Fintel reports that on September 21, 2026, Morgan Stanley upgraded their outlook for NNN REIT (NYSE:NNN) (BMV:NNN) from Equal-Weight to Overweight. This rating action follows a prior action by Morgan Stanley on July 20,…
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed up by +1.49% on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up by +0.71%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +2.83%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ…
Advanced Micro Devices AMD) and Meta Platforms META) were two of Monday’s biggest mega-cap winners, with both stocks surging roughly 10% as enthusiasm around artificial intelligence returned in force.
The dollar index (DXY00) rose by +0.20% on Monday. The dollar moved higher on Monday amid hawkish Fed comments. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said the Fed may have to …
The artificial intelligence spending boom is showing little sign of slowing, with investment across the hyperscaler ecosystem potentially reaching $1 trillion next year, according to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the state's environmental regulator to halt all data center-related permits until the Electric Reliability Council of Texas completes an audit of the existing waitlist for data c…
Retailer Revolve announced on Monday a partnership with design icon Donatella Versace to create a new beauty and fashion business aimed at young consumers, according to a press release.
AT&T was not actually acquired by a company called Game of Thrones Corp. earlier this year, though consumers could be forgiven for wondering. AT&T cell phone stores across the land seemed to have been taken over by a va…
OpenAI on Monday posted a set of proposals for safety and security in the development of frontier artificial intelligence with a heavy focus on alignment research and a computing technique known as recursive self-improv…
The stock market just posted a banner day by nearly any measure on Monday. The Nasdaq Composite surged 2% to a new record. The broader S&P 500 jumped about 1.5% and now sits less than 1% below a new high.
President Donald Trump's flagship super PAC grew its $400 million-plus war chest again in August, even as Republican candidates press him to put more of it to work with six weeks to go before the 2026 midterm election.
Paramount Skydance's $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery will move forward as the company settled Monday with a group of state attorneys general that sought to block the deal on antitrust grounds.
Options traders are treating Meta like it's the next big thing for the consumer artificial intelligence trade. Trading volume was about 4.5 times the 30-day average in Meta options Monday, with almost $3.9 billion in to…
One of the consistent themes of this newsletter is how the stock market is increasingly disconnected from underlying economic activity. In the Number Go Up Rule, I traced how we increasingly run everything to ensure tha…
Workers age 55 and older are leaving the labor force at a rapid pace, government data shows, a trend that coincides with ballooning stock wealth fueled by euphoria over artificial intelligence.
The dollar index (DXY00) on Friday rose by +0.27% and posted a fresh 2.75-month high. Hawkish comments on Friday from Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid, Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, and Cleveland Fed President …
President Donald Trump said Monday that the Department of Justice and other U.S. law enforcement agencies will rein in risks associated with artificial intelligence "if we have to."
An equipment outage on Monday delayed hundreds of flights bound for Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia and forced close to 70 planes to divert to other airports. As of 1 p.m. ET, the disruptions had spread to New York…