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Suze Orman has a strict checklist that most American parents will fail before they earn the right to put their own money into a Trump Account for their child, and Elon Musk’s surprise SpaceX gift just made the stakes higher.
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A Synthetic Joint Lubricant Is Entering Its First Human Trial. If It Reaches a U.S. Trial, Medicare Could Cover Her Care Without Paying for the Treatment Itself
Cornell researchers just built a synthetic lubricant designed to let arthritic knees glide again, and Medicare has a little-known rule that could let her join a U.S. trial without paying for the experimental treatment itself, but the catch involves three separate payers splittin…
The IMF’s AI Tsunami Prediction Could Send Him to Starbucks at 63, Where a $30,000 Paycheck Could Put $2,760 of Social Security on Hold
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Sure, why not. Great revenue growth for AI up to $7.5B with Capex a mere: *Looks at numbers: $16.5B*. They’ve spent $40B on AI capex this year for $10.9B in revenue. This is madness.
SpaceX's $14.58 billion quarter came in above expectations, but r/stocks is arguing about the bill behind it: capex is outrunning the AI revenue it funds. That puts the valuation debate front and center.
General Motors shed 7.5% into the close, the worst showing across 387 priority names and nearly double the next-biggest decline. GoPro and Clover Health anchored the other end, each up more than 7.5%.
Hospital capital budgets are still opening: 546 da Vinci placements last quarter, up from 427, with surgeons running more than 10,000 procedures a day on Intuitive's systems. A $450 million litigation settlement charge pulled GAAP earnings to $1.49 a share, and management flagged tariff exposure on Mexico and Germany manufacturing as a material risk.
Leverage Shares Is Shutting Down 13 Single-Stock Leveraged ETFs. None Drew Enough Money to Survive
Thirteen single-stock leveraged ETFs from Leverage Shares are closing, and holders are about to find out what it costs when a niche fund shuts down on the issuer’s schedule instead of yours.
Operating income jumped 37% to $4.46 billion, driving the EPS beat even with revenue landing fractionally short of estimates. Management cut its 2026 advertising revenue outlook to about $2.7 billion from roughly $3 billion, blaming a slower rollout of ad products.
A 62% jump in fuel expense ended United's four-quarter streak of beating EPS estimates, with both lines missing expectations. Q4 guidance spans $0.50 to $1.50 a share, and management says Wall Street's fuel assumption is about $1.00 per share too optimistic.
- S&P 500+0.22%
- Dow Jones Industrial Average+0.95%
- Nasdaq Composite-0.02%
Money moved out of tech and into old-economy names today: the Dow added 492 points while the Nasdaq finished slightly red. If that rotation sticks, value and healthcare leadership is the trade to track.




