Every year, The Economist puts out its “liveable cities” list. This year, it is titled “The world’s most, and least, liveable cities in 2026.” The Economist Intelligence Unit reviews 175 cities. It judges them…
Ford (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction) should give back its JD Power 2026 U.S. Initial Quality Study award for the best Mass Market Brand. It scored 152 on a scale that rates brands…
Rivian’s (NASDAQ: RIVN | RIVN Price Prediction) stock dropped 18% on news that it would issue new equity to pay off debt. The day before, it was worth half as much as Ford (NYSE:…
Very recently, there have been more than suspicions that China has been stealing US AI secrets to build their own models, inexpensively. Several American companies, led by Anthropic, say it is so. The huge…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT | WMT Price Prediction) announced it is dropping prices on thousands of items it sells in its stores. It says the plan is to save Americans money as the nation moves…
Ford’s (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction) sales of its two flagship EVs dropped to nearly zero in May. Originally, each was to sell hundreds of thousands a year. Sales of the Mustang Mach-E…
Steve Jobs, the co-founder, long-time CEO of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction), and the heart and soul of the company, died in 2011. If he were alive, he would watch his handpicked…
Borrowing from Barron’s, the newspaper reported that Deutsche Bank’s Adrian Cox, concerned about the IPO pace of OpenAI and Anthropic, wrote, “They and their peers need to strike while the iron is hot to…
OpenAI and Anthropic may want to get their companies public as soon as possible. Microsoft and Meta may want to close financial deals for data centers sometime this year. Several sources say a new…
Ford Motor Company ranked No. 1 among "Mainstream Brands" in the 2026 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study, the first time it had occupied that spot since 2010. Nearly all of that positive news was…
UBS has released its “Global Wealth Report 2026.” Among the headline conclusions was that “Nearly one million new millionaires were created in 2025, with the United States accounting for almost half of this growth,…
There is growing expert consensus that car sales in the US will start to decline and may drop sharply. Bain and Company has done some of the best work on this. The consulting firm…
There has been a great deal of discussion about whether the stock market will eventually start to sell off the Magnificent Seven. In June, as a group, their market cap dropped $2.3 trillion. Of…
The JD Power 2026 U.S. Initial Quality Study was just released. Deeply troubled, Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN | RIVN Price Prediction) ranks last among all brands, a place usually occupied by Chrysler and Dodge. The…
It has been assumed up until recently that the primary challenge to Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) self-driving business was Google Waymo. Other technologies from smaller companies exist. And major legacy car…
Here is a huge layoff, not because of AI. VW is closing four plants, cutting back on models, and laying off 100,000 people. What is the primary reason? Among them is the fact that…
Polestar will be blocked from selling EVs in the US. It doesn’t matter. Polestar sales were close to zero so far this year. To sell its 2027 models, Polestar needed permission under the Connected…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) is raising prices on its Macs and iPads (as well as the Vision Pro) by between $100 and $500. Demand for these is already mediocre. This decision…
Ford (NYSE: F | F Price Prediction) recalls this year have topped 1.2 million vehicles. While its poor 2006 track record is not nearly as bad as last year’s, the company’s quality promise has…
AI was supposed to be a tide that lifted all ships within the sector. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) is the leading exception. So far this year, the stock is down 24%.…
