Entrepreneurship

Treasury Yields Hit 5% and Reset Your Cost of Capital
The 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.04% on Tuesday before settling at an even 5.00%, a level the bond market last touched in 2007. Oil did most of the pushing....
China’s XPeng plans to offer tech solutions to foreign automakers: sources
EV maker said to be courting parties beyond partner Volkswagen as it seeks new revenue streamsPublished Thu, Sep 17, 2026 · 11:24 PM[BEIJING] Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng plans...
Greenback eases from peak as oil prices extend decline; BOJ in focus
Euro rises; pound sterling slips after Bank of England holds rates but warns of possible hikesPublished Thu, Sep 17, 2026 · 09:09 PM[LONDON] The US dollar climbed to a...
Pricing Strategy Gets Harder as Input Costs Climb
Clothing prices in the United States are set to climb this autumn as the people who make and sell clothes push higher energy, factory and freight bills down the...
AI Agents for Business Keep Stalling at Your Books
A Brussels company called Chift closed a 10.5 million euro Series A on Monday. BlackFin Capital Partners wrote the lead cheque, joined by earlier backers Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund...
Google AI Overviews Will Start Paying for Your Content
Google has begun paying select publishers when their work meaningfully feeds an AI answer, according to a Digiday report surfaced Monday. The pilot covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini...
Working Capital Loan Demand Pulls In a $300M Package
Hong Kong fintech Qupital disclosed a $300 million capital package this week. The money arrives in two shapes: Series C equity, which M Capital led, and asset-backed commitments put...
AI Search Optimization Now Shapes Your First Impression
US B2B buyers have quietly rewritten the first step of their research, and survey data published Monday puts a number on it. Among American B2B professionals who use AI...
Business Valuation Tools Reach the 30-Person HVAC Shop
A Las Vegas company called Reins launched a standalone product on Monday called Valuation, built to tell contractors who run their own shops what the business is currently worth,...
Business Succession Planning: 5 Openings for Young Buyers
JPMorganChase released a report on Monday, putting a hard number on a problem Jamie Dimon has been describing since March: roughly 12 million American businesses will pass to new...
Diesel Prices Set a Record and Squeeze Small Budgets
Diesel averaged $6.23 a gallon across the US on Monday, a fresh record, after Saudi Arabia closed its East-West pipeline and Gulf states put off a scheduled discussion about...
International Expansion: Japan Opens a Door for Founders
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced on Monday that it will host Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka from October 5 to 7, pitching the event squarely...