Ask anyone trying to staff a plant floor, a job site, or a service fleet what keeps them up at night, and near the top of the list is the same answer: they cannot find enough skilled hands. Welders, electricians,…
America foreclosed on Gen Z once. The risk now is that Gen Z finishes the job. I wrote a piece last year that went semi-viral about the “Gen Z stare,” that labeling of young-adult awkwardness that goes far beyond the…
Billionaire Bernard Arnault and his wife have been assessed with nearly €22.5 million ($25.7 million) in additional taxes, according to a recent decision by the Paris administrative court of appeal cited by AFP. The chief executive officer of the global…
Nvidia Corp.’s server assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales and said AI demand is growing further. Shipments of AI racks are expected to maintain their momentum in the current quarter, while demand for…
A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop it as a client while she considers the constitutionality of the measure, in a case set to…
Folarin Balogun will be allowed to play for the US men’s soccer team in its World Cup Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday after FIFA suspended a one-game ban on the striker. Balogun, a star striker who has…
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix isn’t one of the Magnificent 7 stocks but is in a class of its own after pulling off a stunning rally on the back of the AI boom, and it’s about to land on U.S.…
Just a few weeks into the war, one of the Persian Gulf’s top oil producers quietly began sneaking its crude out of the Strait of Hormuz. Before long, the covert project became so successful that the United Arab Emirates was already approaching…
Before Brazil and Norway retook the pitch at New York/New Jersey Stadium for their Round of 16 match on Saturday, something happened at halftime that had never occurred in FIFA World Cup history. A five-foot humanoid robot walked pitchside, performed…
The S&P 500 just notched its best quarter since 2020 and is up about 9% so far this year, but it’s mostly downhill from here, according to Bank of America. In a note on Tuesday, analysts reaffirmed their year-end price…