Financial regulators warn about nearly everything. That is the job. Most of those warnings sound alike after a while, which is why the useful signal is rarely the warning itself. It is the ranking. Twice a year, ahead of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors’ meetings, the Financial Stability Board sends a letter
Kaiser Aluminum (KALU) has been one of the better-performing metal stocks of 2026, but its recent chart tells a rougher story. The shares climbed to an all-time high in August, then dropped hard over the following weeks. UBS looked at that drop and came to a different conclusion than most. The bank now argues that
There is an old idea in business that the hardest number to measure is the money you never spent. A disaster avoided produces no press release. A bad deal declined shows up nowhere on the income statement. The executive who says no to the expensive thing gets punished immediately and vindicated years later, if at
Threats have a shelf life. Say you will do something by Friday, and Friday comes and goes without you doing it, and the people you were trying to frighten stop being frightened. They start doing arithmetic instead. They work out how much time they actually have, what the real cost would be, and whether you
Most AI infrastructure news arrives as a promise: a groundbreaking ceremony, a memorandum of understanding, a target date years out. This one arrived as a status update from a data center that is already turned on. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN said on Monday, August 31, that AI
Meta Platforms has agreed to an approximately $18 billion settlement amount that can change how millions of children use Instagram and Facebook. And Wall Street is already considering whether resolving the case could clear the way for Meta’s next wave of products. The agreement imposes some of the most significant restrictions yet on how a
Broadcom (AVGO) reports fiscal Q3 2026 earnings after the close on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The numbers will almost certainly be extraordinary. The real question, and Morgan Stanley spelled it out, is whether extraordinary is enough. That’s the setup heading into Q3. Not “Can Broadcom deliver?” but whether it can clear a bar that some investors
A laptop arrived late. What was on it made things worse. And now Apple is asking a federal court to move faster, arguing that evidence in its lawsuit against OpenAI is being actively destroyed. Apple filed a new brief on Aug. 31, escalating its legal battle against the ChatGPT maker. The filing accuses OpenAI of
Oracle (ORCL) has been one of the roughest large-cap tech names to hold in 2026. The stock is down about 23% year to date and sits roughly 56% below its record high of $345.72, set on Sept. 10, 2025. That drop turned a steady, profitable software company into one of the most volatile megacaps on
The good times for stock market investors may soon be over, at least for now, according to Helene Meisler, a technical analyst who studied in the 1980s under legendary technician Justin Mamis and later worked at Goldman Sachs. Meisler has studied the markets for over 40 years, helping professional money managers better understand the markets’