Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Fed's main inflation gauge rose 0.7% in March and 3.5% from a year earlier, while core PCE, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3% and 3.2%.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales rose 10.6% to $3.10 billion on about 10 points of price and the LesserEvil deal, and adjusted EPS rose 12% to $2.35 as reported profit nearly doubled; it reaffirmed its 2026 outlook.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

A Fifth Circuit panel granted Louisiana a stay of the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules, ending telehealth prescribing and mail or pharmacy dispensing of the abortion pill nationwide until the Supreme Court stepped in.

The one-off special My Hero Academia More premieres, checking in on the grown former students of Class 1-A in Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero series after the main story’s end.

The Padres' owners agreed to hand control of the club to a group led by Clearlake Capital co-founder José E. Feliciano and his wife Kwanza Jones, at a reported record $3.9 billion.

IKEA shut its only Tennessee store after nearly a decade, taking 114 jobs with it. The company called the closure part of a strategic shift, decided on a review of "market share, business performance, cost structure, and overall optimization of physical assets"; Mid-South customers keep online ordering and FedEx pickup.

Lan Hongchun's Teochew-language family drama Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) went nationwide in China on 3 May 2026 after premiering in Shantou on 17 April. Made for ¥14 million, it became a sleeper hit with over ¥1.9 billion at the box office.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art held its 2026 Met Gala on Monday, May 4, co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, marking the opening of the Costume Institute's 'Costume Art' exhibition under the dress code 'Fashion Is Art'.

Tableau's annual conference took over the San Diego Convention Center for three days, where Tableau recast itself as an agentic analytics platform built on 33 million semantic models.

VCF 9.1 is Broadcom's private-cloud platform release for AI inference and agentic workloads, promising up to 40% lower server costs through memory tiering and mixed AMD, Intel and NVIDIA hardware; its release notes are dated 12 May.

Broadcom and VMware International asked the EU General Court to annul the Commission's 26 February 2026 information decision in case AT.40924, in so far as it compels documents held outside the EU and legal advice privileged under US and other non-EU law (Case T-280/26).

Sable Offshore posted a $197.0 million net loss for Q1 2026 after resuming oil sales from the Santa Ynez Unit under a U.S. Department of Energy Defense Production Act order, and ended the quarter with $956.3 million of short-term debt against $52.2 million in cash.

Six months after its 13,000-job cut, Verizon confirmed a new round of several hundred layoffs, under 1 percent of its workforce, falling hardest on its Basking Ridge, New Jersey campus.

Stella McCartney returned to H&M 21 years after her 2005 collaboration with a womenswear collection in recycled and certified materials, on sale in selected stores and online from 7 May 2026.

LA Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line subway extension, carrying the Wilshire Boulevard subway 3.9 miles west of Wilshire/Western to new stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. It is the line's first extension since 1996 and the first of three sections Metro wants running before the 2028 Olympics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 8 May 2026 that employers added 115,000 jobs in April, with unemployment at 4.3% and February revised down to a loss of 156,000.

Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction XXIII totalled CHF 74,846,995 across 225 lots, the highest total for any watch auction in history, led by a Patek Philippe Ref. 2523 'Polychrome Two-Crown World Time' that sold for CHF 7,961,000.

The revived Portland Fire lost their first game 98-83 to the Chicago Sky, but the sold-out 19,335 was the largest crowd ever for a WNBA expansion team's home opener.

Aramco's first-quarter adjusted net income jumped to $33.6 billion from $26.6 billion as it ran the East-West Pipeline at its full 7 million barrels a day to export from the Red Sea while the Strait of Hormuz was choked off. The board held the base dividend at $21.9 billion, 3.5% up on a year earlier.

First-quarter revenue rose 44% to $214.4 million and adjusted EBITDA rose 296% to $16.1 million, while $81.8 million of non-cash warrant and stock costs left a $79.6 million net loss. Backlog stood at $2.7 billion and the pipeline passed $14 billion.

Vuori released a second, more technical golf range fronted by Tom Holland, led by slim Aim trousers with magnetic scorecard pockets, the Ponto half-zip and the Ace Polo.

At the Disney Upfront the Recording Academy confirmed the 69th Grammy Awards for Sunday, 7 February 2027 at Crypto.com Arena, and set nominations for 16 November 2026.

Swatch Group shareholders voted 79.6% against seating US investor Steven Wood on the board at their annual meeting, even after proxy advisers Glass Lewis and ISS backed him and the company's own bearer shareholders separately elected him with 80.4% support.

Johnny Curiel opens a small corn-centred Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Denver, his sixth opening in three years; the menu runs to 18 courses.

The Federal Circuit affirmed without opinion a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that the challenged claims of Nike's patent on sharing recorded workouts to social networking sites are unpatentable.

PLDT's first-quarter 2026 core income rose 2% to ₱9.1 billion on Maya's contribution and asset-sale gains, while capex fell to ₱10 billion and free cash flow stayed positive.

The three biggest US carriers agreed in principle to form a joint venture pooling spectrum so satellite operators can reach phones directly and all but end wireless dead zones.

Drake released his ninth album Iceman alongside two surprise albums announced the day before; they debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Billboard 200, the first time one act has held the top three at once.

Audemars Piguet and Swatch launched the 'Royal Pop' collection, eight Bioceramic pocket watches built around the Royal Oak's octagonal design and priced from $400, sold only in person at 200 Swatch stores worldwide with a one-per-person daily limit.

3 Floyds Brewing's 30th-anniversary Dark Lord Day in Munster, Indiana, the only place to get bottles of its Dark Lord imperial stout, paired the 2026 release and six barrel-aged variants with a metal bill headlined by Napalm Death.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.