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Institutional investors are returning “in a big way” to retail

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2026

Key PointsAccording to a JLL report, more stores closed or downsized than opened or expanded during the first quarter, but…

Business & Money

Retail profits in Q1 2026 fueled by tax refunds and BNPL

By Stacey D. WallsJune 1, 2026

Shoppers enter and exit a Dior luxury boutique in Venice, Italy, November 16, 2025.Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe retail sector…

Technology

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: Runway’s Cris Valenzuela: Creating Hollywood-Friendly Video AI That OpenAI Couldn’t Veteran technology journalist Alex Konrad…

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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the biggest gap | Evan Spiegel Interviews with world-class product…

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Berlin-based Upvest, which develops trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, has raised $90 million in equity capital, according to sources, at a valuation of $735 million, up from around $413 million in 2024 (Arno Schütze/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: William Hockey – Building the Operating System for the Dollar Heresy and Silicon Valley…

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Retail prices could increase after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 13, 2026

The war in Iran could soon lead to higher prices in stores for consumers.Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of…

Technology

Robinhood launches its $658.4 million venture capital fund on the NYSE, pricing the IPO at $25 per share, giving retail investors access to private companies like Databricks (Manya Saini/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Slop’s Hard Fork Review The future is…

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Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Tariffs: Retail Industry Reacts

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 20, 2026

The retail industry said Friday that the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down some global tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump…

Technology

Robinhood Launches IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1 Billion Closed-End Fund to Give Retail Investors Access to Private Markets, Offering 40 Million Shares at $25 (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 18, 2026

Bloomberg: Robinhood is launching an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1 billion closed-end fund intended to give retail…

Technology

At the National Retail Federation 2026 conference in New York, where integrating AI into retail was the main theme of the exhibition (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The PM’s Non-Technical Guide to Building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) Interviews with world-class product…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

GM eyes new type of battery to expand data center and energy storage business

LIV Golf CEO says to take PIF ‘at its word’ as funding cliff approaches

Rivian is betting that R2 EV can make it a household name like Tesla

The bank will deploy more powerful agents this year

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Republicans go off the rails and say they don’t need proof to say the election is rigged

Top House Democrat demands answers about Trump’s health after he falls asleep during NBA Finals

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Super Micro Computer aims to raise $7 billion through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund the purchase of components needed to fulfill AI server orders (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the last four years used iOS 26 as of June 7, compared to 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

SF voters reject the Overpaid CEO Act, a union-backed ballot measure aimed at raising taxes on any large company where the CEO earns 100 times more than the median employee (Bloomberg)

Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20 million Series A round led by Jump Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Browsing: Retail

Institutional investors are returning “in a big way” to retail

Retail profits in Q1 2026 fueled by tax refunds and BNPL

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Berlin-based Upvest, which develops trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, has raised $90 million in equity capital, according to sources, at a valuation of $735 million, up from around $413 million in 2024 (Arno Schütze/Bloomberg)

Retail prices could increase after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz

Robinhood launches its $658.4 million venture capital fund on the NYSE, pricing the IPO at $25 per share, giving retail investors access to private companies like Databricks (Manya Saini/Reuters)

Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Tariffs: Retail Industry Reacts

Robinhood Launches IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1 Billion Closed-End Fund to Give Retail Investors Access to Private Markets, Offering 40 Million Shares at $25 (Bloomberg)

At the National Retail Federation 2026 conference in New York, where integrating AI into retail was the main theme of the exhibition (New York Times)