Extended holiday sales, effectively Black November, is ‘confusing’ for customers and dilutes shopping ‘sparkle’ of Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays past
It used to be that the frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday was tied to a set few days at the end of November.That’s no longer the case.The result…
The S&P 500 could hit 7,000 this week, while Trump hints at a Fed chair pick and Washington eyes a special election
Meanwhile, the coming week could see President Donald Trump nominate a successor to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, and a special election in Tennessee could further narrow the GOP’s House…
New FDA-approved glasses can slow nearsightedness in kids
For many children, the experience of getting their first pair of glasses is an inevitable milestone, the first in a lifetime of visits to the eye doctor.But what if those…
Bitcoin takes another plunge, chances of reclaiming $100,000 by year end drop to 24% on prediction markets
Kalshi and other prediction market forums like Polymarket and Robinhood are viewed as highly accurate indications for a wide variety of future events, though the odds they post are constantly…
‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry revives his short bet against Tesla, calling the stock ‘ridiculously overvalued’
Michael Burry, who last month deregistered his hedge fund Scion Asset Management, took to a newly launched Substack account to reveal a bet against Elon Musk’s Tesla. Burry said Tesla dilutes…
Netflix would be ‘killing three birds with one stone’ by buying Warner Bros. Discovery, BofA says
While there are multiple scenarios for WBD’s future, including a whole-company acquisition by PSKY or a structural engineering combination by CMCSA, BofA highlights the unique strategic leverage afforded to Netflix.…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers
Google’s “moonshot” aspirations to expand its AI footprint are taking on a more literal meaning. “One of our moonshots is to, how do we one day have data centers in space…
‘A Band-Aid on a dam that’s breaking’: Missouri’s entry into the exploding sports betting industry shows cracks in America’s prop-bet frenzy
As Missouri launches sports betting Monday, people will be able to wager on how many points a particular athlete will score in a game — so long as it doesn’t…
Luigi Mangione watches footage of cops approaching him at Altoona McDonald’s as courtroom hearings commence
The videos, including footage from the restaurant previously unseen by the press or the public, kicked off a hearing on Mangione’s fight to bar evidence from his state murder trial,…
How a park bench meeting led to Aflac’s $200 million mascot idea
“Our advertising agency was in Central Park sitting on a bench. And they heard ducks and they noticed it sounded like Aflac,” the insurance giant’s CEO Dan Amos told Fortune.…
