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NEW YORK – After a harrowing session that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average surrender its hard-won 50,000 milestone, Wall Street found a fragile floor on Friday, February 13, 2026. An encouraging inflation update provided the necessary cooling effect to a market that had been boiling over with anxiety just
The "fear gauge" returned with a vengeance on February 13, 2026, as the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) surged nearly 18% to settle at 20.82. This sharp spike marks a significant departure from the relative calm that had characterized much of the early winter trading season, signaling a profound shift
NEW YORK — On February 13, 2026, a seismic shift rattled Wall Street as the long-standing "AI-at-any-price" trade finally met its match. In a session that market veterans are already calling "Software-mageddon," investors staged a violent rotation out of high-growth technology sectors and into the unglamorous but steady arms of Utilities
In a move that has sent shockwaves through both the Silicon Valley tech scene and the skyscrapers of Manhattan, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) is set to depart the public markets in a landmark $55 billion take-private acquisition. The deal, spearheaded by a powerhouse consortium including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment
PALO ALTO, CA — In a startling reversal of fortune for one of the tech sector's most resilient performers, shares of AppLovin Corp (NASDAQ: APP) plummeted 18.3% on February 13, 2026. The sell-off came despite the company reporting quarterly earnings and revenue that significantly surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, marking
When the founders of a mid-sized Indian logistics-tech company began pitching to international investors, they believed their biggest challenge would be scale. Their platform automated last-mile delivery for regional manufacturers, a sector growing fast across India’s Tier-2 cities. The product worked. Unit economics were improving. But meetings kept ending the same way — polite interest, followed by silence. What no one said out loud was what investors saw before the first call even began.
The U.S. mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape has entered a definitive new era in early 2026, marked by what analysts are calling a "Strategic Rebound." After years of aggressive antitrust intervention and a "litigation-first" posture from federal regulators, the tide has turned toward regulatory pragmatism. Large-cap companies, once
The speculative fervor that once propelled artificial intelligence (AI) software to dizzying heights has met its match: the laws of physics. In early 2026, a profound rotation is sweeping through global markets as investors pivot from "disembodied" software applications to the "Physical Bottleneck" of AI—the massive infrastructure of chips,
The financial world is bracing for what is being hailed as the "IPO of the century" following a series of bombshell reports from Barron’s and Bloomberg suggesting that SpaceX is preparing for a mid-2026 initial public offering. Driven by a massive $1.25 trillion private valuation following its recent
Pinterest reported earnings per share of $0.67 on revenue of $1.32 billion, compared to Wall Street estimates of an EPS of $0.67 on revenue of $1.33 billion.
