Current price of oil as of April 22, 2026
At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $101.14 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s an increase of…
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‘An investment thesis is not a religion’: $44 billion CIO warns you need to figure out how you might lose money, not just make it
In an era of trillion-dollar bets on AI and whiplash-inducing market swings, Nicolas Giauque has a blunt message for investors who’ve grown too comfortable with their conviction: check yourself. “An…
The $6 trillion reinvention: Why IT services firms must start underwriting outcomes
A financial analyst, a few years out of school, sits in front of four cloud terminals at a New York hedge fund, running $1,000 a day in AI tokens. His…
At $5 billion startup Checkr new employees build an app using AI during onboarding—even the new CFO
Good morning. Checkr, used by businesses for an AI-powered background check service, has a new CFO ready to double down on AI in finance—and he built an app during onboarding.…
Meet the film school dropout who became a billionaire quantum computing CEO in days thanks to Nvidia
Christian Weedbrook, a film school dropout turned CEO of Xanadu Quantum Technologies, was minted a billionaire in a matter of days thanks to Nvidia endorsing quantum computing as the future…
Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends
While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their number one priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, says if…
Boards say the C-suite owns the AI strategy. The C-suite doesn’t agree
Boards are clear. The C-suite is running AI. In a new Pearl Meyer survey of 108 executives and board members released on Wednesday, 90% of board members said responsibility for…
Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.
Palantir published a mini manifesto over the weekend based on a book by its CEO that made the company’s position clear on a range of topics from reinstating the military…
The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 40s, 50s and beyond too
New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows a surprising phenomenon: The average age of first-time homebuyers getting a mortgage has barely budged over the past two…
Feud between AI power startup Fermi and its fired CEO and top shareholder heats up over proposed sale
The new leadership of the AI power startup Fermi is feuding with its fired CEO and top shareholder over a potential sale of the company. The struggling Texas company, which…