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brent crude hit $115 a barrel on wednesday, pushing close to the highs from the early days of the iran war. the rally came as no progress was made on clearing oil tankers through the strait of hormuz. the strait handles about a fifth of the world's oil
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sofi posted record personal loan originations and record membership growth in q3, but the stock dropped after hours. the company beat earnings expectations but kept its full-year guidance unchanged — that disappointed investors who were hoping for an upgrade. membership hit 10.1 million, up 35% year over year. personal loan
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bnp paribas says oil hitting $200 a barrel is one of three scenarios that could push the global economy into recession. the french bank laid this out in its latest quarterly outlook. the other two scenarios weren't specified in the summary, but the core warning is clear: extreme
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starbucks raised its full-year outlook after quarterly sales beat wall street's expectations. the company credited younger and lower-income customers for the rebound — a shift from recent quarters when those groups had pulled back. same-store sales in the u.s. grew 3%, driven by increased traffic from 18-to-34-year-olds and
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the s&p 500 hit a new record, recovering from the iran-inspired selloff. but the equal-weighted version of the index hasn't joined the party — it's still sitting below its old high. that gap matters. the regular s&p 500 is driven by its biggest
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microsoft needs a reset. the cloud story is now priced in and understood, so the company has a chance to shift investor attention back to software. the goal is to shake off the negative sentiment that's been building. the narrative around azure has dominated for years, but with
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bloom energy's ceo said wall street is finally validating the company's "vision," with ai demand accelerating that process. the fuel-cell maker got a major lift from oracle, which is using bloom's technology to power some of its data centers. bloom's
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robinhood's retail traders have been piling into prediction markets as the iran conflict escalates. the platform's users are using these markets to bet on outcomes rather than trading stocks directly, seeking a way to ride out the volatility. robinhood has been expanding its prediction market offerings,
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the most critical question for us investors right now isn't iran — it's whether chip stocks keep falling. the sector has pulled back from a parabolic rally, and there are technical and historical reasons to worry a deeper selloff could drag the broader market down with it.
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the u.a.e. will leave opec at the end of this week, a decision that caught some off guard given the current global disruptions to oil production and shipping routes in the middle east. the country plans to increase its own oil output, but will need to move carefully
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amazon is back in wall street's good graces after a rough patch. the question now is whether it can stay there. a lot depends on its cloud business, aws, and the ai spending that flows through it. openai, anthropic, and meta platforms are all relying on amazon for
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meta reports earnings this week, and the big question is whether its ai can make money outside of consumer ads. the company has been good at using ai to target ads and boost revenue there — that part works. but analysts are asking if meta's ai models have real