Lastest Stories by Douglas A. McIntyre

Apple has faced problems with iPhone sales in China and elsewhere. Here's why India may be its next successful frontier.
According to a famous tech investor, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), the world’s largest AI company, could be worth $50 trillion in ten years. Based on an analysis from the FT, that is about 16 times what...
The United States Postal Service will raise the price of a First Class stamp to 73 cents today. It is part of an extraordinary recent history of increases, as the Post Office has lost billions of...
Several airport rating studies exist. One, the AirHelp survey, examines 239 airports worldwide. The most recent is “The World’s Best Airports 2024.” The new study is based on on-time arrivals...
For much of the last several decades, there was a time when people started a family and bought a home. The rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was below 5% most years since 2009. The dream of...
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) expects to sell nine million more iPhones in the second half of 2024 than last year. It expects its new AI features to be the catalyst for the surge. If successful, that would...
There is a school of thought that Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google will not be the search engine of the future. However, it dominates the sector worldwide, with several exceptions, including China...
The June CPI results showed that inflation increased only 3% year over year, a relief for those concerned about the sharply rising prices from two years ago. Many analysts said the news opened the...
Cox Automotive released data on EV sales in the US in the second quarter of the year. Overall, EV sales rose 8.3% to 330,000, or 8% of the total cars and light trucks sold for the period. Several car...
After a brutal sell-off early in the year, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock performance finally matches the S&P 500’s for 2024. Each is up approximately 17%. It is a victory for shareholders,...
In the deepest trouble in its history, Boeing (NYSE: BA) sold only three passenger jets in the last month, an extraordinary drop from its usual rate. The company delivered 528 commercial jets last...
As the EV industry is crushed beyond what anyone could have believed a year ago, it is easier to see which companies can survive that trouble and which do not. Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) is on the...
Ford (NYSE: F) has had a tough year, at least according to investors. Its stock is up only 5% this year. Over the same period, the S&P 500 is 17% higher, and the shares of rival GM (NYSE: GM)...
According to a new study from MarketWatch, 49% of Americans say they are “broke.” Two-thirds say they are living “paycheck to paycheck.” However, the CPI topped 8% in 2022 and has recently...
Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has had an extraordinary run because its products are central to the AI revolution. Despite a slight sell-off recently, it is up 154% for the year, compared to a 16%...