Coca-Cola (KO) has spent nearly a century tying itself to Christmas. Its decades of Santa advertising, starting in the 1930s, helped popularize and cement the jolly, red-suited Santa Claus most people picture today. That connection sells a lot of soda every December. Now the beverage giant wants a second holiday to call its own, and
A major sportswear retailer is reshaping its store footprint as it integrates a recently acquired business, and the results suggest the strategy is coming at a much higher price than the company and investors expected. The retailer has been closing locations, reviewing underperforming assets, and taking hundreds of millions of dollars in related charges. Now,
CoreWeave (CRWV) shareholders have watched a rough stretch. The stock fell about 17% over the past week as investors reacted to the company’s plan to spend far more on data centers than expected. That kind of spending scares people who want profits now, not years from now. Shares recently traded near $86, down sharply from
While Wall Street debates AI chip stocks and hyperscaler capital expenditure, a much quieter deployment of the same technology is beginning to change how the physical world gets maintained. The infrastructure you drive over, walk across, and depend on every day is becoming the next frontier for AI systems. The United States has roughly 623,000
Nvidia (NVDA) stock has hardly had a quiet 2026. According to Seeking Alpha, shares of the AI giant are up nearly 14% year to date but have slipped around 1% over the past three months, with concerns over AI capex, China roadblocks, and memory bottlenecks keeping Nvidia stock relatively contained this year. Also, competition is
For years, the artificial-intelligence explosion has been largely invisible to customers, taking place within vast data centers crammed with pricey chips. Apple wants to bring more of it to your desk. Apple (AAPL) on Aug. 25 introduced its M6 and M5 Ultra CPUs and new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, bringing a lot more
Jersey Mike’s (JMKE) capped its first month as a public company with a brief upward run that has since faded. The stock climbed as much as 8.8% over the past month before giving back those gains, and shares now trade back near the $23 IPO price. Then Loop Capital stepped in with a call that
Walmart shoppers are increasingly treating the world’s largest retailer like an e-commerce company, and that is beginning to change the numbers that matter most to investors. In its recent second-quarter earnings, the retail giant Walmart’s U.S. comparable sales rose just 2.6%, its slowest pace in six years and below Wall Street expectations. The miss sent
Investors have a habit of forgiving conviction calls that come too early. Michael Burry has spent the past two years testing how far that patience extends with Chinese tech stocks, buying and dumping the same names in cycles most traders would find dizzying. This time, the timing worked in his favor almost immediately. Scion Asset
Oil has been one of the stranger stories in markets this year. Crude topped $114 a barrel in April when the Iran conflict was at its worst, then retreated sharply once diplomacy moved in. It has been climbing again since early July, up roughly 30% from that trough. Brent is now between $91 and $93