A Labor Market That Refuses to Reaccelerate The June 2026 U.S. jobs report landed with a thud. Employers added just 57,000 positions, well below economists’ expectations and a sharp deceleration from the 129,000 jobs added … Read more
A $560 Billion Market Hiding in Plain Sight Buy Now, Pay Later has become a checkout-page fixture, and by nearly every measure it is still growing fast. The global BNPL market reached approximately $560 billion … Read more
The Biggest Listing Year in Half a Decade The U.S. initial public offering market has roared back to life in 2026, posting its strongest first half on record. U.S. IPOs and share sales raised … Read more
The Biggest European Defense Buildup Since the Cold War At last year’s NATO summit in The Hague, alliance members agreed to one of the most consequential commitments in the organization’s history: raising defense and security-related … Read more
A Strong Half, With a Late Scare The first half of 2026 delivered one of the more rewarding stretches for hedge funds in recent memory, even as a sharp late-June selloff in quantitative trading strategies … Read more
Humanoid robotics has crossed a threshold: it is no longer just a showcase of slick demo footage, but a genuine, if still early, commercial industry. Figure AI’s robots have logged more than a year of … Read more