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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2026
Trump Media to Sell Wall Street Millisecond Access to Truth Social Posts
Truth API goes live Aug. 1 delivering posts from the platform's highest-ranking accounts to institutional traders in milliseconds as the Trump family retains its majority stake
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2026
TSMC Pledges Another $100 Billion for Arizona as Q2 Profit Jumps 77 Percent
Taiwan Semiconductor's total U.S. commitment reaches $265 billion as second-quarter net income hits a record $22 billion on AI-chip demand
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2026
Buffett Omits Gates Foundation From Annual Gifts, Calls Epstein Ties 'Distasteful'
Buffett skipped the Gates Foundation from his annual Berkshire gifts for the first time since 2006, directing about $6 billion to four family foundations with a Dec. 31, 2034 wind-down
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2026
China Growth Slows to 4.3 Percent in Second Quarter, Missing Beijing's Target
Investment fell and property remained a drag as the world's second-largest economy grew at its weakest pace since late 2022, ratcheting up pressure for stimulus
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2026
12 States Sue to Block $110 Billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
California-led coalition invokes the Clayton Act two months after DOJ cleared the deal, threatening a restraining order unless Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery pause
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2026
Circle Wins OCC Charter, Putting USDC Reserves Under Federal Oversight
Friday's OCC nod lets the stablecoin issuer hold reserves for its $73 billion USDC directly, ending its reliance on third-party banks and state-by-state regulation
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2026
EasyJet Board Backs Apollo's £5.7 Billion Bid Over Castlelake
The board reversed course five days after accepting Castlelake's £5.2 billion offer, saying Apollo's £7.15-a-share cash proposal delivers a higher return for shareholders
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026
Solstice to Buy Element Solutions for $14.5 Billion in AI Materials Push
Honeywell's newly spun-off chemicals arm offered $50.10 a share in cash and stock to combine refrigerants and uranium conversion with Element's chip chemicals
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026
Amazon Returns to Debt Markets With $25 Billion Sale for AI Infrastructure
The eight-part offering pushes the retailer's 2026 borrowing past $89 billion as capital expenditures head for $200 billion this year
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2026
Toyota Moves Most Tacoma Production From Mexico to Texas in $3.6 Billion San Antonio Bet
The Japanese automaker's Monday announcement adds 2,000 San Antonio jobs and follows Washington's decision last week to skip a long-term USMCA renewal
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2026
Shotwell Pledges SpaceX Stock as Trump Accounts Begin First Deposits
SpaceX president's gift to roughly 2 million children's accounts follows Saturday's launch of $1,000 Treasury seed deposits and widens the private-donor list beyond Michael and Susan Dell
SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2026
Heat Wave Halts July 4 Parades and Amtrak Trains Across Eastern U.S.
Philadelphia scrapped its 250th anniversary parade, Amtrak slowed Northeast Corridor trains and New York's mayor asked residents to raise thermostats as 165 million people baked
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2026
US Declines Long-Term USMCA Renewal, Triggering Annual Reviews
Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer confirmed Wednesday the pact remains in force but will not get its automatic 16-year extension, starting a countdown that could end the deal in 2036
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2026
Trump Disclosure Reports Over $1 Billion in 2025 Crypto Income
The president's 927-page annual financial filing, released Tuesday, details more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial and $635 million tied to the TRUMP memecoin
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026
Guo Wengui Gets 30 Years in Prison for Billion-Dollar Fraud
Manhattan judge orders the self-exiled Chinese tycoon to forfeit $889 million after a conviction on nine counts that prosecutors said victimized more than 1,000 investors
MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2026
Comcast to Spin Off NBCUniversal and Sky, Shares Jump 23 Percent
The cable giant will split into two publicly traded companies within a year, separating broadband and wireless from a Peacock-and-theme-parks media arm anchored by Sky
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026
Apple Lifts Mac and iPad Prices Up to 20 Percent as Xbox Jumps Again
The iPhone maker and Microsoft on Thursday passed the AI memory-chip shortage to consumers, with Apple shares falling more than 6 percent and the Mac Studio M3 Ultra rising $1,300
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026
Supreme Court Shields Bayer From Roundup Cancer Suits in 7-2 Ruling
The decision preempts state failure-to-warn claims against the weedkiller, lifts Bayer shares 15.75 percent and fractures the Make America Healthy Again coalition
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2026
Germany Scraps F126 Frigate Program, Rheinmetall Falls as Much as 17 Percent
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius cited delays, cost overruns and unforeseeable risks; Berlin will buy eight smaller Meko A-200 frigates from TKMS for as much as 11.6 billion euros
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2026
AbbVie Nears $11 Billion Cash Deal for Apogee Therapeutics
The Illinois drugmaker is in advanced talks to pay a 60 percent premium for the eczema-drug developer, with an announcement possible as early as Monday
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2026
SpaceX Slides a Second Day as ProPublica Details Secret Pre-IPO Chinese Stakes
Thursday's 3.57 percent drop pulled the rocket-and-AI company back below Amazon and left the average post-IPO buyer at breakeven as a court unsealed a foreign-investor ledger
MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2026
Fox to Buy Roku for $22 Billion in Cash-and-Stock Streaming Bet
Lachlan Murdoch's company will pay $160 a share for the connected-TV platform, take on $8 billion in new debt and leave Fox shareholders with 73 percent of the combined business
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2026
DOJ Clears Paramount's $110 Billion Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery
The Antitrust Division closed an eight-month probe Friday, removing the largest federal hurdle to a deal that would fuse CBS, CNN, HBO Max and the Warner film studio under David Ellison
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2026
Pentagon Adds Alibaba, Baidu and BYD to China Military List
The Defense Department's expanded 1260H roster grew to 188 entities, complicating a U.S.-China trade truce Trump and Xi struck in Beijing last month
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2026
Snowflake Jumps 36% on $6 Billion AWS Pact as Salesforce Guidance Disappoints
Two of enterprise software's biggest names reported on the same evening Wednesday and split in opposite directions on the question of who is winning the AI buildout
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2026
Manifold Disputes BP Ouster as Board Cites Conduct
The Irish executive removed Tuesday as BP chairman said Wednesday he was dismissed without warning or explanation and rejects the company's characterization of his conduct
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026
Ferrari Unveils Electric Luce, and Shares Fall Sharply
The Maranello carmaker's first fully electric and first five-seat model, designed by Jony Ive's LoveFrom, sent the Milan-listed stock down 6.3 percent
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2026
Walmart Trims Full-Year Outlook, Citing Fuel Strain on Shoppers
The largest U.S. retailer issued fiscal 2027 guidance below Wall Street estimates Thursday and warned that consumers will feel more pressure as the tax-refund tailwind fades
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2026
SpaceX Files Record IPO With $2.6 Billion Operating Loss and Musk in Control
The Elon Musk-owned rocket maker disclosed $18.7 billion in 2025 revenue, will trade on Nasdaq under "SPCX" and could top Saudi Aramco's $25.6 billion record
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2026
Samsung Workers Walk Out as Wage Talks Collapse, Shares Fall 3%
More than 47,000 employees began an 18-day strike Thursday after the company rejected a government mediator's proposal, rattling global chip markets
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2026
DOJ Moves to Drop Adani Bribery Case After $10 Billion U.S. Investment Pledge
Federal prosecutors asked a Brooklyn judge Monday to dismiss the 2024 fraud indictment against the Indian billionaire, hours after Treasury settled an Iran-sanctions case for $275 million
MONDAY, MAY 18, 2026
NextEra to Buy Dominion in $67 Billion All-Stock Deal Aimed at AI Power Demand
The combination would create the world's largest regulated electric utility, with a $249 billion market cap and a foothold in the Northern Virginia data center market
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2026
LIRR Strike Enters Day Two as Trump and Hochul Trade Blame and Monday Looms
No new MTA-union talks were scheduled Sunday, leaving 250,000 weekday riders facing a Monday morning without the busiest commuter railroad in North America
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026
LIRR Strike Shuts Down Busiest U.S. Commuter Line Over Fourth-Year Raise
Five unions representing about 3,700 Long Island Rail Road workers walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Saturday after the MTA and labor failed to bridge a gap on the final year of a four-year contract
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2026
Spirit Lawyer Apologizes in White Plains, Warns of Billions in Fare Increases
At Tuesday's bankruptcy hearing before Judge Sean H. Lane, Marshall Huebner blamed a jet-fuel megaspike from the Iran war and said Americans will pay up to $3 billion more a year for tickets
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2026
Macron Urges EU to Wield Trade 'Bazooka' as Auto Tariff Deadline Nears
France's president pressed Brussels this week to ready its anti-coercion tool against Washington as the bloc makes a final push to head off 25 percent duties on European cars and trucks
MONDAY, MAY 4, 2026
Spirit Refunds Hit Card Networks as Bondholders' Veto of $500 Million Rescue Comes Into Focus
Credit-card refunds are flowing to Spirit Airlines passengers two days after the shutdown, as new detail emerges on how a federal equity stake collided with a senior creditor claim
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2026
Spirit Passengers Scramble as Rivals Cap Fares and Duffy Rules Out a Bailout
United said it rebooked 14,000 stranded flyers in 12 hours after Saturday's shutdown as American, Frontier, JetBlue and Southwest opened capped-fare windows that close as early as Wednesday
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026
Spirit Airlines Shuts Down Overnight After $500 Million Trump Bailout Collapses
The discount carrier canceled all flights and laid off 17,000 workers after bondholders led by Citadel and Ares rejected a deal that would have given Washington a 90 percent stake
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026
Trump Raises EU Auto Tariff to 25 Percent Under Section 232
The president invoked the 1962 trade law on Friday to lift duties on European cars and trucks, accusing Brussels of failing to honor the Turnberry Agreement
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2026
Trump Lifts Scotch Whisky Tariffs After King Charles State Visit
The president scrapped a 10 percent duty he imposed on British spirits last year, citing the four-day royal trip and Scotland's bourbon-barrel trade with Kentucky
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2026
Sun Pharma to Buy Organon for $11.75 Billion in India's Largest Drug Deal
The all-cash purchase of the New Jersey women's-health and biosimilars maker would lift the Mumbai generics giant into the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2026
Taiwan Court Jails Five in TSMC Trade-Secrets Case, Fines Tokyo Electron Unit $5 Million
Former TSMC and Tokyo Electron employee Chen Li-ming drew the maximum 10-year term in one of the island's most prominent prosecutions of chip-technology theft
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026
White House Weighs Defense Production Act to Rescue Spirit Airlines
The Trump administration is exploring a $500 million federal loan that could give the government a 90 percent stake, with a bankruptcy hearing on the term sheet possible Monday
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026
Trump Media Ousts Nunes as CEO After Stock Erases $6 Billion
Interim chief Kevin McGurn takes over a Truth Social parent that lost $712 million last year on $3.7 million in revenue
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026
Lufthansa Cancels 20,000 Flights as Jet-Fuel Shock Tests Carriers
Germany's flag carrier retires 27 regional jets and trims its summer schedule as Hormuz disruption doubles fuel prices and pressures low-cost rivals
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2026
SpaceX Options $60 Billion Cursor Buy or $10 Billion Breakup Fee
Elon Musk's rocket-and-AI conglomerate gave itself until year-end to close on the coding startup, and pledged a 10-figure payment if it walks
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2026
Apple Names Hardware Chief John Ternus CEO as Tim Cook Exits Sept. 1
The 15-year Cook era ends with a hardware engineer at the helm of a $4 trillion company that has spent the AI boom on the sidelines
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2026
U.S. Customs Opens $166 Billion Tariff Refund Portal to Importers
The CAPE system starts accepting claims Monday, two months after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's Liberation Day duties, with payouts expected to take 60 to 90 days
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026
Reed Hastings to Exit Netflix Board in June as Shares Slide 9% on Earnings
Netflix beat first-quarter revenue estimates and reiterated full-year guidance, but investors sold off on the co-founder's departure and a forecast of heavier content spending
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2026
Ford EV Chief Doug Field to Depart Next Month as Farley Folds Unit Into Operations
The ex-Apple and ex-Tesla engineer hired in 2021 to lead Ford's electric and software push will leave during a reorganization run by Chief Operating Officer Kumar Galhotra
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2026
Allbirds Rebrands as NewBird AI and Shares Jump 582 Percent
The struggling sneaker maker said it will trade Merino wool for GPUs, adding roughly $127 million in market value on a $50 million financing pledge
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2026
Jury Finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster Ran Illegal Monopoly Over U.S. Concert Market
Manhattan federal jury sides with 34 state attorneys general after the Trump Justice Department settled, opening the door to a forced breakup of the $25 billion concert giant
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026
Amazon to Buy Globalstar for $11.6 Billion in Starlink Challenge
The deal gives Amazon a direct-to-device satellite network and makes it the primary satellite provider for iPhones and Apple Watches
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2026
Evergrande Founder Hui Ka Yan Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Bribery in Shenzhen
Billionaire whose property empire collapsed under $300 billion in debt admits to embezzlement, illegal fundraising and misuse of buyer deposits as court reserves verdict