https://americannewsgroup.com/ Markets, finance and technology news for American investors. https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/17/house-bill-data-center-power-costs-home-bills/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/17/house-bill-data-center-power-costs-home-bills/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:16:23 GMTA bipartisan House bill advanced this week would give states a ready-made regulatory template for keeping AI data center energy costs off ordinary customers' utility bills.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/dollarama-lifts-fiscal-2027-outlook-sales-top-cad-2-billion/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/dollarama-lifts-fiscal-2027-outlook-sales-top-cad-2-billion/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:38:22 GMTDollarama's second-quarter sales climbed 17% past CAD 2 billion and management raised same-store sales and store-opening guidance, even as Australia and Mexico drag on results.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/brown-harris-stevens-ceo-housing-needs-more-supply/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/brown-harris-stevens-ceo-housing-needs-more-supply/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:46:25 GMTBess Freedman told Bloomberg's "The Close" that luxury housing keeps moving while ordinary buyers stall under higher mortgage rates — and that supply, not demand, is the binding constraint.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/shell-slides-36-million-missing-tons-reprice-lng/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/shell-slides-36-million-missing-tons-reprice-lng/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:56:19 GMTA supply shock that stripped about 36 million tons from the LNG market tripled Asian spot prices and pushed Shell shares lower, exposing the level where buyers switch fuels.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/house-holds-leon-black-contempt-epstein-subpoenas/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/house-holds-leon-black-contempt-epstein-subpoenas/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:46:41 GMTThe full House voted to hold Leon Black in contempt of Congress over defied Epstein-related subpoenas, as the Apollo co-founder sues the Oversight Committee to quash them.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/kazakhstan-export-routes-cap-answer-oil-shortage/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/kazakhstan-export-routes-cap-answer-oil-shortage/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:05:31 GMTWith Hormuz blocked and Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline offline, attention turned to Kazakhstan's reserves. Analysts say its export plumbing, not its geology, is the binding constraint.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/continental-resources-orinoco-belt-126000-acres/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/continental-resources-orinoco-belt-126000-acres/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:36:38 GMTContinental Resources will develop and operate a 126,000-acre block in Venezuela's Orinoco Belt with an estimated 30 billion barrels in place — a rare US return to Venezuelan heavy crude.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/gold-is-above-4-000-and-the-bottleneck-has-moved-to-mill-capacity/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/gold-is-above-4-000-and-the-bottleneck-has-moved-to-mill-capacity/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:45:00 GMTLake Victoria Gold initiated a land valuation and compensation programme covering 111.32 acres at its Tembo Gold Project in Tanzania, with completion targeted for early October 2026, to secure access for a toll-milling arrangement with Nyati Resources' 500-tonne-per-day processing plant.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/salesforce-slides-briefing-outage-reports/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/salesforce-slides-briefing-outage-reports/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:26:16 GMTSalesforce shares fell 1.98% to 250.59 on Wednesday afternoon as reports of a global system outage circulated hours before a scheduled post-close investor briefing.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/pentagon-cto-rejects-federal-equity-stakes-tech-giants/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/pentagon-cto-rejects-federal-equity-stakes-tech-giants/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:13:08 GMTThe Defense Department's technology chief came out against Washington holding equity in large tech firms and cast doubt on new AI rules, aligning with President Trump's resistance to a slowdown.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/hubspot-widens-openai-deal-shares-slip/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/hubspot-widens-openai-deal-shares-slip/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:17:20 GMTHubSpot expanded its OpenAI partnership Wednesday with a ChatGPT Ads integration and an AI Growth Bundle aimed at smaller businesses. The stock eased 1.43% while the Nasdaq 100 rose.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/optics-stocks-bounce-coherent-lumentum-applied-optoelectronics/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/optics-stocks-bounce-coherent-lumentum-applied-optoelectronics/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:55:38 GMTCoherent, Lumentum and Applied Optoelectronics all outran the tape Wednesday with no company news behind the move, a pattern that says more about positioning than fundamentals.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/critical-metals-tanbreez-refinery-revenue-projection/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/critical-metals-tanbreez-refinery-revenue-projection/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:46:27 GMTA refinery study attached a dollar figure to Critical Metals' Greenland rare earth plan, and the stock moved 5%. USA Rare Earth slipped and MP Materials barely budged.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/centene-reaffirms-2026-eps-outlook-shares-slip/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/centene-reaffirms-2026-eps-outlook-shares-slip/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:18:20 GMTCentene told investors at the Deutsche Bank Healthcare Summit that its full-year 2026 GAAP and adjusted EPS guidance stands. The shares still finished the session down 2.52%.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/china-mines-79-of-world-tungsten-the-us-answer-needs-land-302880668/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/china-mines-79-of-world-tungsten-the-us-answer-needs-land-302880668/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:17:00 GMTWestern Star Resources Inc. acquired fourteen lode claims contiguous with its Eagle Point Tungsten Project in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, together with a 25-year Surface Use Agreement providing exclusive surface rights for mineral operations, addressing the land-access constraint that commonly stalls U.S. critical-minerals projects.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/gold-is-near-record-highs-the-slow-part-is-buying-the-surface-302880460/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/gold-is-near-record-highs-the-slow-part-is-buying-the-surface-302880460/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMTLake Victoria Gold Limited has initiated its first land valuation and compensation programme at its Tembo Gold Project in Tanzania, covering 111.32 acres over the Ngula 1 deposit, with completion targeted for early October 2026 under statutory processes defined by Tanzanian mining law.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/china-named-15-tungsten-exporters-for-2026-the-west-is-drilling-302880519/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/china-named-15-tungsten-exporters-for-2026-the-west-is-drilling-302880519/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMTGoldHaven Resources Corp. advanced drilling at its Magno Project in northern British Columbia, completing over 800 metres across four holes at the historic Kuhn tungsten system with broad skarn intervals, as China's restriction of tungsten exports to 15 authorized firms in 2026 and 2027 drives prices from $750–$850 per metric tonne unit at the start of 2026 to $2,500–$2,800 per mtu since May 29.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/wu-tsai-live-sports-asset-class-ai-era/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/wu-tsai-live-sports-asset-class-ai-era/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:41:20 GMTBrooklyn Nets and New York Liberty co-owner Clara Wu Tsai argues live sports are gaining value as AI floods the content market, and that franchises now trade as a genuine asset class.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/frozen-boeing-pension-still-moves-with-pay/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/16/frozen-boeing-pension-still-moves-with-pay/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:16:15 GMTBoeing engineers voted down a contract over pay. For a 60-year-old with a legacy pension frozen in 2018, the salary fight may still reach a number that never stopped moving.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/agnico-eagle-schwab-join-ibd-watchlists/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/agnico-eagle-schwab-join-ibd-watchlists/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:39:27 GMTA gold miner and a discount broker landed on Investor's Business Daily's growth screens the same day, alongside 16 other names — and both closed the session moving in opposite directions.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/huang-calls-fast-vs-careful-ai-false-choice-dreamforce/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/huang-calls-fast-vs-careful-ai-false-choice-dreamforce/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:47:17 GMTJensen Huang and Dario Amodei took opposite sides on AI's pace at Dreamforce, days after Amodei's essay urging a slowdown. Nvidia last traded at 212.17, up 0.57%.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/crude-four-month-high-saudi-pipeline-shut/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/crude-four-month-high-saudi-pipeline-shut/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:56:31 GMTOil rose to four-month highs Tuesday with Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline offline and Houthi threats hanging over Red Sea shipping, while US equity benchmarks slipped across the board.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/musk-details-new-tesla-roadster-tsla-eases/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/musk-details-new-tesla-roadster-tsla-eases/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:47:05 GMTElon Musk has put new detail behind Tesla's long-delayed Roadster ahead of an Oct. 1 event, with talk of a flying variant. The stock eased 0.55% to 357.00 in Tuesday trade.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/evolution-petroleum-q4-results-28-percent-slide/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/evolution-petroleum-q4-results-28-percent-slide/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:04:27 GMTEvolution Petroleum reports fiscal Q4 after Tuesday's close. The shares changed hands at 3.81, up 2.70%, but remain 28% lower over a year — here is what matters in the print.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/white-house-leans-industry-police-ai-risks/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/white-house-leans-industry-police-ai-risks/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:36:59 GMTTrump officials say AI companies can manage their own safety risks and that beating China matters more than new rules. Critics disagree. Big tech slipped as the debate played out.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/oklo-path-back-100-three-tests/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/oklo-path-back-100-three-tests/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:28:16 GMTOklo changed hands at $35.86 on Tuesday, well off its highs. Aurora, Groves and an Ohio plan backed by Meta and Centrus are the three checkpoints that decide whether a $100 handle is realistic.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/transocean-valaris-jump-broad-tape-slides/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/transocean-valaris-jump-broad-tape-slides/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:17:47 GMTOffshore drillers pulled sharply away from a weak broad market on Tuesday, with Transocean, Valaris and W&T Offshore all up more than 5% while the S&P 500 tracker slipped 0.53%.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/truist-near-prime-auto-exit-barclays-conference/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/truist-near-prime-auto-exit-barclays-conference/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:19:10 GMTTruist's finance chief used a Barclays investor presentation to lay out the bank's exit from near-prime auto lending and what the proceeds could fund. Shares rose while the broad market fell.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/shanghai-crude-929-yuan-record-sc-contract/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/shanghai-crude-929-yuan-record-sc-contract/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:00:17 GMTShanghai's yuan crude contract reached 929.4 yuan, or $138.50 a barrel, its highest since the 2018 launch, as Middle East supply risk and refiner buying collide.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/chipotle-targets-370-new-restaurants-2026-apprentice-program/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/chipotle-targets-370-new-restaurants-2026-apprentice-program/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:17:59 GMTChipotle set a 2026 opening target of 350 to 370 restaurants and pledged an Apprentice in each of its 4,200-plus company-owned locations by the end of 2027.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/santoli-ai-youthful-phase-over-nasdaq-slips/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/santoli-ai-youthful-phase-over-nasdaq-slips/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:41:22 GMTCNBC's Michael Santoli says AI's "youthful phase" has ended and the story has turned to risk, with long-dated order backlogs now suspect and the Nasdaq closing lower.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/kavanaugh-blocks-postal-ballot-rule-2026-midterms/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/15/kavanaugh-blocks-postal-ballot-rule-2026-midterms/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:16:13 GMTThe Supreme Court left a lower-court block on a Postal Service mail-in ballot rule in place for the 2026 midterms, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh calling its application "arbitrary and capricious."News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/dollar-over-line-adds-2300-couple-medicare-bill/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/dollar-over-line-adds-2300-couple-medicare-bill/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:38:54 GMTCross a Medicare income threshold by one dollar and a retired couple can owe $2,300 more in premiums for the year. Where income funds are held decides who gets caught.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/trump-resists-ai-rules-10-year-touches-5/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/trump-resists-ai-rules-10-year-touches-5/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:46:29 GMTTrump argued against tighter artificial-intelligence rules as the 10-year Treasury yield reached 5% and tech-heavy benchmarks closed lower, leaving AI equities pulled in two directions.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/valve-steam-frame-memory-prices-1059/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/valve-steam-frame-memory-prices-1059/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:56:19 GMTValve's Steam Frame headset arrived costing more than the sub-$1,059 the company had planned, with RAM and storage prices named as the reason — a cost squeeze now reaching consumer hardware.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/crude-enters-the-week-near-100-with-hormuz-talks-set-for-monday-302878037/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/crude-enters-the-week-near-100-with-hormuz-talks-set-for-monday-302878037/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:34:00 GMTCrude oil settled near $100 a barrel on September 13, 2026, as the market awaits a Monday meeting between Gulf Cooperation Council diplomats and Iran in Oman to discuss shipping arrangements through the Strait of Hormuz, with refining margins at record levels across the Atlantic Basin due to 5 million barrels a day of global refining capacity offline.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/bank-america-flags-drop-investment-banking-fees/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/bank-america-flags-drop-investment-banking-fees/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:47:29 GMTThe second-largest U.S. bank by assets guided third-quarter investment banking fees more than 10% lower, and the stock fell 5.60% on the day while the S&P 500 barely moved.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/cathie-wood-five-technologies-double-global-gdp/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/cathie-wood-five-technologies-double-global-gdp/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:06:02 GMTCathie Wood compares the present moment to the Industrial Revolution, arguing AI plus four converging platforms could double global growth — far above IMF forecasts.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/amazon-slips-ads-appearing-chatgpt-pilot/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/amazon-slips-ads-appearing-chatgpt-pilot/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:36:15 GMTAmazon's advertising business is being piloted inside ChatGPT, pushing its ad inventory beyond its own properties. The stock eased 0.64% with terms undisclosed.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/5-percent-ten-year-crude-squeeze-equity-multiples/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/5-percent-ten-year-crude-squeeze-equity-multiples/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:27:45 GMTThe 10-year Treasury yield touched 5% and crude jumped as U.S. equity indexes slipped Monday, with AI-demand doubts hitting the Nasdaq hardest before it pared losses.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/burry-reads-ai-safety-warnings-competitive-positioning/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/burry-reads-ai-safety-warnings-competitive-positioning/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:14:06 GMTMichael Burry argues that AI slowdown warnings from OpenAI and Anthropic say more about competitive positioning than safety, with Microsoft and Alphabet in focus as tech shares slip.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/musk-orbiting-nvidia-ai-computers-2027/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/musk-orbiting-nvidia-ai-computers-2027/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:19:39 GMTElon Musk says SpaceX could start lofting Nvidia-powered AI computers into orbit next year. What space-based compute would actually require — and why Nvidia shares fell anyway.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/chip-equipment-selloff-amat-lrcx-asml/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/chip-equipment-selloff-amat-lrcx-asml/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:56:39 GMTApplied Materials, Lam Research and ASML all fell harder than the Nasdaq 100 on Monday as worries about the pace of AI capital spending moved from chip designers into fab equipment orders.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/ai-drug-discovery-market-projected-to-reach-13-8-billion-by-2033-302877679/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/ai-drug-discovery-market-projected-to-reach-13-8-billion-by-2033-302877679/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMTMindWalk Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HYFT) secured a $30 million unsecured revolving credit facility from Sanabil (Cayman) at a fixed 7.00% annual interest rate with no financial covenants, no asset liens, and no equity dilution, as the global AI in drug discovery market is projected to reach $13.8 billion by 2033 from approximately $2.9 billion in 2026.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/amgen-shorter-monitoring-window-imdelltra-doses/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/amgen-shorter-monitoring-window-imdelltra-doses/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:47:37 GMTThe FDA has signed off on a label change for Amgen's IMDELLTRA that cuts recommended monitoring time for the first two doses, easing a key logistical barrier to uptake.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/us-utilities-plan-24-gw-of-new-battery-storage-in-2026-as-interconnection-waits-stretch/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/us-utilities-plan-24-gw-of-new-battery-storage-in-2026-as-interconnection-waits-stretch/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:59:00 GMTUS utilities plan 24 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage for 2026, with NOMAD Power Solutions (NASDAQ: NMAD) offering truck-transportable battery systems to address grid interconnection delays; the company completed its July 2026 merger and trades under NMAD effective July 6, 2026.Stocks Watchsponsored https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/cadbury-two-months-chocolate-crumb-supply-line-malaysia/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/cadbury-two-months-chocolate-crumb-supply-line-malaysia/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:42:54 GMTMondelez says one sourcing change took two months out of the lead time for a core Cadbury ingredient, as the company builds out chocolate manufacturing in Malaysia.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/haidilao-founder-350-million-share-sale-china-tax/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/14/haidilao-founder-350-million-share-sale-china-tax/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:16:17 GMTA roughly $350 million share sale by a Haidilao co-founder triggered a sharp slide and turned investor attention to other founder-heavy Hong Kong listings facing China's tax clampdown.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/13/bessent-3-percent-growth-bet-labor-force-math/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/13/bessent-3-percent-growth-bet-labor-force-math/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:40:36 GMTTreasury's "Grow Your Way Out" plan leans on sustained 3% growth. With the labor force expanding slowly, that math demands a near-doubling of productivity growth.News https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/13/insight-partners-spreads-ai-bets-rivals-concentrate/https://americannewsgroup.com/2026/09/13/insight-partners-spreads-ai-bets-rivals-concentrate/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:46:12 GMTInsight Partners' Devin Parekh says the $90 billion firm is holding stakes across rival AI labs rather than concentrating in OpenAI and Anthropic — a contrarian stance in a market built on winner-take-all bets.News