Zero Hedge | This will be the opening salvo to several months of trade actions.

Michael Snyder | The Dow hit the 22,000 mark for the first time ever on Wednesday, and investors all over the world greatly celebrated.

CNBC | Apple’s cash pile swelled again this quarter, hitting a record $261.5 billion, compared with $256.8 billion last quarter. That’s up 13 percent year over year.

Zero Hedge | As part of its historical revision to GDP, the BEA also had to adjust personal income and spending, with the full results released in today’s July report.

CNBC | U.S. stocks traded higher on Tuesday, the first trading day of August, as the Dow Jones industrial average approached another milestone.

Breitbart | “The aerospace industry is experiencing strong and sustained growth, both in the UK and around the world.”

Zero Hedge | By replacing low-wage cashiers and other retail workers with robots, the retail sector’s struggling companies can engineer a potentially life-saving boost in profits.

RT | After years of debate, the Bitcoin community could not come to an agreement about the future of the cryptocurrency.

Michael Snyder | Analysts at Goldman Sachs are saying that it is next to impossible for stock prices to keep going up like they have been recently.

Zero Hedge | “The euro is irreversible – but if it is irreversible for every country has become an open question.”

Breitbart | The election process, it claimed – citing a military official – “went about in complete normalcy” and peace.

John Stossel | Did you see the $2 million dollar bathroom? That’s what New York City government spent to build a “comfort station” in a park.

Brandon Smith | This week the International Monetary Fund shocked some economic analysts with an announcement that America was “no longer first in the world” as a major economic growth engine.