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US Mobile plans to bring AST SpaceMobile-powered direct-to-cell satellite coverage to its Verizon-based Warp network during the fourth quarter of 2026. The announcement represents a potential new catalyst for shares of AST SpaceMobile (ASTS), which have faced persistent selling pressure in recent weeks. ASTS stock fell nearly 6% on Friday and ended last week down…
U.S. stock-index futures moved lower Sunday as investors weighed the growing probability of a fresh interest-rate increase from the Federal Reserve. Markets are now pricing in a 58% probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike at the September meeting, up sharply from 36% before Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s speech Friday. Warsh told attendees at the annual…
Tony Fabrizio, a top pollster working for Republican Mike Rogers, is aggressively disputing public polls showing Rogers trailing in Michigan’s high-stakes Senate race. Fabrizio argues that recent surveys are over-sampling Democratic-leaning voters, specifically college-educated and Black voters, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO. A Susquehanna poll released this month showed progressive Abdul El-Sayed…
The Department of Homeland Security is pushing back hard against a New York Times report detailing alleged abuse inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. DHS issued a sharp rebuttal on Sunday, posting on social platform X that the Times story amounted to misinformation designed to undermine the agency’s operations. “Another day and another hoax…
After months of brutal losses, the software sector is staging a dramatic comeback that analysts say could have significant room left to run. The Morningstar US Software Application Index shed roughly 27% between October 2025 and mid-July 2026, even as the broader market gained nearly 15% over the same stretch. Stocks including Salesforce (CRM), ServiceNow…
The escalating conflict involving Iran is sending shockwaves through global supply chains far beyond oil markets, hitting helium supplies hard and fast. Helium, used to fill party balloons but also critical to semiconductor manufacturing and medical imaging, is tightening in supply and surging in price as fighting disrupts energy production in the Persian Gulf. Roughly…
Despite a powerful rally in quantum computing stocks, IonQ (IONQ) continues to attract serious skepticism from analysts and investors focused on its financial fundamentals. The company posted an operating loss of $633.7 million in 2025, a figure that underscores the vast gap between its market enthusiasm and underlying business performance. IonQ’s revenue grew an impressive…
When Tim Cook announced his retirement in April 2026, the business world began reckoning with one of the most consequential leadership tenures in corporate history. Steve Jobs himself once noted that Cook was “not a product person, per se,” a characterization that could have defined Cook’s tenure as a liability from the very start. Instead,…
A 401(k) rollover is one of the most debated moves in personal finance, with many savers questioning whether locking up funds is worth the trade-off. When workers change jobs or retire, they often face a critical decision about what to do with their existing retirement savings accumulated over years of employment. Rolling funds into a…
Katrina Linden graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2016 and moved to Sacramento, California, expecting to buy a home within a few years. Like many young Americans at the time, she saw homeownership as an achievable goal, provided she could save enough money for a down payment. Interest rates were relatively low when…