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equity markets: From Tokyo to New York, stock markets are on a record-hitting spree around the world

From New York to London to Tokyo, if there’s one similarity among the world’s equity markets it’s this: record highs.Of the world’s 20 largest stock [Read more about this post…]

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Dow futures slip after 9th record close of 2024

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U.S. stock futures slipped Monday, edging backward after megacap corporate earnings led to another round of record highs last week. What’s happening Dow Jones Industrial [Read more about this post…]

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Stock investors fear ‘no-landing’ economy could spell trouble. What’s next?.

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While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, relatively strong corporate earnings, and [Read more about this post…]

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Fourth-quarter earnings are near halfway done. Results have gotten better.

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With the U.S. fourth-quarter earnings reporting season almost halfway through, the financial industry is fretting over souring consumer credit. Companies that make shoes and clothes [Read more about this post…]

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Mark Zuckerberg could pay millions in taxes to the IRS on Meta dividends

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Mark Zuckerberg delighted Meta shareholders and Wall Street this week with news of the social media giant’s first-ever dividend. The IRS may also be happy, [Read more about this post…]

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Opinion: Meta stuns Wall Street with its first dividend. Amazon and Alphabet may be next.

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Meta Platforms Inc. surprised Wall Street on Thursday with its first-ever dividend, a move that’s likely Silicon Valley’s most monumental dividend decision since Apple Inc. [Read more about this post…]

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Big Tech faces another day of reckoning on Capitol Hill over kids’ online safety

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Big Tech was in the crosshairs yet again Wednesday as a handful of executives fielded blistering questions in a Senate hearing about the impact of [Read more about this post…]

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Explaining that viral price-to-innovation clip and what it really means.

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There was a clip from a CNBC interview that went viral, in what was seen as Wall Street making up new numbers to justify stocks [Read more about this post…]

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Stock-market rally faces Fed, tech earnings and jobs data in make-or-break week

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Stock-market investors may take their cues from a series of important events in the week ahead, including the Federal Reserve’s monetary-policy meeting, a closely-watched December [Read more about this post…]

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Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft face FTC probe into AI ‘investments and partnerships’

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The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it will look closely at the generative-artificial-intelligence investments and partnerships of Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.69% GOOG, +1.75%, Amazon.com, Inc. [Read more about this post…]