Most people think of Airbnb the same way they thought of Amazon in 1999 — a useful but narrowly defined platform. Amazon sold books. Airbnb rents homes. Both descriptions were accurate. Both turned out to be wildly incomplete. Brian Chesky wants you to rethink what Airbnb is becoming. The CEO sat down with CNBC recently
Unless your name is Tesla, the U.S. EV market has been a minefield for original equipment manufacturers. There were dangerous cracks even as customers set a record sales pace through the first three quarters of 2025. U.S. consumers flocked to dealerships to buy EVs last year, right up until September 30, when the $7,500 EV
Gold has always been the asset investors run to when they stop believing in everything else. It is the trade that pays off when central banks lose credibility, when currencies wobble, when geopolitics get loud, and when the rest of the stock market finally cracks. For most of the past three years, that playbook worked
Vanguard’s new research suggests that the comfort of holding extra cash carries a measurable long-term cost for U.S. households. The investment firm released a May 2026 paper that examines how American households manage short-term cash, and the findings challenge common assumptions about where your savings belong. The typical U.S. checking account yielded just 0.07%, and
Analog Devices (ADI) is plugged directly into the infrastructure powering the AI wave. Today, the company’s AI story has shifted from vague thematic exposure to concrete, measurable demand. Hyperscalers are building at a record pace, and ADI’s optical and power components are foundational to that buildout. Analog Devices’ CEO, Vincent Roche, had a strong message
Wall Street keeps a private list of records that almost never move. The biggest bank failure. The longest bull market. The most expensive IPO of all time. Most of those records are decades old. Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing still holds the crown for the largest initial public offering on record, raising $35.4 billion at a
Artificial intelligence has already disrupted search, software, and customer service. The next frontier is more consequential and less visible: the core infrastructure that moves money around the world. Governments and financial institutions are increasingly treating AI not as a tool to improve existing systems but as the foundation for building entirely new ones. That shift
A funny thing happened to Boeing’s stock last week when an excited President Donald Trump revealed that Boeing had a deal to sell 200 new airplanes to China. The stock went down on three of the next five days, only because investors were expecting an order for about 500 planes. Boeing fell as much as
Boeing (BA) just had one of its worst days in months, and one major bank thinks the panic created a bargain. Most of Wall Street zeroed in on a single number: 200. That was the size of the China jet order President Trump unveiled, according to Reuters, and traders had hoped for far more. The
NextEra Energy (NEE) just agreed to one of the largest energy acquisitions since Exxon bought Mobil in 1998. The market’s first reaction was not applause. Shares of the Florida utility giant fell sharply after it unveiled a roughly $67 billion all-stock deal to buy Virginia’s Dominion Energy (D) on May 18. The stock closed at