SpaceX shares surged 8% Monday after Morgan Stanley reiterated its $300 price target, calling the stock "cheap and getting cheaper."
Musk confirmed plans to rename ****** eX's AI unit to ****** eXSI, adopting Trump's preferred "super intelligence" term, with no timetable given.
The rally pushed Musk's estimated net worth above $1.03 trillion, exceeding Taiwan's entire annual GDP of $977 billion.
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Shares of ****** eX (NASDAQ:SPCX) rose sharply Monday after two developments. First, CEO Elon Musk said the company plans to rename its artificial intelligence unit. Then Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) repeated its price target on the stock. The last quote was $171.40 as of 6:42 PM ET on October 5, 2026, in after-hours trading. At that point the after-hours move stood at 0.18%, according to Pluang. That figure covers post-close trading only and does not show how the regular session went.

#Monday #plans

IonQ (IONQ) is a quantum computing company whose stock has been a favorite among speculative buyers and high-volatility traders, thanks to its high beta (3.30 over the last 60 months) and news-driven price action. It's not uncommon to see the stock swinging by double-digit percentages around news, earnings, partnership announcements, or sector sentiment shifts.
But today, we have a rare event.
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IonQ, the volatile quantum stock, is now sitting at 0% IV rank. That means options on IONQ are priced much cheaper than they have been historically, creating an opportunity to go long.

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On September 9, 2026, Casey's General Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:CASY) reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $5.68 billion, up 24.3% year over year, and earnings per share of $7.37, beating the $6.78 ******* yst consensus. Yet shares fell roughly 10-15% after same-store sales grew just 3.2%, below the 3.8% Wall Street had expected.
CEO Darren Rebelez described a "volatile" fuel environment during the quarter. Same-store fuel gallons sold declined 0.3% as elevated prices pushed customers toward fewer gallons per visit, more frequent trips, and cheaper fuel grades.
Fuel profitability more than offset softer gallon volumes. Fuel gross profit jumped 19.6% to $446.9 million as the fuel margin expanded to 47.8 cents per gallon from 41.0 cents a year earlier. It shows Casey's General Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:CASY)'s pricing discipline can protect profitability even when customers buy fewer gallons. Prepared food added another source of margin strength, with same-store sales rising 4.8% and margins expanding to 59.3% from 58.0%.
Strong earnings growth gives Casey's a solid start to fiscal 2027. EBITDA grew 17.1% to $485.1 million, while net income rose 27.1% to $273.7 million. It shows that Casey's can grow earnings despite softer same-store sales. The firm also delivered $5.68 billion of revenue, up 24% year over year and above the $5.56 billion ******* yst estimate. It gives investors evidence that the overall business remains capable of producing strong growth.
Casey's is expanding its store base and integrating Fikes. The business said the Fikes integration remains ahead of schedule and maintained its plan to open at least 120 stores in fiscal 2027 through construction and acquisitions. Ongoing unit growth can expand Casey's geographic reach, increase purchasing scale, and support long-term revenue growth even if mature-store sales remain uneven.

#fuel #revenue

On August 6, James Hardie Industries (NYSE:JHX) reported results for the quarter ended June 30 and beat its own numbers by enough to raise guidance just three months into the fiscal year. Net sales jumped 64% year over year to $1.475 billion, adjusted EBITDA climbed 79% to $422.1 million, and both figures came in ahead of what management had originally guided investors to expect. For a company that closed a transformative acquisition less than a year earlier, that kind of overshoot forces a reassessment of the growth story ahead.
The headline growth number is inflated by the AZEK Exteriors deal folded into the base, so the more telling figure is the 12% pro forma net sales growth, which also beat original guidance. Siding & Trim, the core fiber cement business, posted organic net sales growth of 20% as North American fiber cement volumes returned to growth for the first time in several quarters. CEO Aaron Erter tied that to share gains against vinyl and other competing materials, along with programs like ColorPlus and Expanded Statement drawing more of the higher-end repair and remodel market. Adjusted EBITDA margin in that segment expanded 140 basis points to 33.5%, powered by favorable pricing, cheaper raw materials, and continued savings from the company's Hardie Manufacturing Operating System even as freight costs rose.
Management also said cost synergies from the AZEK integration are running ahead of schedule and revenue synergies are on track, evidenced by newly expanded nationwide distribution partnerships with Boise Cascade and other regional distributors. In Deck, Rail & Accessories, sell-through accelerated every month of the quarter and outpaced shipments, pulling channel inventory back to normal levels and setting up a cleaner back half of the year. Free cash flow more than doubled to $254.2 million, and the company used the cash to pay down $400 million of senior unsecured notes.
Erter was careful to frame the beat as execution rather than a healthier market, telling investors the company is "not ***** uming a housing market improvement" for the rest of fiscal 2027. Part of the quarter's strength came from an easy comparison, since channel inventory was deliberately reduced a year earlier, and management said that benefit is expected to moderate as the year goes on. Deck, Rail & Accessories net sales actually fell 5% on a pro forma basis because the company intentionally cut production to work down channel inventory, leaving the segment with an operating loss of $3.3 million for the quarter.

#Growth #sales #management

Elon Musk is getting serious about putting artificial intelligence (AI) into orbit. The ***** eX (SPCX) CEO is reportedly confident the company can launch Nvidia (NVDA) powered AI systems into ***** e in 2027. ***** eX and Nvidia are working on a ***** e-optimized version of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, and Musk says the system should be lighter, denser, and cheaper than a traditional data-center rack. That matters because ***** eX is trying to turn orbital computing into a major business, while Nvidia could gain another market for its AI hardware.
The opportunity is much bigger than a headline. ***** eX could eventually sell computing capacity from satellites just as it sells broadband through Starlink. Meanwhile, Nvidia could supply the chips behind that infrastructure. Investors should still remember that this is an emerging business, and commercial scale is not expected immediately. Still, the plan gives both companies another way to capitalize on the AI spending boom.
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#NVIDIA #SpaceX #much #still

BTI yields 5.83% and beats MO on growth, trading at a cheaper forward P/E of 11 with EPS guidance of 5 to 8% versus Altria's 2.5 to 5.5%.
Altria wins on income reliability, having raised its dividend 60 times in 56 years with a 6.10% yield paid in dollars with zero currency risk.
BTI's Modern Oral segment surged 47% while Altria's nicotine pouch share fell 4 points and cigarette volumes dropped 10% in 2025.
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For a retirement-focused investor weighing high-yield tobacco names, the question is direct: British American Tobacco (NYSE:BTI) or Altria Group (NYSE:MO), which screens better for income investors right now? Both throw off cash, both trade at single-digit-to-low-teens forward earnings, and both are racing to replace shrinking combustible volumes with nicotine pouches, vapor, and heated tobacco. But when you line them up on the metrics that actually matter for a retiree cashing checks, one name comes out ahead.

#tobacco

Alphabet's (GOOGL) Search revenue grew 17% to $63B and Cloud surged 82% to $25B, even as GOOGL still trades at a market-level P/E of 15.
Alphabet's cloud is outpacing Azure's growth at a cheaper multiple than Microsoft (MSFT), while Meta (META) owns none of Alphabet's cloud, OS, or Waymo ***** ets.
Alphabet's $175B+ CapEx pushed free cash flow negative, but a $460B cloud backlog and 34% operating margin justify the infrastructure bet.
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I keep adding to my position in Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) because the loudest bear case, that AI would gut Google Search and hollow out the ad engine, keeps getting louder while the numbers keep going the other way. The skeptics said generative AI would strip clicks out of the funnel. Instead, AI is actively boosting the advertising business, and my cost basis has been rising alongside the buy ***** on.

#free

The 10-year Treasury yield hit 5% in September 2026, its highest since 2007, intensifying pressure on stock valuations.
Buffett's gravity rule reframes a 5% Treasury as a 20x earnings multiple, which is far cheaper than the 45x bonds carried at 2.15% in 2017.
Buffett warned that at 21% short rates in 1982, even stocks at 6x earnings looked unattractive against the risk-free alternative.
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Treasury yields have pushed to levels that force a conversation investors have not needed to have in years. The 10-year Treasury note traded at 5% on the morning of September 15, 2026, according to CNBC, and CNBC reported the 10-year yield rising to its highest level since 2007. On a settled basis, the daily 10-year series last printed 4.96% on September 11, 2026, the highest reading in the trailing year.

#treasury #highest

In some markets, it costs less to rent than to buy — by a lot. And it could be a great way to save a ton of money during your retirement years.
Mortgage and financial consultant Cody Schuiteboer of Best Interest Financial said many retirees never even consider renting as a serious option.
"There is an unshakeable mentality that buying is always the right choice, but the opposite is often true in retirement," he said. "If renting is actually cheaper in that market, renting lets retirees stretch their nest egg further."
MoneyLion ran the rent-versus-ownership numbers in the top retirement destinations along the East Coast and found the cities offering the greatest savings to renters. The homeownership numbers ****** umed a 10% down payment and a 6.53% interest rate, using average home price and rent numbers from Zillow.
Best of all, the following retirement hubs all have a total monthly expenditure cost under $4,000 according to BLS data, and adults over 65 make up at least 20% of the population.

#rent

Broadcom's AI revenue surged 221% year over year with a forward P/E of 19, making it cheaper than Nvidia despite a similar growth trajectory.
TSMC revenue rose 53% year over year at a forward P/E of 20, and Dell booked a record $61B in AI orders last quarter.
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On a recent Earn Your Leisure episode, hosts Troy Millings and Rashaad Bilal split openly on where the next dollar of AI value accrues. Millings argued for names outside the Magnificent 7 and made Broadcom's custom accelerator business the centerpiece of the case. Bilal countered that "you have to go with the people who are on the leaderboard," naming Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE:TSM), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), Micron (NASDAQ:MU), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and the Nasdaq 100.
I find Millings the more persuasive of the two. Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) posted AI semiconductor revenue of $16.7 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, up 221% year over year, and guided the fourth quarter to $21.7 billion, up 236%. On the earnings call, Hock Tan sketched a trajectory to roughly $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and $230 billion in fiscal 2028.

#NVIDIA #billion #enter

Sep. 14—The term sabermetrics was first coined by Bill James in 1980. It took quite a bit longer, however, for the idea to catch on with the baseball populace, but eventually acronyms like WAR, VORP and UZR caught on as a way to ****** yze the sport.
Analytics are equally as important these days in college basketball. It's why you hear Illinois coach Brad Underwood constantly referencing his team's adjusted offensive efficiency and offensive rebounding rate. Paid services like Synergy give coaching staffs an ****** ytical breakdown of their team to the finest detail.
Publicly available sites like , and , however, have broadened the usage and acceptance of a different way to follow and break down the sport. (KenPom and CBBAnalytics do have a subscription piece but are drastically cheaper than Synergy).
It's through those sites Illinois fans could track one of the most efficient offenses in the modern era during the 2025-26 season. The Illini eventually finished second in adjusted offensive efficiency behind Purdue last season. That particular metric was helped by the Illini not turning the ball over (eighth in turnover rate) and dominating the offensive glass (third in offensive rebounding rate).
One particular metric Illinois tracks is shot volume.

#like #rate #synergy

Apple trades at 37x earnings after a 45% one-year run; Microsoft sits at 27x and is up just 3% year to date, offering a cheaper AI entry point.
Apple's quarterly beat included tariff refunds worth 2 points of gross margin, making the underlying business performance thinner than headline numbers suggest.
Azure crossed $100B in annual revenue growing 43%, and Microsoft's $678B commercial backlog, which is up 84%, signals compounding enterprise AI earnings power into 2028.
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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) both closed the summer with blowout quarters.

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Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, recently partnered with Moov, a payments infrastructure provider, to bring stablecoin payments and settlements to more than 1,000 U.S. community banks and credit unions. By integrating Coinbase's digital ******* et infrastructure into Moov's payments platform, the two companies will enable those financial institutions to accept stablecoins without building their own blockchains.
Let's see how this partnership could help Coinbase, why everyone is talking about stablecoins right now, and how the upcoming vote on the CLARITY Act could impact those plans.
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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies pegged to a stable fiat currency, such as the U.S. dollar or the euro, and can be held without a bank account. Their payments can be settled 24/7, enabling faster, cheaper money transfers than fiat currencies. They can be deposited in third-party lending platforms and liquidity pools to earn higher yields than traditional bank accounts.
Stablecoins can also allow people in countries with hyperinflation to preserve their savings without buying the underlying fiat currencies. They can also be used to accelerate cross-border transfers by acting as a "bridge currency" between the two fiat currencies.

#signal #Coinbase

Oklo (NYSE: OKLO), a developer of microreactors for nuclear power plants, has been a divisive stock since its market debut. After going public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on May 10, 2024, Oklo started trading at $15.50 per share.
It soared to a record high of $174.14 on Oct. 14, 2025, but it now trades at about $43. Wall Street's average price target for the stock is about $75. Let's see why Oklo's stock went through so many wild swings -- and where I think it will actually end up by the end of 2026.
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Oklo's Aurora microreactor, which is much smaller than conventional nuclear reactors, only generates 1.5 MWe per unit. However, its modular design allows it to be deployed alongside additional reactors to generate up to 75 MWe per "Powerhouse" power plant. That's tiny compared to a conventional nuclear power plant, which typically generates at least 1,000 MWe, but Aurora's Powerhouse plants can be deployed on less land in remote, off-grid areas.
The Aurora also uses metallic uranium fuel pellets, which are denser, have higher thermal resistance, and are cheaper to produce than the uranium dioxide fuel pellets that power conventional reactors. By recycling its pellets in a closed loop, the Aurora can last for a decade without refueling. Conventional reactors are still refueled in stages every two years.

#conventional #reactors #signal

Every ETF.com fund page follows the same simple pattern: etf.com/[TICKER]. Want the Invesco QQQ Trust? Go to etf.com/QQQ. Want the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF? etf.com/VOO. Each page pulls together the fund's real-time market data, fundamentals, holdings, cost, and **** ysis into one place — so you don't have to hunt across a dozen websites to research a fund. Using QQQ as our example, here's what you'll find.
At the top of every fund page is the live quote — the fund's current price, daily change, and an intraday chart showing how it's moved through the trading day. Alongside it you get the essential trading data: previous close, opening price, volume, the day's range, the 52-week range, and real-time bid/ask prices and sizes. This is the information you need to actually place a trade intelligently — especially the bid/ask spread, which tells you how cheaply you can get in and out.
The Summary Data section gives you the fund's vital statistics in seconds: the issuer (who runs the fund), the inception date (how long it's existed), the expense ratio (what it costs you annually), the AUM (assets under management — a proxy for size and liquidity), the index tracked, the segment, and the fund's legal structure. For QQQ, this is where you'd instantly see it's an Invesco fund tracking the Nasdaq-100. These are the first things any investor should check before buying.
One of the most useful features is the Competing ETFs list. Rather than making you research alternatives on your own, the fund page shows you similar funds side by side — with their AUM and expense ratios — so you can immediately see whether a cheaper or larger competitor exists. On the QQQ page, for example, this is where you'd spot alternatives like QQQM. It turns a single-fund lookup into instant comparison shopping.
Right on the page, the built-in Compare ETFs tool lets you pit the fund against any other ticker — QQQ vs. VOO, QQQ vs. QQQM, whatever you choose — and see the differences in cost, holdings, and performance line by line. It's the fastest way to answer the question every ETF investor eventually asks: "Which of these two should I actually buy?"

#page #invesco #qqqm #real

HELSINKI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google will invest at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in artificial intelligence infrastructure in ‌Finland over the next two years, it said on ‌Wednesday, calling it the company's single largest investment in Europe.
Finland has become a magnet for data centres as companies including Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance seek to reduce energy costs and meet climate goals.
Its cold climate makes coping with the heat produced ‌by data centres cheaper ⁠and it also has large amounts of low-carbon electricity.
Alphabet this year increased its global investment ⁠to between $195 billion and $205 billion as it seeks to capture growing computing demand.
The investments in Finland will include data centres, electricity grid improvements and clean energy and battery projects driving services such ‌as Gemini, Search, Maps and YouTube, Google said in a statement.

#billion #finland #centres #climate

Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN) Chief Financial Officer Claire McDonough is stepping down at the end of October to join GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV) in the same role, Reuters reported on August 27, just as Rivian ramps up production of its cheaper R2 SUV amid fragile U.S. EV demand.
McDonough will formally take the GE Vernova CFO seat on January 1, 2027, succeeding the retiring Ken Parks. Rivian said her exit is "not the result of any disagreement" and that she is relocating to the East Coast to be closer to family. McDonough joined Rivian in January 2021, led the company through its $13.7 billion IPO later that year, and helped structure its $5.8 billion Volkswagen Group joint venture. Derek Mulvey, Rivian's vice president of finance, will serve as interim CFO starting October 30 while the company runs a search for a permanent replacement. The news lands as Rivian scales the R2, its $45,000-to-$58,000 SUV that began customer deliveries in June, with the stock trading near $17, down more than 75% from its IPO price.
Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN) keeps improving its business as it enters the next phase of its growth strategy. The company has started R2 deliveries, and management raised its annual delivery forecast last month as customers showed stronger interest in the lower-priced SUV. Rivian also continues to pursue profitability while growing its vehicle lineup. This is giving the company an opportunity to build a larger customer base through a more affordable model.
Rivian also has an experienced finance team that can maintain continuity after Claire McDonough's departure. McDonough will remain at Rivian through the end of October and help with the transition, while Vice President of Finance Derek Mulvey will take over as interim CFO. That arrangement gives Rivian time to search for a permanent replacement without forcing the company to manage an abrupt leadership gap during the R2 rollout.
GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV) gains a finance chief with experience in capital-intensive businesses, fundraising and cost management. McDonough helped Rivian take its business public, lead cost-cutting efforts and raise capital during its expansion. Those skills could benefit GE Vernova as the company expands its Power and Electrification businesses and manages rising demand for energy infrastructure.

#company #vernova #take #NASDAQ

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) raised the price of Apple TV in the U.S. to $14.99 a month from $12.99 and increased the individual Apple One bundle to $21.95 a month from $19.95, CNBC reported.
Apple TV launched in 2019 at $4.99 a month and has since added significant content, including the film "F1" and a fourth season of "Ted Lasso." The move follows a $1-a-month increase to Apple Music in July, which Apple attributed to licensing costs. Apple reported $30.7 billion in services revenue for its fiscal third quarter, up 12% year over year. The segment's gross margin fell more than a percentage point sequentially, which the company blamed on product mix and foreign exchange headwinds.
The higher price shows a genuinely larger content library, not just a margin grab. Apple TV launched with limited programming at $4.99 a month. It now includes award-winning originals like "Severance" and blockbuster films like "F1" and gives Apple a stronger case that the price increase tracks real value added rather than outpacing what subscribers get.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is raising prices in step with the rest of the industry, not standing out as an outlier. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Peacock have all raised their own prices recently, reducing the competitive and reputational risk that price-sensitive subscribers abandon Apple TV specifically for a cheaper alternative.
Services remains a genuine growth engine with real momentum behind it. Revenue in the segment grew 12% to $30.7 billion in the fiscal third quarter, and price increases across Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple One bundles all flow directly into that high-margin, recurring revenue line, reinforcing one of Apple's most valuable businesses beyond hardware sales.

#Margin #aapl #Services

Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk said ****** e Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) first AI satellites, powered exclusively by NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips, will launch in the fourth quarter of 2027 and reach "significant scale" in 2028, citing a post on X. Musk wrote "SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a ****** e-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year," describing the satellite data center as "significantly simpler, lower cost, denser, and lighter than a traditional rack."
The timeline has moved up twice since ****** eX's May IPO prospectus, which targeted "as early as 2028," and Musk's August 4 earnings call comments, which said launches would begin "next year." ****** eX COO Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC ahead of the IPO that the firm has already struck deals with Anthropic and Google to rent out orbital compute capacity.
The timeline is moving earlier, not later, which is unusual for a ****** e infrastructure project. ****** e Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) pulled its target forward from as early as 2028 in its IPO prospectus to a specific Q4 2027 date within a few months. The acceleration shows ****** eX believes development is progressing faster than previously expected and could bring orbital computing revenue online sooner than investors initially anticipated.
Real customers have already committed before ****** eX launches a single satellite. ****** eX President Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC that the company has struck deals with Anthropic and Google to rent orbital compute capacity. It shows that major AI companies already see potential value in the technology. Those early commitments could reduce demand risk if ****** eX delivers the planned capacity.
Wall Street sees a large long-term opportunity if the technology works as described. JPMorgan ****** yst Doug Anmuth projected ****** eX could pursue roughly 75 gigawatts of orbital compute by the end of 2031 at a significantly cheaper cost than could be done on Earth a scale that would make this a meaningful new revenue stream beyond ****** eX's existing launch and Starlink businesses.

#SpaceX #NASDAQ #already #compute

CNBC reported that The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ:GT) has extended the timeline for its "Goodyear Forward" turnaround plan after key financial targets went unmet.
CEO Mark Stewart told CNBC the company is trying to reach a 10% operating margin and generate meaningful cash flow, but debt remained above $7 billion at the end of the second quarter. Goodyear posted a $453 million net loss through the first half of the year against operating income of just $131 million, a 1.6% margin. The business has been hit by tariffs, elevated raw material costs, and expanding competition from cheaper Chinese tire imports. Capital expenditures, which ran roughly $2 billion combined in 2024 and 2025, are expected to fall to $725 million this year as the company prioritizes debt paydown and refinancing.
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The core business is still generating a positive operating margin even amid a large net loss. Operating income of $131 million over six months shows The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ:GT)'s core tire operations are not losing money at the operating level, suggesting the much larger net loss stems mainly from the cost of servicing its debt rather than the core business itself failing.
Management is showing real capital discipline and not just promises since cutting planned capital expenditures to $725 million this year from roughly $1 billion annually in 2024 and 2025 combined is a measurable step toward freeing up cash for debt reduction. Moreover, tangible customer-facing investments, like the new retail concept store Stewart showcased in Detroit.

#goodyear #tire

Americans have become value-driven when it comes to what goes into their shopping carts at grocery chains.
"Consumers aren't necessarily buying less. They're becoming more strategic. With 75% indicating that they're stressed about grocery bills (up from 73% last year), it makes sense that shoppers are looking for ways to maximize value from every trip," according to Algolia's The state of grocery shopping: inflation.
The survey showed that many consumers, but not a majority, have been willing to trade down.
Forty-two percent (42%) have switched to private labels to save money (up from 40% last year).
Thirty-six percent (36%) have traded their favorite brands for cheaper alternatives.

#grocery #consumers #value #year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Republicans in a dispute over campaign ad prices on Friday, clearing a legal roadblock to political parties getting cheaper TV ad time ahead of the midterm elections.
The justices halted for now a lower-court ruling in favor of Democratic candidates who argued that cheaper broadcast ads should be limited to candidates. One justice publicly dissented from the unsigned order. It's the latest election-related appeal to come before the high court ahead of the pivotal November contests.
The Trump administration supported the emergency appeal from GOP campaign arms.
The decision comes on the heels of a June Supreme Court ruling that removed limits on parties spending money in coordination with candidates. It was seen as a boon to the GOP because the national party has a sizable cash advantage, and access to cheaper ad rates could boost that edge.
Among Democrats, meanwhile, some individual candidates have sizable fundraising advantages over their Republican opponents.

#emergency

On August 26, JinkoSolar (NASDAQ:JKS) reported a quarter that looked rough on the surface but revealed a company quietly rebuilding itself underneath. Revenue fell 31.3% year over year to $1.82 billion, and the net loss widened to RMB 697.3 million from RMB 463.5 million in the prior quarter. Yet the same earnings call showed a business leaning harder into storage, high-efficiency manufacturing and a growing side portfolio of outside investments, all while its core panel business absorbs a brutal pricing environment.
Module shipments climbed 16.7% sequentially to 15,961 megawatts, and overseas markets made up more than 70% of first-half 2026 volume. Its Tiger Neo 3.0 line still commands roughly a $0.10 per watt premium over conventional panels, and the newer Tiger Neo 5.0 modules reached 25.91% mass-production efficiency with output topping 700 watts. JinkoSolar expects 40 gigawatts of TOPCon 3.0 capacity by year-end, built to clear the toughest efficiency tier under China's new national standard taking effect in January 2027, a rule under which underperforming products "will not be permitted for production or sales," according to CEO Du.
Energy storage is scaling too. Shipments hit 3.1 gigawatt-hours in the first half of 2026, a sharp increase from a year earlier, with 1.5 gigawatt-hours already recognized as revenue, including more than 1 gigawatt-hour in the second quarter alone. Beyond the core business, JinkoSolar's strategic investment arm now holds stakes in more than 40 companies spanning solar, storage and artificial intelligence, worth RMB 1.99 billion in fair value and generating RMB 490 million in first-half gains. That included a divestment of its LAPLACE Renewable Energy Technology stake for more than RMB 300 million in cash and a ***** ulative realized gain topping RMB 250 million, plus a sale of its U.S. subsidiary that brought in RMB 1.31 billion in cash. The board still declared a $1.50 per ADS dividend in June 2026.
The core problem is that panels are getting cheaper to sell and more expensive to make. Gross margin slid to 4.2% from 8.3% in the first quarter of 2026 as average selling prices dropped, while the cost of ramping up high-efficiency production stayed elevated. Operating loss margin widened to 11.6% from 4.8% a quarter earlier, and total operating expenses rose 21.3% sequentially to $287.3 million on higher expected credit losses. Cash on hand fell to $2.5 billion from $3.3 billion in a single quarter, and JinkoSolar cut its full-year shipment guidance to a range of 60 to 70 gigawatts.

#efficiency

Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) hasn't minted any new millionaires since its IPO in Nov. 2021. The EV maker went public at $78 per share, but it now trades at about $15. Its stock plummeted as it struggled to ramp up its production and racked up steep losses.
From 2023 to 2025, Rivian's total vehicle deliveries dropped from 50,122 to 42,247 as it struggled with supply chain bottlenecks, macro headwinds, and fierce competition. But could its newest vehicle -- the R2 SUV -- finally end that slowdown and drive its stock to deliver millionaire-making gains over the next few years?
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The R2 is significantly cheaper than Rivian's R1T pickup and R1S SUV. It expects its lower price tag to expand its total addressable market while boosting its per-vehicle gross margins, since the R2 costs less to manufacture than its higher-end predecessors.
Rivian expects its deliveries to soar to 65,000-67,000 vehicles this year, with the R2 accounting for about 20,000-25,000 of that total. If it achieves that goal, ***** ysts expect its revenue to surge 38% to $7.5 billion this year and 60% to $11.9 billion in 2027.

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The 10-year Treasury yield touched 4.80% on Tuesday, its highest level since January 2025. The 30-year sits at 5.28%, close to levels last seen in 2007.
Every framework that has dominated market commentary in recent weeks says equities should be buckling under that.
The S&P 500 – tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) – is up roughly 11% for the year and trades at 19.6 times forward earnings, which is cheaper than it was on June 30.
Something in that chain of reasoning is broken.
The reason is hiding in a place that gets less attention than bonds: corporate earnings.

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The cost of holding ETFs has fallen for years amid an intense fee war among issuers. Single-digit expense ratios are commonplace now, and in some cases even those look expensive, like the 0.09% charged by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), triple what some competitors charge for the same exposure.
All this is unequivocally great news for investors, but for ETF issuers, not so much. As expense ratios drop, so do the revenues those funds generate, and in most cases, there is little issuers can do about it. Failing to lower fees can lead to hefty outflows, as cost-conscious investors and fiduciary-bound advisors gravitate to cheaper funds.
Case in point: SPY has lost a lot of ****** ets over the years to the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) and the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), two cheaper funds tracking the same index. VOO has since grown into the largest ETF in the world, at more than $1 trillion in AUM.
Even in a price war, the victors take hits. The cheapest ETFs may gather the most ****** ets, but that is often more than offset by the decline in fees. On the list of the biggest ETF cash cows, only a handful of funds are ultra-cheap. Many more are expensive by ETF standards.
The table below lists the 20 ETFs with the highest implied revenue, an approximation of how much money a fund generates for its issuer, derived by multiplying ****** ets under management by the expense ratio.

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The robot revolution has a slightly awkward sales pitch: Cheaper labor for companies, cheaper products for consumers and, potentially, a pink slip for the person whose job just got cheaper than the machine doing it.
Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates is warning that the transition could move faster than society is ready for.
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GameStop stock climbed about 4% on Monday. The company paid $358.4 million in cash to stop a share count that could have continued to grow.
The payment freezes the deal at roughly 55.5 million new shares. That equals about 12% of GameStop's 448.7 million shares outstanding.
On August 3, GameStop agreed to swap $1.4 billion of zero-coupon convertible debt for stock. The company would hand over shares and pay nothing.
The catch sat in the pricing, as the share count depended on an average of GME's price over 35 trading days. A cheaper stock meant more shares.
Traders spotted the loop at once, and GME fell 12.25% that day to $19.06, down from $21.72 on July 31.

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As we approach the end of 2026, the S&P 500 index is hovering near an all-time high. However, there are still some attractive opportunities on the table, even in the red-hot artificial intelligence (AI) ***** e.
SentinelOne (NYSE: S) is a leading cybersecurity company that relies heavily on AI to deliver highly automated protection to its enterprise customers. Its stock has soared by 47% so far this year, but it's still much cheaper than its top competitors CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks.
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Uber (UBER) has been managing to pull off something rare in the AI era. It has kept its AI spending flat since April, even as usage inside the company has skyrocketed. Weekly requests to its AI agents have jumped more than nine times since February, yet the total bill hasn't followed. On a per-use basis, costs have fallen sharply. The cost of every thousand requests is down about 34% from its April peak, and a single session now costs 52% less than it did in June. Uber got there by routing simple tasks to cheaper AI models and saving the expensive ones for tougher jobs. It also caps how much each session can use and shows engineers what their AI use is costing in real time.
For investors, here's why all of this matters. Uber blew its entire 2026 AI budget in four months before tightening up. Its net margin slipped from 27% to 17.3% in a year, and the stock fell after its last earnings report as the market worried about those very margins. On top of it, Uber is about to spend over $10 billion on self-driving cars. So the company potentially saving significantly on costs is precisely what investors needed to hear. AI agents now account for more than 70% of Uber's code-change submissions, and engineers run over 30,000 agent tasks a day. Management says this lets it slow hiring while doubling the code each engineer produces.
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