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When most people hear “AI stock,” they think Nvidia, Microsoft, maybe a cloud startup. They do not think of a nearly 100-year-old company that sells bulldozers, excavators, and diesel generators. But in late May 2026, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) posted a quarterly earnings beat that sent its shares surging roughly 10% in a single trading…
Sen. Bernie Sanders released a Senate report in April 2026 warning that artificial intelligence could eliminate nearly 100 million American jobs, anchoring his case with a striking claim: that a Verizon chief executive has predicted AI-driven automation may push U.S. unemployment to between 20% and 30%. The warning landed during the same week Verizon confirmed…
Jerome Powell chaired his last Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the end of April 2026 and left with a result that laid bare just how divided the Federal Reserve has become. The committee voted 7 to 4 to hold the federal funds rate at its current target range, but the four dissenting votes fractured…
A gallon of milk costs 18% more than it did two years ago. The average credit card is charging north of 20% interest. And the 3.8% raise the typical American worker received over the past year? After inflation, it barely moved the needle. That is the math confronting households in the spring of 2026, even…
If Brent crude futures were to surge to $126 a barrel during a single session and then reverse by roughly $12 before the close, it would rank among the most violent intraday swings in oil markets since the early weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The following analysis explores what such a scenario…
A gallon of regular gasoline now costs the average American driver $4.30, the most expensive fill-up the country has seen since the summer of 2022, according to the latest weekly survey from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The price has climbed roughly 60 cents since early March 2026, driven largely by a military confrontation between…
Trading floors across Asia opened to a wall of red on Wednesday as two forces collided: a spike in oil prices driven by the U.S.-Iran standoff near the Strait of Hormuz and a Federal Reserve that made clear overnight it has no plans to lower interest rates anytime soon. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell more than…
Maria Gonzalez, a medical billing clerk in Phoenix who earns $52,000 a year, tallied her April expenses on a kitchen notepad last week: $1,640 for rent on a two-bedroom apartment, $680 for groceries for herself and two children, $410 for utilities and car insurance, and $290 in minimum credit-card payments. After taxes and benefit deductions,…
When Micron Technology confirmed in March that it was mass-producing a next-generation memory chip built specifically for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin AI platform, the stock market’s response was swift. Shares of the Boise, Idaho-based chipmaker climbed roughly 30 percent between early January and late March 2026. According to publicly available market data tracked by major financial…
Ukraine may have to clear higher anti-corruption and governance hurdles before it can tap portions of a roughly €90 billion (about $105 billion) European Union loan, Bloomberg reported in late April 2026, citing people with knowledge of the internal talks. The discussions surfaced just days after the Council of the European Union formally adopted the…