Detroit is returning to a focus on internal combustion passenger vehicles after the Trump administration and a Republican Congress have voided policies and regulations that focused carmakers on the transition to electric mobility, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Tag: U.S. Economy
“BIG BEAUTIFUL” TAX LAW SHOWERS CASH ON BIG CORPORATIONS
Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” tax-cut bill Congress passed in July has handed AT&T an extra $1.5 to $2 billion this year in tax savings, the equivalent of an 11-percent increase in its free cash flow, the company recently said.
U.S. IS IN A “REDNECK RECESSION,” ECONOMISTS SAY
The U.S. economy is splitting in two, the Financial Times reported.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Again, and again, and again, as we say, “You can’t make this shit up.” Month-after-month, week-after-week, day-after-day, President Trump says he will do one thing then backtracks and/or does another of his this or that.
CORPORATE STOCK BUYBACKS FUEL STOCK MARKET RALLY
To 11 August, U.S. companies have announced $983.6 billion in stock buybacks, the most in this part of a year since at least 1982, according to research firm Birinyi Associates.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Cybersecurity specialist Palo Alto Networks will buy CyberArk Software, an Israeli counterpart, for about $25 billion as Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora seeks to scale his company in tandem with AI’s spread through business, government, and military operations.
MICROSOFT BECOMES THE SECOND $4-TRILLION COMPANY
On 31 July, Microsoft’s value on the NASDAQ exchange touched $4.01 trillion, making it the second company after chipmaker Nvidia to achieve that milestone. Nvidia passed $4 trillion in market value on 9 July.
SPOTLIGHT: HOUSING MARKET UPDATE
Tracking trends is the understanding of where we are and how we got here to see where we are going. On the housing market front, let’s take a look at how we got here.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS ERASING ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS
New graduates with their college diplomas in hand are finding fewer ways to enter the job market. Artificial intelligence (AI) got there before they did.
U.S. FACTORY ACTIVITY CONTRACTED DRAMATICALLY IN JULY
U.S. manufacturing activity shrank for the fifth consecutive month in July at the fastest clip since November, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index (PMI).









