on July 8

You can save well for retirement, manage your IRA or 401(k) carefully, and even adjust spending downward when markets don’t cooperate. But there’s still a lurking threat to your retirement security you should know about — inflation.  Even when prices rise modestly from year to year, the cumulative effect of inflation can significantly erode your

After decades of building savings in a traditional individual retirement account, retirement may finally be within reach.  But once retirees reach the required minimum distribution age, currently 73 for those born 1951–1959 and rising to 75 for those born in 1960 or later, the Internal Revenue Service requires annual withdrawals from those accounts, regardless of

GameStop shareholders approved a routine-sounding item on Tuesday: more authorized Class A shares. The timing complicates that read. Six days earlier, Sony confirmed it will stop manufacturing physical PlayStation game discs starting in January 2028, closing the book on the exact product category GameStop was built to sell. Sony’s move wasn’t really a surprise. Nearly

Broadcom (AVGO) got some cold water poured on it on July 7. Just one day after, the stock jumped on news that Apple (AAPL) had extended its chip supply agreement through 2031 in a deal expected to exceed $30 billion. Erste Group analyst Hans Engel, who ranks 1,995 out of 12,375 Wall Street Analysts and