{"id":6957,"date":"2026-10-09T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/09\/cheap-gas-phantom-why-americans-still-wait-as-midterms-approach-and-ai-stocks-dip\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:59:10","slug":"cheap-gas-phantom-why-americans-still-wait-as-midterms-approach-and-ai-stocks-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/09\/cheap-gas-phantom-why-americans-still-wait-as-midterms-approach-and-ai-stocks-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Gas Phantom: Why Americans Still Wait as Midterms Approach and AI Stocks Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans are still waiting for a significant drop in gas prices, drawing parallels to Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Despite President Trump’s promise to avoid attacking Iran before the midterms, speculators on Kalshi predict gas prices will remain above $4 per gallon. Meanwhile, the AI sector is experiencing turbulence as OpenAI’s reported revenue fell short of expectations, impacting stocks like Nvidia and Oracle.<\/p>\n

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Americans are still waiting for a significant drop in gas prices, drawing parallels to Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Despite President Trump’s promise to avoid attacking Iran before the midterms, speculators on Kalshi predict gas prices will remain above $4 per gallon. Meanwhile, the AI sector is experiencing turbulence as OpenAI’s reported revenue fell short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108341892-1785347948161-gettyimages-2287518812-WARSH_FOMC.jpeg?v=1785347975&w=1920&h=1080&ffmt=webp&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_country-india","rifnote_country-iran","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_country-venezuela","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-elon-musk","rifnote_executive-jd-vance","rifnote_executive-mukesh-ambani","rifnote_executive-sunil-mittal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108341892-1785347948161-gettyimages-2287518812-WARSH_FOMC.jpeg?v=1785347975&w=1920&h=1080&ffmt=webp&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}