SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO Is Coming: These 6 Stocks Will Ride the New ***** e Economy Into Orbit

SpaceX confidentially filed for its IPO on April 1, and quickly raised its target valuation above $2 trillion. That would dwarf Saudi Aramco’s record $29.4 billion raise in 2019 and could bring in as much as $75 billion. Morgan Stanley just released a list of 60 public companies across the full ***** e supply chain — the ***** e 60 — that stand to capitalize on the opportunity, everything from raw materials to satellite services.
While all the names on that list stand to gain something from broa

Understanding The ‘Economy’ For All Of Us - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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The economy is everything we buy or sell and the services we use. It can be a pretty broad category and most of us struggle to understand what it all means.
The show Planet Money from NPR dives into those topics and attempts to make sense of it all. And now, the show has published a book called Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life, written by Alex Mayyasi.
WVPB News Director Eric Douglas spoke with Mayyasi and one of the sho

Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable after crypto's latest downward turn,...

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Bitcoin's Price Crash Hasn’t Stopped One Company From Adding to Its $47 Billion ...

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is what’s known as a bitcoin treasury company. Although their main area of focus used to be IT consulting services, the company pivoted to a focus on accumulating as much bitcoin as possible as quickly as possible in 2020. This is because the company’s executive chairman, Michael Saylor, sees bitcoin as the next global monetary base upon which a new financial system will blossom.
Currently, the company holds around $47 billion worth of bitcoin. And despite the recent price

Why CBRE (CBRE) International Revenue Trends Deserve Your Attention

Have you evaluated the performance of CBRE Group's (CBRE) international operations during the quarter that concluded in December 2025? Considering the extensive worldwide presence of this provider of real estate investment management services, ***** yzing the patterns in international revenues is crucial for understanding its financial resilience and potential for growth.
In the current global economy, which is more interconnected than ever, a company's success in penetrating international markets is crucial for its financ

Pound Mostly Steady After Weaker GDP

Preliminary British GDP for the fourth quarter was overall worse than expected and came against the backdrop of recent greater political intrigue in Britain. However, the pound didn’t show a clear ongoing direction against most major currencies in the aftermath. This article summarises the latest GDP data from Britain, then looks briefly at the charts of EURGBP and GBPJPY.
After quarterly growth of 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2025, it’d be fair to say that the British economy’s recent performance has been lacklustre:
The dominant sector, services, wa

This Dividend ETF You Haven't Heard of Is Springing to Life

Experienced dividend investors may know about the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index, which is a basket of S&P 500 member firms that have boosted payouts for a minimum of 25 straight years. That index is accessible in fund form, meaning that income seekers can efficiently tap into a basket of stocks with steadily rising payouts. (Dividend Aristocrats® is a registered trademark of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC.)
What many dividend investors may not know is that aristocracy isn't confined to the large-cap S&P 500. Some m

Death of woman at house treated as 'unexplained'

The death of a woman at a property in Leeds is being treated as "unexplained", police have said.
Emergency services were called to Primrose Hill Drive, in Swillington, shortly after 06:30 GMT on Saturday, following a concern for safety report.
West Yorkshire Police said a woman was treated at the scene by paramedics but died a short time later.
Her death is currently being treated as unexplained, a spokesperson for the force said, with inquiries continuing.
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Pediatricians' group breaks with CDC on childhood vaccine schedule

For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with a single voice when advising the nation’s families on when to vaccinate their children.
Since 1995, the two organizations worked together to publish a single vaccine schedule for parents and healthcare providers that clearly laid out which vaccines children should get and exactly when they should get them.
Today, that united front has fractured. This month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced

For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with a single voice when advising the nation’s families on when to vaccinate their children.
Since 1995, the two organizations have worked together to publish a single vaccine schedule for parents and healthcare providers that clearly laid out which vaccines children should get and exactly when they should get them.
Today, that united front has fractured. Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced drastic changes to the CDC’s vaccine schedule, slashing

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Bitcoin financial services company Fold Holdings will be added to the Russell 2000, a primary US small-cap benchmark index.
The announcement comes as MSCI considers excluding crypto-holding companies from its indexes, drawing significant industry attention.
Fold Holdings (NASDAQ: FLD) officially announced its inclusion in the Russell 2000 on December 22. The company describes itself as the first publicly traded Bitcoin financial services firm, with over 1,500 BTC in its treasury. Its product lineup includes the Fold App, Fold Bitcoin Gift Card, Fold Debit Card, and the upcoming Fold Bitcoin

Trump halts green card lottery that let suspect in Brown and MIT shootings into U.S.

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Vale

The Trump administration is ramping up its immigration crackdown in ways that could alter America’s economy for years to come.
In the wake of the deadly shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 28 — and the arrest of suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who worked with the CIA to battle the Taliban in his home country — director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joseph Edlow announced he would begin a “reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern” at Trump’s request (1).
The countries in question, which also

As inflation and interest rates rise, many Americans are trying to save more — but keeping too much cash in low-interest accounts could be quietly costing them.
Be Aware: Fidelity Says This Is a Surprising Risk of Holding Too Much Cash — Do You Have Too Much?
Read Next: 9 Low-Effort Ways To Make Passive Income (You Can Start This Week)
“Cash parked in low-yield savings or in low-yield checking accounts effectively erodes in real value,” said Gabe Krajieck, CEO of Kasasa, a financial services and tech provider for community banks and credit unions. “While the dollar amount remains static, th

Medicare premiums are set to increase for 2026, putting a dent in retirees' Social Security checks.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that 2026 monthly Part B premiums will climb to $202.90, an increase of $17.90 from $185 this year. And the annual Part B deductible, which most people must pay before their Medicare coverage begins, will rise by $26 in 2026, to $283 from $257 in 2025.
“That’s the second-highest Part B premium increase in program history,” Mary Johnson, a Social Security and Medicare policy **** yst, told Yahoo Finance.
It hits just as seniors are coming

Meta is under investigation in Italy for allegedly breaching EU rules by integrating its Meta AI **** istant into WhatsApp without user consent.
The country’s antitrust watchdog said it may impose interim measures on the US tech giant as it widened a probe into whether it abused its dominance by blocking rival AI chatbots from its messaging service WhatsApp.
The case underscores growing regulatory scrutiny of Big Tech’s push into generative AI, as platforms with massive user bases such as WhatsApp become key gateways for new services.
On Wednesday, the authority said it was widening an inve

3 major internet outages in a 1-month span: That's not a fluke, it's a bad sign

It’s not just you — internet outages severe enough to disrupt everyday services for many people have become more frequent and wide-ranging, experts say.
When internet services company Cloudflare crashed Tuesday — prompting significant, hourslong disruptions at companies ranging from X to OpenAI to Discord — it was the third major internet outage in the **** e of about a month.
While there’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around, two things are clear: Popular consumer businesses increasingly rely on a handful

Hackers stole a trove of data from a company used by major Wall Street banks for real-estate loans and mortgages, setting off a scramble to determine what was taken and which banks were affected, according to people familiar with the investigation and a statement from the firm.
New York-based SitusAMC, which boasts 1,500 clients, said Saturday night that account records and legal agreements related to some of its clients had been impacted in the hack.
“The incident is now contained and our services are fully operational,” SitusAMC said. “No encrypting malware was involved.”
The firm discove

HONG KONG (AP) — An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that once might have been found only in sci-fi films.
In nearby Shenzhen, food-delivery drones already are part of daily life and a novelty attraction for tourists, even if such services cost more. In the waterfront park surrounded by high-rises, Polish tourist Karolina Trzciańska and her friends ordered bubble tea and lemon tea by p

Senior citizens are facing a Medicare premium increase in 2026

Senior citizens are the latest group of Americans to face steep increases in their health insurance premiums for 2026.
Medicare Part B premiums will jump nearly 10% next year, the largest increase in four years and second-largest hike, in dollar terms, in the program’s history. The standard monthly premium will be $202.90, an increase of $17.90 from this year, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That will eat up nearly one-third of the $56 monthly Social Security cost-of-living adjustment that retirees

A Cloudflare outage disrupted major websites, including X and ChatGPT, for several hours on Tuesday.
Cloudflare apologized, with CTO Dane Knecht saying it had "failed" its customers.
The company said there was no evidence it was due to an attack or a malicious actor.
Parts of the internet went down again on Tuesday.
A network issue at web security business Cloudflare disrupted internet services and took down sites such as ChatGPT and X for many users for around three hours on Tuesday morning.

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TOKYO (AP) — ***** an’s economy sank at an annualized rate of 1.8% in the July-September period, government data showed Monday, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs sent the nation’s exports spiraling.
On a quarter-by-quarter basis, ***** an’s gross domestic product, or GDP, or the sum value of a nation’s goods and services, slipped 0.4%, in the first contraction in six quarters, the Cabinet Office said.
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When Nigel Morris tells you he’s worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in Mexico, he’s watching something that makes him deeply uncomfortable.
“To see that people are using [BNPL services] to buy something as basic and fundamental as groceries,” Morris told me on stage at Web Summit in Lisbon this week, “

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President Trump has tapped Paul Ingrassia, who withdrew his nomination for the Office of Special Counsel after racist remarks emerged, to become deputy general counsel of the General Services Administration.

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We just restarted some services, players may see 'Character not Found' messages temporarily as a result #WoW #BlizzCS

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