The Iran Abadan, left, a crude oil tanker owned by the National Iranian Tanker Company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Charles Crowell | Bloomberg | Getty Images The extreme spike in oil prices seen in local markets in the Middle East could give investors a glimpse into to where U.S. and Europe prices are headed…
Garrett Mauch spreads manure as fertilizer on fields at his family’s farm in Lamar, Colorado, on January 21, 2026. RJ Sangosti | The Denver Post Via Getty Images | Denver Post | Getty Images The Strait of Hormuz shutdown caused by the war in Iran is jacking up fertilizer prices, hitting farmers in their pocketbooks…
NFL teams use free agency in varying fashions. Some spend big on starting talent while others are content to let their top in-house free agents walk and play the compensatory draft pick game. Many clubs fall somewhere in between, or just prefer to wait until the later stages of free agency when the prices drop. …
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Figma’s downward slide this year, driven by concerns about artificial intelligence, intensified over the past two days after Google intoduced an AI-powered design product. On Tuesday, Google…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gestures during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California, U.S. March 17, 2026. Carlos Barria | Reuters Nvidia dominated the first era of AI — CEO Jensen Huang is making sure it owns the next one. He’s turning Nvidia from a chipmaker that’s helping to drive a market…
Pavlo Gonchar| SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A day after announcing that it will be shutting down Horizon Worlds for Quest virtual reality headsets, Meta has changed course. The company said Wednesday that the VR platform will remain available “for the foreseeable future.” “We have decided, just today in fact, that we will…
Get ready for the MLS 2027 “Sprint Season.” Major League Soccer will play a condensed three-month season before re-aligning its calendar to mirror European circuits such as England’s Premier League, Spain’s LaLiga, and Italy’s Serie A. The coming move to summer-to-spring schedule, which was approved last year, will require MLS — which has played winter…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks are falling for the second session in a row, as the S & P 500 makes a new low for 2026. The drawdown from the…
JPMorgan cut its official S & P 500 forecast as oil spikes amid the ongoing war in Iran. Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, the firm’s head of global markets strategy, now expects the S & P 500 will end the year at 7,200, instead of 7,500, which implies more than 8% upside from Wednesday’s close. The new target…
Workers roll up copper rods made from recycled copper at a metal melting facility in Yuexi County, central China’s Anhui Province, Friday, July 11, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images Prices for metals fell sharply across the board Thursday as investors worried about the impact rising oil prices due to the U.S.-Iran…
