ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 1,437.91 points or -2.11% to 66,819.05 • Shanghai decreased 19.356 points or -0.49% to 3,970.88 • Hang Seng increased 702.57 points or 2.99% to 24,199.46 • ASX 200 decreased 18.80 points or -0.21% to 8,785.10 • SENSEX decreased 1,677.12 points or -2.15% to 76,503.60 • Nifty50 decreased 516.65 points or -2.12% to 23,882.05 The major Asian currency markets had a green day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00069 or 0.10% to 0.69353 • NZDUSD increased 0.00273 or 0.48% to 0.57053 • USDJPY increased 0.376 or 0.23%…
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Toyota is moving shop from Mexico to Texas in a $3.6 billion push to bring Tacoma production to the U.S. The world’s largest automaker announced it will build a second assembly line at its San Antonio plant, which currently produces the Tundra and Sequoia, according to CBS News. The move will create more than 2,000 jobs and add 150,000 units of annual production capacity. It will take around four years, so Toyota will continue building some Tacomas at its Guanajuato, Mexico, facility in the interim. The San Antonio investment is part of a broader $10 billion commitment to U.S. manufacturing…
COMMENT: Well, Marty, Socrates is right again. You even had the week correct. Trump just announced the end of the ceasefire and cannot escape this unpopular war. It is so obvious why mainstream media will not quote you; Socrates puts everyone else to shame. GH REPLY: Trump is trapped. He cannot escape without admitting this was orchestrated by the Neocons, and it is Netanyahu’s war. I will write to President Trump. I seriously doubt the Neocon-Deep State will allow it to get to him. When I send it, I will let you know. Perhaps if others write in maybe it…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. At my marketing agency, we’ve worked with a few hundred property management companies over the last eight-plus years. And the single most common pattern I see when a new client comes to us is this: they have done some version of “SEO” already. They have a website. They have a blog with 12 posts on it. They have a Google Business Profile that someone claimed and half-filled out three years ago. And they have no idea why none of it is working. The answer, almost every time, is the same. They built…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Entrepreneurs should view a product or service as a composition of constituent parts that add value to one another in order to satisfy a defined set of requirements, not as a single entity. I refer to this perspective as the art of the value chain. The entrepreneurial significance of this art lies in the fact that opportunities rarely exist in isolation — they’re embedded within compositions of value. What distinguishes an entrepreneur isn’t the ability to spot a market opportunity — it’s understanding the nuance of the composition and the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways A few years ago, I redefined what trust signals mean for brand builders. A few weeks ago, I Googled the term and got my exact definition back — no author, no source. The AI knew the history. It just didn’t lead with it. The concept got adopted widely, and once it did, it became “standard industry knowledge” rather than a specific author’s contribution. When you’ve done the work, you feel like the position is established. But in the AI era, you have to actively defend your position by continuously publishing…
QUESTION: Many significant families and individuals gained their wealth through unethical means, e.g., Gates, Rothschilds/Rockefellers… R ANSWER: While I am certainly no fan of Bill Gates, starting a company that then makes him a billionaire because of valuations, does not qualify as unethical. Gates’ tactics and seeking to be a monopoly is unethical in my book, but that did not make him a billionaire. His mentor, I believe, was Rockefeller in both creating a monopoly as well as deeply concerned about over-population indoctrinated by his his. The pursuit of a monopoly was primarily the endeavor of John D. Rockefeller, the…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways I spent years trying to force a niche into existence. Then I realized that I wasn’t targeting a starving crowd, and there was no widespread pain point creating eager buyers. I was competing in a crowded field. The right niche emerged when I took on diverse clients and noticed recurring, validated pain points through repeated exposure — pattern recognition over speculation. Successful niche building eventually comes down to two things: doing the work exceptionally well and creating a client experience people genuinely appreciate. “There’s riches in niches.” How many times…
Krispy Kreme was in a hole. The company makes more than one billion doughnuts a year — but when it came to using robots to make its specialty doughnuts Instagram-worthy, the machines couldn’t do it. “It got supermessy,” CEO Josh Charlesworth told The Wall Street Journal. The solution should be music to anyone’s ears who fears robots will replace us. The company is now hiring human artists to create limited-edition designs — Harry Potter, He-Man, Milk Bar collaborations — and doing 15 to 20 special runs a year plus seasonal collections. Customers lined up for a Harry Potter collection last…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Because the AI technology race is being contested by both AI-focused emerging businesses and well-established tech giants, you must decide today whether to invest in the latest tech from newcomers or wait for the incumbents to catch up. Those who invest in the new-to-market AI leaders will be the first to benefit from the technology and can get a leg up on their competition, but they face the risk of constant change and never seeing ROI. Those who choose to wait for established players to create native AI solutions will…