iPhone Duo Threatens iPad Sales
Apple's new foldable iPhone carries a price tag that dwarfs the iPad mini, yet reviewers say it might make the tablet obsolete. Whether consumers agree could reshape which Apple products survive.
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Salesforce Just Gave Investors a Reason to Rethink This Beaten-Down Stock
Salesforce spent most of 2026 getting crushed by fears that AI would kill its business model, and then one earnings report flipped the entire narrative. Here is what the numbers actually reveal about whether…
A $750,000 Portfolio With 5% Withdrawals Can Last 20 Years. Here’s What Happens When Returns Turn Negative
A $750,000 retirement portfolio and a 5% withdrawal rate sounds like a solid plan until you factor in the one timing risk that can unravel the math before the decade is out, no market…
Every Year a Retired Couple Leaves the $47,500 Tax-Free Space Empty, About $5,700 of Tax Moves Into Their 70s. Most Leave It Empty for Ten Years
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“Maxed Out!” GasBuddy Says 5 California Gas Stations Hit $9.999 For A Gallon Of Diesel, The Highest Price Their Systems Allow
California diesel pumps are hitting a number their hardware was never designed to display, and the price driving them there just shattered a national record that had stood for four years.
Cramer Thinks the US Debt Market Is Saturated. Amazon Just Went to London to Borrow
Jim Cramer raised a question on air that every Amazon investor should be asking right now: if the US debt market is big enough, why did the company just fly to London to raise…
American Eagle Outfitters Sinks 13% as $161M Tariff Refund Flatters Beat; Urban Outfitters Drops 3%, Abercrombie & Fitch Slips
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Nike Gets Booted From S&P 100 After Losing 80% of Its Value
Nike just lost its seat at the S&P 100 table after 18 years, and the earnings beat that was supposed to signal a comeback may be masking something far more troubling beneath the surface.
Opendoor Sinks 7% as Yield Spike Meets Delayed Profit Timeline, Offerpad and Zillow Group Trail
Opendoor's CEO took to social media to admit something investors did not want to hear, and it landed in the worst possible week for a company that lives and dies by interest rates.
Anthropic Employees Say ‘AI Could Kill All Humans!’ Put Odds Above 10% This Decade
An Anthropic researcher just put the odds of AI killing all humans above 10% this decade, and Amazon has staked roughly $200 billion in annual capex on that very lab. What Andy Jassy told…
One AI Stock is The Clear WInner as Yields Approach 5%
Rising Treasury yields should be pushing investors toward bonds, but one AI chipmaker keeps earning a spot in the portfolio every time rates climb. The reason comes down to a cost advantage hyperscalers cannot…
The Dividend Trap: These Mortgage REITs Paid Investors While Destroying Principal
Mortgage REITs are flashing double-digit yields right now, but for some of the biggest names in the sector, those payouts have been quietly funded by eroding the very principal they promised to protect.
Ford CEO Farley Does More To Wreck The Company
Jim Farley steered Ford into a Chinese partnership he once warned would destroy the company, and now a Cabinet secretary is calling him out in writing. The fallout reveals a pattern of strategic miscalculations…
Redfin: Millennial Families Own Only 16% Of All 3+ Bedroom Homes In America. Empty Nester Boomers Own A Lot More
Baby boomers and millennial families both want to move, yet neither group can find what it needs, and the result is a housing market frozen in place for reasons that go well beyond mortgage…
Trump Promises Every American $5,000 “Dividend” Check — But Who’s Going to Pay For It?
Trump just promised every adult American a $5,000 check, but the math raises serious questions about where the money comes from, whether the proposal is even legal, and whether any check will ever actually…