Holly Van Leuven

5 days ago | morningbrew.com | Holly Van Leuven

New risks to the global economy emerged following the US’ airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday (early Sunday local time). President Trump called the action a “spectacular military success” toward his goal of destroying Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and stopping the nuclear threat from the nation.

1 week ago | morningbrew.com | Holly Van Leuven

For the first time, ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms will exceed the amount earned from professionally produced content this year, according to WPP Media’s global president of business intelligence. What changed? Relatably, when the economy is turbulent, brands feel better spending money on Facebook than paying a lot to a fancy shop.

2 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Holly Van Leuven

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which the company uses to announce new hardware and software, hits the boards in Cupertino later today. But the buzzy atmosphere that usually surrounds it has turned sour. From party bus to struggle shuttleIf Meat Loaf had attended the last three WWDCs, he might have reconsidered that “two out of three ain’t bad” stuff:In 2022, the brand used its airtime to unveil the powerful new M2 chip, which got the Apple community excited.

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Holly Van Leuven

President Trump held a rally Friday evening at a US Steel plant in West Mifflin, PA, and announced he would double the current tariff rate on imported steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% as of June 4. Now, some Canadian, EU, and British leaders may end up with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” on their Spotify Wrapped this year:Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Trump in the Oval Office last month to mend fences after the US’ 25% tariff on steel and aluminum went into effect.

1 month ago | morningbrew.com | Holly Van Leuven

After the stock market closed on Friday, credit rating agency Moody’s got in a mood, downgrading America’s creditworthiness from a perfect AAA grade to the next-best Aa1 on account of running up massive deficits and paying an eye-watering amount of interest to service its debt. There are three major credit agencies, and Moody’s was the last to knock the US from the most pristine credit rating. The others, S&P and Fitch, downgraded US’ credit in 2011 and 2023, respectively.