Why gas prices dropped — and could surge again
Maybe you noticed this over the weekend: Filling a gas tank is a touch cheaper. Indeed it is. GasBuddy.com puts the national average price at about $3.944 a gallon on Aug. 9. That's down 3.6% since the end of July and down 12.2% since Memorial Day. AAA Fuel Prices said its Aug. 9 national price was ...
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Excerpt from Bloomberg: “BlackRock wasn’t about to let fast-trading investors spoil its Meta financing victory.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “China ordered steep anti-dumping deposits on pecan imports from the US and Mexico, adding another source of trade friction weeks before an expected summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Thierry Wizman, global FX and rates strategist at Macquarie, discusses the outlook for the US economy, inflation and the possibility of a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike this year. "December doesn't look like the wrong time to do it," Wizman says. "You'll have a new Summary…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “ETFs are pouring money into bullion on the heels of central banks.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim lost a third lawmaker from his People’s Justice Party after long-time parliamentarian Wong Chen resigned from his seat of Subang in the country’s Selangor state effective Monday.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A giant “Free Ukraine” banner that had hung in the center of Kosovo’s capital for more than four years was removed after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this weekend that Kyiv’s position on Kosovo’s independence remains unchanged.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “Maybe you noticed this over the weekend: Filling a gas tank is a touch cheaper. Indeed it is. GasBuddy.com puts the national average price at about $3.944 a gallon on Aug. 9. That's down 3.6% since the end of July and down 12.2% since Memorial Day. AAA Fuel Prices said its Aug…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Meta Platforms Inc. introduced a new AI model that’s light enough to run on a single computer, allowing users to download and customize the technology.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland discusses his backing of Sunrise Energy Metals Ltd., an Australian scandium miner which secured as much as $400 million in long-term debt financing from the US Department of War. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A lavish Harare wedding attended by the president shows the political clout wielded by tycoons.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi ruled out direct talks with the US for now, but said a pact with Oman to establish a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz was “very close.” Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar reports. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists raised their S&P 500 Index forecast for a second time in two months, citing strong corporate earnings and the payoff from massive artificial intelligence spending.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Thirteen people including a child were killed and nearly 40 were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Nizhnekamsk, a major oil-refining and petrochemical center in Russia’s Tatarstan republic, according to local officials.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “"The sparkle on these is amazing."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “TSMC reported a 45% rise in its monthly sales, a sign of sustained demand for AI hardware in the face of market volatility. Bloomberg's Neil Campling has more. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “In the last decade, the New York Times has remade itself many times over. It has done that through acquisitions (the Athletic, Wirecutter, and the ever-popular Wordle) and by navigating all the different challenges that have emerged in the digital age and now the age of AI. Its…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Rakuten Group Inc. earned its first quarterly net income in six years thanks to surging growth in its fintech and e-commerce segments.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) just got a demand signal that most companies would rush to celebrate. Instead, management slammed on the brakes. CEO Strauss Zelnick said pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI have reached levels neither Take-Two nor the broader videogame industry has…”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “"Sturdy enough to handle the sun and rain without throwing a tantrum," one shopper said.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “One buyer claimed it "keeps great time," and is "great value for the money."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “In late May, Zimbabwe’s one percent gathered at a polo club on the outskirts of Harare to celebrate the marriage of one of their own.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The yen has underperformed all its Group-of-10 peers this month as the boost from recent intervention fades, putting traders on alert for further official action.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “India’s new method of setting official closing prices for its stocks is drawing complaints from some of the firms that do the most to keep its $5.2 trillion market humming.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “Burger King is back in second place. The chain has passed Wendy's to become the second-largest US burger brand by systemwide sales, a spot it lost six years ago. McDonald's still holds first place by a wide margin. The change showed up in the latest earnings from parent…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Gold steadied above $4,300 an ounce, with investors assessing a surprise contraction in the US jobs market that allayed concerns about an interest-rate hike.”
Excerpt from TheStreet: “It's comfortable and easy to put together.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Central banks in emerging Asia are increasingly finding ways to support their currencies without dipping into foreign-exchange reserves, as recurring Middle East tensions and the prospect of higher-for-longer US interest rates keep policymakers on edge.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The US-Israeli war against Iran has upended the Islamic Republic’s sprawling state apparatus.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems”
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Excerpt from GitHub: “Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work”
Excerpt from GitHub: “A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “⛰️A General Hill-climbing AI harness that helps you move from Current State to Ideal State in both Life and Work.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥”
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