As a Japanese nutritionist living in the U.S., I love shopping for traditional foods that I grew up eating, such as seaweed, beans, matcha, multigrain rice, and sweet potatoes.I sometimes go to Costco to buy those staples in bulk. But during a recent trip to Japan, I had the chance to shop at the Costco Yawata Warehouse in Kyoto, which you can visit using your U.S. membership card.I was curious to see how it compared to the American stores, and I ended up being very surprised.Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsThe layout was very similar to the Costco stores in the…
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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty ImagesMany engaged couples in the U.S. are relying on forms of credit to pay for their wedding. Experts say that approach can be smart, if done carefully.While 46% of surveyed newlyweds — couples who tied the knot within the past two years — used mostly savings to pay for costs, 24% paid with credit cards, according to a report by LendingTree. The site polled 1,050 newlyweds in early March.A separate report by Zola, based on a survey of 6,000 couples getting married in 2025, found that 31% of engaged couples polled plan to use credit…
A marquee featuring “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is seen outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Colbert’s show is produced, in New York City on July 18, 2025. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesThere are two schools of thought around CBS’ decision to end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”The first says the cancellation is a one-off exit from the storied time slot — that Paramount was trying to push through the red tape to finally merge with Skydance Media, a deal that was approved by the Federal Communications Commission Thursday after more than a year in limbo.The…
The Trump administration has taken direct stakes in companies on a scale rarely seen in the U.S. outside wartime or economic crisis, pushing a Republican Party that traditionally championed free-market capitalism to embrace state intervention in industries viewed as important for national security.Japan’s Nippon Steel agreed to give President Donald Trump a “golden share” in U.S. Steel as a condition for the two companies’ controversial merger. Trump now personally wields sweeping veto power over major business decisions made by the nation’s third-largest steel producer.”You know who has the golden share? I do,” Trump said at a summit on artificial intelligence…
“Hey, you never know” was the catchphrase of New York State Lottery ads through much of the 1990s. An old friend in advertising who worked on another state’s lottery account once told me his creative team couldn’t get that line out of their minds, failing to improve upon the way it so perfectly captured the awareness of long odds that make the notion of winning that much more enticing. “I’ll probably lose – but what if I don’t?” Without belaboring a clumsy and reductionist analogy between negative-sum lottery games and positive-sum investing, the recent re-embrace of meme-stock trading, proliferating short-squeeze…
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer react after picking up the trade agreement with the U.K. papers that Trump dropped as they speak to the media during the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff powers and recent trade deals could soon run into a legal buzzsaw.A federal appeals court is set to hear oral arguments next week in a high-profile lawsuit challenging Trump’s stated authority to effectively slap tariffs at any level on any country at any time, so long as he deems them necessary…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesAt Tesla, vehicle sales are slumping, profits are thinning and revenue from regulatory credit sales are poised to dry up due to Republican-led policy changes.In the past, CEO Elon Musk’s futuristic promises have convinced investors to look past top and bottom line numbers.Not now.Following another fairly dismal earnings report this week, Musk told analysts on the call that Tesla’s electric vehicles will soon become driverless, making money for owners…
Stocks including Northrop Grumman and Advanced Micro Devices appear overbought after this week’s rally, according to one widely used technical metric. The three major U.S. indexes notched strong gains this week, powered by a slew of positive earnings reports and developments on trade deals. The S & P 500 rose 1.5% in the period after recording five record closes this week alone and notching 14 total record closes this year. The 30-stock Dow gained roughly 1.3% this week, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1%. Stocks that popped during this winning run could be on risky ground moving forward, though. Using…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang spoke at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday, July 26, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSHANGHAI — The tech race between the world’s two largest economies just intensified.China on Saturday released a global action plan for artificial intelligence, calling for international cooperation on tech development and regulation.The news came as the annual state-organized World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai with an opening speech by Premier Li Qiang, who announced that the Chinese government has proposed the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization, according to an official readout.Days…
Bank of America said this week it sees a host of companies that are well positioned ahead of earnings. Analysts named stocks like Amazon that have compelling valuations or expected catalysts as quarterly reporting season continues. Other buy-rated names it cited include: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Oddity Tech , Bilibili and AppLovin. Oddity Tech The global beauty tech platform is firing on all cylinders, the firm wrote. Analyst Anna Lizzul praised the company’s “innovative” digital offering in a recent note and says it has a wide moat for growth. “With the vast majority of its sales direct-to-consumer (DTC) we see ODD at…
