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Zuckerberg’s new manifesto reveals Meta’s shape-shifting strategy
Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding that his “real asset isn’t any app, it’s attention” might make it harder for Meta to deliver new products, an analyst said.
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Should New York’s $270B pension fund abandon Wall Street?
A candidate running to be New York’s chief money manager wants to move much of its $270 billion pension fund into passive index funds.
Courtesy of Drew Warshaw
‘You’re welcome’: Biden’s antitrust chief points to Figma IPO as vindication of his policy
Jonathan Kanter, a former Justice Department official, says it was their robust antitrust approach that helped the design software firm thrive.
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via Reuters
Bank of England cuts rates following historic split vote
A lack of consensus necessitated a second vote for the first time in the Monetary Policy Committee’s history.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey. Alastair Grant/File Photo/Pool via Reuters.
Trump hikes India tariffs to 50%
Trump announced an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods over its purchase of Russian oil, ratcheting tensions with New Delhi.
Kevin Lamarque/File Photo/Reuters
Apple will commit another $100 billion to US manufacturing, Trump set to announce
US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have pushed companies to placate Washington by ramping up domestic manufacturing.
Mike Segar/Reuters
Trump targets big banks that deny accounts to conservatives
The president said his JPMorgan Chase account was closed despite holding ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars.
US trade deficit shrinks as import rush subsides
Imports fell more than analysts expected, in a reversal of a pre-tariff surge in February and March.
Murdoch’s News Corp. to launch California version of New York Post
Media titan Rupert Murdoch is seizing on the continued hollowing out of California local media and the consolidation of many Hollywood trades.
Musk’s $29B carrot from Tesla needs a stick
The headline number will bring out scolds, but Tesla’s shareholders are likely fine with it. The board can hold the billionaire’s feet to the fire in other ways.
Tesla gives Musk $29B to keep his ‘energies focused’
New shares would give the billionaire 16% control of the carmaker, which is competing for his attention with AI, space, brain implants — and politics.
Trump’s tariffs inject fresh uncertainty into global markets
In just months, Washington’s effective tariff rate has risen by more than 15 percentage points.
OPEC+ agrees to hike oil production amid threat to Russian supply
The group has been ramping up production since April in a bid to cushion the market against geopolitical tensions.
Disappointing US jobs data fuels tariff fears
Labor weakness hands Trump fuel in his pressure campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Investors need more ‘moral imagination,’ says Jacqueline Novogratz
The ‘patient capital’ pioneer advocates an inclusive form of capitalism, but says there will be trade-offs.
Big Techs ramp up billions in bottomless spending on AI
Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet have spent a collective $186 billion on capital expenditures over the past year, more than the revenue of 96% of S&P 500 companies.
Politics swung right. So did companies. Will they regret it?
MAGA looks invincible now, but a recent dust-up at Exxon shows that the edicts of one administration can be revisited by the next.
Executives look to beef up building security after Manhattan shooting
C-suites were already on edge after an insurance executive was assassinated last year, and now have to grapple with panicked employees and security overhauls.