Walmart (WMT) stock fell nearly 6% before Thursday’s opening bell, a drop worth roughly $50 billion in market value. A rare sales miss revealed the retailer’s slowest US growth in six years.Markets tr

Anthropic expects its stock market debut to match or beat the largest listing in history, according to people familiar with the matter. The bar is SpaceX, and it sits at $85.7 billion.The Claude devel

Strategy, the company once called MicroStrategy (MSTR), rose 6.9% to $111.14 on Thursday afternoon. That is its best price since June 18, which wipes out a two-month slide.The stock market has forgive

Bill Dudley, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, says the US stock market is in bubble territory, pointing to stretched valuations and a slowing artificial intelligence (AI) in

Eli Lilly is one of the most popular names today in America’s weight-loss and diabetes drug market. Its drugs delivered an average weight loss of 28.3% in a Phase 3 trial, approaching results historic

Brent crude broke above $90 a barrel and rose 2.7% on Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman if the country interferes with talks over the Strait of Hormuz.The remarks landed as a

Peter Schiff picked the 55th anniversary of America’s break with gold to make a blunt case. The 1971 decision, he argues, is why the dollar is in trouble today.Schiff is a founding member of Euro Paci

Fed rate hike fears collapsed on Wednesday after July inflation cooled to 3.4%. Gold climbed, crypto bounced, and a closely watched Bitcoin (BTC) bottom signal started flashing.One piece is still miss

Peter Schiff wants investors out of Bitcoin (BTC) and Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy, MSTR) stock as gold pushes past $4,400 an ounce. The longtime gold bull says money is rotating back toward hard

Silver has crashed about 50% from its January record, yet First Majestic Silver (AG) just posted record revenue, record cash and a bigger dividend. A five-star analyst thinks the stock is worth far mo

Kinetics Internet Portfolio, a mutual fund with $248 million in assets, disclosed a direct equity stake in Ripple Labs itself rather than in XRP, according to a newly filed SEC report.The distinction

Bitcoin (BTC) is rallying again, and VanEck’s Matthew Sigel says it is finally acting like the hedge it was built to be.Sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, ties the move to fears over US

The US Treasury said Wednesday it will at least double the size of its long-end debt buybacks. The 30-year yield reversed sharply from a 19-year high, and Bitcoin climbed past $65,000.The larger opera

Bitcoin (BTC) jumped 5.8% to levels above $69,500 on Wednesday, wiping out $1.23 billion in bets against it in one hour. Is the crypto bull market back?The rally ran market-wide, with Ethereum (ETH) u

Bitcoin functions as a genuine cheat code for retiring without ever selling, according to analyst and entrepreneur Mark Moss, who laid out that thesis in a recent Coin Stories podcast interview.His ce

Elon Musk offered a blunt reaction to the AI safety debate early Sunday. He wrote that he hopes AI is nice to us, echoing a stark warning from investor Naval Ravikant.The post landed just a minute aft

Bank of America (BofA) economist Aditya Bhave is holding firm on his forecast for three Federal Reserve rate hikes this year, even after July’s inflation report matched Wall Street’s expectations.The

One number lands Wednesday morning, and Wall Street cannot agree on what comes next. The July CPI (consumer price index) will hit markets with September Federal Reserve (Fed) rate odds split down the

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), Blackstone (NYSE: BX), Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and KKR (NYSE: KKR) are lining up with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) for a giant new round of AI spending that could eventually reach $500 billion. According to the Financial Times, the collaboration is expected to...

Citadel Securities expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates on Wednesday. The firm’s case centers on a quarter-point increase, against a market consensus favoring a hold.Frank Flight, the f

Japan is losing three financial battles at once as its currency, bond, and debt defenses fail together. The yen has erased most of a rare US-backed rescue, and Bitcoin (BTC) traders are bracing for th

Eurizon SLJ Capital says the dollar has peaked against the yen after the joint US-Japan yen intervention. The firm sees the yen reaching 125 per dollar, a gain of more than 20% from today.The market i

For years, one number told traders where the Japanese yen (JPY) was heading. That number was the gap between US and Japanese interest rates. Apollo Global Management says it no longer works.Chief Econ

Japan slashed its growth forecast for the current fiscal year to 0.9% on Thursday, blaming surging crude oil prices and a weaker yen for squeezing the import-dependent economy.The downgrade exposes ho

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has reported its assessment of stablecoins based on specific variables, and has concluded that they do not function as money was originally intended. The institution has warned in its latest 2026 Annual Economic Report that dollar-pegged tokens are driving a new form of dollarization in emerging economies. The report...

The boldest S&P 500 forecast on Wall Street sees 9,000 by year-end, roughly 17% above where the index trades now. The fuel is the AI boom and a wall of idle cash.The warning is that the same AI trade

The S&P 500 closed down 0.52% on Monday while Bitcoin surged past $64,000, a sharp divergence just two days before the Federal Reserve releases its July meeting minutes.Markets are now in a holding pa

Three straight years of double-digit gains have not raised the odds of a Dow Jones Industrial Average pullback. That is the conclusion of MarketWatch contributor Mark Hulbert. The Dow’s historical bas

The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Thursday, lifted by a flat July producer price report. The reading further eased worries about a Federal Reserve rate hike next month.The benchmark index rose 0.

JPMorgan raised its year-end S&P 500 target to 8,000 on Monday, and research firm CFRA now sees 8,050. A new stock market risk is forming beneath the cheer, as investors abandon their downside hedges.

US CPI helped lift global markets this week, but sharp moves in oil and semiconductor stocks kept volatility elevated. Get the latest weekly market wrap, key drivers, major risks and what traders should watch next across stocks, commodities and currencies.