Business and Finance Weekly

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Episodes: 33

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Weekly summary of the critical news in the business and finance world. Of the investors, By the investors, For the investors.

Episode Date
Fed raises interest rate, record-high diesel price, stagflation risk, Hermès heir sues LVMH, Oracle’s $18B debt, Howard Buffet is new chairman, L'Oréal most valuable in France, Nike stock collapses
Sep 19, 2026
Kioxia plans to list ADS, Microsoft plans for 38GW by 2032, US equity funds record outflow, Positron AI $875M Series C, Pentagon to lend $5B to Fluidstack, Altera IPO,average diesel passed $6 a gallon
Sep 12, 2026
US diesel price hits record high, US private credit collapse, Norway reduces US treasury holdings, US takes 65 billion barrels of crude oil from Venezuela, ByteDance $30B loan, rogue OpenAI agents
Sep 05, 2026
US-Canada trade war, Nvidia 70% growth for 2028, SpaceX $100B spaceport in Louisiana, Taiwan GDP surged 14%, US to secure Venezuela oil, Meta $18B settlement, 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games
Aug 28, 2026
Micron to invest $10B, Arctic sea routes, Apollo data breach, Alibaba shares plunged due to AI cost, US to pay UN, US consumers are shrinking spending, World Robot Conference, Broadcom to borrow $60B
Aug 24, 2026
Jane Street suffered $15 billion loss in July, CEOs comp soared 21%, JPMorgan debanked Polymarket, Reddit joins S&P 500, Chinese EV export boom, SMIC raises price, Zhu Rongji died
Aug 15, 2026
AMD acquires Taalas, Anthropic to design AI chips, SpaceX Terafab, Senator urges to investigate banks tied to Epstein, Trump cancels RWE offshore wind leases, open-source AI models' revenue-sharing
Aug 10, 2026
Citadel acquired most of Situational Awareness, New York sues Kalshi, ChangXin Memory IPO largest in China, Amazon & Microsoft surge, EU AI push, BP to sell North Sea oil & gas, Westinghouse to IPO
Aug 02, 2026
Minnesota to ban prediction markets, Trump new tariffs, Kimi panic, tech stocks crash, Japanese yen plunged, Samsung and SK deal, China’s memory chip stars, EU fined Google 890M euro, DoD Oracle deal
Jul 26, 2026
AI stocks selloff, open source Kimi K3 released, PayPal board rejects Stripe offer, Uber to acquire Delivery Hero, Databricks valued at $188B, Brazil retaliates US 25% tariff, DeepSeek prepares IPO
Jul 18, 2026
SK Hynix US debut, Apple sues OpenAI, Meta custom AI chips, ChatGPT Work, Micron commits $250B, Shein's Hong Kong IPO, Circle National Trust, German automakers sales collapse in China,
Jul 11, 2026
Trump Jr. to benefit from a new firearms rule, Alibaba bans Anthropic, Amazon Leo satellite network, Chinese open-source AI model closes gap,Alphabet lost $4B EU fine, Japan ambushes yen short sellers
Jul 04, 2026
OpenAI IPO delayed to 2027, Meta explores prediction markets, Polymarket passed $1B revenue, Starlink mobile service, Mythos 5 deployed to "trusted" orgs, Volkswagen layoff, CATL sodium energy storage
Jun 27, 2026
Iran closed Strait of Hormuz again, Schwab to enter prediction market, states push back AI data centers, Micron is a critical AI pulse check, Japan's $2.3T investment, China's underwater data centers
Jun 21, 2026
Musk is the world's first trillionaire, Palantir lost lawsuit, Xbox layoff, fertilizer crisis, EV to reach 80% in China, xAI safety lawsuit, Singapore-Switzerland benefit from Dubai shattering
Jun 13, 2026
Peter Thiel's Plan B, central banks buy gold, SpaceX IPO, tech stocks sell-off, flesh eating fly in Texas, Alphabet to raise $80B, DeepSeek raises $7.4 billion, Amazon's Ring faces privacy lawsuit
Jun 06, 2026
Micron surpassed $1T, Dell surges, Fertitta to acquire Caesars, SpaceX $4B contract, Huawei new chips, K-shaped market, CNN sues Perplexity, China expands digital yuan, IBM $10B on quantum computing
May 30, 2026
AI IPOs test liquidity limit, bifurcated retail economy, US investment in quantum computing companies, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, AMD $10B into Taiwan, Stellantis 2030 plan, Japan's record profit
May 23, 2026
Musk-OpenAI trial, SK Hynix nears $1T, SoftBank profit triples, billionaire Beckham, CLARITY Act, Brazil PIX under US inquiry, Samsung Electronics strike, DOJ drops Adani charges, Africa crisis
May 16, 2026
JP Morgan sex slave lawsuit, Samsung passed $1T, Iran war profits, Gulf shock, Murati stated Altman sowed "chaos", Jane Street $16B revenue, USPS $2B loss, Apple's Intel chips, Blue Origin low morale
May 09, 2026
Musk on OpenAI: "you just can’t steal a charity", Iran war brings petroyuan, Google Cloud surges, Spirit Airlines shuts down, UAE leaves OPEC, biotech M&A cycle, Tesla Semi truck, SoftBank's Roze IPO
May 02, 2026
Intel surges due to AI inference, Google's $40B to Anthropic, Meta to layoff 10%, Justin Sun sues Trump's WLF, Duke Energy's $103B plan, China restricts US capital on AI, DeepSeek uses Huawei chips
Apr 25, 2026
CDS to hedge private credit, Pentagon to use Google AI, GM, Ford & Oshkosh, DeepSeek to raise $300M, Live Nation monopoly, commodity currencies surge, Cartes Bancaires for EU, Schroders sold to Nuveen
Apr 19, 2026
TSMC surges, Intel-Google on AI-optimized CPUs, Lockheed Martin's $4.76B, AOMC to merge with Odyssey Marine, SiFive raised $400M, $4B for Rapidus, Indian generic weight-loss drug, Meta-CoreWeave $21B
Apr 12, 2026
Gulf pressured to buy drones from Powerus backed by Trump's sons, SpaceX IPO, S Korea's export record, US to block Chinese chipmaking, McCormick M&A, Sakura Internet surges, Starbucks Boyu deal
Apr 05, 2026
Decline of the petrodollar due to Iran war, OpenAI's liquidity crisis, SpaceX IPO, "game-changing" jury verdict in social media, Bank of America settles Epstein scandal, Iran war threatens AI bubble
Mar 29, 2026
US money market fund new record, Jerome Powell remains, Chubb war-risk coverage for Strait of Hormuz, Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, Super Micro Computer plunged 33%, Paraguay leans toward US
Mar 22, 2026
Soft collapse in private credit, Meta 20% layoff, Iran war escalation, JPMorgan Chase expands in Silicon Valley, Trump $10 billion fee of TikTok deal, Spain's amnesty to immigrants
Mar 15, 2026
Oil price surges after Iran war, S Korean stock plunged, unemployment rate rose in US, defense-tech stocks soar, Venezuela deal, private equity crisis, shortage of data storage
Mar 08, 2026
Iran war causes oil and gold surges, global M&A boom, Block cuts 40% jobs, OpenAI’s $110 billion funding, Warner Bros deal
Mar 02, 2026
Trump's new tariff after Supreme Court ruling, EU safety mechanisms with Mercosur, Seedance 2.0 AI video shock, UK entrepreneurs exodus, geothermal energy revolution
Feb 22, 2026
Global nuclear energy renaissance, OPEC+ oil expansion, a new Berlin-Rome axis to reduce bureaucracy, prediction markets grow, Google's 100-year bond, and record natural gas delivery
Feb 14, 2026
SaaS stocks crash, bitcoin plunges, trade deals, and U.S.–China competition in Latin America
Feb 08, 2026