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October 2, 2026
Boldly Financial
Analysis, Business & Industry

The People Running America’s Companies Think Stocks Are Overvalued. Should You Worry?

Imagine you are sitting across from the chief financial officer of a major American company. This is the person who signs off on the budgets, who decides whether to...

October 2, 2026
Boldly Financial
Analysis, Business & Industry

Boeing’s Tale of Two Companies: a $20 Billion Fighter Jet and a Grounded Airliner

Boeing is living two lives at once, and this week both of them made headlines. In one life, the company is America’s indispensable defense champion, winning a contract worth...

October 2, 2026
Boldly Financial
Business & Industry, Guides

The $993 Billion Question: Why Megadeals Stalled While 2026 Still Booms

Here is a puzzle from the world of corporate dealmaking. In the third quarter of this year, the total value of global mergers and acquisitions fell to 993 billion...

September 27, 2026
Boldly Financial
Breaking, Business & Industry

BASF Goes After Evonik in a Deal That Could Redraw European Chemicals

Germany’s biggest chemicals maker wants to buy its smaller rival. On Friday, September 25, Evonik confirmed it had received a non-binding approach from BASF for a voluntary public takeover...

September 26, 2026
Boldly Financial
Analysis, Business & Industry

The Phone Company That Refused to Die

There is a particular kind of business obituary that gets written too early. BlackBerry’s was drafted years ago, back when the iPhone turned its keyboard phones into museum pieces....

September 24, 2026
Boldly Financial
Breaking, Business & Industry

Darden’s Profit Slides 9% as Food and Labor Costs Eat the Sales Gains

Darden Restaurants served up higher sales on Thursday morning, but Wall Street sent the check back. The Olive Garden parent reported a 9% drop in quarterly profit as rising...

September 24, 2026
Boldly Financial
Analysis, Business & Industry

Viking Therapeutics: How One Maintenance Study Turned a Biotech Stock Into Tuesday’s Biggest Story

On Tuesday, September 22, Viking Therapeutics did something most biotech companies never manage: it answered the obesity drug industry’s hardest question. Its experimental drug VK2735 did not just help...

September 23, 2026
Boldly Financial
Analysis, Business & Industry

The $110 Billion Merger Just Cleared Its Biggest Hurdle: What Paramount Had to Promise to Buy Warner Bros.

The biggest media merger in years just got a lot more likely. On September 21, Paramount Skydance settled with a coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California’s...

September 21, 2026
Boldly Financial
Analysis, Business & Industry

Paramount’s $110 Billion Merger Fight Comes Down to Jobs, Leverage, and October

Update — 12:45 PM CT: This story has moved fast. On Monday morning, Bloomberg and Reuters reported that Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with California and 11 other...

September 16, 2026
Boldly Financial
Business & Industry

The Money Is Moving Again

There is a founder in Austin I keep thinking about — not a household name, just a woman with a profitable logistics software company and a decision to make....