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Wall Street just lived through the most exhausting 48 hours since Liberation Day. President Trump’s Greenland tariff threats sent the S&P 500 plunging 2.1% on Tuesday, its worst day since October, only for markets to roar back Wednesday after Trump announced the “concept of a […]
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President Trump’s obsession with buying Greenland just triggered the first major market rout of 2026. Over the weekend, Trump announced 10% tariffs on eight European nations starting February 1, escalating to 25% by June 1, unless Denmark agrees to sell the Arctic territory. The response
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods walked into the White House with a message President Trump didn’t want to hear: Venezuela is “uninvestable.” The blunt assessment during a meeting between Trump and major oil executives has now put the world’s largest publicly traded oil company at risk
The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a stunning escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against the central bank that sent markets reeling and triggered immediate bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. Powell disclosed the probe himself, revealing
Defense stocks went on a wild ride over the past 24 hours, first plunging on threats from President Trump to block dividends and share buybacks, then surging on his call for a record $1.5 trillion military budget in 2027. The whiplash illustrates a new reality
The Big Short Takes On Big AI Michael Burry, the investor immortalized in “The Big Short” for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, has turned his sights on a new target: the artificial intelligence boom. He’s now leveling accusations of systemic fraud and financial engineering at
Mark Carney has a $300 billion problem. Three-quarters of Canadian exports flow south to a trading partner that keeps threatening 25% tariffs on everything from steel to softwood lumber. So the Prime Minister is doing what Canadian leaders have talked about for decades: actually diversifying
Technical analysts warn AI stocks are showing classic topping signals as investors rotate out of Nvidia, Broadcom, and Oracle into value sectors. The Dow hits records while the Nasdaq stumbles.
Goldman Sachs says more than $7.1 trillion in options exposure expires Friday in the largest quadruple witching event ever recorded. Here’s what traders need to know about the mechanics driving today’s market action.
Artificial intelligence stock debates usually orbit around the same handful of names. Nvidia, AMD, maybe Broadcom if you are feeling contrarian. Yet the most systemically important artificial intelligence stock in the market might be the quiet foundry that cashes checks no matter which chip designer
Nvidia shares fall 4% on Monday after reports emerged that Meta Platforms will begin deploying Google’s custom-designed AI chips in its data centers, marking a significant strategic shift that threatens the chipmaker’s dominance in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The stock decline erased roughly $140 billion in
SoftBank Nvidia is no longer a love story. The Japanese conglomerate has unloaded its entire 32.1 million share stake in Nvidia for roughly $5.8 billion, and is redirecting that cash toward a massive, highly leveraged bet on OpenAI and associated AI infrastructure. According to reporting
Foxconn AI chip earnings just delivered a message Wall Street couldn’t ignore: the artificial intelligence hardware boom isn’t slowing down, it’s accelerating. The Taiwanese manufacturing giant, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, reported third-quarter profit that jumped 17% year-over-year to NT$57.67 billion ($1.89 billion),
AI bubble fears are rattling Wall Street after Michael Burry, the legendary investor who predicted the 2008 housing crash, placed over $1 billion in bets against two of the market’s hottest artificial intelligence stocks. The move sent shockwaves through global markets, triggering sharp sell-offs and
Nvidia crossed the $5 trillion market capitalization threshold this week, a milestone that cements its position as the world’s most valuable company and underscores how deeply artificial intelligence has reshaped corporate America’s power structure. The Nvidia market cap achievement represents more than just another record
The stunning news that President Trump pardons Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of global crypto exchange Binance, has sent shockwaves through the political and financial worlds. The decision, announced Thursday, not only reverses the conviction of one of crypto’s most influential figures but also signals
Netflix Brazil tax dispute has sent the streaming giant’s shares tumbling more than 6% in after-hours trading after the company reported a significant earnings miss attributed to an unexpected $619 million expense. The Los Gatos, California company’s stumble breaks a six-quarter winning streak and exposes
President Donald Trump escalated trade tensions with Beijing on Friday morning, announcing an additional 100% Trump China tariff on imports that triggered the worst market sell-off since April. The move, delivered via Truth Social just before markets opened, caught traders off guard and sent the
The cryptocurrency world has never seen anything quite like this. President Donald Trump’s Trump Bitcoin investment approach has turned what was once considered a fringe asset class into a centerpiece of federal economic policy. Moreover, his administration’s aggressive pivot toward digital assets has sent shockwaves