Coverage
79 stories on the Macro beat — every filing on this desk, newest first.
Russia struck weapons production plants and industrial sites across Ukraine overnight, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. Production plants, meaning factories that manufacture weapons rather than store or deploy them, were named…
An analyst upgrade is a formal change in the rating a research firm holds on a stock, a move toward a more favorable assessment. CFRA issued one for Veeva Systems. The reason the firm gave is the company's integration of artificial…
Consumer spending came in weaker than expected, and the 10-year Treasury yield barely moved. A yield is the effective interest rate a bond pays its holder, rising when the bond's price falls and falling when the price rises. The flat…
Non-GAAP earnings measure what a company earns after stripping out depreciation and similar non-cash accounting charges from the standard result. The short form stands for non-generally accepted accounting principles, and the number…
Falling unemployment in the United States may reflect how wealthy Americans feel more than how many new jobs exist. Bank of America analysts have argued that high levels of wealth among the American public are the primary force pulling the…
Earnings season arrives in waves. Monday's pre-market window carries the first results of the week, and the companies scheduled to release their numbers before trading begins will be among the first to show Wall Street whether their recent…
A court has sentenced a drug kingpin to life in prison after a three-year-old child was found in possession of a backpack filled with narcotics. A drug kingpin is a high-ranking organizer in a tra
An endorsement, a public declaration of support from one political figure for another, is about to face an actual vote count. Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a tele-rally for Lindsey Graham ahead of an upcoming Republican primary
The U.S. economy shed jobs in July in a way that caught forecasters off guard. Nonfarm payrolls, the monthly count of net paid positions added or removed across most industries, declined when economists had expected growth. The…
The Iranian parliament's top official accused the United States of practicing what he called "theater diplomacy." The term describes a negotiating posture built on public spectacle rather than genuine commitment. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf…
Full commissioning of a direct air capture plant, a facility that pulls carbon dioxide directly from open air rather than capturing emissions at a specific industrial source, is expected to begin at Occidental Petroleum's Stratos site…
Annual guidance, meaning a company's single financial forecast covering a full calendar year rather than shorter quarterly intervals, is replacing Shake Shack's existing outlook format. The burger chain plans to open between 60 and 65…
A first-half report, the interim financial disclosure covering a company's opening six months of the fiscal year, is now in from Coca-Cola HBC AG. These releases mark a formal mid-year checkpoint for investors and analysts, arriving before…
A third-quarter income payment of $0.25 a share is heading to New Mountain Finance investors, with the company saying it expects net investment income to cover the full amount. Net investment income, in plain terms, is what a company earns…
The Japanese yen is falling, and the two governments best positioned to arrest that decline may not be able to. Analysis of the currency market finds that coordinated action by the United States and Japan to support the yen would likely…
A supply chain is the full network of suppliers and logistics providers a manufacturer depends on to build its products. SpaceX is now actively working to make that network independent of China. For a company building rockets, that…
A platform delisting, meaning an app is pulled from a digital storefront so that new users cannot find or download it, has reached Telegram. Apple removed the messaging application from its App Store on a global basis, covering every…
The side that sets the pace in a geopolitical standoff controls the timing of every move, deciding when to apply pressure and when to go quiet while the other side reacts. According to a Financial Times report, Iran currently holds that…
Iran has vowed retaliation if the United States follows through on threats of new attacks against the country. Retaliation, in diplomatic terms, means a counterstrike triggered by an adversary's action rather than a first move. Iranian…
A private placement, meaning a fundraise conducted by selling shares directly to a select group of investors outside a public stock exchange, is running past its original deadline at Prime Drink. The beverage company has extended that…
When a borrower skips a cash interest payment and hands the lender more debt instead, rolling what is owed back into the loan balance, that arrangement is called payment-in-kind, or PIK. Blackstone Private Credit Fund disclosed that PIK…
A price target is what analysts use to project how high they expect a stock to climb within a set period. UBS lowered that number for Boston Scientific while keeping its buy rating on the s
Two objectives sit at the top of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stated agenda: national security and expanding what he calls the circle of peace. That second phrase describes diplomatic normalization
A White House address on Thursday night warned that the 2026 midterm elections, the nationwide congressional contests held halfway through a presidential term, will face close federal scrutiny. President Donald Trump singled out Russia…
A congressional amendment, meaning a provision attached to a larger funding bill that changes or restricts how money is spent, is forcing House Democrats into an uncomfortable choice this week. The measure, filed by Representative Thomas…
Manhattan rents hit a median of $5,295 a month in June, and Brooklyn's reached $4,350, both records, according to the Corcoran Group. Median means the midpoint: half of all tracked rentals priced higher, half lower. May
Each summer, NFL defensive linemen travel to Las Vegas for three days of drills, film and position talk at an event called the Sack Summit, a gathering built around advancing the craft of the pass rush: pressuring the quarterback before he…
Emergency responders were called to Senator Lindsey Graham's Washington, D.C., home Saturday evening for a reported cardiac arrest, meaning the heart had stopped pumping blood, before Graham's office announced his death the following…
An ACL, the anterior cruciate ligament that runs through the center of the knee and keeps it from rotating without buckling, tore during the opening exchange of Conor McGregor's first UFC fight in five years. The 37-year-old Irishman…
Pet grief, the mix of sadness and disorientation that follows a dog's death, does not run on a schedule. A writer who lost his lab mix Rooney to euthanasia in March found himself fielding the question roughly three and a half months later…
Elected officials formally questioning a sports organization, a step called congressional oversight, is rare in professional basketball. But a group of Republican members of Congress sent a formal letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy…
The Justice Department's criminal case against four Proud Boys members for the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack is over for good. "Dismissed with prejudice" is a legal term meaning the charges cannot be revived under any future…
A sports media figure is recovering from multiple surgeries and stepping away from his network while state prosecutors review complaints that he organized pay-to-play fantasy football contests and failed to distribute winnings. Fantasy…
A travel influencer, the term for a content creator whose posts shape where others choose to visit and how they experience it, arrived in Dallas, Texas, during the World Cup expecting to find a country unfriendly to foreign visitors. The…
A Minneapolis city communications officer lost his job last week after surveillance footage and smoke shop employees helped investigators link him to a series of credit card thefts from his own coworkers. The stolen money allegedly went…
A body matching the description of Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old Mississippi teen who vanished over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, was recovered Monday morning from waters off Horn Island, prompting officials to call off the…
Leah Stewart, an Australian mother and teacher, is recovering after losing an arm in a shark attack at Sydney's Coogee Beach on June 13 — and finding comfort in a flood of messages from supporters in Australia, New Zealand and across the…
The World Cup Round of 32 — the first knockout stage, where the field narrows from 32 nations to 16 — delivers three marquee fixtures on Saturday, with England, Belgium and the United States each looking to avoid extra time. The opening…
Democratic strategists are raising alarms that James Talarico, the Texas Democratic Senate nominee, faces a structural vulnerability heading into November: a significant drop in enthusiasm among Black voters, particularly Black women…
Arpit Gupta, the sole dissenting vote on New York City's Rent Guidelines Board, is warning that the rent freeze approved June 25 could quietly degrade the finances of older rent-stabilized buildings — with deferred maintenance giving way…
The expansion of Taylor Sheridan's "Yellowstone" franchise into Texas with the new spin-off "Dutton Ranch" is triggering a fresh wave of what the travel industry calls set-jetting — a trend that already reshaped tourism in Montana and may…
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the Democratic Party's gubernatorial nominee, broke publicly Wednesday with far-left congressional candidate Melat Kiros after Kiros declined in a prior television interview to label a convicted…
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. is placing faith at the center of the national story — alongside the Declaration of Independenc
Bill Maher, the HBO comedian and host of "Real Time with Bill Maher," issued a pointed warning to the Democratic Party on Sunday after three far-left candidates won congressional primaries in New York City, saying the party appears "well…
A 23-month-old boy died Monday after spending hours in the back seat of a family SUV outside a Plantation, Florida, daycare — his father unaware the child had never been dropped off that morning. The Plantation Police Department and…
Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado defeated progressive state Senator Julie Gonzales in the Democratic primary Tuesday, handing the party's moderate wing a rare victory in a midterm cycle that has otherwise tilted sharply left. The…
Order was restored at the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor, North Carolina, on Monday after inmates assaulted guards, seized two officers as hostages, and briefly took control of portions of the facility. Bertie County…
A new book by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan offers C-suite executives a rare strategic map of how Donald Trump thinks, governs, and can be influenced — knowledge that is increasingly material to any business operating in…
The cover art for Staind frontman Aaron Lewis's forthcoming album "Give Me Back My Country" turned up as shredded packaging paper inside a Taylor Swift merchandise box — before the record has even been released. A fan's unboxing video…
All Elite Wrestling's Forbidden Door is the rare pro wrestling event built entirely around cross-promotional competition: wrestlers from AEW, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and Stardom share a single card…
Digital forensics company Exterro has told Axios its FTK Suite platform was used as part of the FBI's investigation into the attempted assassination at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, with agents relying on the tool during…
Democrats face a mounting electoral dilemma in Maine after progressive Matt Dunlap, the state's auditor, defeated centrist state Sen. Joe Baldacci in the Democratic primary for Maine's 2nd congressional district. The outcome leaves the…
Michelle Pfeiffer has opened up about the rocky beginning to one of Hollywood's most storied careers, telling Entertainment Weekly that she walked off the Paramount studio lot after her "Gr
Sami Zayn captured the Undisputed WWE Championship at Night of Champions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, defeating defending champion Cody Rhodes in a triple-threat match that also featured Gunther. The win, which Zayn secured with a surprise pin…
Two Guatemalan nationals have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a December 9, 2021, tractor-trailer crash in Mexico that killed 56 migrants — including children — and left more than 100 others injured. The Department of…
Larry David pushed back against Barack Obama's creative direction while filming their new HBO sketch comedy series, according to director Jeff Schaffer, who spoke with Variety about behind-the-scenes friction on "Life, Larry and the…
The Texas State Board of Education voted 9-5-1 on Friday to add Bible passages to its public school required reading list, drawing an enthusiastic response from New York Knicks star and newly crowned NBA champion Josh Hart. The board's…
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup plays out across the United States, Canada and Mexico through July 19, 2026, fraudsters are running sophisticated ticket scams that combine fake websites, artificial intelligence-generated content and social…
An anonymous emailer who claims inside knowledge of the abduction of Nancy Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie — is now asserting possession of video evidence showing an alleged suspect with the missing…
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that migrants standing at the U.S.-Mexico border but not yet on American soil have no legal right to be processed by U.S. immigration officials, clearing the way for the Trump administration to revive a…
Gen. Christopher Donahue, the commanding general of U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa and the simultaneous head of NATO's Allied Land Command, will resign on July 2 at the request of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Army confirmed…
Two sitting House Democrats — including the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — lost Tuesday night primaries to democratic socialist challengers, all backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has spoken publicly about what he called one of the most frightening experiences of his life — several months spent in solitary confinement while facing federal charges stemming from Special…
David Hearn, a 67-year-old three-time summer Olympian, was charged with a misdemeanor for destruction of government property after he allegedly grabbed a hose from a National Park Service worker at Washington's Reflecting Pool on Saturday…
The Supreme Court declined to take up United States v. Donte J. Carter, a Fourth Amendment case that prompted a rare written dissent from Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas over the high court's inaction. The two justices argued…
Cape Verde secured a 2-2 draw against Uruguay on Sunday in Group H of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, keeping their historic debut tournament run alive with two points from two matches. The island nation, one of the smallest countries in the…
The U.S. military announced Sunday that it conducted a lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing two people and leaving six male survivors, as part of the Trump administration's ongo
A ground equipment vehicle struck a Southwest Airlines jet during passenger boarding Sunday at Memphis International Airport in Tennessee, forcing the carrier to pull the aircraft from service. Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 was removed…
The New York Times published a guest essay on Father's Day featuring a transgender parent's account of raising a daughter while navigating questions about gender identity, drawing immediate criticism from conservative commentators, media…
Two Georgia residents have been charged with murder after investigators say they killed a local bartender and discarded his dismembered remains in a reservoir outside Atlanta. Mario Andre Barber, 46, and Brittany Amber Baker, 42, were…
Minnesota will prohibit publicly accessible cryptocurrency kiosks starting August 1, 2026, after state officials recorded 134 complaints and losses approaching $1 million tied to kiosk-based scams between 2023 and 2025. Operators must…
Luke Salmons, a former community support officer with North Yorkshire Police in the United Kingdom, has reached a confidential settlement with the force after alleging he was suspended, forced out of the job, and discriminatorily targeted…
The growing use of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs is forcing the bridal industry to overhaul how it sells and stocks wedding gowns, with retailers accelerating orders, expanding inventory, and — in a growing number of cases — asking brides to…
A mass shooting in the early hours of Saturday left six people wounded in Hanover, Maryland, a suburban community roughly 15 miles south of downtown Baltimore. The victims included two children, and Anne Arundel County police confirmed…
Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has declined to speak publicly about a serious health crisis that nearly cost her her life during a recent trip to Belize. Biles has said she is not yet ready to discuss the episode, leaving the…
Pentagon records document federal agents' first-hand accounts of glowing orange orbs releasing smaller red objects near a sensitive national security site, with the incidents occurring in October 2023. The disclosures represent a formal…
At least 12 people — 11 skydivers and one pilot — were killed when an aircraft crashed near Butler Memorial Airport in Missouri, authorities confirmed. The disaster prompted a multi-agency investigation into one of the deadliest aviation…
Mexican authorities discovered a decomposing corpse bearing signs of violence in a vehicle trunk near Tijuana's Caliente Stadium, the facility where Iran's national soccer team is based for World Cup preparation. The find draws attention…
A teenager was punched and kicked into a coma near Madison Square Garden following an argument that erupted after the New York Knicks' epic comeback over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, police said. The assault put a…