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One of Wendy's Biggest Franchisees Just Went Bankrupt. It Won't Be the Last.

Meritage Hospitality ran 314 Wendy's across 15 states. It just filed Chapter 11 — with Wendy's own franchise arm as its biggest creditor. Dining traffic is falling, menu inflation is outrunning groceries, and the Fed just raised rates. The market has already picked the survivors.

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$GRAL: The FDA Votes on Grail's Cancer Blood Test Tomorrow. The Stock Already Paid Itself a Third for the Paperwork.

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Commercial Real Estate Was Waiting for Rate Cuts. It Got a Hike.

An $875 billion wall of commercial mortgages comes due in 2026. The playbook was extend, pretend, and wait for cheaper money. The Fed just took the plan away.

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The First Drug That Edits Your DNA Is Finally Selling

Casgevy revenue grew 78% in a single quarter and the FDA just opened the label to two-year-olds. The first CRISPR medicine is finally a business — and the market is still pricing its maker like a science project.

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The First Rate Hike of the War Economy

The Fed just raised rates for the first time since 2023 — days after the second-worst consumer sentiment reading on record. What a tightening cycle in a war economy means for inflation, mortgages, and markets.

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Sports Just Had a $30 Billion Summer. The Sellers Know Something.

The Lakers sold twice in 14 months, the Seahawks and Angels set league records, and $30 billion in franchises changed hands in one summer. Why America's founding sports families are all selling at once — and what it signals for the asset class.

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Crypto's Big Bill Just Died 10 Votes Short. The Next Vote Is the Midterms.

The friendliest Congress crypto will ever get just killed its market-structure bill 50-49. Who regulates digital assets for the next 15 months, and why Circle and Coinbase are opposite trades.

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The Most Important Rate Decision This Week Isn't the Fed's

Japan's 10-year yield just broke 3% for the first time since 1996, the 30-year hit a record, and the BOJ decides Friday — one day after the Fed. The end of the world's cheapest money is the macro story markets haven't priced.

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The Best-Selling Drug in History Just Lost a Head-to-Head Trial

A Chinese-invented drug just beat Merck's Keytruda on overall survival — a first. What it means for pharma's biggest franchise, the PD-1/VEGF gold rush, and Summit Therapeutics' $14 billion valuation.

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A Jury Called Live Nation a Monopoly. The Stock Refuses to Believe It.

Five months after a jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for illegal monopolization on every claim, LYV trades at $170 as if nothing happened. The market is making one very specific bet about remedies — here is the case for and against it.

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First-Time Homebuyers Are 40 Now. Student Debt Helped Do That.

Student loan delinquencies have knocked an average 62 points off millions of credit scores just as the first-time homebuyer hit a record age of 40. A generation is being converted from owners to renters — and capital is repositioning around it.

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Your Insurance Bill Is Now a Mortgage Problem

Insurance is the fastest-growing line in the American mortgage — and it's now pushing homeowners into delinquency at a scale that shows up in the Fed's own research.

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The World Needs New Antibiotics. The Market Guarantees No One Will Make Them.

Resistant infections kill over a million people a year and rising, yet the companies that make new antibiotics keep going bankrupt. A bipartisan bill and a live UK model could rewire the economics overnight — here's who collects.

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When Nothing Adds Up, Something's Broken

American card debt just hit a record and delinquency is at Great Recession levels — but the headline number is half an illusion. The real stress is hiding in the subprime auto file, at a 32-year high.

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Washington Is About to Decide Who Gets to Print Dollars. Tether Already Made Its Move.

The GENIUS Act redraws the stablecoin map on January 18, 2027 — and the world's biggest issuer just quietly split itself in two to survive it. Why compliant beats big.

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$TTAN: ServiceTitan Beat Its Quarter and Fell 18%. The Guidance Is the Earnings Report.

ServiceTitan grew revenue 21%, beat estimates, and generated record cash — then dropped 18% on Wednesday. The reason is a soft guide that points the back half of the year slower and less profitable than the front. The valuation math and the scenario zones.

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What Happens to a Drug Market When the Cure Shows Up?

The first in-body CRISPR therapy just aced Phase 3: one infusion, 87% fewer attacks. Five companies built annuity businesses on treating this disease forever — and the repricing started before the FDA even votes.

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Private Credit Locked the Exits. The Money Keeps Coming In Anyway.

Redemption gates went up at Cliffwater and Blackstone the same week institutions committed record capital to private credit. One side of that trade is wrong — the scenario framework, the $807B insurance transmission channel, and the five signals that decide it.

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$BE: Bloom Energy Joins the S&P 500 on September 21. The Index Funds Don't Get a Choice.

S&P Dow Jones handed Bloom Energy its S&P 500 card after Friday's close. Every fund that tracks the index must now own the stock by the September 18 close, in a name up 382% in a year with 6% of its float sold short. The forced-flow math, the fade history, and the scenario zones.

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The Company That Settles Every Stock Trade in America Is Moving On-Chain

The DTCC clears roughly $2.4 quadrillion in securities transactions a year through plumbing most investors have never thought about. Next month it flips the switch on tokenized settlement — and the repricing that follows won't show up where the headlines are looking.

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$LULU: Burry Calls It a Fat Pitch Below $100. A $134 Million Tariff Refund Says Check the Math First.

Lululemon fell 17% to a 52-week low after its second guidance cut in three months, and Michael Burry called sub-$100 shares a fat pitch. Strip out a $134 million one-time tariff refund and the real math gets interesting on both sides.

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Washington Approved Hollywood's Biggest Merger. Twelve States Said No.

The $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger cleared the DOJ, the EU, and shareholders — then 12 state attorneys general froze it until 2027. Inside the fight over who actually polices American mergers, and what Wall Street's 85% bet misses.

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Merck's Answer to Pharma's Biggest Patent Cliff Costs $10.50 a Day

The first cholesterol pill in the PCSK9 class just reached US pharmacies at $315 a month — a tenth of what its injectable predecessors launched at. Inside the launch that has to fill the Keytruda hole, the revenue scenarios, and the three tickers on the wrong side of it.

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The Biggest New Buyer of American Debt Isn't a Country

Stablecoin issuers now hold more US Treasuries than Germany — a buyer Washington legislated into existence. The fiscal math behind it, and the risk nobody has stress-tested at scale.

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There Are Only 32 of Them, and They're Not Making Any More

The NFL just repriced itself by 31% in a single year. A record $9.6 billion Seahawks sale, private equity's arrival, and fixed supply meeting a growing billionaire class — inside the trophy-asset boom reshaping American sports.