Ford’s big-truck bet is paying off — and Wall Street is taking notice

Bonds are weaker to start the new week and the catalyst is simple. The U.S. ramped up air strikes in Iran, both in terms of number and distance inland. Iran responded by hitting various allied targets. Perhaps more importantly for financial markets, shipping traffic has returned back to war-time lows after a noticeable surge in…

Agility Robotics has a new hub in Silicon Valley, where it will be luring more world-class engineers to join the humanoid maker. Just don’t expect the startup to get into a spending war for talent. Jonathan Hurst, Agility’s cofounder and chief robot officer, told Business Insider his company has no interest in joining the escalating…

Augustus, formerly known as Ivy, raised $180 million in a Series B funding round to support its offering that gives financial institutions around the world direct access to dollar accounts and rails through a federally chartered bank. The company will use the new funding to continue serving FinTechs and banks in Latin America, Southeast Asia,…

Across the country and at nearly every level of government, lawmakers are embracing an unconventional solution for affordable housing: allowing churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship to build homes on their land. It’s part of a growing national movement known as Yes in God’s Backyard, or YIGBY. Positioned as a counterpoint to Not in…

The June quarter earnings season gathers pace on Thursday, July 16, with 35 companies scheduled to announce their financial results for the first quarter of FY27. The day’s earnings calendar features several heavyweight names from sectors such as information technology, financial services, capital goods, banking, infrastructure, consumer products and manufacturing, making it an important session…