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For decades, the red-roofed Pizza Hut on the corner was a fixture of American suburban life, the place where Little League teams celebrated and families gathered on Friday nights. Now, 250 of those restaurants are set to go dark. Pizza Hut is preparing to shut down 250 U.S. locations during the first half of 2026,…
Volvo dealerships across the United States are conspicuously quiet this spring, and not because the cars are hard to find. While competitors plaster windshields with cash-back offers and subsidized lease rates, Volvo Cars has refused to blink on pricing. Every model in its U.S. lineup carries a 25% import tariff embedded somewhere in the transaction,…
Robinhood Markets posted $0.37 in diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2026, up from $0.18 a year earlier, according to its 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Two relatively new business lines did much of the heavy lifting: prediction markets and the…
Micron Technology (MU) dropped about 3% in premarket trading on Tuesday, falling roughly $16 to around $532, even as D.A. Davidson handed the chipmaker the most aggressive price target on Wall Street: $1,000, implying nearly 88% upside from where shares opened the session. The divergence between a blockbuster initiation and a red ticker captures a…
A routine blood draw at an independent doctor’s office might cost a Medicare patient $20 in copays. The same blood draw, performed by the same type of technician in a clinic recently acquired by a hospital system, can run two to three times that amount, thanks to an added “facility fee” that the patient never…
Micron Technology has returned roughly 557% over the past five years, turning a stock that traded near $14 in early 2021 into one worth more than $90 by April 2026. That gain crushes most names in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index. And yet, by the valuation yardstick Wall Street cares about most, Micron still looks like…
Fifty-five percent of American adults now say their personal finances are “getting worse” rather than “getting better,” the bleakest reading Gallup has recorded since 2001. In that earlier period, when the dot-com crash and the September 11 attacks shattered household confidence, Gallup logged a comparable share of respondents choosing “getting worse” on the same question….
T-Mobile has committed $2.7 billion to two new fiber broadband joint ventures, partnering with northeastern operators GoNetspeed and Greenlight Networks in deals that mark the wireless carrier’s most significant push yet into wired home internet. The partnerships, announced in late April 2026 and backed by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital, will fund construction and…
Barclays set aside roughly $1.1 billion to cover bad loans in the first three months of 2026, a 33 percent jump from the same quarter a year earlier and a clear signal that one of Europe’s biggest banks is bracing for a tougher credit cycle. The British lender reported £0.8 billion in credit impairment charges…
Nearly one in three North Carolinians depends on Medicaid for basic health care. The program that covers them is now at the center of a high-stakes standoff in Raleigh, where lawmakers have approved $319 million to keep it solvent but attached new eligibility verification requirements that could reshape who qualifies for coverage. House Bill 696,…