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Nike Falls 3% to a Fresh 52-Week Low as China Weakness Overshadows Its Wholesale Rebound - 24/7 Wall St.
Nike just hit a fresh 52-week low even as its wholesale numbers are actually improving, and the contradiction at the heart of that gap reveals why Wall Street analysts are split further apart on this stock than almost any other name in retail.
24/7 Wall St. · 17 Aug 2026Why does everyone hate data centers? - Silver Bulletin
My chat with Jasmine Sun about what role data centers could play in the midterms, how the backlash caught Silicon Valley by surprise — and why Claude can be so weird.
Natesilver.net · 17 Aug 2026The King Of The AI Bubble - seekingalpha.com
Nvidia Corporation downgraded to Hold as $500B AI securitization raises bubble and systemic risk fears. Click for a look at what NVDA says about the broader market.
Seeking Alpha · 17 Aug 2026The National Debt Is Wreaking Havoc With Bonds. Where We Go From Here. - Barron's
The U.S. shows no sign that its borrowing will let up anytime soon. And that, plus market volality and inflation, is a potent mixture.
Barron's · 17 Aug 2026Exclusive / L3Harris CEO ousted for relationship with subordinate - Semafor
Chris Kubasik was previously fired from Lockheed Martin after a similar probe more than a decade ago.
Semafor.com · 17 Aug 2026Benard Feni named Entrepreneur of the Year as Euro Gold Refinery takes top extractives award
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Businessman and gospel artist Benard Feni, popularly known as Mungu Feni, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2026 Business Excellence Awards, where his company, Euro Gold Refinery Ltd, was also recognised as the Platinum Winner in the Best Natural Resources and Extractives category. The awards, organised … The post Benard Feni named Entrepreneur of the Year as Euro Gold
The Independent Uganda · 17 Aug 2026Purely Elizabeth Founder Sells To Ferrero For $850 Million: “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway” - forbes.com
Seventeen years ago, Elizabeth Stein started making muffin mix in her Upper West Side Manhattan apartment to sell to her nutrition clients. Now she’s worth an estimated $400 million, thanks to the recent sale of her Purely Elizabeth granola and oatmeal brand.
Forbes · 17 Aug 2026Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors - Bloomberg.com
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies, according to people familiar with the matte…
Bloomberg · 17 Aug 2026Americans Are Tossing Salad in Unprecedented Numbers - Futurism
Prices for the greens plummeted by over 16 percent in July compared to June highlighting consumer concerns over the cyclospora outbreak.
Futurism · 17 Aug 2026Is GitHub Down? Here’s What To Know - Forbes
GitHub said in a Monday morning update it is “currently performing mitigations” to fix site outages.
Forbes · 17 Aug 2026Restaurant Inspection Scores: August 11 – August 17 - WREG.com
Newest Restaurant Report Card | If you want the latest Shelby County restaurant scores sent directly to your inbox, sign up for it today on WREG’s Newsletter here. Each week, WREG is rounding up the highest and lowest scores from Shelby County restaurant insp…
WREG NewsChannel 3 · 17 Aug 2026Gold, silver rise as oil spike lifts yields, hits equities - Kitco PM Report - KITCO
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are higher in late-afternoon U.S. trading Monday, as a weaker U.S. dollar and lower Fed-hike expectations supported precious metals even as a rally in crude oil lifted Treasury yields and pressured equities.…
Kitco NEWS · 17 Aug 2026Stripe Purchase Of AI Firm OpenRouter Unlikely To Derail PayPal Deal - Investor's Business Daily
PayPal stock dipped as analysts mulled how Stripe's OpenRouter purchase could impact a possible takeover of the payments firm.
Investor's Business Daily · 17 Aug 2026US Bond Selloff Drives 30-Year Yields to Highest Since 2007 - Yahoo Finance
The yield on 30-year US Treasuries hit the highest in almost two decades, reflecting investor angst over the surging national debt, a flood of long-dated bon...
Yahoo Entertainment · 17 Aug 2026Micron Stock Claws Back From Lows To A Buy Point - Investor's Business Daily
Micron stock is on pace for five straight rising sessions and hit an alternate buy point. The memory chipmaker's earnings exploded in June.
Investor's Business Daily · 17 Aug 2026Nzeyi ready to refund NSSF for disputed Temangalo land
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An investigative look into the National Social Security Fund’s (NSSF) 2008 Temangalo land acquisition has exposed a 16-year administrative gridlock, leaving billions in workers’ savings locked out of 55 contested acres.Despite NSSF holding all six legal land titles for the 463.87-acre estate, prominent businessman Amos Nzeyi continues … The post Nzeyi ready to refund NSSF for dispu
The Independent Uganda · 17 Aug 2026Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI - TechCrunch
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
TechCrunch · 17 Aug 2026What Happens When Ugandan Products Become Easier to Find and Buy?
More than 5,000 orders do not prove that every Ugandan product has a ready market. They do suggest that measurable demand can emerge when access improves.
Nile Post · 17 Aug 2026Investor dubbed the ‘AI stock god’ had 56% of his hedge fund invested in these two stocks before the July blow-up - MarketWatch
Lack of situational awareness? Leopold Aschenbrenner’s fund bet the house on Micron and Sandisk before a pullback.
MarketWatch · 17 Aug 2026Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data - Bloomberg Law News
Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records from collapsed low-cost carrier Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., saying it plans to use the assets to improve its artificial intelligence.
Bloomberglaw.com · 17 Aug 2026Bally’s issues ‘going concern’ warning to investors - Crain's Chicago Business
The warning underscores the financial pressures Bally’s faces while trying to finish its Chicago casino project and sparring with the city over video gambling.
Crain's Chicago Business · 17 Aug 2026Creator Academy wants to fix what happens after the studio
Uganda has never really struggled to produce talent. The harder question has always been what happens to that talent once the song leaves the studio. For years, the country has produced singers, songwriters and producers capable of making records that travel far beyond Uganda. But while the music itself is increasingly finding audiences abroad, the […] The post Creator Academy wants to fix what happens after the stud
Sqoop Uganda · 17 Aug 2026US stocks hang near their record heights - apnews.com
U.S. stocks are edging further from their record heights. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% Monday but remains near its all-time high set on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 284 points, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%. Wall Street has run to record…
Associated Press · 17 Aug 2026
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