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May’s CPI report is due Wednesday morning, with economists forecasting year-over-year inflation to climb from 3.8% to 4.2%, the highest reading since April 2023. The April Consumer Price Index already rattled markets, rising a seasonally adjusted 0.6% for the month and putting the one-year pace at 3.8%, the highest annual headline rate since May 2023….

Grandparents looking to give their grandchildren a lasting financial head start have a powerful tool at their disposal: the custodial Roth IRA. This account works similarly to a standard Roth IRA, but because minors cannot legally hold their own accounts, a grandparent or other adult serves as custodian. The custodian manages the account on the…

Oracle’s stock has been one of Wall Street’s most dramatic AI-driven stories, but investors now want hard proof the company can back up the hype. Shares of Oracle (ORCL) surged 71% over the past three months as investors piled into the company’s cloud infrastructure narrative and its deepening role in AI workloads. The company reports…

Jennifer Aniston’s boyfriend Jim Curtis has delisted his New York City condo just over four months after originally putting the property up for sale at $1.53 million. Curtis, 50, who works as a professional lifestyle guru, purchased the 1,200-square-foot Manhattan condo for just under $1.3 million back in 2015. In the years following his purchase,…

British drugmaker GSK has agreed to acquire U.S.-listed oncology specialist Nuvalent in an all-cash deal valued at $10.6 billion. The transaction values Boston-based Nuvalent at approximately $124 per share, representing a 40% premium to its last closing price. Net of cash acquired, GSK’s aggregate investment is estimated at $9.4 billion, with the deal primarily funded…

Shares of Micron Technology (MU) climbed sharply Monday as investors returned to the memory sector following a bruising Friday selloff across semiconductor stocks. The rebound came after Micron shares fell 13.25% on Friday amid a broad retreat in AI-related chip names triggered by profit-taking across the sector. The Friday decline was partly sparked by Broadcom,…

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday in a blog post submitted to the public. The Sam Altman-led firm submitted its IPO paperwork directly to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, making it one of the most anticipated filings in recent memory. “We expect it to leak…

Game 3 resale ticket prices for the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden have plunged sharply, reversing a surge that followed New York’s thrilling Game 2 victory. Low-end get-in prices for Monday’s contest between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs have fallen to below $5,000 per ticket, down from an $11,000 minimum recorded early…

Elon Musk is pushing forward with an ambitious plan to launch artificial intelligence data centers into orbit, arguing that space offers power advantages Earth simply cannot match. Speaking before a crowd earlier this year, Musk framed the entire initiative around a fundamental energy problem facing the AI industry on the ground. “You’re power constrained on…

Investors betting that U.S. inflation will ease once the Iran conflict ends and energy prices fall may be badly miscalculating their exposure to risk. A powerful El Niño weather pattern is expected to pick up where geopolitical disruptions leave off, threatening to drive global commodity prices significantly higher in the months ahead. Analysts at Marex,…