A Japanese Startup Bets Ultrasound Can Reach the Brain Where Drugs Can't
Sound Wave Innovation has raised $17 million to develop a non-invasive ultrasound therapy for Alzheimer's. The physics is plausible; the regulatory road is the hard part.
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Page 19 of 158Publicis Pays $2.55 Billion for LiveRamp and Bets Identity Is the Choke Point of AI Advertising
The largest Publicis acquisition since 2019 is not really about adtech. It is a bet that as AI rewrites the ad stack, the company that owns the identity graph owns the workflow.
Why Nvidia Backed a Startup Whose Whole Pitch Is Making It Easier to Switch Away From Nvidia
Decart's product moves AI workloads between accelerator vendors with less friction. That Nvidia chose to invest tells you exactly how the company thinks about its dominance.
China's April Activity Data Confirms the Export-Engine, Domestic-Drag Two-Speed Pattern Is the Year's Story
China's April data showed manufacturing and exports holding up while consumption and property continued to drag. The two-speed pattern is consistent enough to plan around.
Commerzbank Tells UniCredit No — but the Argument for European Banking Consolidation Hasn't Gone Away
Commerzbank's rejection of the UniCredit approach is rational on its own terms. The structural case for cross-border European banking consolidation, however, gets stronger every year.
Baidu's Profit Drop Confirms That China's Search Incumbent Is Paying for an AI Transition It Cannot Skip
Another quarter of declining profit at Baidu reflects the structural cost of moving from query-based search to AI-driven answers. Investors expecting a faster turn are misreading the shape of the bet.
LIRR Walkout Tests the New York Region's Workhorse Commute
A Long Island Rail Road stoppage forces a city built on commuter rail to face the cost of a single point of failure.
U.K. Long-Dated Gilt Yields Hit Multi-Decade Highs and the Bond Market Is Writing the Government's Budget
Thirty-year gilt yields at levels last seen in 1998 do not just reflect inflation worries — they constrain every choice the U.K. Treasury can credibly make this year.
Whitbread Faces an Activist Push to Sell, and Premier Inn Becomes a Live Test of UK Hospitality's Floor
Corvex Management's call for Whitbread to explore a sale reopens the question of whether Premier Inn is more valuable inside a public company or split, sold and re-platformed.
Retailers Are Fighting on Five Fronts at Once, and Same-Store Sales Are the Wrong Score to Watch
Tariffs, theft, wages, AI search and a stretched consumer have produced a multi-front battle for retailers. The clearest read of who is winning is not in same-store sales — it is in gross margin trajectory.
Off-Airport Screening Returns as a Serious Idea, This Time With Data Behind It
A TSA pilot at Boston Logan is testing whether passenger screening can happen before travelers reach the airport — the most consequential checkpoint redesign in two decades.
China's April Data Confirms the Two-Speed Economy Has Only One Engine Left
Beijing's export machine continues to hum while domestic demand softens further, a divergence that becomes more dangerous the longer it persists.
The Fed Kevin Warsh Inherits Isn't the One He Spent Years Arguing For
The incoming Fed chair has long made the case for lower interest rates and a smaller balance sheet. The macro data may make both arguments impossible to act on.
Senate Push to Curb Gambling Ads Targets the Industry at Its Weakest Defense
Lawmakers are moving to restrict gambling advertising aimed at minors — the part of the sports-betting and prediction-market boom with the thinnest political defense.
China's Easing Home-Price Slump Is the First Stabilization Signal in Three Years — With an Asterisk
Chinese home prices are falling more slowly. That is genuine progress after a long downturn, but a slower decline is not yet a recovery, and the difference matters.
Anglo American's Coal Exit Tidies the Path to the Teck Merger and Reshapes the Met-Coal Market
A multi-billion-dollar sale of Australian steelmaking coal assets clears the strategic decks for the Teck combination and concentrates met-coal ownership further.
Switzerland's Quiet Resilience Faces an Energy Test It Doesn't Control
Swiss GDP expanded again in the first quarter, but elevated energy prices and a strong franc threaten to slow the recovery in the months ahead.
Venezuela's Long-Dead Caracas Stock Market Is Stirring Back to Life, and the Volumes Tell a Currency Story
A surge in trading on Venezuela's tiny stock exchange is not a vote of confidence in its companies. It is what capital does when it has nowhere else to hide from inflation.