24 million Americans traveled to Europe in 2025. That's more than double the number from a decade ago.
In 1990, less than 5% of Americans even had a passport. Today it's over 50%.
What changed? Cheaper flights. Remote work. A stronger dollar for most of that period. And frankly, people realized the world is smaller than they thought.
This matters for currency markets. More Americans traveling abroad means more demand for euros, pounds, and other currencies. They're hitting ATMs in Paris, conv...
Big Tech's AI spending is rising to levels rarely seen in modern history:
Amazon, $AMZN, Alphabet, $GOOGL, Meta, $META, Microsoft, $MSFT, and Oracle, $ORCL, are estimated to increase CapEx by +1.0 percentage point of US GDP in 2026, to a record 2.4%.
That compares with 1.0% of