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At Least 27 Killed as Fire Rips Through Crowded Bangkok Music Bar, Thailand’s Deadliest Blaze in 17 Years
A fire tore through a crowded music bar in Bangkok late Sunday night, killing at least 27 people and critically injuring 25 more in what officials are calling Thailand’s deadliest blaze in nearly two decades. The disaster has reignited scrutiny…
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Wall Street’s Rare Double Print: Bank Earnings Collide With June CPI as Hormuz Tensions Reignite Oil Shock
Wall Street heads into Tuesday with two market-moving events landing within two hours of each other: June’s Consumer Price Index report at 8:30 a.m. ET and a wave of second-quarter bank earnings from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America,…
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Micron Raises U.S. Chip Investment to $250 Billion, Pours Concrete on Largest Fab in American History
Micron Technology is putting more money behind its bet that the artificial intelligence boom will keep driving demand for memory chips for years to come. The company announced this week it is raising its planned U.S. investment to more than…
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Oil Surges Past $79 as US and Iran Trade Strikes Over the Strait of Hormuz
Oil markets lurched again this week as the United States and Iran traded fresh strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries roughly a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil. Brent crude climbed above $79 a barrel…
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World Cup Semifinals Set an Unprecedented Bar: All Four Top-Ranked Teams Advance
For the first time in World Cup history, the tournament’s semifinal round will feature the top four ranked teams in the world exactly as FIFA’s rankings had them: France, Spain, England and Argentina. The dream bracket is now set after…
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Former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Architect of Modern Qatar, Dies at 74
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar whose 18-year rule transformed a small Gulf peninsula into one of the wealthiest nations on Earth and gave the world Al Jazeera, has died at 74. Qatar’s Amiri Diwan…
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Oil Surges as US-Iran Conflict Reignites, Setting Up a Tense Debut for Fed Chair Warsh
Oil prices jumped to start the week as a fragile cease-fire between the United States and Iran unraveled, with Brent crude climbing toward $79 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate trading near $74. The renewed strikes have thrown the status…
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Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging “Coordinated Campaign” to Steal iPhone and Hardware Trade Secrets
Apple has filed a sweeping trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of orchestrating a years-long scheme to poach Apple engineers and extract confidential hardware designs as OpenAI races to build its own consumer AI devices. The suit, filed…
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SK Hynix’s Record $26.5 Billion US Listing Signals AI Chip Rally Still Has Room to Run
SK Hynix’s Wall Street debut on Friday didn’t just raise a record $26.5 billion — it delivered a verdict on the state of the AI trade heading into the back half of 2026, and the market’s answer was an emphatic…
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Iran Nuclear Diplomacy Clings to Life as Trump Threatens “Locked and Loaded” Missiles
Diplomacy between the United States and Iran is clinging to life this week, even as President Donald Trump’s rhetoric toward Tehran hit its harshest pitch yet. In a post on Truth Social, Trump declared that “1,000 Missiles are Locked and…
