October 15, 2026.
Tesla, led by Elon Musk, has finally made a car fly through the air.
What was unveiled at the new Roadster launch event was not just a next-generation EV.
It was a sports car equipped with propulsion technology derived from SpaceX, capable of changing its posture in mid-air and jumping over multiple vehicles.
Tesla unveiled its new Roadster on October 15 (US time), shaking the market. Footage of the car driving on a wall while upside down and performing a backflip in mid-air spread across social media worldwide immediately after the reveal. CEO Elon Musk declared, “The flying car has become a reality,” and the stock price rose by about 5% in pre-market trading on the 16th.
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The Nikkei Stock Average has been unstable lately.
Since May 2026, it has been in a range-bound market between 64,000 and 70,000 yen.
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Cathie Wood, the CEO and founder of Ark Investment Management, owns, through her various Ark ETFs, $220.4 million in Beam Therapeutics (BEAM -5.09%) shares. It is a healthcare company that focuses on gene editing to develop precision medicines.
She has owned shares in Beam through her various Ark Technology ETFs for more than five years.
Cathie Wood’s warning arrives at an uncomfortable moment for memory chip investors. Speaking in Hong Kong on Oct. 13, the Ark Invest founder warned that traditional memory chipmakers remain locked in boom-and-bust cycles,
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Yesterday, October 16, 2026, the U.S. stock market closed with all three major indices falling, weighed down by concerns over corporate debt burdens associated with building AI (artificial intelligence) infrastructure and a sharp rise in oil prices.
As the trading session neared its end, selling to reduce risk spread,
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Selling pressure weighed heavily on tech-heavy indices in a short period, and they even hit new recent lows by the weekend.
CoreWeave’s three co-founders have cashed out billions since the IPO while telling analysts their conviction in the company has never been stronger, and now the stock sits near its lowest point ever with a critical earnings report weeks away.
The three co-founders of CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) have sold $3.3 billion of stock since the March 28,
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Following Wednesday’s news that inflation remained elevated in September, economic reports released Thursday and Friday offered a look at rising prices across the U.S. economy.
Import prices, export prices, and prices charged by American producers all recorded their largest annual increases since 2022.
Rising import prices can increase the cost of raw materials and finished products that American businesses purchase from overseas.
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When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.
Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.
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