Income investors have a narrow window to capture a wave of dividend payments locking in this month. Three large-cap names, led by Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX | SBUX Price Prediction), are going ex-dividend today, August 14, 2026, and two more are queued for the following two weeks. S…
Tesla’s long-delayed next-generation Roadster is expected to briefly lift off the ground at SpaceX’s rocket test site in McGregor, Texas, in a demonstration that could come as soon as August 2026, according to reporting by The Information, which cited sources familiar with the p…
Home Depot reports Tuesday before the open, the cleanest read yet on whether the housing-tied consumer is still spending. It anchors a 103-company week that also puts Baidu, Klarna and optical supplier Fabrinet on the tape.
Starbucks is paying out $706.8 million to shareholders, 62 cents a share, landing August 28. Honeywell, Cintas, Royalty Pharma and TPG round out today's biggest payers, more than $1.3 billion in cash between them.
Germany did all the work in Europe today: the DAX added 1.2% to 30,686 while London and Paris finished slightly lower after the Bank of England left rates at 3.75%. The gains sat in euro-exposure.
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Londian Wason prices NYSE IPO at $22, opens at $26
The world's largest maker of lithium battery copper foil priced its NYSE debut at $22 a share, raising $94.3 million, and opened at $26. Cantor led a seven-bank syndicate, and the first trade already sits well above where new money got in.
Source: SEC filing
GOLY promised gold exposure with a monthly paycheck, solving the one thing bullion investors always complained about. But the structure hiding behind that attractive yield has quietly done something gold itself never did to its holders this year.
A 13.6% intraday jump to $148.13 puts Applied Optoelectronics near a $12.8 billion valuation in a single session. Moves this size rarely settle quietly, so keep an eye on the stock into the close.
A single ETF quietly holds the small-cap contractors wiring, cooling, and powering the hyperscaler campuses behind America’s AI buildout, but a looming index rebalance could strip out its best-performing names just as backlog numbers hit all-time highs.
A military strike on Qatar’s LNG facilities sent global gas buyers scrambling for alternatives almost overnight, and Wall Street wasted no time identifying which American energy companies stand to capture that demand.
When the Nasdaq tumbled and the VIX spiked toward 21, three covered-call ETFs started collecting bigger premiums than they had all year. Which one you own depends on a tax and upside tradeoff most income investors never think to ask about.
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