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When Ryan Lake and Stephen Rooney scan a bar menu, they might spot a drink they once evaluated — or helped sell.The JPMorgan bankers cover the beverage industry, talking to everyone from executives to beer distributors to lawyers to retailers to figure out where consumer tastes are headed.After a slowdown…

For the past few weeks, China has been swept up in a “lobster” craze. Loading audio narration… Chinese users rushed to install OpenClaw on their devices, even forming long lines outside Tencent’s headquarters in Shenzhen and Baidu’s headquarters in Beijing to get engineers to help install the AI agent. Others…

Everything old is new again — and on playgrounds across America, that means Pokémon cards are back. Loading audio narration… Pokémon was the No. 1 toy property globally last year, generating $2.5 billion in the US, up 87% from 2024, according to a report from market research firm Circana. As…