David Crowther

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Deputy Editor at Sherwood News

Founder of @chartrdaily

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Amazon bought Whole Foods eight years ago - now it’s bringing it deeper into the fold

1 week ago | sherwood.news | Claire Yubin Oh |David Crowther

(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)As competitors like Walmart up their e-commerce game, Amazon is unifying its grocery strategy. Eight years after acquiring Whole Foods Market, Amazon is finally exerting more control over the company. As reported by Business Insider last week, corporate staff at Whole Foods will be brought under Amazon’s employee programs, with leadership changes expected at the top as well, as it works to grow its wider grocery business.
Gold is shiny, alluring, and mostly pointless - it’s also crushed the stock market as an investment

1 week ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

(David Gray/Getty Images) Gold is hitting new highs as traders seek safe haven assets. Anyone who has followed the market for any length of time will be unsurprised that gold — that shiny, malleable metal that humans have been obsessed with for millennia — has risen over the last week.
Yahoo is still one of the most visited websites on the planet

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

Yahoo! has tried a lot of promotional ideas over the years (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Now, the internet OG is introducing new features to help users tackle inbox overload. Yes, AI is in the first sentence of the press release. Internet brands don’t tend to live very long.
Boeing trading lower after crash in India involving a 787-8 Dreamliner

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

An Air India flight bound for London Gatwick has crashed less than 10 minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport. Footage on social media appears to show a plane losing altitude shortly after takeoff. Per a statement from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the aircraft issued a “mayday” call before crashing.
GameStop’s rebooted its entire business model: 5 charts show how

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

A GameStop retail storefront (Ying Tang/Getty Images)Treasuries. Hardware. Collectibles. Games. In that order. The last four years of GameStop’s history have probably been more interesting than the previous 41 combined, after the ailing video game retailer found itself at the center of a short squeeze, a movie, and a social media movement. But since the RoaringKitty-induced mania of January 2021, the company’s actual business model has changed so much as to almost become unrecognizable.
The number of bearish options bets against Tesla hit a record high last week amid Trump-Musk feud

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

President Trump and Elon Musk in the Oval Office (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)Bullish bets soared too, but it was put volumes that hit a record high last week. Even with the memory of last week’s social media tirade still fresh in traders’ minds, investors have found reasons to pile back into Tesla’s stock as CEO Elon Musk has struck a more conciliatory tone in posts on X.
The ad agencies are staring down the barrel of AI

2 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

Mark Read, CEO of WPP speaking in London, June 4, 2025 (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)WPP’s CEO is stepping down, as artificial intelligence threatens some of the core functions of the agency model. The world of advertising feels like one that we all know intimately, with each of us faced with an almost overwhelming bombardment of logos, promos, and adverts every single day. But how many advertising firms can you actually name? If the answer is “not many,” you’re not alone.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 launch appears to be off to a solid start - a lot will depend on just how good Mario Kart is

3 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

It’s finally here. After years of waiting, gamers around the world are finally getting their hands on Nintendo’s next flagship console: the Switch 2. For Nintendo executives, it seems to be so far, so good, with a suitable haul of photos from around the world of eager gamers waiting in line to hand over $450 for the handheld. But once the first wave of demand rolls through, much might depend on just how good “Mario Kart World,” the console’s launch game, is.
Obliteration Day: Elon Musk’s spat with Trump wiped $152 billion from Tesla

3 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

Our turn? (KENA BETANCUR/Getty Images)That’s the largest one-day drop on record for the EV maker. Yesterday’s unbelievable, unhinged, and entirely unmissable social media spat between Elon Musk and President Trump crescendoed when the Tesla boss alleged that the president’s name shows up in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Time to drop the really big bomb:@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
Amazon employs 395 people for every 1 Palantir worker - guess which stock gets traded more?

3 weeks ago | sherwood.news | David Crowther

Nearly $14 billion worth of Palantir shares have changed hands every day over the last five sessions, more than all but the largest stocks in American markets. On Monday, Palantir closed at a record-high. On Tuesday, it did it again.