Current price of oil as of April 21, 2026
As of 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil is trading at $96.32 per barrel, based on the Brent benchmark we’ll explain in a bit. That’s 6 cents above yesterday morning’s…
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Fermi’s CFO resigns—just two days after the CEO stepped down
Good morning. In October, Fortune reported that former U.S. energy secretary and Texas governor Rick Perry’s AI power startup Fermi “went from nonexistent to an October IPO with a mammoth…
Tim Cook’s exit is part of a CEO reckoning sweeping Corporate America
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady explains how Apple’s handoff fits into this year’s extraordinary CEO turnover. The big leadership story: Kevin Warsh on the hot seat. The markets: Up…
Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden’s capture $100 million—but she says you don’t need wealth to give back
A lot of people talk about changing the world. But Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, gave Eva Longoria $50 million to actually do it. And two years on, she says…
Meet Blackstone’s ‘accidental influencer’ who made LinkedIn jogs Wall Street’s must‑watch content
It is nine degrees on a Sunday in January, and while most New Yorkers are hunkered down during New York City’s largest snowfall in years, Blackstone’s president and chief operating…
Hillhouse-backed Ascentium buys fellow business services firm Dezan Shira, as the platform tries to ride China’s surge in outbound investment
Ascentium, an Asia-based business services platform backed by Hillhouse Investment, is acquiring Dezan Shira & Associates, a 33-year-old advisory firm best known for its Asia Briefing intelligence platform. The deal…
Trump insists there’s no pressure to end the war in Iran that he started, but ‘it will all happen, relatively quickly!’
President Donald Trump offered mixed messages on Monday about the path ahead for the U.S. war against Iran, declaring that he was in no rush to end the conflict while…
This Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Tim Cook is leaving at a peak and John Ternus is exactly the right CEO for the AI era
Apple stock traded slightly down after-hours following the announcement that CEO Tim Cook will be stepping down, to be replaced by his hand-picked protégé, John Ternus. There is no question…
Nike’s ‘Walkers Tolerated’ sign at the Boston Marathon was meant to fire up runners. Instead, it insulted them
Nike got a brisk reminder last week of how edgy marketing can easily blow up in a brand’s face. The sneaker and apparel giant’s ad, at its store on Boston’s…
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down, and hardware boss John Ternus will be the new CEO
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple’s chief executive after 15 years leading the iconic company, with longtime Apple hardware executive John Ternus taking the reins as the new CEO…