The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by the Nevada Union Representative TSA Worker Jill DeJanovich, Former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, International Maritime Organization Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez, Corn & Soybean Far...
The news doesn’t stop when markets close. Hosts David Gura, Christina Ruffini and Lisa Mateo bring clarity, context and a bit of humor to the weekend’s biggest headlines, LIVE from New York. Joined by the Nevada Union Representative TSA Worker Jill DeJanovich, Former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, International Maritime Organization Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez, Corn & Soybean Farmer John Bartman, Senator Todd Young and Senator Elissa Slotkin and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Under George Bush Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt. (Source: Bloomberg)
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is continuing to shrink its workforce, like many of its peers in the tech industry. After laying off hundreds of employees earlier this week, a leaked document revealed the tech giant’s bizarre plan for several of its remaining staff as it shifts in a new ...
Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is continuing to shrink its workforce, like many of its peers in the tech industry. After laying off hundreds of employees earlier this week, a leaked document revealed the tech giant’s bizarre plan for several of its remaining staff as it shifts in a new ...
More than 3,000 No Kings events scheduled in cities and towns in third set of protests since Trump re-election What to know about the third No Kings protests happening in March Meanwhile, crowds have begun to gather in Washington DC: Although it’s still early in the day in the United States, Americans living abroad have already been out protesting for hours alongside their neighbors, including in ...
More than 3,000 No Kings events scheduled in cities and towns in third set of protests since Trump re-election What to know about the third No Kings protests happening in March Meanwhile, crowds have begun to gather in Washington DC: Although it’s still early in the day in the United States, Americans living abroad have already been out protesting for hours alongside their neighbors, including in France, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Greece. Continue reading...
Kanizphoto/iStock via Getty Images Wall Street ended the week lower as U.S.-Iran tensions stayed elevated, with officials warning the conflict could drag on, while Treasury yields climbed to multi-month highs. The Iran war has led to volatility in the U.S. government bond yields and interest rate expectations, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield...
Kanizphoto/iStock via Getty Images Wall Street ended the week lower as U.S.-Iran tensions stayed elevated, with officials warning the conflict could drag on, while Treasury yields climbed to multi-month highs. The Iran war has led to volatility in the U.S. government bond yields and interest rate expectations, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield (US10Y) closed the week at 4.44%, its highest close since July 17, 2025. "The bar for hikes is quite high, especially now that we're seeing some slowing of growth," Oksana Aronov, head of market strategy for alternative fixed income at JPMorgan Asset Management, told CNBC in an interview. Real estate stocks, generally impacted by the aforementioned two factors, dipped this week. The S&P 500 Real Estate Index Sector ( SP500-60 ) fell 0.73% to 255.19 points, while the accompanying State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLRE ) was down 1.43% to $40.01. The Dow Jones REIT Indx Equity REIT Total Return Index ( REIT:IND ) declined 0.76%, while the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index retreated 0.80%. Winners & Losers Among largecap stocks, CoStar Group ( CSGP ) led the weekly losers. The stock retreated 7.30% to close the week at $39.77. CoStar has seen a downtrend since its investor, D. E. Shaw, criticized the real estate services provider over reduced financial transparency resulting from a recent change in reporting structure. Gaming and Leisure Properties ( GLPI ) was the next on the list. The stock fell 4.58% to $43.93 amid a report that g aming wins on the Las Vegas Strip rose 0.9% in February to $696.3M on a year-over-year comparison. Telecom tower REITs Crown Castle ( CCI ) and American Tower ( AMT ) followed, retreating 4.58% and 4.11% to close the week at $78.59 and $169.52, respectively. Wells Fargo lowered its recommendation on CCI stock and reduced the price target, citing concerns over the company's organic growth. The growth lags competitors, making it di...
Yanleth Rivera The oil markets are bracing for further volatility after Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a missile launch toward Israel early Saturday, marking the Iran-backed militant group’s first involvement in the ongoing Middle East conflict. Crude oil prices have surged globally since U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran began on Feb. 28, with front-month Nymex crude for May deli...
Yanleth Rivera The oil markets are bracing for further volatility after Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a missile launch toward Israel early Saturday, marking the Iran-backed militant group’s first involvement in the ongoing Middle East conflict. Crude oil prices have surged globally since U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran began on Feb. 28, with front-month Nymex crude for May delivery ( CL1:COM ) and front-month Brent crude ( CO1:COM ) climbing more than 48% and 54%, respectively. If Houthis attack commercial vessels as they have done in the past, there could be disruption to global trade through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an alternative route for getting crude from Saudi Arabia to Asia amid Iran’s near stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Houthi Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said on the rebels' Al-Masirah satellite television station that they launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward what he described as “sensitive Israeli military sites” in southern Israel. Sirens went off around Beer Sheba and near Israel’s main nuclear research center as Iran. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants also fired on Israel overnight. If the Houthis increase attacks on commercial shipping, as they have in the past, it would further push up oil prices and destabilize “all of maritime security,” said Ahmed Nagi, a senior Yemen analyst at the International Crisis Group. “The impact would not be limited to the energy market.” Countries have scrambled for alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz. Bab el-Mandeb, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is crucial for vessels heading to the Suez Canal through the Red Sea and Saudi Arabia has been sending millions of barrels of crude oil a day through it because the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. About 12% of the world’s trade typically passes through Bab el-Mandeb and about 10% of global maritime trade—including 40% of container ship traffic — passes through the Suez Canal each year. Houthi rebels attacked ov...
Retiring in your mid-50s is tough to pull off, but if you do it, you'll be rewarded with years more free time to pursue your hobbies, travel the world, or spend time with family and friends. You'll need a lot of savings to get there, but it takes more than that. You also need the right strategy to get around the early withdrawal penalty on most retirement accounts. Otherwise, you'll pay the IRS 10...
Retiring in your mid-50s is tough to pull off, but if you do it, you'll be rewarded with years more free time to pursue your hobbies, travel the world, or spend time with family and friends. You'll need a lot of savings to get there, but it takes more than that. You also need the right strategy to get around the early withdrawal penalty on most retirement accounts. Otherwise, you'll pay the IRS 10% of every withdrawal you make under age 59 1/2. Fortunately, there is one type of retirement account that makes it easy to avoid that. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) looks like a damaged AI story, but that is exactly what makes this setup so compelling. With a stronger balance sheet, a surging backlog, and real government contracts, the upside could be meaningful if execution finally starts showing up in revenue. Stock prices used were the market prices of March 20, 2026. The video was published on March 26, 2026. Continue reading
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) looks like a damaged AI story, but that is exactly what makes this setup so compelling. With a stronger balance sheet, a surging backlog, and real government contracts, the upside could be meaningful if execution finally starts showing up in revenue. Stock prices used were the market prices of March 20, 2026. The video was published on March 26, 2026. Continue reading
Many people have tried AI tools and walked away unimpressed. I get it — many demos promise magic, but in practice, the results can feel underwhelming. That’s why I want to write this not as a futurist prediction, but from lived experience. Over the past six months, I turned my engineering organization AI-first. I’ve shared before about the system behind that transformation — how we built the workf...
Many people have tried AI tools and walked away unimpressed. I get it — many demos promise magic, but in practice, the results can feel underwhelming. That’s why I want to write this not as a futurist prediction, but from lived experience. Over the past six months, I turned my engineering organization AI-first. I’ve shared before about the system behind that transformation — how we built the workflows, the metrics, and the guardrails. Today, I want to zoom out from the mechanics and talk about what I’ve learned from that experience — about where our profession is heading when software development itself turns inside out. Before I do, a couple of numbers to illustrate the scale of change. Subjectively, it feels that we are moving twice as fast. Objectively, here’s how the throughput evolved. Our total engineering team headcount floated from 36 at the beginning of the year to 30. So you get ~170% throughput on ~80% headcount, which matches the subjective ~2x. Zooming in, I picked a couple of our senior engineers who started the year in a more traditional software engineering process and ended it in the AI-first way. [The dips correspond to vacations and off-sites]: Note that our PRs are tied to JIRA tickets, and the average scope of those tickets didn’t change much through the year, so it’s as good a proxy as the data can give us. Qualitatively, looking at the business value, I actually see even higher uplift. One reason is that, as we started last year, our quality assurance (QA) team couldn’t keep up with our engineers' velocity. As the company leader, I wasn’t happy with the quality of some of our early releases. As we progressed through the year, and tooled our AI workflows to include writing unit and end-to-end tests, our coverage improved, the number of bugs dropped, users became fans, and the business value of engineering work multiplied. From big design to rapid experimentation Before AI, we spent weeks perfecting user flows before writing code. It made sense ...