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
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has posted the kind of earnings report that makes a pricey company seem nearly fair. Revenue surged 93% year over year. U.S. commercial sales jumped 149%. Government revenue climbed 90%. Profit margins expanded while growth accelerated, an unusual combination for any software company, let alone one approaching $2 billion in quarterly revenue.
Luxury fashion retailers are accelerating store closures as slowing demand, economic uncertainty, and shifting consumer spending force even the industry’s biggest names to rethink their global footprints. Over the past year, several luxury companies have announced plans to shrink their retail networks as they prioritize stronger-performing locations, streamline operations, and invest in long-term growth rather
While many smaller airlines already struggle to stay in business due to the astronomical costs of being in aviation, the price of jet fuel that spiked after the attack on Iran has dealt unexpected blows to many additional carriers this year. Mexican holiday carrier Magnicharters filed for bankruptcy protection in June after abruptly canceling all of
Sitting along the southeastern coast of the Arab Peninsula and sharing borders with the UAE, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the Middle Eastern nation of Oman offers natural wonders like the bright turquoise valleys and river gorges known as wadis, the Hajar and Dhofar mountain ranges and a 12,500-square-kilometer desert region known as Sharqiya Sands. But
Mercury Systems and Palantir Technologies just agreed to automate the exact process that once nearly cost Mercury its credibility with the Pentagon. Three years ago, the Andover, Massachusetts, defense electronics maker was writing down earnings and answering to an activist investor because its factories could not deliver on schedule. Now it is handing that problem
Roblox (RBLX) stock fell hard over the past year, but its user base kept growing, and plenty of investors were willing to wait for a turnaround. That patience ran out on July 31. Roblox reported second-quarter results, then told the market something concerning. The company expects its bookings to shrink in the current quarter, the
Alphabet was founded as Google in Menlo Park, California, in 1998, and its original name quickly became synonymous with the concept of the internet search engine. The company went public in 2004, and more than two decades later, it’s the third-largest company by market capitalization, with its shares valued at more than $4 trillion (as