The Business News Headlines 4 May 2026

The Business News Headlines 4 May 2026

From Insight On Business the News Hour by Michael Libbie

May 4, 2026 · 11 min · Episode 3759

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of the escalating war with Iran on markets, inflation, and features various business news stories.

Uncertain of the future of the escalating the war with Iran sent the markets down and oil up. That is where we start on this the 4th day of May, and thanks for listening. In other news, along with inflation, high gas prices your U.S. dollar is buying less…and why. eBay shares spiked a bit today and we’ll share why. How would you like to have a automated pet? The guy that gave us the Roomba has some plans about that. We have a coffee story for you that we bet you didn’t know. We’ll check the numbers in The Wall Street Report and Anthropic is attracting some very big clients…no, really. Let’s go! Thanks for listening! The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon Central on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Libbie

Topics covered

  • business news
  • market trends
  • oil prices
  • inflation
  • technology
  • automated pets
  • coffee industry

Keywords

  • business news
  • Iran
  • oil prices
  • eBay
  • Roomba
  • Anthropic
  • inflation
  • gas prices
  • automated pets
  • coffee

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: eBay, Anthropic

Products: Roomba

Places: Iran, Midwest

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