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Anthropic’s proposed initial public offering is more than the arrival of another high-profile technology stock. It may become the clearest public-market referendum yet on whether generative artificial intelligence can produce economic returns commensurate with the extraordinary capital committed to it. For investors, the offering’s significance extends from AI valuations and
Most business owners sell a company only once, and there is no practice run. After years or decades of building something, much of your wealth, and often much of your identity, is tied to the business. Selling involves a long list of decisions, from valuation and deal structure to timing
For a growing number of high school and college athletes, name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements have become a real source of income. That income can come from a single large agreement, a revenue-sharing payment from a school, or a handful of smaller deals with local businesses. Unlike most traditional
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the US was unchanged in September at 99.6 (2016=100), according to the release published today. That follows a 0.1% decline in August, the first monthly drop since March. Because July was revised higher, the index sits above the level reported a month ago,
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index fell three points to 29 in October, its lowest reading since June 2012 and below the consensus forecast of 31. Anything under 50 means more builders view conditions as poor than good, and the index has now been below that line for most of
NFIB’s September survey shows a net 17% of small business owners plan to increase employment over the next three months, unchanged from August and well above the long run average of net 11%. That reading sits at the strong end of the range plotted on the chart, where inverted hiring
September’s Producer Price Index (PPI), which tracks the prices businesses receive for their goods and services, showed wholesale inflation accelerating sharply. Producer prices rose 6.3% from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from a revised 5.6% in August and the largest annual increase since December
A phone call from a panicked grandchild. A voicemail from your bank’s fraud department. An email from your CFO asking for an urgent wire. None of these used to be hard to sort from a fake, since fakes had tells: odd phrasing, a wrong voice, a misspelled domain. Artificial intelligence
Existing home sales rose 1.5% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.99 million, according to the National Association of Realtors, but the headline flatters a market that is still contracting on an annual basis, with sales 2.2% below September of last year. The monthly gain came off
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index declined 0.8 points in September to 97.9, one tenth of a point below the 52 year average of 98.0, according to the report released this morning. That modest decline carries symbolic weight, because it ends a summer run that saw the index jump to
Consumer prices rose 0.6% in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, following a 0.4% gain in August. On a year over year basis, headline CPI climbed to 3.7% from 3.4%. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.3% for a second straight month and increased to 2.6%
The major U.S. stock indexes are near record territory, but the typical stock has been telling a less enthusiastic story. This gap between the headline index and the experience of most stocks is called market breadth, and it is one of the most important market signals for investors to understand
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