BusinessToll Brothers' profit fell less than expected, and the read is less encouraging than the relief rally suggests. Mix and incentives are doing most of the work.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessInvestigators flagging maintenance lapses ahead of a fatal MD-11 cargo crash point to a structural problem: the cargo fleet is aging into a regulatory window no one has fully prepared for.
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessFour manufacturers stand accused of coordinating shipping-container prices. The case is unusual because antitrust enforcement is reaching the cartel during the cycle, not after it.
By Sarah Chen · 4 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessADI's deal for Empower Semiconductor moves the analog incumbent firmly into vertical power delivery for AI servers — a category that has gone from afterthought to constraint.
By Theo Bodden · 4 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessRevenue growth at Cava driven by traffic, not price, is rare in fast-casual right now — and it materially changes the read on the brand's unit-economics ceiling.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessHyperscalers are pulling back on buybacks to fund the AI build-out — but Nvidia's cash flow is so large it can fund both. The capital-allocation map is splitting in two.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessA senior alternative-asset executive divesting from an NFL franchise stake is a small transaction with large signaling weight for the sports-finance complex.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessAfter years of swearing off the sector, Berkshire Hathaway is back in airline stocks. The change is not about the industry's economics — it's about the size and structure of the surviving competitive set.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessA small dollar amount in defense procurement can carry outsized signaling weight. The hypersonic-rocket contract is one of those moments — a doctrine inflection compressed into a single line item.
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessAn executive order pushing banks to verify clients' citizenship status will create a new layer of KYC obligations and significant compliance investment.
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessAn industrial CEO who built without outside capital has accepted a nine-figure venture round. The deal is a leading indicator for where growth-stage capital is finally finding underwriting comfort.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 4 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessU.S. solar equities have been a category investors gave up on. Tariff and trade barriers are now doing more for the group than the underlying demand story.
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessPVH veteran Donald Kohler steps into Banana Republic at a moment when the brand has already done much of the painful work. The job ahead is consolidation, not rescue.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessA modest increase in EV ownership costs sounds like nothing, but it's part of a larger realignment that is converging EV and ICE total cost of ownership.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessStanChart's plan to hit 18% return on equity through corporate-banking job cuts and EM-franchise concentration is a coherent strategy — but only if EM economies cooperate.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessUnited Airlines' upbeat summer outlook is more informative in the capacity and pricing decisions it implies than in the headline guide.
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessJapan's first-quarter GDP acceleration backs the Bank of Japan's case for further normalization — even as the rest of the G10 leans toward cutting.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · May 19, 2026
BusinessCanada's April inflation accelerated to 2.8%, narrowing the path for a near-term Bank of Canada cut even with growth tracking softer.
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · May 19, 2026