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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…
RTX (RTX) has reached a record backlog of $289 billion, climbing 22% year-over-year and 6% sequentially, a milestone that signals more than simple growth. The real story behind the backlog is its composition, with commercial aerospace accounting for the larger share in a roughly 60/40 split over defense contracts. That split has benefited RTX significantly,…
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…
D-Wave Quantum (NASDAQ: QBTS) occupies a genuinely rare position in the technology sector, operating as a pure-play quantum computing company with real paying customers. Unlike many of its competitors still locked in laboratory phases, D-Wave’s annealing systems are already running production workloads at major corporations including AT&T. That commercial milestone, which no other quantum computing…
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,…
The letters K, C, and E are not initials or fraternity symbols — they are the terms economists, executives, and politicians now use to describe the U.S. economy. Since the pandemic recovery, economists largely agreed the economy was “K-shaped,” meaning different income groups were moving in opposite directions with growing inequality between them. That consensus…
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…
Corporate earnings have surged at an extraordinary rate, but analysts and strategists increasingly warn the breakneck pace is unsustainable heading into next year. The S&P 500 was on track to deliver second-quarter earnings growth of 47% on a yearly basis, up sharply from around 20% prior to the start of the earnings season, according to…
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…
Insiders at IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI), and D-Wave Quantum (NYSE: QBTS) have collectively sold approximately $863 million more stock than they have purchased over the last three years. The figure comes from an analysis of Form 4 filings cited by The Motley Fool, and carries a notable caveat: insider buying across all…