timef 05/07/2026

The U.S. is locked into a heated rivalry with China and a race to lead AI innovation.

The combined company would need to maintain an investment-grade credit profile, GameStop's mysterious financing letter said.

Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member who has four children with Musk, testified that the Tesla CEO wanted the AI startup to join his EV company.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is expected to join President Donald Trump on his visit to China next week, a source familiar with the planemaker's plans told CNBC.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is expected to add over $40 billion to the global GDP with its most lucrative edition ever.

The billionaire hedge fund manager said the market may still be in the middle innings of an AI-driven rally.

The oil giant’s earnings in the first three months of the year were more than double the previous quarter’s and follow similarly strong results of European rivals.

Saba Capital, the hedge fund led by Boaz Weinstein, has agreed to a three-year pause to its activist campaign against nine London-listed funds

The popular prediction market platform has just raised a new funding round that values it at $22 billion, double what it was worth in December.

The platform for betting on sports, politics, the weather and more has raised $1 billion and sees big financial firms as a key source of growth.

"War in Iran resulted in recession-level industry decline in the U.S. as consumer confidence collapsed in late February and March," the company said.

Shares of McDonald's have fallen 10% over the last year, hurt by concerns about the broader economy.

On Thursday, spot gold jumped 1.2% to $4,750 per ounce amid hopes that the U.S. and Iran could be nearing a deal to bring the 69-day war to an end.

Fallout from the war in Iran didn’t dampen quarterly results at McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell.

Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc said the shipping giant had deliberately taken a "very cautious approach" during the Middle East crisis.

There have been increasing calls within Europe for the region's most critical workloads to diversify away from dominant U.S. cloud providers.

A California couple rushed through Heathrow to catch their connecting flight, arriving with minutes to spare. But British Airways had already given away their seats.

The Ministry of Awe, a new immersive experience in a former bank in Philadelphia, aims to help locate the wondrous in the everyday.

After a crush of promises in 2016 that autonomous cars would soon rule the road, companies whose tech underpinned them have shifted to other industries, like managing shipyards and city traffic.

Japan's Ministry of Finance has intervened in the yen over the country's Golden Week holiday. 

Shortly after the opening bell, the pan-European Stoxx 600 index was seen 0.14% higher.

Maersk said the Iran war had introduced an "additional layer of uncertainty" as it reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday.

Investors waited for news on the situation in the Middle East, as the U.S. and Iran gave mixed signals on peace negotiations.

Britain's Shell posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit as the Iran war sent fossil fuel prices soaring.

Southeast Asia to benefit significantly from Asian Development Bank's $70 billion new energy and digital infrastructure plan in Asia and the Pacific by 2035.

Iran reviews the latest peace plan proposed by the U.S., as investors remain optimistic about the developements.

Norway's Equinor told CNBC that the company expects the Iran war to deliver a boost to its transition industries.

The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.

Bond investors are expected to scrutinize the results of critical local elections on Thursday as the war in the Middle East adds inflation pressure on the government.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 surged over 5% to a record high as Japan reopened after extended Golden Week holidays.

The U.S. and Iran are close to a memorandum of understanding that would end the war and establish a framework for further negotiations, Axios reported.

Oil prices rose Thursday, as investors continue to assess the latest developments in the Middle East amid concerns over renewed tensions between Iran and the U.S.

The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.

Social media influencers are urging consumers to read labels and pushing traditional companies to make healthier products or risk being replaced by newer entrants.

Asia-Pacific markets were set to climb, shrugging off renewed tensions in the Middle East.

The bank offered $1 million before a former employee filed a lawsuit against a woman who was an executive director on his team, two people briefed on the matter said.

Why the most effective leaders aren't trying to reduce AI uncertainty, but are using it to move faster, make better decisions and unlock momentum while others stall in planning and hesitation.

At Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Dario Amodei said the company is 'working as quickly as possible' to provide additional compute.

Most employees don’t leave bad companies, they leave unclear one — here’s how to build real growth paths that drive retention, not just promises made in an interview.

The commerce secretary appeared for hours in a closed-door session on Wednesday with the House Oversight Committee

Investors questioned Ryan Cohen’s latest gambit after he gave an evasive CNBC interview and a once-loyal supporter sold his GameStop shares.

Oil executives have warned that the supply disruption in the Middle East will soon cause actual fuel shortages in some parts of the world.

U.S. Central Command and the ship’s owner disagreed on whether the vessel coordinated safe passage with the United States military.

What scared me most about building Mid-Day Squares with family wasn’t the risk or uncertainty, but the possibility of damaging the relationships behind the business.

How businesses can adapt to the zero-click economy and stay visible in an AI-driven search landscape.

The fastest-growing titles for new grads are AI-proof jobs like field manager and service technician.

Stop chasing new ideas, and start focusing on what already works.

How strong operational discipline and invisible execution turn reliability into a competitive advantage that unlocks faster growth, smoother launches and lasting customer trust.

The CNN founder’s death was met with encomiums from leaders in the media industry, which he helped reinvent. “He will be remembered for generations,” said one.

Anthropic said it's forged a deal with SpaceX, which owns rival xAI, to use all of the compute capacity at the company’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Here's what's actually happening when you can't pull the trigger — and why logic alone will never fix it.

U.S. airlines spent 56.4% more on jet fuel in March than they did in February, U.S. government data released Wednesday show.

Employers are using free meals to lure employees back to the office — franchises catering to this market are winning big.

People with lower incomes are driving less and devoting more of their budgets to transport as gas prices soar.

Apollo CEO Marc Rowan warned that markets face an elevated risk of unexpected shocks, saying he is positioning the firm defensively for an expected correction.

Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar says the Ozempic and Wegovy maker is looking for deals more than ever before.

The wildly successful author talks about breaking into new territory with his latest novel, "Young World," and his best advice for dragging a personal project across the finish line.

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