Macro
Wall Street entered Monday morning carrying a peculiar kind of anxiety - the kind that comes not from a market in freefall, but from one sitting near all-time highs while the economic data underneath it starts to crack. The S&P 500 is up more than 13% year-to-
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Greg Abel's $4.5 billion buyback in Q2 2026 signals a major shift in Berkshire Hathaway's capital allocation strategy. What this means for the post-Buffett era.
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There is a number that defines what Ford announced on Thursday: 28,350. That is how many dollars the company's new Fathom electric pickup truck will start at - a figure that, in the context of a US auto market where the average new vehicle costs $50,000 and
Earnings
There is a number that defines what Eli Lilly just reported: 48. That is how many percent the company's revenue grew in the second quarter of 2026 compared to a year earlier - a rate of expansion that would be remarkable for a startup, and that is genuinely extraordinary
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SpaceX reports its first earnings as a public company with a $1.4 trillion valuation on the line. Tonight's results will reveal whether the market's appetite for transformational, pre-profit technology companies has survived the macro environment of 2026.
Macro
There is a number that defines what happened in currency markets last Friday: 163. That is how many yen it took to buy a single US dollar at the peak of the selloff on Thursday, July 31 - the weakest level for the Japanese currency in roughly four decades. By Friday
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There is a number that defines what happened to Wall Street's most celebrated AI hedge fund in July 2026: 67. That is how many percent Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund lost in a single month - a collapse so swift and so total that it has already
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There is a number that captures the scale of what Big Oil just reported: 160. That is how many million dollars ExxonMobil made per day in the second quarter of 2026 - a figure that would have seemed extraordinary in almost any other context, but that lands with a particular weight
Earnings
Wall Street closed out July with a week that will be studied in business schools for years. Three of the most powerful companies on earth - Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon - reported earnings that, by any historical measure, were extraordinary. And yet, the bond market spent the same week sending a very
Earnings
Meta's Q2 2026 earnings revealed a 91% collapse in free cash flow to just $784 million, an EPS miss of nearly 14%, and capex guidance raised to $130-145 billion. Here is what the numbers reveal about the true cost of the AI arms race.