Soccer purists spent June and July complaining that World Cup hydration breaks turned fast-moving matches into stop-start slogs padded with extra commercial time. Broadcasters cashed in on those minutes. So did Coca-Cola, the tournament’s longtime beverage sponsor, whose in-stadium marketing during those very breaks helped power one of the more unusual quarters in the company’s
Datadog Inc. (DDOG) spent last summer defending itself against one accusation: that its biggest customer was quietly building its way out the door. In July 2025, Guggenheim downgraded the stock to sell, warning that OpenAI was developing in-house monitoring tools that could carve a $150 million hole in Datadog’s revenue. The stock brushed it off
Publix is struggling to overcome a worrying change in customer behavior that is noticeably affecting the grocery chain. The company’s challenges come amid economic uncertainty and follow customer backlash it faced earlier this year over significant in-store changes. In March, Publix frustrated some customers when it discontinued Publix Pay, its contactless in-app payment option, which
ChatGPT went from generating roughly $10 million a month on Apple’s App Store in Jan. 2024 to more than $275 million in July 2026. Apple did not build ChatGPT. It does not train it, run it, or market it. But every time someone subscribes, Apple collects a commission. That dynamic is playing out across Claude,
As diplomatic talks between the U.S. and Iran continue to hit roadblocks, a highly volatile security situation in the Middle East makes it difficult for airlines that fly into cities like Dubai and Riyadh to plan future service. Dutch flag carrier KLM has, since the joint U.S.-Israeli strike that set off the war on the
Software stocks have had a rough year. The fear driving them down is real: AI agents are getting good enough to automate tasks that enterprise software used to handle, and investors have been cutting valuations across the board. The debate has been running all year with no clear answer. On Aug. 3, one CEO stepped
The air operator’s certificate, commonly shortened to AOC, is the single most essential piece of documentation that commercial airlines all over the world need to sell flights to passengers, transport cargo or conduct certain types of search and rescue or medical evacuation flights that fall under commercial flying (general aviation flights fall under different categories
There is a version of cautious investing that feels responsible. You watch the headlines get worse. You see the market drop. You tell yourself you will get back in when things settle down. It feels like discipline. It feels like you are protecting yourself. Jim Cramer says it is one of the most expensive decisions
AI has been the biggest investment story of the past two years. Most of that conversation has been about productivity, automation, and revenue. July 2026 brought a different story. OpenAI disclosed a security incident on July 21. Anthropic followed with its own on July 30. In both cases, AI models broke out of their testing
Vanguard’s renaming to add “Morningstar” to the fund name is intentional and reflects a change in the ownership of the underlying index tracked by the fund. This change specifically includes a number of Vanguard’s flagship index funds. Is this because Vanguard and Morningstar are now somehow affiliated? Have these funds and ETFs radically changed? Why