Prediction markets analysts told 60 Minutes Sunday that insider trading on U.S. military conflicts is exploding, and that the soldier accused of trading on the U.S. invasion of Venezuela was merely a small fish in a very large pond. Last month, Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was indicted on federal charges for allegedly using…
In this article @LCO.1 @CL.1 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Oil prices remained elevated on Monday even after President Donald Trump called off plans to attack Iran for now. International benchmark Brent crude futures rose more than 2% to close at $112.10 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for June advanced about 3% to settle at $108.66 per barrel….
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. US gas prices have gone up, and up, and up since the country bombed Iran in late February. In March, I reported that the average price of gas in the country had gone up from $2.89/gallon to $3.48/gallon. Now, the average price of gas in…
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FLL to Dallas jumped from $39 to $124 within 48 hours of Spirit’s May 2 wind-down. Two weeks in, the routes Frontier didn’t backfill are still up 20%. The 218% Spike Was Real, And Briefly Worse Than It Sounds Spirit Airlines stopped flying at 3 AM Eastern on May 2, 2026 taking 1.8 million seats…
On May 14, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics released two disclosure filings showing President Donald Trump executed 3,642 stock transactions during the first quarter of 2026, with a cumulative value between $220 million and $750 million. The filing, signed by Trump on May 8, shows 2,345 purchases and 1,296 sales, mostly of individual stocks….
The space exploration is aiming for an IPO with a $1.75 trillion valuation. By on May 17, 2026 SpaceX is aiming for an IPO launch next month. Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX, could be going public sooner than many expected. According to a new report from Reuters, SpaceX is…
The new Federal Reserve chairman, Kevin Warsh, faces a tough task in accomplishing his goals at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). When President Donald Trump nominated Warsh back in January, it was widely expected that the new chairman would aim to cut interest rates and reduce the Fed’s balance sheet holdings. But Warsh might…
Traders work during the Hawkeye 360 Inc. initial public offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 fell on Monday, bogged down by declines in technology, as traders monitored oil prices…
Oil Shortage Scenario Looms Large | OilPrice.com Irina Slav Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. More Info Trending Discussions Premium Content By Irina Slav – May 17, 2026, 6:00 PM CDT Global oil markets are tightening rapidly as the blocked Strait of…
Zuumy/Getty Images Supercar ownership in this day and age cannot be fun. The seemingly never-ending war in Iran has put a chokehold on gas and foreign product pricing, and President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs has made getting spare parts an absolute bear. Ownership is set to become even more costly as experts say the world is…
Long Island Rail Road workers were back on the picket lines at various spots in New York City and on Long Island on Sunday, voicing their concerns and demands as the strike continues for a second day. It comes as the National Mediation Board said Sunday evening it summoned LIRR union leaders and Metropolitan Transportation…
For decades, Japanese government bonds offered minuscule returns, forcing investors there to look abroad, especially at U.S. financial markets. Japanese investors now collectively own about $1 trillion in Treasuries and are the largest foreign holders of U.S. debt. But that could change soon as the Bank of Japan has been hiking rates while hotter inflation…
SiIicon Valley can’t seem to read the room. SiIicon Valley can’t seem to read the room. May 17, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC Terrence O’Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the…
Donald Trump’s Wall Street side hustle is starting to look like a full-time job. During the first three months of 2026, the billionaire president pocketed tens of millions of dollars through 3,700 investment trades involving companies with direct ties to his administration. “This is an insane amount of trades,” Matthew Tuttle, chief executive officer of…
While it’s an iconic line from her career-making film Legally Blonde, it’s also a mantra that Reese Witherspoon lives by. The actress-turned-media-company owner has long had the grit required to ideate, found, and ultimately sell a near-billion-dollar company that flipped Hollywood’s script on its head. By the time Witherspoon was 34, she had spent two…
When the Social Security Administration announced last year that benefits would get a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, in 2026, many retirees were disappointed. And many are holding out hope for a more generous COLA in 2027. Of course, Social Security recipients will have to sit tight a bit longer to get word of an official…
West Texas is losing roughly a billion dollars in crude oil each year to theft — and the people taking it have gotten good enough that they clone service trucks, launder barrels through brokers and occasionally blow up the pipeline they’re trying to rob. “It’s like any other commodity,” Jim Wright, chairman of the Texas…
When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said onstage at a recent StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. More than a…
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OAK BROOK, Ill. (WLS) — Hundreds lined up Saturday morning at a Chicago-area mall for a Swatch and Audemars Piguet Royal Pop Collection pocket watch, causing the store to decide to close for the day, police said. A large number of police vehicles could be seen at the Oak Brook Center Mall Saturday. ABC7 Chicago…
Rabbi Boruch Bentzion Brikman, a respected chossid and longtime beloved member of the Crown Heights community, passed away on Leil Shabbos Kodesh, 29 Iyar, 5786. Full Story Rabbi Boruch Bentzion Brikman, a respected chossid and longtime beloved member of the Crown Heights community, passed away on Leil Shabbos Kodesh, 29 Iyar, 5786. He was 89….
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The artificial intelligence boom is leading to fights in some states over growing utility profits, as governors, attorneys general and others protesting rising electricity bills say cash-strapped residents are stuck in a broken system. Officials and lawmakers in at least six states — including Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York…
Washington — The Federal Reserve is yapping too much about the economy, according to Kevin Warsh, the US central bank’s incoming leader. During his confirmation hearing last month, Warsh argued that Fed officials “speak quite frequently” and stressed that “truth-seeking is more important than repetition.” “If one has a press conference, one wants to deliver some…
The clock is ticking on Q-Day, the looming yet unknown date when quantum computing will have the capacity to quickly and easily break the encryption keys that keep most internet communication safe. Experts have known about the hypothetical risk of Q-Day since the 1990s. But Google recently warned that quantum computers may be able to…
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© BING-JHEN HONG / iStock Editorial via Getty Images I keep hitting the buy button on NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction), and the logic is embarrassingly simple. The stock trades at 26 times forward earnings while the underlying business grew revenue 65.47% last fiscal year. Find me a more lopsided ratio of price to…
Qantas flight 21 from Melbourne to Dallas-Fort Worth diverted to Tahiti on Friday to remove a passenger who bit a flight attendant. The Boeing 787-9 wound up arriving in Dallas 3 hours and 23 minutes late. One passenger on board the aircraft even says that the disruptive man, a New Zealander, was restrained and “sedatives…
Based solely on return data, Wall Street has absolutely loved having Donald Trump in the White House. Although volatility has been breathtaking at times under Trump, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 1.07%), benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.24%), and growth-driven Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 1.54%) soared 57%, 70%, and 142%, respectively, during his first, non-consecutive…
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Nikelle Murphy / Mashed There are some dinnertime cravings that only a fast food cheeseburger can fix. You want a juicy, beefy patty that’s ever so slightly greasy without being an oil slick. You want it blanketed with a slice of classic American cheese that melts perfectly over the top. (Save those fancy cheese accompaniments…
When it comes to job cuts, older workers are often disproportionately affected. But a new survey of chief executive officers suggests this won’t be a given as companies adopt artificial intelligence. More than 40% of CEOs plan to cut junior roles over the next one to two years and shift the composition of their workforce…