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The central bank may be transforming from Wall Street's foundation to a liability before our eyes.
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Stocks looked set to fall on Friday as investors fretted about soaring Treasury yields and President Donald Trump’s summit with China's leader Xi Jinping concluded without any meaningful breakthrough on trade. “For some time, analysts have been puzzled by equity markets’ resilience in the face of rising bond yields and clear inflationary pressures,” said Kathleen Brooks, research director at the foreign-exchange brokerage XTB. “Today we may see the pressure of rising bond yields start to weigh on equities, and futures prices suggest that U.S. indices will pull back from record highs later today and could close the week on a dampener.”
ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) and Accenture launched a forward-deployed engineering program to embed AI-native teams directly into client environments. The program focuses on moving agentic AI and workflow automation projects from pilots into full production at enterprise scale. ServiceNow expanded its partnership with FedEx Dataworks, integrating real-time logistics data into Source-to-Pay workflows. The FedEx Dataworks integration targets automated responses to supply disruptions and more...
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Asian shares dived on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs and rising bets
Enphase Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH) is one of the 10 Stocks With Unbelievable Gains. Enphase Energy rallied for a second day on Thursday, soaring 14.31 percent to close at $48.01 apiece, as investors cheered a new marketing strategy to lure more commercial customers for its most powerful microinverter to date before the looming deadline of federal […]
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Asian shares came under pressure on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs
Wells Fargo made a significant call on interest rates six weeks ago. On May 13, its economists made a different one. And the reasoning behind the reversal says something important about how this bank reads the current inflation environment. The disagreement between Wells Fargo and two other major ...

<body><p>STORY: Tesla's robotaxi service is experiencing significant operational problems in Texas, raising questions about CEO Elon Musk’s ambitious vision for a near future full of driverless cars.</p><p>Reuters testing in Dallas, Houston and Austin found long wait times exceeding 30 minutes, limited availability and navigation problems.</p><p>In one case, a 20‑minute trip in Dallas stretched to nearly two hours.</p><p>The service remains confined to those three Texas cities despite Musk predicting last July that robotaxis would serve half the U.S. population by the end of 2025. </p><p>Much of Tesla’s $1.6 trillion valuation hinges on investor belief that the company will soon unleash a vast fleet of robotaxis.</p><p>But analysts say the expansion is moving slower than expected, with Musk now describing a more “cautious approach” to avoid injuries or fatalities.</p><p>In the meantime, experts have raised concerns about the technology's limits, including Peter Stone, a computer science professor at the University of Texas at Austin.</p><p>“People, at least so far, tend to be much better at unexpected situations and being able to reason about something that you've never seen before. But to be able to figure out on the fly what to do, especially if you're using a machine learning-based system, it relies critically on the training data that's been given. And if you come up with a completely, what's known as out of distribution, which is sort of a code word for just new or novel situation, then it's going to be much more difficult for a software-based system to react than people are.” </p><p>Police in Austin said Tesla's robotaxis tend to ignore posted speed limits, noting that vehicles in test rides last year drove 5 mph above the speed limit. </p><p>Since August, Tesla has reported 15 robotaxi crashes in Austin to federal regulators.</p><p>Most did not involve injuries, but one involved someone being sent to the hospital.</p><p>Tesla has requested that all information about the incidents be kept confidential, according to police.</p><p>Tesla did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.</p></body>
Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton takes a look at the top stories for investors to watch on Friday, May 15, including Cerebras' (CBRS) second trading day, day two of President Trump's summit in China with President Xi, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's last day in office.
Rising oil prices are lifting inflation indicators and weighing on bond prices. Sentiment in the U.S. government bond market is bearish, which could explain why the odds favor the upside.
NVIDIA and Howmet Aerospace are drawing strong Q2 inflows as sticky inflation and geopolitical tensions reshape investor priorities.
After a long and controversial process, the U.S. Senate approved Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve.
We got a hot April Consumer Price Index (CPI) number, driven in a big way by energy costs, but even core CPI was surprisingly high, driven by a jump in shelter costs for the first time in a while. The April Producer Price Index (PPI) was even further above estimates. On May 12th, the ...
WASHINGTON, May 14 () - The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it has approved Verizon's 2024 $1 billion deal to acquire some spectrum assets from U. Cellular to expand its network capacity and coverage.
Rising Treasury yields are starting to challenge the stock market’s AI-fueled rally, as investors grapple with persistent inflation, surging government borrowing, and elevated oil prices.
First, there was the TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out) amid rising tariff fears in the months and quarters that followed Liberation Day. These days, there’s growing chatter about the so-called NACHO (Not a Chance Hormuz Opens) trade, which suggests the much-anticipated reopening of the Strait of Hormuz might not happen anytime soon. Indeed, reopening ... Could the Trump NACHO Trade Send Energy Stocks Through the Roof?
Investing.com -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday he anticipates price pressures will ease soon despite universally negative recent inflation data, predicting one or two more "hot inflation numbers, but then I think we're going to see substantial disinflation."
Why Bank of America (BAC) is back in focus after the Fed’s latest signal The Federal Reserve’s signal that rate cuts are off the table for 2026, and Bank of America (BAC) pushing its own cut expectations to late 2026 or 2027, has quickly put the stock under the microscope. For you as an investor, the key questions are how a longer stretch of higher rates might affect Bank of America’s net interest income guidance, loan growth, and valuation, especially after the stock’s decline over the past...
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) was one of the stocks on which Jim Cramer shared his take, explaining that dot-com analogies do not hold up in this market. Cramer noted that the stock performs well during a rate cut and vice versa, as he remarked: Okay, so let’s go to retail. Consider Home Depot… This […]
FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) was among the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar as he highlighted the importance of lower interest rates in sustaining the broader market rally. Cramer showed a bullish sentiment toward it, as he remarked: As America turns 250, we’re spotlighting the companies and infrastructure powering the next chapter of growth. And that brings […]
The long-term case for Costco rests on the fact that its membership model strengthens when inflation squeezes household budgets, and the data entering mid-2026 says that squeeze is back. Costco (NASDAQ:COST) closed Q2 FY2026 with 82.1 million paid memberships and an 89.7% worldwide renewal rate, a figure so stable across quarters it functions more like ... Inflation Just Hit 3.8% and Nine Out of Ten Costco Members Re-Up Every Year. Here Is Why That Math Matters.
AA shares surge 91% in six months as higher aluminum prices, tariff support and stronger demand boosted sales growth.
The Roundhill Memory ETF (CBOE:DRAM) launched on April 2, 2026 as the first U.S.-listed fund built entirely around memory chip makers, and it has already returned 85% since inception. For a retiree screening DRAM as an inflation hedge or AI-themed growth sleeve, that headline number is the wrong place to start. DRAM is a concentrated, ... DRAM ETF’s 85% Surge Masks a Dangerous Bet: Why This Memory Play Doesn’t Belong in Retirement Portfolios
A trial that may shape the future of OpenAI enters its final stages on Thursday, as lawyers for Elon Musk try to convince a jury to hold the ChatGPT maker's leaders responsible for transforming the nonprofit into a vehicle to enrich themselves. Closing arguments are scheduled in the Oakland, California, federal court in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk is suing OpenAI and Altman for breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment, accusing them of "stealing a charity" by straying from OpenAI's founding mission to build safe AI that would benefit humanity.
Markets look resilient, but geopolitical and inflation risks still linger. Volatility ETFs could help investors hedge against potential downside risks.