Sweeping federal job cuts and a shrinking hospitality sector have resulted in high unemployment in the nation’s capital.
Category: Business
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How do you stop teens smoking? The UK thinks a lifetime ban is the only way forward.
7.5% of American middle and high schoolers reported tobacco product use in the last 30 days, per CDC data.
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TSMC surges as Taiwan eases single-stock investment limits for funds
Relaxing a long-standing rule that capped actively managed funds from more than 10% in a single stock, the change effectively lifts a major hurdle that has prevented local money managers to take full advantage…
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Intel’s earnings send fellow CPU sellers Arm and AMD higher
Data centers mean more demand for everything, including CPUs.
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Justin Bieber’s music keeps surging on streaming after Coachella
Justin Bieber’s music is surging on streaming following his Coachella sets.
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Intel crushes Q1 earnings expectations, forecasts strong Q2 revenue, shares soar
The numbers are a significant coda to what has been one of the best periods of share price performance for the company in decades.
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Stocks fall from record highs amid a software slump and rocky negotiations with Iran
Stocks fell as investors digested a report that Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has resigned from Iran’s peace talks team.
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OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.5 — more complex “knowledge work” for fewer tokens
OpenAI’s new frontier model has greater coding and enterprise work capabilities, while using fewer tokens.
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Only one Trump Gold Card has been issued
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a House committee that while “hundreds” of Trump Gold Card applications are being reviewed, only one of the $1 million dollar cards has been issued.
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The national average of US gas prices drops to $4.03
The national average of gas prices has gone down since last week.
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Tesla tries to throw Waymo under the bus
Elon Musk said a Waymo hit a bus. Waymo says that’s not what happened, and there are no NHTSA crash reports backing Musk up.
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This chart shows how Donald Trump is the king of stock market volatility
One thing’s for sure: the moves will be bigly.
