NYSE trading floor with screens showing stocks sliding as rising U.S. Treasury yields and Walmart (WMT) earnings pressure risk assets on August 20, 2026.
Wall Street has rarely lacked for ambition, but 2026 is offering an especially lavish menu: artificial intelligence firms approaching trillion-dollar valuations, a space company with revenue aspirations that would make many nations glance nervously at their GDP tables, and silver holding its…
UEFA’s threatened FIFA boycott is still the headline fight, but the bigger investment story is that global football has become too lucrative, too watched, and too commercially engineered to stay politely in the background. FIFA is trying to turn its competition portfolio…