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Who Took the Other Side of Japan's Record Yen Defense?

Japan just spent $96.5 billion in a month defending the yen — the largest intervention in its history, the first joint operation with the US since 1998 — and the dollar is back at ¥160. The flow data reveals who took the other side, and why September's BOJ meeting is now the whole game.

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Why Airlines Are Making More Money Flying Fewer People

Global air travel just contracted for the second straight month and Boeing halved its 2026 growth forecast — yet airline stocks are rising. Inside the quiet flip from volume business to pricing power, and who's still holding the growth assumption.

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The New Master Settlement

Meta just paid $16.7 billion to end the state AGs' child-safety case — and its stock went up. Inside the settlement structure that capped a trillion-dollar liability, and the clause that sent the bill to YouTube, TikTok, and Snap.

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Why America's Biggest Infrastructure Cut Won't Look Like a Cut

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure law expires September 30, and the Senate's 90-6 extension quietly drops $36.8 billion a year in guaranteed funding. A budget-scoring quirk means a 25% cut will arrive on the books looking like a flat budget.

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The Strait of Hormuz Is Reopening Without America

Iran and Oman just agreed on a phased framework to reopen the world's most important oil chokepoint — with Washington outside the room. Oil is trading the reopening; the durable repricing is in who administers the strait.

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Why Would Gilead Compete With Its Own Best-Selling Drug?

The FDA just approved Bixlenvo — a Gilead pill aimed at a sliver of the HIV market and, quietly, at the company's own $13.4 billion best-seller. Inside the franchise migration that decides what Gilead is worth after 2036.

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What Happens When a Salary Cap Has No Union?

College football opens its 2026 season with $23 million median payrolls, a $21.3 million salary cap, and general managers — everything a pro league has except a deal with labor. That gap is the sport's next financial fault line.

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Why Uranium Hit a Six-Month High on Just Five Trades

Niger's junta seized its third flagship uranium asset and Kazakhstan flagged a 2027 production cut — landing on a spot market so thin that five transactions set a six-month high. The demand story is priced. The supply story isn't.

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Crypto Is Buying Out Its Own VCs

Ethena just bought out its seed investors and pledged 95% of revenue to buybacks. Hyperliquid walks into a $1.2 billion unlock at an all-time high tomorrow. The VC-unlock era of tokenomics is ending — here is the framework for pricing what replaces it.

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$MRVL: Marvell Reported a Perfect Quarter. The Stock Fell Anyway. Here Is What the Market Is Actually Saying.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Friday, August 28: AI Earnings Aftershock

The AI earnings aftershock rolls into Friday with Elastic, Affirm, and Salesforce all in motion. Plus the wildcard of the year: Fed Chair Warsh steps to the Jackson Hole podium at 10 a.m. ET. Here are the ten names worth watching today.

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Why the Government's New Ten-Year Jobs Map Runs Through Hospitals and Power Lines

The first official employment forecast of the AI era projects a decade of job growth at a third of the old pace — with one in three new jobs in healthcare, AI's hiring running through the power grid, and 752,000 back-office jobs gone.

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The Basis Trade Nearly Broke the Treasury Market Twice. Now Washington Is Bringing It Inside.

Four months before the SEC's clearing mandate hits the world's most important market, Washington's answer to the $1 trillion basis trade isn't to shrink it — it's to move it inside the clearinghouse. Who collects the new tolls, and what can still break by December 31.

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$DLTR: Dollar Tree Beat Q2 Earnings. The $252 Million Tariff Refund It Won't Get Again Is Why the Stock Is Falling.

Dollar Tree posted a Q2 EPS that nearly tripled analyst estimates — but strip out $1.31 of one-time tariff refunds, and the underlying picture looks different. With Q3 guidance 37% below consensus, the question isn't whether Dollar Tree beat the quarter. It's whether the consumer actually showed up.

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How Much Is Doubling Pancreatic Cancer Survival Worth?

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, the first drug to double survival in pancreatic cancer — and the first to crack the 'undruggable' RAS protein after forty years. Inside the science, the $46 billion company that refused to sell, and the race the approval just started.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch -- The AI Earnings Avalanche

NVIDIA just printed $96 billion in revenue with a $108 billion Q3 guide, and the cascade lifted the whole sector. Ten names with live catalysts for Thursday's session, ranked by conviction.

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The Strongest Currency in Emerging Markets Belongs to a 1% Economy

The peso blew through 17 per dollar — a level nobody forecast — while Mexico grows at 1% behind a tariff wall. Inside the three flows holding the super peso up, who's paying for it, and the September meeting that can take it all away.

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How Washington Regulated America's Freight Onto the Rails

While the market watches the $85 billion UP–NS merger clock, federal trucking rules have already pushed the largest truck-to-rail freight shift in a decade — and the window to profit from it closes before the regulators rule.

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$BBWI: Bath & Body Works Reported a Beat. The $80 Million Tariff Refund It Won't Get Again Is Why the Stock Is Down.

Bath & Body Works beat Q2 consensus by 2.4x while the stock fell 8%. The discrepancy lives in a non-recurring $80M tariff refund — and a Q3 guide showing EPS declining 75% year-over-year. Here's the math behind the move, the balance sheet, and the scenario zones.

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Why German Balconies Have Solar Panels and American Ones Don't

More than a million German homes plug solar panels straight into wall outlets. In America it was never legal — until now. Ten states have passed laws, UL wrote the standard, and California votes this week on the bill that changes the market.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Wednesday, August 26

Nuclear stocks extend their run, biotech catches fire on the cancer vaccine trade, and AI infrastructure gets a fresh deal catalyst. Ten names worth watching as Wednesday's session opens.

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Why Is SpaceX Giving Away Space Traffic Control?

SpaceX just launched a free collision-screening service for every satellite operator in low Earth orbit — faster than the government system Washington keeps trying to defund. Whoever runs the screens sets the rules, and the money in space safety just moved.

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Washington's 'Economic D-Day' Has a China Problem

Bessent just announced 'the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary' — and oil fell 2.5%. The market is pricing the only question that matters: will Washington sanction Chinese banks a month before Xi walks into the White House?

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What Happens to a Town When Its College Dies?

The enrollment cliff arrived on campus this month — not as a uniform decline, but as a sorting. Flagships are posting record classes while small colleges close, and the losses are landing on towns built on the assumption the campus is permanent.

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$DKS: Dick's Sporting Goods Paid $2.4 Billion for Foot Locker. Today's Earnings Reveal What That Bet Is Worth.

Dick's Q2 split the company in two: the DICK'S Business delivered 4.9% comp growth on World Cup momentum; Foot Locker slipped 3.6%. DKS is gapping down 15% to a new 52-week low. The real question is whether the footwear market softness is a temporary trough or something structural.