Sunday, 8 November 2026
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As measured by the iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF), the region is handily beating the S&P 500 year to date, up 15% compared to the S&P's 11% move. It's up more than 70% since late 2024.
With the debate about regulating artificial intelligence raging in Washington this week, President Donald Trump picked up the phone to call his top ally on the subject: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omens of apocalypse , it is still worth asking if the entire AI-industrial complex is sailing towards a financia…
At the height of the summer, the mood was optimistic in the world’s financial capitals. Powered by the AI revolution , the US stock market had rallied to a fresh all-time high , as investors bet the multitrillion-dollar…
"We felt we were so close," Latour, who's head of Maison Louis Latour, told CNBC. "Just a bit more rain would have produced a fantastic harvest on both counts, but we had to settle for quality, and about half of a harve…
Cotton futures were down 79 to 103 points across the front months on Friday, as December was down 491 points on the week. Crude oil was back down $2.38 per barrel on the session, with the US dollar index down $0.040.
The dollar index (DXY00) today is down by -0.47%. The dollar today fell from a 1-week high and turned lower on today's US economic news that showed the Q1 core PCE price index revised lower and continuing unemployment c…
July ICE NY cocoa (CCN26) today is down -35 (-0.89%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN26) closed down -11 (-0.37%). Today's sell-off added to last Friday's -4.29% sell-off in NY cocoa and -3.63% sell-off in London coco…
December arabica coffee (KCZ26) closed up +4.00 (+1.45%) on Friday, and November ICE robusta coffee (RMX26) closed up +5 (+0.15%).
AI could hollow out jobs, reshape them gradually, create entirely new ones—or do all three at once. The case for starting to act now doesn’t depend on knowing which.
Journalists from MS NOW, CNN and Politico were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday, one day after President Donald Trump said he is banning the three outlets over their coverage of him.
Derek Tharp is an associate professor of finance at the University of Southern Maine, the founder of Conscious Capital and head of innovation at Income Lab. On October 5th, Professor Tharp published an editorial in the …
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed up by +0.17% on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down by -0.18%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +0.67%. December E-mini S&P futures (E…
Saudi Arabia issued alerts to its citizens early Saturday amid reports of explosions in the capital Riyadh, as Pakistan's foreign minister stressed to his Iranian counterpart the need for uninterrupted energy supplies a…
Zoe De La Paz shares a bedroom with a woman she met just a few months ago. She doesn't have a car and hitchhikes when she needs a ride into town. She occasionally wakes up at 3 a.m. to the siren-like sound of an elk bug…
Many federal student loan borrowers could see their monthly bills double or even triple in the coming weeks if they don't exit a now-defunct affordable repayment plan.
The question has echoed around dinner tables and family group texts in recent days as AI doomerism has hit a fever pitch. Former OpenAI and Anthropic researchers last week rocked the world by warning that AI could destr…
Russians began voting Friday in a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election set to extend President Vladimir Putin's 26-year grip on power, as the country's online voting system in Moscow came under a "very po…
Most Americans don’t realize they’re sitting on the biggest concentrated bet in the history of finance.
July ICE NY cocoa (CCN26) today is down -35 (-0.89%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN26) closed down -11 (-0.37%). Today's sell-off added to last Friday's -4.29% sell-off in NY cocoa and -3.63% sell-off in London coco…
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed up by +0.17% on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down by -0.18%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +0.67%. December E-mini S&P futures (E…
With the majority of teens logging in daily, more families are connecting issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and even self-harm to compulsive social media use. By filing a social media addiction lawsuit,…
Companies and governments are increasingly waking up to the fact that the future of warfare isn't just in the skies, but also on the ocean floor.
Google said on Friday that its Gemini model had hacked three other companies, the first time the search giant has disclosed that one of its models autonomously gained access to third-party computer systems without permi…