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Three teams are playing two races at once. New York and Boston hold both wild-card spots while chasing Tampa Bay, which makes every remaining series carry two implications instead of one. Read →
Austin, Myrtle Beach, Las Vegas, Dallas and Cape Coral are seeing short-term rental occupancy fall while listings stay elevated. Failed rentals are converting into for-sale inventory. Read →
The 30-year fixed reached 6.69%, a fifth straight weekly increase and the highest in over a year. Purchase applications fell 4% week-over-week and pending sales hit multi-month lows. Read →
The Diamondbacks beat Los Angeles 4-3 in walk-off fashion on Friday. The Dodgers remain the NL West favorite after adding Tarik Skubal, whose next starts now carry real weight. Read →
The Rays beat Seattle 2-1 behind seven scoreless innings and eight strikeouts from Drew Rasmussen. Tampa Bay is 69-46 and leads the AL East by 4.5 games. Read →
The Red Sox routed the Athletics 13-1 behind 14 strikeouts in six innings from Payton Tolle, keeping Boston within five games of the AL East lead. Read →
New York beat Atlanta 3-2 in 10 innings behind 6.1 scoreless from Max Fried. The Yankees sit 4.5 games back in the AL East with roughly seven weeks left. Read →
The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow all posted their largest weekly percentage gains since April, with the S&P finishing at a record. Strong Q2 earnings and a soft July payrolls print did the work. Read →
The Trade Desk issued a third-quarter revenue outlook that missed elevated expectations and shares dropped more than 20%. It is the same pattern that hit Datadog this week. Read →
Brent hovered near the mid-$80s after a week of round trips on shifting reports of a temporary shipping arrangement through the Strait of Hormuz. Tanker flows, not headlines, set the risk premium. Read →
Gold moved above $4,300 and posted one of its strongest weekly gains of 2026 as real yields fell with the soft labor data. Official-sector buying and ETF inflows stayed supportive. Read →
Bitcoin traded near $65,000 after a soft July payrolls print cut rate-hike odds, while spot ETFs took in more than $100 million on August 7 and extended a multi-day streak. Read →
The Cardinals and Panthers opened the 2026 NFL calendar at the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, with Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly and Adam Vinatieri enshrined the same week. Read →
Panthers rookie WR Chris Brazzell tore his LCL. Saints DT Bryan Bresee tore his ACL. Both are done for the season before it starts, and both change a depth chart. Read →
Bijan Robinson became the NFL's highest-paid running back. Two days later, Jahmyr Gibbs topped him. Jonathan Taylor got paid in the same stretch. The pattern matters more than any one deal. Read →
Atlassian beat Q4 estimates on both revenue and cloud growth, and shares surged 35% after hours. The company is also giving away AI coding agents inside Jira at no extra cost. Read →
The July jobs report showed an unexpected loss of jobs. Traders read it as reducing the odds of a Fed rate hike, and stocks closed at a record Friday. Read →
The FDA approved mFlusiva for adults 50 and older, the first mRNA seasonal influenza vaccine cleared in the United States. The buying window for the 2026-27 season had already closed. Read →
Adjusted EPS of $0.65 on revenue of $1.12 billion, both ahead of consensus, billings up 38% and full-year guidance raised. The stock still dropped about 19%. Read →
Second-quarter revenue of $696.1 million, up 36%, non-GAAP operating income of $96.1 million, and current remaining performance obligations up 35%. Shares rose sharply after hours. Read →
Second-quarter revenue of $3.61 billion, adjusted EPS of $1.37, gross booking value up 16% to $27.2 billion, and a third-quarter guide above the street. Shares rose about 9% after hours. Read →
A three-year extension worth up to $75 million with $51 million guaranteed and $37 million at signing makes Robinson the highest-paid running back in NFL history. The Jalen Carter deal is the other half of the story. Read →
Los Angeles acquired the back-to-back AL Cy Young winner from Detroit for Zyhir Hope, River Ryan and Brady Smith. His first start at Wrigley ended 5-1, and the line inside it was a quality outing. Read →
Ricky Pearsall needs PCL surgery and misses 2026 with a 2027 target. Nic Scourton tore an ACL on day one of camp, and the NFLPA is investigating. Plus the honest read on Sadiq, Ertz and Nabers. Read →
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