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Walmart Wears a Hoodie & Banks Get the Blues

If your bingo card for this year didn't include "Walmart joins the tech elite" or "President Trump declares war on compound interest," you might want to sit down.

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Jan 16, 2026
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We’re starting the year with a market personality split. On one side, we have the ultimate glow-up: Walmart is ditching its “blue light special” reputation to hang out with the cool kids in Silicon Valley. On the other, the banking sector is having a full-blown panic attack over a proposed interest rate cap that sounds great on a bumper sticker but terr…

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