Home improvement and hardware store chains have battled lower sales in the last year as a sluggish housing market and consumers’ reluctance to spend on renovation projects in uncertain times affects their business. Smaller hardware chains also face fierce competition from big-box stores, like Home …
Global stocks inch up, oil steady before US CPI
US consumer inflation mild in July, but economy not out of the woods yet
Darko Pavic, Founder & CEO of Fiscal Solutions, Retail Technology & Global Fiscalization Expert with 28+ Years of Experience. gettyRetailers still tend to treat culture as a marketing layer, something that helps decorate a campaign after product, price, channel and supply chain have already been decided. K-beauty, for example, shows why that view is increasingly…
Intel Corp. (INTC) priced an upsized $20 billion stock offering at $95 a share on Tuesday, Aug. 11, raising $5 billion more than the $15 billion plan it announced just one trading day earlier. Wall Street treated this as breaking news. It wasn’t. Intel’s own finance chief told investors this could …
Everyone is familiar with the ironic saying, “You have to prove you don’t need money to get a loan.” But what happens when you have no money, no credit, and need a refrigerator today? That’s when rent-to-own (RTO) or lease-to-own (LTO) businesses step in. Traditional banking wasn’t built on …
River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek. (AMP PBC is an AI-focused investment firm founded in 2026 by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney…
Australia central bank holds rates steady, keeps hike on table
Australia’s central bank keeps interest rates at 4.35%
Oil prices rise, Asia stocks drift on US-Iran stalemate





