Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and three others are set for a short ride to suborbital space and back Tuesday.Bezos' brother Mark Bezos, Mercury 13 and aviation pioneer Wally Funk and teenage physics student Oliver Daemon are the other passengers who will board Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket at 9 a.m. ET from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas.82-year-old Funk and Daemon, 18, will set new reco...
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May 15, 2026 15:25 ET Apart from the confirmation of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair, the main news on the economics front this week included key price data from the U.S. and the first quarter economic growth figures from major economies. Both consumer prices and producer costs have started to reflect the effect of supply shocks due to the Middle East conflict. In Europe, GDP data was in focus, while inflation data from China dominated the news flow in Asia.