SpaceX’s stock snaps brutal losing streak ahead of key Starship rocket launch

The Russell Microcap Index has more than doubled the performance of the S&P 500 this year.

Hogue writes that “an improving job market will do wonders for confidence,” with GDP growth expected to persist through end-2027 and labour market slack absorbed by next spring. The Bank of Canada, however, is forecast to hold its policy rate through the rest of 2026 before raising it in 2027. While Canada’s national housing affordability…

Russia pounds Kyiv with missiles

The United States is preparing to tell countries that they will be excluded from a U.S.-led artificial intelligence coalition if they join a Chinese-led one, Reuters reported Friday (Aug. 14), citing an unnamed U.S. official and a draft of a letter to members of the coalition. The U.S. coalition, Pax Silica, was launched last year…

The easiest way for a bank to keep down its costs of acquiring new deposits is to keep its existing customers. The customers you have are cheaper than the customers you need to go find. But keeping those customers is not itself costless. Once you’ve gotten a customer, you have to keep them. And to…

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