Introduction Oracle Corporation has spent the past year converting a database and enterprise software business into one of the largest debt-financed infrastructure builds in corporate history. The bet is anchored to a single customer: OpenAI. The equity market has already repriced that bet. Oracle shares peaked at $345.72 in the third quarter of 2025 and...
Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) announced on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, that its board had selected a 1-for-30 reverse stock split, consolidating every 30 shares into one in an effort to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum bid price requirement. The split takes effect at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Aug. 13, with split-adjusted trading beginning Aug....
American investors now owe their brokers a record $1.5 trillion. That figure comes from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s margin statistics, which reported $1,502,072 million in debit balances in customers’ securities margin accounts for June 2026. It was a 6.1% increase from May and a 49.0% increase from a year earlier, and the highest reading...
Ask a small business owner what an ad costs and they’ll quote you a number: the monthly spend, maybe a cost-per-click or a cost-per-lead if their vendor bothered to calculate it. That number is on the invoice. It’s clean, it’s budgeted, and it’s almost completely beside the point. The real cost of running paid ads...
America’s nonprofit sector is no longer a rounding error in the national economy. Federal data show tax-exempt organizations contributed more than $1.5 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product in 2024 — over 5 percent of the entire economy — while paying little or no federal income tax on most of what they earn. That scale...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX, capping the largest initial public offering on record. Shares priced at $135 the night before, opened at $150 and closed near $161 — a gain of roughly 19% — valuing the rocket-and-satellite company at about $2.1 trillion. The offering...
After nearly two decades of shrinking, Barnes & Noble is opening stores again at a pace it has not matched in a generation. The bookseller plans to open roughly 60 new U.S. locations in 2026, matching its 2025 total and following about 57 openings in 2024 — more new stores in a single year than...
When grocery prices surged across the United States during 2021 and 2022, most consumers blamed inflation. Rising fuel costs, supply-chain disruptions, labor shortages, and broader economic pressures appeared to offer a straightforward explanation for higher food bills. A newly settled antitrust case involving Agri Stats, Inc., however, has renewed a more complex debate among economists...
New Housing Proposal Would Bring Back Controversial Property Transfer Tool New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly announced housing strategy is reigniting debate over one of the city’s most controversial affordable housing enforcement tools. Unveiled on May 26, the administration’s “Block by Block” housing initiative includes a program known as “Fix the City,” an enforcement...
The Viral Video That Exposed a Larger Policy Problem A viral video from Georgia has turned a local land dispute into a national debate over property rights and corporate subsidies. In the footage, a young woman describes how her mother’s home in Coweta County is being taken through eminent domain so that Georgia Power can...