Money, Wealth & Power—A Daily Look at the Financial World
California has just lost nearly a tenth of its in‑state fuel production as a major refinery shuts its doors for good, instantly tightening an already fragile gasoline market. The permanent closure removes about 9% of the state’s refining capacity, raising the stakes for drivers, truckers, and neighboring states that rely on California’s fuel network. I…
Intel’s Panther Lake laptop chips are landing with the kind of performance and efficiency jump that many analysts had written off as unrealistic just a couple of years ago. Early third party reviews point to a platform that finally marries strong CPU cores, serious integrated graphics, and long battery life in a single package. For…
Climate disruption has moved from a distant scenario to a live financial variable, reshaping the risk profile of everything from mortgages to municipal bonds. As physical impacts accelerate and policy responses tighten, the global economy is edging toward climate tipping points that could trigger abrupt losses rather than gradual write-downs. Your savings, pension and portfolio…
The Trump administration is reshaping the rules that govern how cars are built, sold, and financed in the United States, with a clear tilt toward cheaper gasoline vehicles and fewer perks for electric models. Fuel economy standards are being reset, consumer tax credits for electric vehicles have been eliminated, and new tax breaks are being…
Audi spent years edging toward a major bet on American manufacturing, only to see the numbers collapse under the weight of President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy. Internal projections that once justified a new plant turned into red ink as import duties on European cars and parts climbed, adding billions of dollars in expected costs and…
Across the United States, the basic math of everyday life has stopped working for a lot of people. Prices for groceries, rent and utilities have climbed far faster than many household budgets, and the result is a wave of anger from workers who feel they are doing everything right yet still falling behind. The cost…
Amazon is abruptly exiting the cashierless convenience and mid-sized grocery formats it spent years trying to popularize, shutting every Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh store in the United States within days. The move affects dozens of locations that once showcased the company’s most futuristic retail technology and signals a decisive pivot toward Whole Foods Market…
Investors expecting the European Union to lock in the world’s biggest trade pact have instead been handed another delay, and with it a fresh dose of uncertainty. The bloc’s decision to stall ratification of its agreement with South America’s Mercosur countries has rattled markets that had already priced in a new era of tariff cuts…
President Trump sold his One Big Beautiful Bill Act as the linchpin of a plan to slash red ink through faster growth, not higher taxes. The emerging math points in the opposite direction, with independent analysts warning that the Big Beautiful Bill could add roughly $5.5 trillion to federal deficits and make it harder, not…
Silver’s vertical price spike has turned a once sleepy corner of the commodities market into the most fevered trade of early 2026. Spot prices have vaulted into triple digits, retail coins are changing hands at eye-watering premiums, and the move has been so abrupt that even seasoned metals traders are whispering the word “bubble.” I…
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