On Retailers, Crypto SPACs & Green Sailing

If consumers are as depressed as sinking sentiment surveys suggest, you’d never know it by the stellar July-quarter results that retailers from all walks of the industry have been reporting. Jackie summarizes key points from the earnings reports of several. … A new kind of special purpose acquisition company has been born; its special purpose: to acquire not companies but cryptocurrencies. … And in our Disruptive Technologies segment: They may sail the ocean blue, but big shippers are going green. They’re starting to propel ships via alternative fuels, cutting their CO2 emissions dramatically.