UnitedHealth Group (UNH) beat Wall Street‘s numbers on July 16, 2026, but its chief financial officer spent the earnings call making sure nobody mistook that result for a solved cost problem. The company beat earnings estimates by roughly 30%, and management raised full-year guidance well past analysts’ expectations. Yet the UnitedHealth executive closest to the
To most people, Jamie Dimon represents the epitome of Western capitalism. Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan, the largest bank in the U.S. with over $4 trillion in consolidated assets, according to the Federal Reserve Board, so his decisions have helped lead the country and the world into the economic condition it now finds itself
Pentair (PNR) was one of the pandemic’s quiet winners, riding America’s backyard pool boom. However, that run ended this week. The company pre-announced weak second-quarter results on July 14, cut its full-year outlook, and revealed its CFO had left four days earlier. Shares dropped about 15% the next day and hit a fresh 52-week low.
I haven’t met many people who were actually able to afford a new car. Sure, plenty buy them, but suffocating monthly loan payments mean the “affording” part isn’t exactly met. For decades, we shrugged off the warning that a new car loses 10% of its value the second it leaves the lot. The counter-argument was
With the summer travel season bringing large tourist crowds to various cities and smaller destinations across Europe, an increasing number of them have begun setting new rules to combat visitors’ rowdiness and lack of decorum. After a video of eight British men dancing naked in a bar in the Portuguese town of Albufeira went viral
Wall Street rewards patience just as often as conviction. Here, the smartest move isn’t buying more but knowing when to wait. I make more money in the market by sitting on my hands than I make by trying to be part of every move. Jim Cramer spent just a few seconds on July 16 explaining
For more than a decade, the U.S. government recognized that government subsidies were essential to get consumers interested in purchasing electric vehicles, at least during the early stages when EVs cost significantly more than gas-powered vehicles. The strategy undoubtedly helped increase EV ownership, because after the $7,500 tax credit for new EVs and the $4,000
Kevin Warsh threw down a few red cards during his first meetings with Congress as Federal Reserve Chairman, especially during often-spicy grilling by Senate Democrats over ethics, independence, and artificial intelligence. However, he did strike a hint of forward guidance to investors and consumers about interest-rate paths and inflation during America’s current afforability crisis without
Gold’s 2026 story was mostly supposed to be how high the safe-haven trade could potentially run. For context, the shiny yellow metal soared roughly 63% in 2025, according to LBMA benchmark data, the strongest annual gain in more than four decades. Lately, though, the bull case has been tested, and then some Yahoo Finance’s quotes
Earlier this month, Tesla investors got some much-needed good news when the electric vehicle maker reported that it delivered more than 480,000 vehicles in the second quarter. The 25% year-over-year increase marked Tesla’s best second-quarter performance, topping the 466,140 deliveries it reported in 2023. Tesla reported declining annual deliveries in 2024 and 2025, so any