Month: February 2021

Good morning. Tristan Walker is a rarity—a Black entrepreneur who successfully raised $40 million dollars from Silicon Valley to start his own company, which makes health and beauty products for people of color. He also earned a spot on Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders list in 2019. This week, he was Ellen McGirt’s and my guest […]

This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Good morning. U.S. futures are nudging higher ahead of today’s jobless-claims data dump. Why should investors care about something as mundane as jobs? Answer: because the U.S. labor market is a […]

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. The pandemic has given Americans much to process this week. There are reasons for concern, like the continued spread of more contagious and potentially more deadly coronavirus variants around the country; data from the CDC, […]

In all the excitement of the latest cryptocurrency bull run—Tesla buying Bitcoin, Ethereum hitting all-time highs, Snoop Doge—it’s easy to overlook what makes the technology underpinning all this newfound loot so exciting. Mostly people just want to talk about the big price movements. And space shuttle cartoons. (Not that I’m against price talk.Wheee!) But real […]

This is the web version of CEO Daily. To get it delivered to your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. The price of bitcoin hit a new high Tuesday morning, rising above $47,000 for the first time in its history. That was driven by Monday’s revelation that Tesla purchased $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency to hold on […]

This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Buongiorno. Global stocks are heading back to record territory this morning, and U.S. futures too are rebounding on another solid run of earnings from the likes of Twitter and Lyft yesterday. […]

A friend of mine remarked the other day, wearing a pained expression, that he wished he had bought Dogecoin. “What? Why?” I asked, struggling to mask my incredulity. “Because the price has gone up so much. It’s up, like, 1,000% recently,” he said. “Elon Musk is endorsing it.” (Dogecoin’s price has surged 1,600% since the […]

This is the web version of the Bull Sheet, Fortune’s no-BS daily newsletter on the markets. Sign up to receive it in your inbox here. Good morning, Bull Sheeters. European stocks and U.S. futures are flat on Tuesday, putting the S&P 500’s six-day rally in jeopardy as we head into a big day of impeachment hearings […]

A naive part of me hoped for a slow start to Monday. This was not my day . Let’s kick off the week with a highly debated topic: the move by some venture capitalists to Florida and Texas. Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded in part by Peter Thiel, has rented out space in […]