A steady rebound in US equities driven by peak insanity in Korea (where the two chip stocks that account for most of the market surged and sent the Kospi soaring more than 8% overnight) faded after a report that Iran’s Supreme Leader issued a directive that the country’s near-weapons-grade u...
Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,The US economy’s curb appeal looks great. Consider that gasoline prices are nearly $5, crude oil is trading above $100, consumer sentiment is at historically low levels, and mortgage and other interest rates have remained relatively high...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One of Ukraine’s largest drone strikes on Russia killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and wounded a dozen others, local authorities said Sunday. Debris fell on Russia’s largest airport without causing damage.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy c...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT) today reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 of $171.8 million or $1.82 per diluted share, compared to $175.4 million or $1.69 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.Essent also an...
By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is not looking at imminent military action against Havana despite President Donald Trump’s repeated threats that “Cuba is next” and that American warships deployed in the Middle East for the Iran conflict could return...
The third in a series of five essays entitled the Abyss of Civilization. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”— Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940)
“The original affluent society was achieved not by the accumulat...
Afghan women and their children at Mazar Dara village after a 6-magnitude earthquake on August 31. More than 800 people have died and over 2,700 were injured in eastern Afghanistan from the quake and aftershocks. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/via Getty Images hide captiontoggle caption
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Investment firm Crescat Capital is sounding the alarm on the U.S. equity market, warning that “speculative complacency” has pushed valuations for top technology stocks to levels significantly higher than the 2000 dot-com bubble.The research advocates for a “great rotation” out of overvalu...
(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — We're revisiting Netflix (NFLX) today as the stock nears an inflection point. We wrote this name up for you guys 87 days ago and the stock has basically gone nowhere so fa...
