Amazon Activates the Iran War Surcharge Today and the War Gets an Invoice
Amazon's 3.5% fuel surcharge on FBA sellers activates today — the first time a major consumer platform named the Iran war on a line item.
Business
Disney Began Cutting a Thousand Jobs This Week With ABC News and Marketing Taking the Heaviest Hits
D'Amaro's first Disney layoffs — up to 1,000 jobs, marketing gutted, ABC News bleeding — arrive with his $38-45 million comp package intact and the Big Five shrinking together.
SpaceX Files Quietly for What Would Be the Largest IPO Ever
The first trillion-dollar IPO is a defense contractor with a rocket, and the market is too polite to say so.
Tesla Retakes the EV Crown and Parks the Surplus on Dealer Lots
358,023 delivered, 310,389 for BYD, and 50,000 extra Teslas on the yard — the headline is the crown, the story is the inventory.
Abbott Beats Q1 Then Cuts 2026 Guidance to Swallow Its New Colon Test
Sales up 7.8%, EPS up 6%, and the guidance cut tells you exactly what Exact Sciences will cost in dilution this year — twenty cents.
United Pitches an American Airlines Merger as Oil Slips and Antitrust Looks Away
Scott Kirby pitched a merger to the White House, AAL jumped, and no one has yet done the antitrust math on a 34% market share.
NBA Europe Draws Billion-Dollar Bids From 120 Groups Before It Has a Schedule
Multiple first-round bids cleared $1 billion per franchise for a league that does not yet exist — the same capital buying European football is now bidding on basketball.