{"locale":"en","total":366,"page":6,"pages":16,"previous":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/archivo/json?category=finance&page=5","next":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/archivo/json?category=finance&page=7","articles":[{"id":12599,"title":"TikTok Charges You to Stop Tracking You — and That Reveals the New Price of Privacy","excerpt":"Last week, TikTok announced in the United Kingdom something that has been quietly building for years: a £3.99 per month subscription allowing users over 18 to use the app without ads and, more importantly, without their data being used for advertising purposes. This is not an experiment. It is the first official launch in an English-speaking market, and it marks the moment a platform that built its business on free attention and hyper-personalized advertising puts an explicit price tag on opting out of that system.","published_at":"2026-05-12T06:02:53.387","category":"business-models","author":"Camila Rojas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/tiktok-charges-stop-tracking-new-price-of-privacy-mp2a826v","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/tiktok-charges-stop-tracking-new-price-of-privacy-mp2a826v/json"},{"id":12591,"title":"Five Trillion Dollars and an Energy Transition Nobody Expected to Lead This Cycle","excerpt":"The dominant narrative of the past two years placed data centers and language models at the center of the largest investment story of the modern era. That reading is not wrong, but it is incomplete. What is happening in global capital markets is broader, deeper, and more structural than the debate over artificial intelligence allows us to see from the surface.","published_at":"2026-05-12T00:06:16.431","category":"sustainability","author":"Elena Costa","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/five-trillion-dollars-energy-transition-investment-cycle-mp1xd9rg","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/five-trillion-dollars-energy-transition-investment-cycle-mp1xd9rg/json"},{"id":12553,"title":"Nvidia Finances the Supply Chain That Buys Its Chips","excerpt":"When a company generates $97 billion in free cash flow in a single fiscal year, the question is not whether it can invest. The question is what power architecture it builds with that money and who gets trapped inside it. Nvidia crossed $40 billion in capital commitments in the first five months of 2026, including a $30 billion bet on OpenAI.","published_at":"2026-05-11T00:02:55.692","category":"startups","author":"Lucía Navarro","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/nvidia-finances-supply-chain-buys-chips-mp0hxh7z","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/nvidia-finances-supply-chain-buys-chips-mp0hxh7z/json"},{"id":12542,"title":"California Is Sending SMEs the COVID Bill","excerpt":"There is a tax that most California employers did not choose, did not cause, and cannot avoid. It applies to the first $7,000 of each employee's wages. And it is about to cost nearly nine times more than in any other state in the country.","published_at":"2026-05-10T18:02:57.203","category":"pymes","author":"Clara Montes","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/california-covid-tax-bill-small-businesses-smes-mp0527xt","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/california-covid-tax-bill-small-businesses-smes-mp0527xt/json"},{"id":12525,"title":"Medium-Term Rentals: The Model That Doubles Cash Flow Without the Risks of Vacation Rentals","excerpt":"There is a real estate investment category that has been operating quietly for years amid the noise of vacation rentals and the apparent security of annual leases. It lacks the glamour of an Airbnb in a major city and the reassuring stability of a five-year tenant, yet it generates more income than the latter and less operational friction than the former. Medium-term rentals—furnished properties with 30 to 90-day contracts—are emerging as a distinct category with their own mechanics and a financial logic that deserves far more rigorous examination than it typically receives.","published_at":"2026-05-10T06:03:04.201","category":"finance","author":"Mateo Vargas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/medium-term-rentals-doubles-cash-flow-without-vacation-rental-risks-mozfchge","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/medium-term-rentals-doubles-cash-flow-without-vacation-rental-risks-mozfchge/json"},{"id":12479,"title":"The Iran War Accelerated What Decades of Climate Policy Could Not","excerpt":"On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran. In less than a week, oil prices surged 28%. The Strait of Hormuz — through which approximately 20% of the world's oil supply passes — was effectively paralyzed.","published_at":"2026-05-09T00:03:17.659","category":"sustainability","author":"Gabriel Paz","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/iran-war-accelerated-energy-transition-climate-policy-moxn20bw","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/iran-war-accelerated-energy-transition-climate-policy-moxn20bw/json"},{"id":12470,"title":"Refining Margins Under Price Controls: What the Arithmetic Says Before Politics Does","excerpt":"Thailand has just tripled the economic pressure on its refineries. The government raised the mandatory refining margin reduction from 2 to 5 baht per liter, a move that ostensibly protects consumers but in reality redistributes the cost of global volatility onto the most capital-intensive segment of the entire energy chain. The decision does not occur in a vacuum: WTI crude is trading between $102 and $107 per barrel in May 2026, with intraday swings of more than 8 percentage points tied to US-Iran tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.","published_at":"2026-05-08T18:03:18.722","category":"strategy","author":"Javier Ocaña","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/refining-margins-price-controls-thailand-arithmetic-analysis-moxa77je","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/refining-margins-price-controls-thailand-arithmetic-analysis-moxa77je/json"},{"id":12441,"title":"A 24-Year-Old Founder Who Doubles Her Valuation in Weeks and What That Reveals About Conviction Capital","excerpt":"Lachy Groom made a twenty-million-dollar decision in less time than it takes a board meeting to agree on the agenda. That, in itself, is not the most interesting part of the story. What's interesting is what that speed says about how capital is moving in India, what kind of structural bet lies behind it, and how much the whole system depends on the weight of a single person to function.","published_at":"2026-05-08T00:02:42.559","category":"startups","author":"Valeria Cruz","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/24-year-old-founder-doubles-valuation-conviction-capital-india-mow7lymd","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/24-year-old-founder-doubles-valuation-conviction-capital-india-mow7lymd/json"},{"id":12430,"title":"Before Signing a Loan for Your SME, There Are Four Questions Nobody Asks You","excerpt":"For nearly half of small businesses in the United States, cash flow is not a temporary challenge — it is a permanent operating condition. The Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Insights 2026 survey confirmed that figure hovers around 50%, and while the data comes from the North American market, the mechanics it describes apply with equal precision in the UK, Australia, Canada, or any market where an SME depends on credit to bridge the gap between what it produces and what it collects.","published_at":"2026-05-07T18:02:38.745","category":"pymes","author":"Camila Rojas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/before-signing-sme-loan-four-questions-nobody-asks-movur1n5","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/before-signing-sme-loan-four-questions-nobody-asks-movur1n5/json"},{"id":12413,"title":"AngloGold Ashanti Generated $2.9 Billion in Free Cash Flow and Is Now Betting Everything on Nevada","excerpt":"Gold broke 53 price records during 2025. AngloGold Ashanti capitalized on every single one — and then went further. At its Annual General Meeting held on May 5, 2026, the company presented figures few miners have ever been able to show in their history: $2.9 billion in free cash flow, adjusted EBITDA of $6.3 billion, and dividends of $1.8 billion, equivalent to 62% of the cash generated.","published_at":"2026-05-07T06:03:11.98","category":"finance","author":"Clara Montes","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/anglogold-ashanti-generated-2-9-billion-free-cash-flow-betting-nevada-mov51c45","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/anglogold-ashanti-generated-2-9-billion-free-cash-flow-betting-nevada-mov51c45/json"},{"id":12368,"title":"China and Southeast Asia's Green Alliance as a Laboratory for Climate Governance","excerpt":"While major multilateral forums accumulate declarations without financial architecture behind them, a region representing more than 30% of the global population has spent a decade building something different: a climate cooperation network with functioning projects, committed capital, and transferred capabilities. The comprehensive strategic partnership between China and ASEAN is not just a diplomatic agreement. It is a value distribution model that deserves to be audited with precision, precisely because it works under conditions where other models fail.","published_at":"2026-05-05T18:02:11.955","category":"sustainability","author":"Lucía Navarro","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/china-southeast-asia-green-alliance-climate-governance-laboratory-moszuuhx","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/china-southeast-asia-green-alliance-climate-governance-laboratory-moszuuhx/json"},{"id":12359,"title":"When Fuel Doubles in Price and the Model Can't Hold Up","excerpt":"On the afternoon of Saturday, May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines issued a statement that left no room for ambiguity: total cessation of operations, zero flights, an express instruction to passengers not to approach airports. Seventeen thousand employees lost their jobs within hours. The airline that had spent decades fighting for the cheapest seat in the American market closed with no successor, no merger, no bailout.","published_at":"2026-05-05T12:02:37.63","category":"strategy","author":"Mateo Vargas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/spirit-airlines-collapse-fuel-prices-ultra-low-cost-model-mosn0zqz","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/spirit-airlines-collapse-fuel-prices-ultra-low-cost-model-mosn0zqz/json"},{"id":12315,"title":"Africa Adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration and Exposed a Broken Financing System","excerpt":"On May 1, 2026, more than 1,500 participants from 48 countries closed the Twelfth African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development with a document carrying more political than financial weight: the Addis Ababa Declaration on 'Turning the Tide'. Ministers, economists, civil society representatives, and officials from multilateral organizations signed a collective mandate to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and lay the groundwork for COP32, which Ethiopia will host in 2027.","published_at":"2026-05-04T06:02:38.305","category":"transformation","author":"Gabriel Paz","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/africa-addis-ababa-declaration-broken-financing-system-moqup9fw","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/africa-addis-ababa-declaration-broken-financing-system-moqup9fw/json"},{"id":12304,"title":"Datadog, Block and Lumentum Head Into Earnings With the Wind at Their Backs","excerpt":"The S&P 500 earnings season doesn't end with the big names. When Apple, Meta or Alphabet publish their figures, the market closes that chapter and moves on. What comes next — the 121 index companies reporting the week of May 4–8, 2026 — is usually read as background noise.","published_at":"2026-05-04T00:03:12.393","category":"finance","author":"Javier Ocaña","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/datadog-block-lumentum-earnings-results-sp500-moqhuc0y","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/datadog-block-lumentum-earnings-results-sp500-moqhuc0y/json"},{"id":12260,"title":"When the Business Model Wins and the Customer Loses","excerpt":"Between 2021 and 2025, electricity bills in the United States rose by an average of 40%. During that same period, profits from the 110 largest privately owned utility companies climbed from $39 billion to over $52 billion. And in 2025, the CEOs of 51 of those companies collectively received $626 million in compensation — nearly $100 million more than the previous year.","published_at":"2026-05-03T00:02:23.616","category":"business-models","author":"Camila Rojas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-business-model-wins-customer-loses-us-utility-companies-mop2dtbd","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-business-model-wins-customer-loses-us-utility-companies-mop2dtbd/json"},{"id":12250,"title":"India Burns More Coal While Promising Clean Energy","excerpt":"The world has grown accustomed to the contradictions of major emerging powers, but the one India presents deserves special executive attention. The country has one of the most ambitious renewable energy programs on the planet: 500 gigawatts of non-fossil capacity by 2030, with renewables already surpassing 50% of total installed capacity. At the same time, coal generates around 75% of the electricity consumed by 1.4 billion people.","published_at":"2026-05-02T18:01:55.221","category":"sustainability","author":"Elena Costa","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/india-burns-more-coal-while-promising-clean-energy-moopij33","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/india-burns-more-coal-while-promising-clean-energy-moopij33/json"},{"id":12220,"title":"SiriusXM Grew 20% While Losing Subscribers — And That Explains Everything","excerpt":"The first reaction to reading SiriusXM's Q1 2026 results is almost paradoxical: the company reported a loss of 111,000 paid subscribers and, at the same time, its net income rose 20% to $245 million. For anyone who reads financial statements like blueprints of a structure, that figure is not contradictory — it's revealing. The company isn't growing despite losing users; it's quietly redesigning how much weight each part of its model carries so the main beam holds more with less mass.","published_at":"2026-05-02T00:03:01.154","category":"marketing","author":"Sofía Valenzuela","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/siriusxm-grew-20-percent-losing-subscribers-explains-everything-monlw8kc","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/siriusxm-grew-20-percent-losing-subscribers-explains-everything-monlw8kc/json"},{"id":12210,"title":"Why the Federal Pivot on Cannabis and Psychedelics Is Reshaping the Board for Mental Health Startups","excerpt":"The Trump administration signed two of the most significant drug policy reforms in decades in April 2026. First, an executive order to accelerate research and approval of psychedelics such as psilocybin, MDMA, and ibogaine, with a $50 million allocation and expanded access under the Right to Try Act. Days later, the Department of Justice reclassified state-licensed medical cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, effectively eliminating enforcement of Section 280E of the tax code, which had imposed effective tax rates above 70% on industry operators.","published_at":"2026-05-01T18:02:07.674","category":"startups","author":"Francisco Torres","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/federal-pivot-cannabis-psychedelics-mental-health-startups-mon90m9z","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/federal-pivot-cannabis-psychedelics-mental-health-startups-mon90m9z/json"},{"id":12200,"title":"SME D Bank Bets on Manufacturing and Reveals Where the Money Is in Thailand","excerpt":"Thailand's SME Development Bank (SME D Bank) has just made a move that few analysts outside Southeast Asia are reading correctly. The institution announced its intention to raise by 10 percentage points the share of its portfolio allocated to the manufacturing sector, going from the current 30% to 40% before the end of 2026. Behind that number lies a strategic bet that goes far beyond credit policy: it is a signal of where the Thai state believes the next productivity engine for its small and medium-sized enterprises lies.","published_at":"2026-05-01T12:02:25.647","category":"pymes","author":"Diego Salazar","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/sme-d-bank-bets-manufacturing-thailand-smes-momw62ty","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/sme-d-bank-bets-manufacturing-thailand-smes-momw62ty/json"},{"id":12181,"title":"Meta Records Its Highest Revenue Growth Since 2021 and Still Loses 7% on the Stock Market","excerpt":"The arithmetic of Meta Platforms' first quarter of 2026 looks, on paper, impressive: $56.31 billion in revenue, a 33% year-over-year advance, the fastest pace since 2021. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $7.31 versus the $6.79 expected. And yet, shares fell nearly 7% in after-hours trading.","published_at":"2026-05-01T00:02:40.081","category":"finance","author":"Mateo Vargas","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/meta-highest-revenue-growth-since-2021-loses-7-percent-stock-market-mom6gfud","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/meta-highest-revenue-growth-since-2021-loses-7-percent-stock-market-mom6gfud/json"},{"id":12141,"title":"When the Negotiating Table Becomes the Most Expensive Asset","excerpt":"Diplomacy has its own economy. Every negotiating round consumes resources—executive time, political capital, logistics, institutional credibility—and generates a return that can be measured in concrete agreements or accumulated losses. The collapse of US-Iran talks in Islamabad on April 25, 2026, is not just geopolitical news: it is a case study in the real cost of a poorly architected negotiation strategy.","published_at":"2026-04-26T02:49:02.733","category":"strategy","author":"Javier Ocaña","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-negotiating-table-becomes-most-expensive-asset-mokyhy7n","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/when-negotiating-table-becomes-most-expensive-asset-mokyhy7n/json"},{"id":12102,"title":"Coins.ph Turns Stablecoins Into Everyday Currency in the Philippines","excerpt":"For years, holding USDT or USDC in a Filipino digital wallet meant roughly the same as keeping dollars under a mattress: an asset that accumulates but never circulates. On April 21, 2026, Coins.ph closed that gap in an operationally elegant way by integrating the world's most widely used stablecoins directly with the Philippines' national QR payment standard, known as QRPh. The immediate result is that any user can now pay for their coffee, weekend groceries, or a utility bill at any of 700,000 compatible merchants using Philippine pesos, USDT, USDC, or a combination of all three — with a single code scan.","published_at":"2026-04-22T06:03:13.67","category":"innovation","author":"Ignacio Silva","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/coins-ph-stablecoins-everyday-currency-philippines-mo9obyq8","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/coins-ph-stablecoins-everyday-currency-philippines-mo9obyq8/json"},{"id":11994,"title":"The Robot That Beat Kiplimo Reveals Honor's Biggest Bet","excerpt":"On April 19, 2026, in the corridor of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, a deep red robot named Lightning crossed the finish line of a half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. It surpassed the human record of 57 minutes and 20 seconds set weeks earlier by Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon. What did not appear in that coverage was the financial mechanics behind the achievement.","published_at":"2026-04-20T12:02:52.25","category":"innovation","author":"Javier Ocaña","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/robot-beat-kiplimo-honor-biggest-bet-mo76bfvw","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/robot-beat-kiplimo-honor-biggest-bet-mo76bfvw/json"},{"id":11844,"title":"CoreWeave and Jane Street: When a Quantitative Fund Finances the Cloud It Needs","excerpt":"Jane Street isn't just signing a technology infrastructure contract. It has just outsourced its most difficult competitive advantage to replicate: the speed at which it trains models on noisy financial data.","published_at":"2026-04-16T04:11:59.886","category":"ai","author":"Clara Montes","url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/coreweave-jane-street-quantitative-fund-finances-cloud-mo103qjd","json_url":"https://sustainabl.net/agent-native/en/articulo/coreweave-jane-street-quantitative-fund-finances-cloud-mo103qjd/json"}]}