Bloomberg Businessweek USA July 2026 Issue

Jul 9, 2026

July 2026 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek covering business, technology, economics and culture through feature reporting, interviews and opinion. Highlights include Eli Lilly’s next steps in GLP-1 obesity treatment, the expanding peptide economy and concerns about black-market peptides, and broader themes such as Japan’s used luxury goods boom and El Niño’s limited help to struggling economies. The issue also examines topics ranging from SpaceX’s out-of-this-world IPO and tokenization for 24/7 trading to climate-driven impacts on health, food prices and global warming.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages96

Reading Time4 h 2 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Remarks

In Context

An urgent new question

In Depth

Reading List

With a US retreat

In View

The Reluctant

Boss

Woe be the CEO

Rooting out bad bosses with new compliance tools

Joe Hudson, unicorn whisperer

Pursuits

CEO Diet

July 2026 Eli Lilly’s Next Shot How Dave Ricks created a $1 trillion GLP-1 giant PLUS The rampant spread of black-market peptides July 2026 Bottles of Foundayo, the oral GLP-1 that Eli Lilly introduced in April ▷ 34 4 Bloomberg Businessweek ◼ PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN SERNA FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Contents Remarks Making sense of an out-of-this-world SpaceX IPO 8 In Context Economies are struggling. El Niño won’t help 11 An urgent new question: Should robots have legs? 13 The booming market for Japan’s used luxury goods 15 As Spain welcomes immigrants, its GDP increases 17 A Walk With: Guinness’s Gráinne Wafer 18 In View Tokenization may make trading a 24/7 pursuit 21 Reading List: Eswar Prasad on digitization trends 23 The scoop on ice cream inﬂation 24 With a US retreat, China exerts more soft power 26 In Depth UK towns are feeling climate change at their taps 28 How global warming is affecting Indian health insurance 31 With rising temperatures come rising food prices 33 Lilly tackled the obesity epidemic. What’s next? 34 Inside the multibillion-dollar peptide economy 42 How one town is contending with an ICE facility 52 The Reluctant Why it’s suddenly not so easy to ﬁll the corner office 61 Boss Declaring open season on middle managers 64 Joe Hudson, unicorn whisperer 66 Woe be the CEO, according to our survey 71 Rooting out bad bosses with new compliance tools 72 How co-chief executives are making it work 74 Pursuits VIP to nosebleed: The World Cup’s best and worst seats 78 High-end golf’s quiet quest for sandy soil 81 Winning isn’t everything at a White Sox home game 84 Sincaraz might not be so good for men’s tennis 86 Just what is soccer’s place in America’s sporting world? 88 What to read, watch and ponder in July 89 Cote 550 makes a play for king of power dining 90 CEO Diet Executives share how they get their head in the game 92 Contributors ○ Max Chafkin, Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter and co-host of the podcast Everybody’s Business, has been covering Elon Musk for 19 years. ▷ 8 ○ While reporting their feature on Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Madison Muller, a healthcare reporter for Bloomberg News, and Brad Stone, editor of Businessweek, discovered that CEO Dave Ricks became an amateur mixologist during the pandemic. ▷ 34 ○ Muller also worked with Amanda Mull, a senior reporter for Businessweek, and fellow health reporter Ashleigh Furlong, and learned that the Janoshik peptide testing lab in Czechia has a useful neighbor: a waste management company. After the peptides are tested, they don’t have far to travel before getting destroyed. ▷ 42 ○ Bloomberg CityLab reporter FolaAkinnibi found out that Tremontis part of Pennsylvania’s coal region, with some of the largest anthracite deposits in the world. Hard coal, as it’s known, helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. Photographer Caroline Gutman ﬂew her drone to get a sense of the scale of the 1.3 million-square-foot ICE warehouse. ▷ 52 Cover Photograph by Kevin Serna for Bloomberg Businessweek. Serna’s lens shot through red gel to add vivid huesand nod to Eli Lilly’s company color. It set him up for a looser approach to lighting and framing. How to contact Bloomberg Businessweek 􀀂 Email [bwreader@bloomberg.net](bwreader@bloomberg.net) 􀀂 X @BW 􀀂 Instagram @businessweek 􀀂 [Facebook](Facebook facebook.com/)[ facebook.com/](Facebook facebook.com/)[ ](Facebook facebook.com/)[bloombergbusinessweek](bloombergbusinessweek) 􀀂 Ad sales 212 617-2900, 731 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022 􀀂 Subscription help businessweekmag.com/service 􀀂 Reprints/permissions 800 290-5460 x100 or businessweekreprints@theygsgroup.com 6 Bloomberg Businessweek IBKR Individual Clients Beat theS&P 500 in 2025 Trade where serious investors outperform Join over 4 million IBKR Clients who earn interest up to USD 3.14%2 on uninvested cash, trade globally across 170+ markets and take advantage of margi

FAQs

What major theme does the July 2026 issue emphasize?

The issue connects major business and technology developments—such as SpaceX’s IPO and advances in GLP-1 drugs—with wider economic, political, and social consequences.

How does the issue frame Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 work and what related topic is highlighted?

It focuses on what comes next for Lilly after tackling the obesity epidemic, alongside reporting on the multibillion-dollar peptide economy and the spread of black-market peptides.

Which article section addresses investment and market structure ideas like trading availability?

The “In View” section addresses how tokenization may enable 24/7 trading pursuits.

Jul 9, 2026

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