Shell says the world is short nearly one billion barrels of oil. The buffer that absorbs supply shocks is vanishing at record speed — and by June, some countries could start running dry.
Volkswagen alone is bleeding €4 billion a year from US tariffs. Now Trump wants to raise the rate to 25 percent — and the brands without American factories have nowhere to hide.
$871,200 in revenue, $405.9 million in losses: Trump Media's quarterly filing is a study in how to lose money at scale — and still command a $2.47 billion market cap.
Sulfuric acid is in everything from fertilizer to smartphone components. The Iran war just pushed prices past $800 a ton, and China has stopped exporting it. Your grocery bill is next.
The administration lost at the Supreme Court, rewrote the tariffs under a different law, and now a federal court has blocked the do-over too. American businesses paid roughly $8 billion in March alone.
The company Apple spent a decade escaping is now the company it needs most. Intel shares surged 14% on news of a preliminary foundry deal — brokered by the US government, Intel's largest shareholder.
Maersk is passing $500 million in monthly Iran war costs straight to customers. A third of the world's fertilizer is stuck behind a blockade. Your bill is in the mail.
DeepSeek's valuation jumped fivefold to $50 billion in its first external funding round. The checks aren't coming from venture capitalists — they're coming from Beijing's state investment apparatus.
Economists expected the Iran war and an oil price shock to crush hiring. April had other ideas — but underneath the headline numbers, part-time work is surging and participation is falling.
The world's largest automaker just put a hard number on the Middle East conflict's cost to global business — ¥670 billion. If Toyota is bleeding this badly, the rest of corporate Europe and Asia are next.
Whirlpool's CEO says appliance demand hasn't been this weak since the financial crisis. Across earnings calls this week, consumer-facing companies delivered the same message: Americans are out of money, and a surging stock market hasn't noticed.
India's top IT firms are cutting headcount while revenue grows. The jobs that put 15 million families into the middle class are being automated faster than anyone planned for.
In the hour before Axios reported the US and Iran were nearing a peace deal, $1.7 billion in oil futures changed hands — the third suspiciously timed trade since the war began.
The SEC has advanced a Trump-backed proposal to let public companies stop reporting quarterly earnings. The companies most eager to opt out are the ones investors most need to hear from.
SpaceX has filed plans for a $55 billion semiconductor plant in rural Texas — a figure that would dwarf nearly every domestic manufacturing commitment on record. The total price tag could reach $119 billion.
Samsung made more profit in Q1 2026 than it did in all of 2025. Its stock has quadrupled in a year, pushing its market cap past $1 trillion on insatiable demand for AI memory chips.
Two million seats gone and summer hasn't started yet. Airlines are axing flights, hiking baggage fees, and cutting in-flight service as doubled jet fuel prices from the Hormuz crisis reshape global travel.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman confirmed a $30 billion personal stake in court this week — then insisted the money was 'secondary to the mission.' He once pledged to donate $100,000 to the nonprofit. He never followed through.
UPS and FedEx lost roughly 10% of their value in a single session after Amazon formally opened its logistics network to every business on earth. Procter & Gamble and 3M are already on board.
Every Spirit flight is cancelled. Rivals are picking up stranded passengers. And a crowdfunding campaign has raised $23 million to buy the airline back — roughly 1 percent of what that would actually cost.
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