Brian Boyle

brian@thedailyupside.com

Brian Boyle (he/him) is Lead Reporter at The Daily Upside. His writing has previously appeared in outlets such as Vice, Slate, and The Los Angeles Times, where he was a contributing writer on the opinion section. He lives in Los Angeles.

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Grapples With Threats on All Fronts

Photo via Stanislav Kogiku / AFLO Sports/Newscom

And yet, last week, Tesla scored a couple key brownie points from Wall Street analysts. So why the optimism?

2 min read
Semiconductors

Nvidia Gives Intel a $5 Billion Helping Hand

Photo via imageBROKER/Md Mamun Miah/Newscom

Unfortunately for Intel, the deal does not provide a direct lifeline to its floundering chipmaking foundry business.

2 min read
Healthcare

Eli Lilly Upstages Novo Nordisk in Obesity Pill Face-Off

Photo via James Black/Icon Sportswire DHN/James Black/Icon Sportswire/Newscom

Both companies have been desperate to innovate beyond their current injectable GLP-1 weight-loss drugs for a while now.

1 min read
Real Estate

A Rate Cut May Be The Push The Housing Market Needs

Photo by Ar. Md. Afnan Hossain via Unsplash

An interest rate cut would mean a lot of things: one undoubtedly good one would be a housing market more welcoming to buyers.

2 min read
Economics

What To Expect After The Fed Cuts Rates

Photo via Tanarch

The Federal Reserve is poised to cut interest rates this week, but whether the era of “higher-for-longer” rates is over is another matter.

2 min read
Big Tech

Apple May Still Be a Hitmaker After All

Photo via Wu Xiaoling / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom

Apple’s latest generation of iPhones were debuted with modest aplomb last week. Presales show the company has plenty to be confident about.

1 min read
Finance

Can a Fed Rate Cut Boost the Magnificent Seven to New Heights?

Photo via M. Chang/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

In a note last week, JPMorgan’s Andrew Tyler wrote that macro conditions could turn a widely-expected rate cut into a “sell the news” event.

2 min read
Consumer

Big Tobacco Isn’t Up in Smoke Just Yet

Photo by Andrej Lišakov via Unsplash

So far this year, a basket of six global tobacco stocks have produced an average total return of 43%, according to The Wall Street Journal.

2 min read
Industrials

Caught Between Painful Present and Optimistic Outlook: Copper’s Tariff Price Odyssey

Photo by Omid Roshan via Unsplash

Demand for copper, already one of the most commonly used metals in the world, has surged amid the AI computing boom.

2 min read
Economics

Is Work-From-Home Still the New Normal For Corporate America?

Photo illustration by Connor Lin / The Daily Upside, Photo by Ljupco and PhonlamaiPhoto via iStock

The return-to-office orders have taken on new weight amid a softening labor market and broader economic anxiety.

6 min read
Artificial Intelligence

Oracle’s AI-Powered Sales Growth Threatens Elon Musk’s Reign as World’s Richest Man

Photo via Jay Hirano / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Newscom

Oracle said its remaining performance obligations is now sitting at $455 billion. That’s up 359% from where it stood just a year ago.

2 min read
Indicators

Dismal Jobs Numbers May Not Mean What You Think

Photo via Nicolas J Leclercq

Morgan Stanley analysts think the US economy has been in a “rolling recession” since 2022 — and it may already be almost over.

2 min read
Technology

Pubmatic Seeks Payback For Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

Photo via Matthias Balk/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom

Pubmatic’s lawsuit comes after a US Judge ruled in April that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in the ad tech industry.

2 min read
Big Tech

Alibaba Executes a Big Tech Pivot

Photo via Cfoto/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, having successfully diversified into cloud computing, is now making a push into artificial intelligence.

2 min read
Real Estate

Lowe’s Lays Foundation for Housing Rebound

Photo via Paul Weaver/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

In an interview with Barron’s, Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said a rebound is inevitable in America’s something’s-gotta-give housing market

2 min read
Big Tech

Apple Hits the Jackpot as Google Ducks Antitrust KO

Photo by Philipp Pistis via Unsplash

For a year now, Apple shareholders have feared the company would lose out on easy revenue from making Google its default search engine.

2 min read
Consumer

Kraft Heinz Breaks Up, Bumming Out Billionaire Buffett

Photo by Pedro Durigan via Unsplash

Warren Buffett may be on the way out, but his word still has weight; shares of Kraft Heinz fell 7% Tuesday.

2 min read
Blockchain

Winklevoss Twins Seek $2.2 Billion Valuation for Gemini IPO

Photo via GDA Photo Service/Newscom

The pair invested early in bitcoin, becoming some of the world’s first bitcoin billionaires and launching Gemini in 2014.

2 min read
Media & Entertainment

Living Room Legend Netflix Makes a Break for Hollywood

Photo via Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/Newscom

Whether it pursues the box office or not, Netflix is clearly interested in catering to the extroverts among us.

2 min read
Markets

Everyone’s Joining Big Tech’s Market Rally

Photo by hapabapa via iStock

Through August, Wall Street began rotating into small cap companies and sectors outside the bounds of the AI trade.

2 min read

Sign Up for The Daily Upside to Unlock This Article

Sharp news & analysis on finance, economics, and investing.