Heavily Shorted Wendy's Soars After New CFO, Reddit Traders Pile In To Save Burger Chain

Headwinds And Tailwinds: Minding The Market Weather Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A sailor who fixates on the barometer will rarely leave port. A sailor who never checks it will eventually get caught in a storm. It’s easy for most investors to fall into one of those two modes, either warning that headwinds are approaching and taking cover, or waving off every warning because AI spending is carrying the market higher. This article walks through several market headwinds that warrant attention, as well as a tailwind that may be large enough...

US Treasury Secretary Presses Senate To Pass Crypto Market Structure Legislation Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a Senate panel Wednesday that passing comprehensive crypto legislation is essential to securing U.S. financial leadership and protecting the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, using an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government to amplify a push for legislation that has stalled on Capitol Hill for months. Bessent testified at a hearing reviewing President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request for the Department of the Treasury. During the...

Pro-Israel Forces Throw Kitchen Sink At Massie Ahead Of Tuesday Primary Eleven months after President Trump launched an all-out political war on Rep. Thomas Massie, the Tuesday, May 19 Kentucky GOP primary is almost here. With polls showing the race going down to the wire, the anti-Massie forces -- whose animus is largely driven by Massie's refusal to vote in accordance with the Israel lobby's wishes -- have been throwing everything they can at him, from vague 11th-hour allegations of inappropriate conduct with a woman, to AI ads showing Massie...