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In this podcast, Motley Fool contributors Tyler Crowe, Matt Frankel, and Lou Whiteman discuss: To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy . A full transcript is below. Continue reading
Angel Di Bilio United Airlines ( UAL ) struck an important tentative agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. If ratified by flight attendants The union did not provide full details about the deal but said it includes higher base pay, additional compensation for flight disruptions, new restrictions on overnight flight assignments, and other improvements for United's ( UAL ) 30,000 ...
Angel Di Bilio United Airlines ( UAL ) struck an important tentative agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. If ratified by flight attendants The union did not provide full details about the deal but said it includes higher base pay, additional compensation for flight disruptions, new restrictions on overnight flight assignments, and other improvements for United's ( UAL ) 30,000 flight attendants. The new agreement includes immediate raises upon ratification and top wage rates that reach $100 per hour by the end of the agreement, making United ( UAL ) flight attendants the best-paid in the industry. It also includes boarding pay, new pay for long gaps between flights, and a signing bonus for every flight attendant worth a total of $740M. The tentative agreement is subject to approval by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA's Master Executive Council, including all local presidents. If they approve, the tentative agreement will be put out for ratification by our flight attendants. If ratified, the new contract would become amendable after five years. The National Mediation Board was involved in helping the parties reach an agreement. Shares of United Airlines ( UAL ) have trailed the return of the Dow Jones US Airlines Index ( DJUSAR ) so far this year. More on United Airlines United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (UAL) Presents at JPMorgan Industrials Conference 2026 Transcript United Airlines: Rare Quality At A Peer-Group Discount United Airlines' 2026 Just Got Much More Cloudy United banks on premium customers with new fleet Airline stocks gain altitude on oil's reversal, reports of positive Iranian negotiations
Yahoo Finance Senior Producer John Hyland breaks down today's top moving stocks in this Market Minute.Oil and gas prices (CL=F, BZ=F) continue to climb as uncertainty in the Middle East persists. Treasury yields are rising (^TNX), and mortgage rates have hit a 6-month high. Amazon (AMZN) is holding a contest offering $1,000 prizes to delivery drivers who share why they love their job.
Yahoo Finance Senior Producer John Hyland breaks down today's top moving stocks in this Market Minute.Oil and gas prices (CL=F, BZ=F) continue to climb as uncertainty in the Middle East persists. Treasury yields are rising (^TNX), and mortgage rates have hit a 6-month high. Amazon (AMZN) is holding a contest offering $1,000 prizes to delivery drivers who share why they love their job.
Weather We talk sometimes around here about hedge funds getting into weather forecasting. Weather affects financial markets (notably commodities prices), and it is hard but not impossible to predict; it is a problem to which you can apply skill and technology. If you are very good at predicting the weather, one particularly lucrative place to put your skills to work is in commodities derivatives t...
Weather We talk sometimes around here about hedge funds getting into weather forecasting. Weather affects financial markets (notably commodities prices), and it is hard but not impossible to predict; it is a problem to which you can apply skill and technology. If you are very good at predicting the weather, one particularly lucrative place to put your skills to work is in commodities derivatives trading. I wrote about this last year : The nicest thing you can say about the financial industry is that it lavishly rewards correct understanding of the world. If you know a thing, and other people do not know it, financial markets provide an efficient and fairly general way to turn your knowledge into large amounts of money. … It seems to me that this creates nice incentive structures? … It is probably net good for the world that young people who are interested in rigorously understanding some specific domain know that they might get paid really well for that understanding. I still think that this is basically true, but one could have a slightly more cynical and Keynesian model. Something like: Financial markets reward, not correct understanding of underlying reality, but correct predictions of other people’s beliefs: Stocks go up because people believe that their future cash flows will be higher, not because the future cash flows will actually be higher. These things are related: Financial markets are smart and competitive, and the main reason that people believe stuff is that they have good reason to believe it. So getting really good at predicting underlying reality is broadly, if indirectly, useful for predicting beliefs and, thus, prices. But the overlap is not total. If you can choose between correctly predicting underlying reality and correctly predicting market perceptions, predicting market perceptions might be easier and more lucrative, and also more immediately lucrative. Bloomberg’s Joe Wertz has a story about predicting weather predictions : In Europe’s weath...
On this segment of Market Madness, NFJ Investment Group managing director and senior portfolio manager Burns McKinney names his preferred stock pick from each matchup: JPMorgan (JPM) vs. Netflix (NFLX), Amazon (AMZN) vs. Delta (DAL), McDonald's (MCD) vs. Nvidia (NVDA), and Nike (NKE) vs. Coinbase (COIN).
On this segment of Market Madness, NFJ Investment Group managing director and senior portfolio manager Burns McKinney names his preferred stock pick from each matchup: JPMorgan (JPM) vs. Netflix (NFLX), Amazon (AMZN) vs. Delta (DAL), McDonald's (MCD) vs. Nvidia (NVDA), and Nike (NKE) vs. Coinbase (COIN).
Big Tech’s growing trend of snapping up startup talent and technology without embarking on a formal takeover warrants further scrutiny, according to Teresa Ribera , the European Union ’s antitrust chief. Speaking to reporters at Bloomberg’s Washington bureau, Ribera said situations where powerful technology companies ink licensing deals and hire the bulk of a startup’s workforce could require more...
Big Tech’s growing trend of snapping up startup talent and technology without embarking on a formal takeover warrants further scrutiny, according to Teresa Ribera , the European Union ’s antitrust chief. Speaking to reporters at Bloomberg’s Washington bureau, Ribera said situations where powerful technology companies ink licensing deals and hire the bulk of a startup’s workforce could require more forceful measures to maintain competition in AI markets. “What we have started to assess is whether in certain cases we may need to update our capacity to adopt interim measures,” when reviewing those deals, Ribera said in response to a question about Nvidia Corp. ’s $20 billion licensing deal with artificial intelligence startup Groq , which has provoked concerns from Democratic lawmakers in the US. Interim measures are used in European regulatory probes to temporarily block potentially illegal conduct while a full investigation plays out. So-called acqui-hire and licensing deals are happening in “quickly moving sectors that require a deep understanding,” Ribera said. Interim measures would be used when there is “real risk that could not be solved by the time to adopt a decision.” Ribera added that it is important to work with enforcers around the world to combat the problem. A Spanish socialist, Ribera has been keen since entering office to hold Silicon Valley accountable to the bloc’s digital competition rules, and the practice of acqui-hires looks to be next on her hit-list along with a broader review of the artificial intelligence industry. Read More: Big Tech’s ‘Entire’ AI Operations Under EU Antitrust Scrutiny Earlier this week, she met with Google ’s Sundar Pichai , Meta Platforms Inc. ’s Mark Zuckerberg , and OpenAI’s Sam Altman . Ribera didn’t address the substance of her conversations with the companies but said she wanted to know “how they see the impact and challenges of the AI revolution and what it may mean for society and the economy.” The comments from Rib...
European parliament votes in favour of sending refused asylum seekers to offshore hubs, in ‘historic setback for refugee rights’ People with no right to stay in the EU could be detained for up to two years or sent to offshore centres described by experts as possible “human rights black holes” under plans voted for by the European parliament on Thursday. An alliance of mostly centre-right and far-r...
European parliament votes in favour of sending refused asylum seekers to offshore hubs, in ‘historic setback for refugee rights’ People with no right to stay in the EU could be detained for up to two years or sent to offshore centres described by experts as possible “human rights black holes” under plans voted for by the European parliament on Thursday. An alliance of mostly centre-right and far-right lawmakers voted for a proposal to increase returns of undocumented migrants to their home countries, in a further sign of strain on the grand coalition of centrist political forces that has traditionally driven EU lawmaking. Continue reading...
Some attributed the jump in Best Buy’s stock to the prospect of a takeover by GameStop, but the analyst who wrote the note that started that speculation says otherwise.
Some attributed the jump in Best Buy’s stock to the prospect of a takeover by GameStop, but the analyst who wrote the note that started that speculation says otherwise.
Rasi Bhadramani Dan Greenhaus, managing director and chief strategist at Solus Alternative Asset Management, warned that Brent crude ( CO1:COM ) reaching $130 or $140 per barrel “is not impossible” given current geopolitical tensions. In an interview with CNBC, Greenhaus suggested that the situation could escalate as early as the coming weekend if ongoing negotiations fail. The strategist argued t...
Rasi Bhadramani Dan Greenhaus, managing director and chief strategist at Solus Alternative Asset Management, warned that Brent crude ( CO1:COM ) reaching $130 or $140 per barrel “is not impossible” given current geopolitical tensions. In an interview with CNBC, Greenhaus suggested that the situation could escalate as early as the coming weekend if ongoing negotiations fail. The strategist argued that investors are underestimating the potential severity of supply disruptions. “The market is a little complacent here because the downside risks are enormous,” Greenhaus said, noting that if routes through the Strait of Hormuz are restricted, approximately 15M barrels of oil could be missing from the global market daily. Greenhaus acknowledged the difficulty of navigating markets during periods of heightened geopolitical uncertainty. “As investors, you’re sort of left here with exogenous factors that are completely and totally out of your control,” he explained. “And so, trading around this becomes almost impossible. And as the saying goes, sometimes the best thing to do is nothing.” The strategist placed current conditions in historical context, noting that a generation of investors has grown accustomed to rapid market recoveries following crises. “For the last twenty years, we’re only higher three, four, five months later,” Greenhaus observed, referencing events from Ebola to COVID-19. However, he cautioned that “the downside risks are obviously quite high” despite understandable investor optimism. Oil ETFs: ( USO ), ( UCO ), ( DBO ), ( OILK ), and ( USL ). More on Brent Futures Gas Prices Up More Than $1 In March There Is No De-Escalation Why U.S. Energy Stocks And Gold Could Win Big Trump says Iran’s gift was the passage of 10 oil boats through Hormuz Trump says oil, stocks haven't moved as sharply as he expected
Ugly 7Y Auction Has Lowest Bid To Cover Since September, Biggest Tail Since 2024 After two "terrible" coupon auctions earlier this week, moments ago the Treasury concluded the week's final auction when it sold $44 billion in 7 Year paper. It may not have been quite as terrible as the previous two, but it wasn't much stronger either. Starting at the top, the auction stopped with a high yield of 4.2...
Ugly 7Y Auction Has Lowest Bid To Cover Since September, Biggest Tail Since 2024 After two "terrible" coupon auctions earlier this week, moments ago the Treasury concluded the week's final auction when it sold $44 billion in 7 Year paper. It may not have been quite as terrible as the previous two, but it wasn't much stronger either. Starting at the top, the auction stopped with a high yield of 4.255%, up sharply from 3.790% in February and the highest since Jan 2025. It also tailed the When Issued 4.247% by 0.8bps, the biggest tail since August 2024. The bid to cover was 2.432, down from 2.498 last month and the lowest since Sept 2025. Internals were also ugly as Indirects were awarded just 62.56%, down from 63.57% and the lowest since December 2025. And with Directs dipping (but not as much as the 2Y auction earlier this week which saw a collapse) from 26.01% to 25.03%, Dealers rose to 12.41%, the highest since last November. Overall, this was another very ugly auction and while foreign demand wasn't catastrophic it certainly was on the light side, suggesting that in addition to liquidating other hard assets, foreign buyers are becoming cautious with putting more money to funding the US deficit. Tyler Durden Thu, 03/26/2026 - 13:20
"Don't Be Evil": Google's Motto Becomes A Jury Verdict In California Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org , Google once had a motto: “Don’t be evil.” In its reorganization in 2015, the motto was changed to “Do the right thing.” According to a California jury this week, neither motto stuck. In a historic verdict against both Google and Meta , a jury found that the companies maliciousl...
"Don't Be Evil": Google's Motto Becomes A Jury Verdict In California Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org , Google once had a motto: “Don’t be evil.” In its reorganization in 2015, the motto was changed to “Do the right thing.” According to a California jury this week, neither motto stuck. In a historic verdict against both Google and Meta , a jury found that the companies maliciously designed their social media products to addict children , including the plaintiff, who was known only as Kaley or KGM. The jury heard testimony of efforts to “target” young users and feed an addiction to social media and YouTube. The jury awarded Kaley $3 million in compensatory damages divided between Meta (70%) and Google (30%). It then awarded another $3 million in punitive damages. Those damages are nothing to companies worth billions. However, the verdict was like a dinner gong for plaintiffs lawyers . There are already thousands of cases filed against social media companies. That wave is about to become a tsunami. That is particularly the case after companies like TikTok and Snap settled before trial. In addition to this civil verdict, the New Mexico Attorney General secured a $375 million verdict the same week against Meta under the state’s consumer protection laws. But it will be a very long time before these companies cut a check. The California case is rife with compelling appellate issues that will take years to work out. Indeed, what makes this case so intriguing — and even more tempting for plaintiffs’ lawyers — is that it was actually not the strongest case. The 17-year-old in California started using social media at age 6. Kaley had a troubled childhood with problems at home and bullying at school. She experienced depression, anxiety, and body dysmorphia that could be linked to other aspects of her life. Her use of social media was extreme: all-consuming and all-day. Meta argued that it does prohibit users under 13 from using any of its platforms. YouTube o...
Christian Democrat Päivi Räsänen, who was fined €1,800, was supported by conservative US group Alliance Defending Freedom A Finnish member of parliament has been found guilty by the supreme court of inciting hatred after claiming that homosexuality is a “developmental disorder”, in a conviction that prompted criticism from far-right government ministers. Päivi Räsänen, of the Christian Democrats, ...
Christian Democrat Päivi Räsänen, who was fined €1,800, was supported by conservative US group Alliance Defending Freedom A Finnish member of parliament has been found guilty by the supreme court of inciting hatred after claiming that homosexuality is a “developmental disorder”, in a conviction that prompted criticism from far-right government ministers. Päivi Räsänen, of the Christian Democrats, made the claims in a pamphlet first published in 2004 and reproduced on the website of the Luther Foundation Finland and the Finnish Evangelical Mission Diocese in 2007. Continue reading...
Donald Trump insists Iran is still interested in cutting a peace deal despite Tehran rejecting the US plan. Iran has now put forward a five-point counterproposal and says the war will end on its own terms. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Julian Borger Continue reading...
Donald Trump insists Iran is still interested in cutting a peace deal despite Tehran rejecting the US plan. Iran has now put forward a five-point counterproposal and says the war will end on its own terms. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Julian Borger Continue reading...
Summary: Tesla shares have declined in recent months, yet Elon Musk’s overall net worth continues to rise due to gains in other assets. The primary driver of this growth is SpaceX, where Musk owns a substantial 43% stake, which just this last week announced it had launched its 10,000th satellite into low-earth orbit. Musk also ... How Rich Is Elon Musk Without Tesla (TSLA)?
Summary: Tesla shares have declined in recent months, yet Elon Musk’s overall net worth continues to rise due to gains in other assets. The primary driver of this growth is SpaceX, where Musk owns a substantial 43% stake, which just this last week announced it had launched its 10,000th satellite into low-earth orbit. Musk also ... How Rich Is Elon Musk Without Tesla (TSLA)?