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u.s. stock futures were mixed sunday evening, with the s&p 500 and nasdaq pointing in opposite directions. oil prices fell after trump said the u.s. will try to "free" neutral shipping stuck in the persian gulf since the iran war started. trump's
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opec+ said sunday it will slightly increase crude production in june. the move is mostly symbolic — the real constraint on global supply is the ongoing war with iran, not opec+ quotas. the group's announcement doesn't change that bottleneck meaningfully. source: marketwatch_top sentiment: -0.20 · impact:
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the s&p 500 is up roughly 10% year-to-date, driven by a concentrated ai spending boom. q1 earnings have been strong, but the rally's foundation is narrower than it looks. upward revisions to 2026 earnings forecasts have been highly concentrated in just a handful of companies tied
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the s&p 500 posted its richest profit margins in at least 15 years during the first quarter. but three big tech companies — alphabet, amazon, and microsoft — drove most of that strength. without them, the picture looks less impressive. those three alone added roughly 10 percentage points to the
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spirit airlines is shutting down immediately and canceling all future flights. the carrier filed for bankruptcy in november 2024 after a failed merger with jetblue was blocked by a federal judge. spirit had been losing money for years, hurt by rising costs and a shift in demand away from its
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google's early bets on spacex and anthropic are paying off in a big way. one expert called them some of "the most successful venture bets any public company has ever made." the company's stake in spacex gives it a piece of the private space
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toto, the japanese company known for toilets, is seeing demand surge for a very different product: electrostatic chucks. these are components used in semiconductor manufacturing, and they're critical right now because of the memory-chip boom. the company is also working on its core business — it's "
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ev drivers are taking a victory lap as gas prices hit $4 a gallon. the war in iran has slowed global oil supplies, pushing up the cost of gasoline. ev owners are now saving significantly at the pump, with the average cost to charge an ev still well below the
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the u.s. economy has absorbed a lot over the past year — high tariffs, stubborn inflation, government shutdown threats, rising oil prices, and escalating tensions with iran — and it hasn't cracked. none of those shocks have managed to poke a hole in growth or consumer spending. oil prices
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exxon and chevron warned that even after the strait of hormuz reopens, it'll take months for oil and gas flows to return to normal. the two biggest american oil companies are now making less money than before the iran war started. the conflict disrupted shipping through the narrow
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the trump administration is not using social security funds to pay for other federal programs, despite some confusion online. social security has its own dedicated funding stream through payroll taxes, and by law those funds can only be spent on benefits and program administration. the real issue is that social
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japan's finance ministry stepped in to prop up the yen after it hit a roughly 40-year low against the dollar. the intervention is a temporary fix — a "band-aid" — because high oil prices are adding to inflation fears in the country. japan imports almost all its oil,