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The world consumes roughly 100 million barrels of oil every day. For the past several months, a significant portion of that supply has simply not been produced. The gap is not closing. And one of the most senior executives in global energy just said ...

Warren Buffett has always said his favorite holding period is forever. His deepening commitment to Japan's trading houses is starting to look like exactly that. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) (BRK.A) quietly crossed the 10% ownership threshold in two ...

Fried chicken restaurants were the most popular subsector of the fast-food industry in 2025 as traffic to chicken dining establishments rose by 3% for the year ending September 2025. Traffic to all other fast-food concepts dropped by 1% compared to ...

When Americans look to save money, cutting down on restaurant dining tends to be one of the first cuts. It's easier to replace a meal at a restaurant with eating at home, than making the decision to cut a streaming service, downgrade your car, or ...

Harley-Davidson's new CEO wants to transform how people think about the iconic motorcycle brand, so the company is trying something different. This week, Harley announced a new strategy that focuses on lower-priced bikes, rather than relying on older ...

The surprisingly stable April jobs report just made incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's cues from the White House to slash interest rates next month a good deal more difficult to execute. Despite rising energy costs fueled by the Iran War, U ...

Rate cuts? Rate hikes? Another pause? Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said all these options over interest-rate policy are on the table at the central bank right now. "I don't see how you can look at the current situation ...

Nvidia (NVDA) is a semiconductor giant and artificial intelligence king. It makes GPUs, CPUs, AI inference accelerators, and networking solutions (which are becoming increasingly more important). The company divides its revenue sources into five end ...

It would be more than fair to say that a lot of Americans are feeling financially squeezed these days. Inflation rose 3.3% annually in March in the wake of the Iran conflict, according to the Consumer Price Index. And while fuel oil, which rose 44.2%

Gas prices above $4 a gallon tend to reshape spending priorities, and millions of Americans are reworking their budgets as a result. The consumer price index jumped to 3.3% year over year in March 2026, nearly a full percentage point above the ...