To rank America's Top States for Business in 2026, CNBC scored all 50 states on 138 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. The fundamentals of the study, now in its 20th year , remain the same: identifying the factors companies consider when making site selection decisions, and where states are focusing their economic development efforts to win jobs and business. Each category is weigh...
To rank America's Top States for Business in 2026, CNBC scored all 50 states on 138 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. The fundamentals of the study, now in its 20th year , remain the same: identifying the factors companies consider when making site selection decisions, and where states are focusing their economic development efforts to win jobs and business. Each category is weighted based on how frequently states use them as a selling point. The Top States categories have been largely consistent since our first study in 2007 , but we re-weight our categories annually to reflect market dynamics. The biggest change in 2026: Infrastructure is our top-weighted category, as companies pursue strategic locations close to transport hubs, top utilities, access to fresh water, and abundant energy to power things like advanced manufacturing and data centers . And they want it all without red tape . For the first time in 2026, we are factoring ease of permitting into our rankings. Economy, last year's top category as President Donald Trump's second-term agenda took shape, slips to second place, followed by Workforce. A national skills gap remains, but the job market has cooled and AI has boosted productivity. Under our methodology , states can earn a maximum of 2,500 points. The states with the most points are America's Top States for Business. America's Top States for Business 2026 Overall State Infra- structure Economy Workforce Quality of Life Cost of Doing Business Technolgy & Innovation Business Friendliness Access to Capital Education Cost of Living 1 Ohio 1 9 35 18 1 10 16 9 23 9 2 North Carolina 13 1 3 34 20 8 8 5 12 35 3 Virginia 2 23 10 7 26 6 11 10 5 15 4 Texas 12 2 1 49 5 3 23 2 32 30 5 Minnesota 7 8 27 4 31 14 16 21 10 22 6 Michigan 9 24 21 15 4 17 27 13 29 11 7 Georgia 5 17 9 46 11 15 21 8 13 35 8 Florida 32 11 2 30 15 10 33 4 29 48 9 Tennessee 6 11 7 50 9 20 7 15 45 15 10 Indiana 4 27 32 48 2 16 10 20 25 6 11 Washington 16 5 6 12 47 4 40 11 37 4...
Telos ( TLS ) has received a contract award to support the U.S . Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS), the Air Force’s primary intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance planning, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination system. Under the contract, Telos will provide perpetual licenses for Xacta.ai™, along with support services and maintenance for its X...
Telos ( TLS ) has received a contract award to support the U.S . Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS), the Air Force’s primary intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance planning, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination system. Under the contract, Telos will provide perpetual licenses for Xacta.ai™, along with support services and maintenance for its Xacta® platform, including Xacta 360™ and Xacta.io™. The award further expands the Air Force's use of Telos' cyber governance, risk, and compliance solutions. More on Telos Telos Corporation 2026 Q1 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Telos Corporation Q1 Review: A Little Slowdown Expected Telos Corporation (TLS) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Telos forecasts Q2 revenue of $44M-$46M and adjusted EBITDA of $5M-$6M as it plans to accelerate share repurchases Telos Q1 2026 Earnings Preview
Kohl's, Chewy, and Wayfair have each captured retail trader attention for completely different reasons, and the gap between the most compelling setup and the riskiest bet is wider than it looks.
Kohl's, Chewy, and Wayfair have each captured retail trader attention for completely different reasons, and the gap between the most compelling setup and the riskiest bet is wider than it looks.
This morning a "Potential Dividend Run Alert" went out for Highland Opportunities and Income Fundhar (NYSE: HFRO), at our DividendChannel.com Dividend Alerts service (a free email alerts feature). Let's look at the situation in greater detail, shall we? First of all, what is a
This morning a "Potential Dividend Run Alert" went out for Highland Opportunities and Income Fundhar (NYSE: HFRO), at our DividendChannel.com Dividend Alerts service (a free email alerts feature). Let's look at the situation in greater detail, shall we? First of all, what is a
A Los Angeles grade school that requires applicants to have an IQ of 138 or higher is planning to sell $32 million of municipal bonds on Thursday. The Mirman School will use proceeds from the bond sale to buy land it leases from the founders’ children, acquire a seven-acre parcel next to its Mulholland Drive campus from Bel Air Church and refinance existing debt, according to bond documents. The r...
A Los Angeles grade school that requires applicants to have an IQ of 138 or higher is planning to sell $32 million of municipal bonds on Thursday. The Mirman School will use proceeds from the bond sale to buy land it leases from the founders’ children, acquire a seven-acre parcel next to its Mulholland Drive campus from Bel Air Church and refinance existing debt, according to bond documents. The real estate purchases will nearly double the school’s footprint creating an “unprecedented opportunity,” according to head of school Marina Kheel. “This land is a transformational acquisition for the Mirman community, enabling us to create a unified, state-of-the-art 14 acre campus,” she said in an emailed statement. Founded in 1962 by former public school teacher Norman Mirman and his wife Beverly in their living room, the school now enrolls about 430 students. Prominent alumni include Elon Musk ’s daughter Vivian Wilson, former Microsoft Corp. chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold , and the son of planetary scientist Carl Sagan, Nick, who is a science fiction writer. Tuition will be as high as $51,800 next year, with families paying about $5,000 more for bus service, according to the school’s website . Borrowing Wave The bonds will be issued through the California Enterprise Development Authority, and the deal is expected to price Thursday. The offering is part of a broader trend of schools taking on debt to upgrade or expand campuses as they compete to retain and attract students amid rising costs and a shrinking student pool tied to the declining birth rate. Independent private schools can sell tax-exempt debt because they are nonprofits. Pressure to maintain up-to-date campuses is especially acute as these schools charge parents close to $50,000 on average in tuition. The number of private schools borrowing in the municipal market has surged in recent years as banks pulled back from the business. Read more: Elite Prep Schools Unleash Debt Wave Sparked by 2023 Bank Cr...
Hong Kong taxi drivers will be able to identify streets with high rider demand using a big data prediction model powered by artificial intelligence (AI) as soon as mid-2027, according to a cab payment start-up and a university that developed the system. The StreetSights system is the result of a collaboration between Dash and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which said on Thursd...
Hong Kong taxi drivers will be able to identify streets with high rider demand using a big data prediction model powered by artificial intelligence (AI) as soon as mid-2027, according to a cab payment start-up and a university that developed the system. The StreetSights system is the result of a collaboration between Dash and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which said on Thursday that their interim research results were up to 90 per cent accurate in forecasting demand and...
Canada Just Admitted Justin Trudeau's Climate Agenda Was A Scam Authored by Andrew Moran via LibertyNation.com, Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Canada a lost decade. A key contributor to the country’s stagnation was the Liberal government’s obsession with climate change and its ushering in of green energy policies that were disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources. To make Canad...
Canada Just Admitted Justin Trudeau's Climate Agenda Was A Scam Authored by Andrew Moran via LibertyNation.com, Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Canada a lost decade. A key contributor to the country’s stagnation was the Liberal government’s obsession with climate change and its ushering in of green energy policies that were disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources. To make Canada great again, Prime Minister Mark Carney is abandoning climate alarmism and embracing what made the country wealthy in the first place: crude oil. Canada Loves Oil Again On June 30, the prime minister published a 17-minute YouTube video, focused exclusively on his predecessor's climate agenda. He used words like "expensive" and "divisive" to describe Trudeau's environmental endeavors. Carney essentially admitted that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives were right. For right-wing political pundits, this was a rare win for the incumbent. Indeed, in a bid to resuscitate the ailing Canadian economy, Carney is trying to make the country fall back in love with fossil fuels – and appease Alberta – despite years of climate doomerism. Ottawa announced earlier this month a new West Coast pipeline that will ship up to one million barrels of crude oil per day from Alberta to Asian markets . The federal government gave its blessing to a new west-east crude oil pipeline that will run from Alberta to Ontario. This comes as the Carney Liberals begin to expand liquefied natural gas exports, scrap the consumer carbon tax, and remove the cap on the oil and gas sector's pollution levels. Carney already accepted that Canada's emissions will be higher in the coming years, a fact that was inevitable. Various models currently indicate that the Great White North has been missing its emissions targets, even before the current government's reforms. Canada lags behind other G7 countries in emissions reductions, and even the United States is outperforming its northern neighbor. "The certainties of ...
Qatar is pausing efforts to rapidly revive production at the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facility after an attack on one of its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz raised fears that transit through the crucial waterway is still too risky. QatarEnergy officials held a series of meetings following the attack on Tuesday, with Chief Executive Officer Saad Al-Kaabi deciding to cease plans to incr...
Qatar is pausing efforts to rapidly revive production at the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facility after an attack on one of its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz raised fears that transit through the crucial waterway is still too risky. QatarEnergy officials held a series of meetings following the attack on Tuesday, with Chief Executive Officer Saad Al-Kaabi deciding to cease plans to increase output at the Ras Laffan complex, according to people familiar with the matter. Operations will be kept at a minimum for safety reasons and the number of vessels scheduled to dock at the plant in the coming days will be reduced, some of the people said, asking not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue. The pause is one of the most high-profile fallouts of the heightened tensions this week with attacks on a number of ships near Hormuz and the US striking Iran for two consecutive days. President Donald Trump on Wednesday even raised the prospect of a return to all-out war, a worst-case scenario for energy producers in the region who were gradually recovering from the impact of the conflict. QatarEnergy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Pushing back Ras Laffan’s ramp-up threatens to further tighten the global gas market, risking more intense competition between Asia and Europe for spare supply as they restock for the coming winter. Asian LNG spot prices are more than 80% higher than pre-war levels, highlighting anxiety surrounding the restart of Qatar — which supplied about a fifth of the world’s LNG last year. Since the US and Iran signed an interim peace deal in June, Qatar had been pushing ahead with plans to revive most of its LNG production within two months. It has been running some of Ras Laffan’s production trains at reduced capacity to be ready for a quickly ramp-up when the time was right, some of the people said. That’s likely to continue as the company still aims to boost exports as fast as possible following the safe open...
SpaceX‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) blockbuster public debut generated exactly the kind of excitement investors expected from Elon Musk’s latest venture. After pricing its IPO at $135 per share and opening at $150, the stock briefly climbed to $225 as demand overwhelmed supply. That early enthusiasm has cooled. The premier space stock closed yesterday at $148.30, below its ... Cathie Wood Just Bought $27 Milli...
SpaceX‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) blockbuster public debut generated exactly the kind of excitement investors expected from Elon Musk’s latest venture. After pricing its IPO at $135 per share and opening at $150, the stock briefly climbed to $225 as demand overwhelmed supply. That early enthusiasm has cooled. The premier space stock closed yesterday at $148.30, below its ... Cathie Wood Just Bought $27 Million of SpaceX. Calling the Bottom or Catching a Falling Knife?
股东权益律师事务所Kaskela Law LLC宣布，已代表Global Business Travel Group， Inc．（纽约证券交易所代码：GBTG）的股东展开调查，以确定公司以每股9.50美元现金进行私有化的交易是否公平，是否向投资者提供了足够的对价。 这项调查源于Amex GBT于2026年5月4日宣布的私有化协议。根据协议，由Long Lake Management Holding...
Investing.com -- A major AI team-up wasn’t enough to cushion the blow for Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ:RXT). Shares plummeted over 10% Thursday after the cloud operator severely dialed back its fiscal 2026 revenue projections, completely overshadowing a high-profile strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) announced earlier in the day. The San Antonio-based enterprise AI infr...
Investing.com -- A major AI team-up wasn’t enough to cushion the blow for Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ:RXT). Shares plummeted over 10% Thursday after the cloud operator severely dialed back its fiscal 2026 revenue projections, completely overshadowing a high-profile strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) announced earlier in the day. The San Antonio-based enterprise AI infrastructure provider aggressively trimmed its fiscal 2026 revenue guidance to a range of $2.45 billio