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Major airline launches new business class suites with sliding doors

The flag carrier for Colombia and the fourth-largest airline in South America after LATAM and two Brazilian giants, Avianca unveiled its Insignia business class in April 2024 for several of its Boeing 787 planes. Routes ran from El Dorado International Airport (BOG) in Bogotá and José María Córdova International Airport  (MDE) in Medellín to several

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Evercore ISI revamps Dell stock price target to $650

Every so often a stock stops being the thing investors thought it was. For most of the past decade, Dell Technologies (DELL) was a name people owned without thinking about it much. It sold laptops to school districts and servers to mid-sized banks, threw off cash, and traded at the multiple the market reserves for

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Relatively unknown cloud provider gets Nvidia’s stamp of approval

In 2026, few catalysts move a small cloud stock faster than an official nod from Nvidia. Companies that spent years pitching themselves as cheaper alternatives to Amazon and Microsoft have learned that landing inside Nvidia’s partner ecosystem now carries more weight with investors than a strong earnings beat. That pattern played out again on Thursday,

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BYD sends blunt message to Tesla with 35.4% of exports

Carmakers eventually learn the same lesson. The market that made you can also trap you. Build your entire business around one country, and you inherit that country’s slowdown, whether you earned it or not. That is the trap China’s auto industry has spent this year trying to escape. Retail sales in the world’s biggest car

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Bill Ackman bets AI will make this old-school business stronger

Artificial intelligence has created an uncomfortable question for companies whose businesses depend on selling information: What happens when AI can find, summarize, and synthesize enormous amounts of data almost instantly? Bill Ackman seems to believe investors are asking the wrong question. The billionaire’s Pershing Square added ICE (Intercontinental Exchange), the owner of the New York

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S&P 500’s greatest risk is fast becoming reality

Active investors and money managers continually ask one question: How much risk am I taking on for the reward? That question becomes deafeningly loud at inflection points, when the masses are too long or short, and the risk of a reversal climbs. Right now, we may not be at the deafening stage, but the risk/reward

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Social Security spousal benefits could be headed for overdue increase

About 2.09 million Americans collect Social Security on their spouse’s work record. Their average monthly benefit is $987. That number has been creeping upward for years, but has been just shy of $1,000 for quite some time. The 2027 COLA could be the one that pushes the number there. Analysts are projecting the annual cost-of-living

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Bank of America resets Apple stock price target after iPhone Duo launch

Apple’s first product event under John Ternus just wrapped up. Wall Street has a verdict. The products impressed. The pricing did not land where analysts expected. Bank of America’s Wamsi Mohan had to update his model to reflect both. The result is a price target that moved lower on a day when Apple launched something

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SpaceX gets bold 48% upside target, but one thing has to go really right

SpaceX (SPCX) has already convinced investors that rockets can be a serious business. Now it has to prove they can behave more like airplanes. Pivotal Research Group analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak initiated coverage of Elon Musk’s space company with a Buy rating and $220 year-end 2027 price target, representing roughly 48% upside from SpaceX’s Sept. 11

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Another 119-year-old American theme park closes forever

Dating back to 1583 when hawkers and roaming entertainers started coming down to a natural spring that was discovered in a forest north of Copenhagen, the Dyrehavsbakken in Denmark is today recognized as the oldest operating amusement park in the world. The 33 rides that families come to experience in 2026 include traditional wooden roller

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