What Happened One of the most important bottlenecks in the AI chip race is no longer just chip fabrication. It is advanced packaging — the step where multiple chip components are connected, protected, and assembled into the final high-performance systems
What Happened UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and other major health insurers rallied on Tuesday after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, said it would increase payments for Medicare Advantage plans next year. The agency said payments to insurers
What Happened Broadcom (AVGO) shares climbed more than 3% in early trading after the company announced two major AI-related agreements tied to Google and Anthropic. The stock outperformed a weaker broader market, which was under pressure from renewed geopolitical tension
What Happened Oil flipped from gains to losses as traders weighed two competing forces at once: a reported push for a Middle East ceasefire and a fresh ultimatum from President Donald Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
What Happened Ford opened 2026 with a weak first quarter, reporting 457,315 U.S. vehicle sales, down 8.8% from a year earlier. That followed a soft quarter from GM, which reported 626,429 U.S. deliveries, down 9.7%. Both companies said the comparison
Primorsk Takes A Direct Hit Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, one of its largest oil export gateways, lost at least 40% of its storage facilities after Ukrainian drone attacks last month, satellite images showed. The damage matters because the terminal is built
Tesla (TSLA) opened 2026 with its weakest quarterly deliveries in a year, missing Wall Street expectations as fading U.S. incentives and tougher global competition continued to pressure its core electric vehicle business. The stock fell more than 4% after the update, extending
Markets Try to Bounce — but Oil Is Still Calling the Shots U.S. stocks turned sharply higher Thursday morning before giving back much of the move, as investors reacted to a new signal out of Iran that briefly raised hopes
Domestic Supply Chain Push Takes Another Step Rare earths developers REalloys (ALOY.O) and U.S. Critical Materials have signed a memorandum of understanding to build a fully domestic supply chain for key materials in the U.S. The agreement fits into Washington’s broader effort to reduce
U.S. manufacturing activity improved in March, but the details pointed to a more complicated picture for factories and inflation. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing PMI edged up to 52.7 from 52.4 in February. That marked the third straight month above 50, the line
What Happened One of the most important bottlenecks in the AI chip race is no
What Happened UnitedHealth Group (UNH) and other major health insurers rallied on Tuesday after the
What Happened Broadcom (AVGO) shares climbed more than 3% in early trading after the company
What Happened Oil flipped from gains to losses as traders weighed two competing forces at
What Happened Ford opened 2026 with a weak first quarter, reporting 457,315 U.S. vehicle sales,
Primorsk Takes A Direct Hit Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, one of its largest oil
Tesla (TSLA) opened 2026 with its weakest quarterly deliveries in a year, missing Wall Street expectations as
Markets Try to Bounce — but Oil Is Still Calling the Shots U.S. stocks turned
Domestic Supply Chain Push Takes Another Step Rare earths developers REalloys (ALOY.O) and U.S. Critical Materials have signed a
U.S. manufacturing activity improved in March, but the details pointed to a more complicated picture
