Here are the most important news items that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Rebounding The major averages began to rebound Friday on a down week for the markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8%, a day…
The Biden administration pledged on Monday to provide up to $6.6 billion so that a Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the most-advanced microchips are produced domestically for the first time.…
President Joe Biden on Feb. 21, 2024, visiting a library in Culver City, California. Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images President Joe Biden will announce on Monday a new, sweeping student loan forgiveness plan, which could benefit…
Wall Street is expecting a subdued earnings season from Corporate America despite the first-quarter’s stock market fireworks. Yes, the S&P 500 Index rose 10% from January to March. Strategists, however, predict that S&P 500 companies will post their smallest year-over-year profit growth…
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and Tesla CEO Elon Musk talk during a meeting in Porto Feliz city in Sao Paulo state, Brazil May 20, 2022. Kenny Oliveira | MCom | via Reuters Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes initiated an…
When a panel flew out of its Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 plane mid-air in January, the safety standards and leadership at Boeing became front-and-center. It’s since seen a slower pace of production and deliveries have further slipped behind for…
U.S.-China economic relations are in focus as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visited Beijing on Sunday, seeking to ease tensions amid mounting disagreements. The push to improve cooperation comes as China’s economy suffers from slowing growth, a real estate crisis, high youth unemployment,…
Anastasiia Yanishevska | Istock | Getty Images While relatively few companies have shifted to a four-day workweek, the advent of artificial intelligence apps like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini could hasten the shift. A recent survey by Tech.co of 1,000 U.S.-based business…
Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as they hauled the contaminated material from a mountaintop mine through the northwestern Montana town…
A range of new and growing options exist on the car dealer lot when it comes to hybrid and electric vehicles, but if you’ve been following the headlines lately, decisions made by major automakers reflect a market tilting more hybrid…