Bank Goldman Sachs raised its year-end forecast for the S&P 500 index from 7,600 to 8,000 points. The bank attributed this to strong corporate reporting for the first quarter and improved profit expectations for U.S. companies.
American Airlines announced May 26 that it will install Starlink-based Wi-Fi on more than 500 narrowbody aircraft beginning in the first quarter of 2027.
Representatives of customs authorities, border police and law enforcement agencies from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Italy, as well as representatives of international and regional organizations, including FRONTEX, OLAF, EUROPOL, ICMPD and SELEC, participated in an international conference on combating illicit trafficking of goods held in Bucharest on 26 May.
Eurozone sovereign issuers have raised $4.6 billion of non-euro denominated debt since the beginning of 2026. Most of the borrowings are in US dollars and Swiss francs, but there are also subscriptions in Australian dollars and Chinese yuan.
There is not much time left until the start of the FIFA World Cup 2026 – the tournament starts on June 11. Many national teams have already published their bids, and passions are running high around them. Sports fans and experts are heatedly discussing the squads – who has been left out by the coaches, who is missing due to injuries, who among the stars did not make it to the championship with the team.
SpaceX CEO Ilon Musk said that the deployment of solar generation in orbit will continue to grow at a tenfold rate over the next few years. The occasion was a post about the development of the Starlink satellite system and increasing the capacity of its orbital solar panels.
A delegation of businessmen from the People’s Republic of China visited the free economic zone “Ungheni-Business” on May 26.
The last module of the MoveUp program, dedicated to strengthening professional skills in logistics and transport, started in Moldova on May 25. At the final stage, participants are taking the course “Inventory Management and Demand Planning”.
Large technology companies and enterprise AI users are increasingly facing unexpectedly high costs to operate generative models and AI tools. And this puts them facing a difficult choice – return to “natural intelligence” or further develop an AI-centric business model.
Rising gold prices have forced the authorities in Ghana, the largest producer of this precious metal in Africa, to change the role of the state in the gold trade.
Switzerland will hold a national referendum on June 14 on an initiative to cap the country’s permanent population at 10 million by 2050.
“Flower City” of Uzbekistan Namangan is hosting the 65th International Flower Festival from May 24 to July 12.
Foreign direct investment in China fell 10.3 percent year-on-year to 287.7 billion yuan in the first four months of 2026.
The proceeds to the state budget of the Republic of Moldova from the activity of the Customs Service for the period of May 18-24, 2026, amounted to more than 871.7 million lei.
At the annual Google I/O 2026 conference, Google Corporation announced a large-scale integration of artificial intelligence into search, advertising and user services. The company actually confirmed the transition from classic Internet search to an AI-response model, which could radically change the media, SEO and digital advertising market.
Ilon Musk once again intervened in the discussion about corporate taxes in the United States, supporting the publication that high taxes encourage companies to move their business to states with a more lenient fiscal regime. The topic once again aggravated the dispute over the future of California as the main technological center of the United States.
Official inflation in Moldova in annualized terms in April 2026 amounted to 6.8%. In the previous month it was 5.8%. So the April growth was the most significant since December 2025.
The AI Index 2026 report by Stanford University showed that the technological gap between the leading AI models of the US and China has almost disappeared. At the same time, American companies invest almost 23 times more than Chinese companies in AI development.
The new summer season at the Green Theater will open on May 29 with a grand concert with free admission for everyone.
In Saturday’s match at the stadium of Chisinau’s Zimbru, Tiraspol’s Sheriff defeated the hosts 2-0 in the final match of the Moldovan Cup and won the second most important trophy for the second year in a row.
