On this day, May 7 · Chronopin

Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk

Verizon Confirms Several Hundred More Job Cuts

1 Verizon Way, Bernards Township, NJ 07920, United States

Verizon Confirms Several Hundred More Job Cuts

Starts 05/07/2026CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE177 days ago

Quartz's report of May 7, 2026 says "Verizon has confirmed a new wave of cuts totaling several hundred jobs"; Zacks dates the confirmation to May 7.^[1]

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.

Labour09/24/2026@EconDesk

Verizon Confirms Several Hundred More Job Cuts

1 Verizon Way, Bernards Township, NJ 07920, United States

Verizon

Starts 05/07/2026CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE177 days ago

Quartz's report of May 7, 2026 says "Verizon has confirmed a new wave of cuts totaling several hundred jobs"; Zacks dates the confirmation to May 7.^[1]

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.

Fashion09/27/2026@DropDesk

Stella McCartney H&M Collection Drops

49, Mäster Samuelsgatan, Klara, Norrmalm, Norra innerstadens stadsdelsområde, Stockholm, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, 111 57, Sverige

H&M

Starts 05/07/2026CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE177 days ago

H&M: "The collection is available in selected stores and at hm.com on 7 May 2026."^[1]

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.

$32.99

Finance10/04/2026@RetailDesk

McDonald's Q1 2026: Global Comparable Sales Up 3.8%, US Up 3.9%

McDonald’s HQ, 110, North Carpenter Street, Fulton Market District, West Loop, Near West Side, Chicago, West Chicago Township, Cook County, Illinois, 60607, United States

McDonald's

Starts 05/07/2026CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE177 days ago

McDonald's PR Newswire^[1] release is dated May 07, 2026 (07:00 ET) and reports results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026; the SEC^[3] 8-K exhibit carries the same release and TIKR^[2] cites the "May 7, 2026" reaction.

McDonald's reported first-quarter 2026 global comparable sales up 3.8% and Systemwide sales up 11% (6% in constant currencies), with adjusted EPS of US$2.83 beating analyst estimates.

Energy10/16/2026@EnergyDesk

Ranalli Lysander Data Center: 300 MW, 120 Acres in Onondaga County, New York, Under Town Moratorium and State Permit Pause

22 Hencle Boulevard, Lysander (Baldwinsville area), Onondaga County, New York, United States (address per CNY Central; coordinates are Cleanview's site point)Ranalli Super DC LLC

Starts 05/07/2026ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE177 days ago

No in-service date exists (NYISO commercial operation "not determined", Cleanview TBD). The pin is dated to the 7 May 2026 Lysander public hearing on Local Law 4 of 2026, the six-month moratorium; the town page lists the hearing date, and CNY Central^[4] later confirms the moratorium was enacted without giving the vote date.

Ranalli Super DC LLC has asked NYISO to interconnect a 300 MW hyperscale data center on about 120 acres at 22 Hencle Boulevard in Lysander, Onondaga County, New York; the Town of Lysander adopted a six-month data center moratorium in 2026 and New York paused state permits for 50 MW-plus data centers on 14 July 2026; no cost has been published.

Economy10/01/2026@EconDesk

Fed Holds Rates at 4.25%-4.50% at the May 2025 FOMC Meeting With Net Exports Swinging the Data

Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building, 20th St & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC

Federal Reserve

Fed Holds Rates at 4.25%-4.50% at the May 2025 FOMC Meeting With Net Exports Swinging the Data

Starts 05/07/2025 6:00PM UTCCONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE1.5 years ago

The Federal Reserve's^[1][2] statement is dated 7 May 2025 and marked for release at 2:00 p.m. ET, matching the 6-7 May meeting on its calendar and the resolution date of the Kalshi^[3] and Polymarket^[4] decision markets.

Kalshi

Polymarket

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 7 May 2025 by a unanimous vote, noting that swings in net exports had affected the data.

Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

London's Thames Tideway 'Super Sewer' Officially Opens

Bazalgette Embankment, Blackfriars, City of London, United KingdomTideway

Starts 05/07/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.5 years ago

Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway^[3] Tunnel on May 7, 2025."

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

$5B

Business10/12/2026@MotorDesk

Geely Auto Proposes to Take Zeekr Private at US$25.66 per ADS

吉利科技大厦, 浦沿街道, 滨江区, 杭州市, 浙江省, 中国

Geely Auto

Starts 05/07/2025CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCE1.5 years ago

ZGH^[1] release datelined 'HANGZHOU, China - 2025 May 7th' announcing support for Geely Auto's preliminary non-binding offer for Zeekr, submitted that day.

Geely Automobile Holdings submitted a non-binding offer on 7 May 2025 to buy all Zeekr shares it did not own at US$25.66 per ADS, a 13.6% premium, the first step in merging its NYSE-listed premium EV brand back into the main group.

$25.66

Infrastructure09/24/2026@BuildDesk

Ferrero Opens Its First North American Chocolate Factory in Bloomington

Ferrero Chocolate Processing Facility, 2501 Beich Road, Bloomington, Illinois 61705, United StatesFerrero

Starts 05/07/2024 4:38PM UTCCONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.5 years ago

The release stamped May 07, 2024, 12:38 ET says Ferrero^[4] North America 'today celebrated the opening of its first chocolate processing facility in North America and third globally'.

A 70,000 sq ft, $75 million chocolate processing plant on Ferrero's Bloomington, Illinois campus, the group's third chocolate factory worldwide and its first outside Europe, making chocolate for Kinder, Ferrero Rocher, Butterfinger and Crunch.

$75M

Automotive10/26/2026@MotorDesk

Voyah Launches the Dream Electric and Range-Extender MPV From RMB 369,900

东风岚图汽车, 武汉经济技术开发区, 武汉市, 湖北省, 中国

Dongfeng Motor

Voyah Launches the Dream Electric and Range-Extender MPV From RMB 369,900

Starts 05/07/2022CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCE4.5 years ago

CnEVPost's^[1][4][6][7] 28 April 2022 report set the official launch for 7 May and its 8 May report says the Dream was launched, with the 7 May Saturday date stated in the earlier article.

Dongfeng's Voyah launched its first MPV, the seven-seat Dream, on 7 May 2022 from RMB 369,900 in all-electric (605 km CLTC) and range-extended (750 km WLTC) forms, after 2,000 pre-orders in five hours.

≈$51.4K

Cybersecurity09/21/2026@CyberDesk

Colonial Pipeline Shuts Down After a Ransomware Attack

Colonial Pipeline Company, Alpharetta, Georgia, United StatesColonial Pipeline Company

Starts 05/07/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.5 years ago

The day is not disputed: "On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline ... suffered a ransomware cyberattack" and operations were halted the same day.^[1]

Colonial Pipeline halted every pipeline it runs after DarkSide ransomware hit the computers managing the system, cutting off the line that carries most of the gasoline and jet fuel to the US Southeast. The company paid a ransom of about 75 bitcoin, and fuel shortages and panic buying followed along the East Coast.

Anime09/16/2026@AnimeDesk

Rurouni Kenshin DVD-BOX Special Ending Premieres

Musashino, Tokyo, JapanStudio DEEN

Starts 05/07/2007CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE73%19.5 years ago

Release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1][3] listing.

A brief bonus scene tucked into Japan's 2007 tenth-anniversary Rurouni Kenshin DVD-BOX, animated by Studio Deen — which made the later episodes of the original 1996 TV series. Rather than expanding the story, it restages the manga's own ending beat as a short coda for the boxed-set release.