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Rising inflation, Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, and excess leverage continue to draw the cryptocurrency’s price down.
Investing.com -- Artificial intelligence is adding to U.S. inflation rather than reducing it, with the current investment boom estimated to contribute roughly 0.4 percentage points to annual inflation in 2026, according to CIBC Capital Markets.
FedEx (FDX) and UPS spent half a century as the only two names that mattered in American package delivery. They built the aircraft fleets, sorting hubs and delivery routes that turned next-day shipping into a routine promise. The company that once filled those planes and trucks with its own ...
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Payrolls badly missed the 115,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate's dip to 4.2% masked a shrinking labor force. Now it's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's problem.
In a classic “Friday news dump,” Apple filed a federal lawsuit in California against OpenAI, accusing its once-partner of stealing some of its trade secrets. Specifically, it’s alleging that two of its former employees brought proprietary and confidential information about its hardware to OpenAI when they joined. The lawsuit calls to mind Waymo’s trade secret theft lawsuit against Uber, filed in 2017. Similarly, a well-established tech giant publicly accused a fast-ascending private company, loc

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday, with the Dow gaining nearly three-tenths of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than four-tenths of a percent to end just short of a record high, and the Nasdaq climbing nearly three-tenths of a percent.</p><p>The AI trade returned to the spotlight after South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix ended almost 13% above its offer price at $168 in a blockbuster U.S. listing. The company raised over $26 billion on Thursday by selling American Depositary Receipts priced at $149 each.</p><p>U.S. stocks added to gains after President Donald Trump said that Iran had asked to continue talks and the U.S. had agreed, but that the June ceasefire was "over."</p><p>Ross Mayfield is investment strategist at Baird Private Wealth Management.</p><p>"Today I think markets are a little bit higher as it's evident once again that neither Iran nor the U.S. really want to re-engage in a hot war in the Middle East. This is going to be a volatile back and forth, who knows what will happen over the weekend. But I do think even a little bit of calm is helping markets, helping yields and oil pull back. And then this is kind of a calm before the storm. Not a lot going on today besides the SK Hynix debut. But next week - retail sales, CPI (Consumer Price Index), and the start of bank earnings. So a lot for investors to prep for, kind of a calm before the storm trading day."</p><p>Stocks on the move Friday included Meta Platforms, which jumped 6% to its highest level since April.</p><p>Shares of Moderna tumbled almost 11% in its worst day in over a year.</p><p>And shares of Delta Air Lines dropped more than 1.5%, even after the carrier forecast third-quarter profit above expectations.</p><p>Investors now look to quarterly earnings season, which kicks off next week.</p></body>
Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of running a coordinated campaign to steal confidential product designs and trade secrets.
The US-Iran ceasefire is fracturing, Brent is climbing, and energy stocks are repricing fast. Whether this is a temporary spike or the beginning of a sustained oil shock will reshape the Fed's next move and every duration-sensitive position in your portfolio.
Jim Cramer just made his first bearish call in 25 years, and the trigger was not a market crash or a recession signal but a single bond deal that he says proves the AI spending machine is quietly running out of fuel.
A weak stock market wouldn’t be the only painful outcome of a Mag Seven collapse. It could also risk tipping the economy into recession.
“We do expect some more pressure on the business from a commodity standpoint,” CFO Steve Schmitt said on an earnings call.
Stocks saw brief pullback after Trump posted about U.S.-Iran negotiations. The Dow was up 54 points or 0.1%, while the S&P 500 hovered near the flatline. “The muted stock market reaction to the re-escalation of Iran tensions this week is prime evidence that the market is looking past geopolitical tensions,” Clark Bellin, CIO of Bellwether Wealth said, adding, “From a stock market point of view, the stock market already reacted to the Iran situation in March and similar to last year's tariff tantrums, once the market reacts to something, it tends to move on in due time.”
Federal regulators are raising serious questions about whether autonomous vehicles can safely interact with first responders, and their concerns could throw a massive wrench into Tesla's most ambitious moneymaking plan yet.
Wall Street is tuning out wars and ignoring geopolitical headlines, and one chief investment strategist thinks he knows exactly why. The answer involves a spending figure that should stop any investor cold.
U. S. stock futures traded little changed on Friday as investors paused after Thursday’s technology-led rally, shifting their attention toward next week’s corporate earnings reports and key inflation releases.
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The approval places Circle's USDC reserve infrastructure under direct federal oversight and allows the company to offer digital asset custody services
Amazon's Low-Cost Shipping Push Raises the Stakes for UPS and FedEx
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The stock market's biggest catalyst may bring about its own demise.
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Three days after announcing the gaming industry's biggest layoff of 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma accepted a new role shaping how the Federal Reserve thinks about AI and jobs for the next decade.
PEP's international growth contrasts with a North America reset as affordability, marketing and tariff refunds shape its 2026 outlook.
Your exchange-traded fund is flat. Remember that ETF you tucked away that invests in developed markets outside the U.S.—the one that looked cheap but has lagged behind the S&P 500 forever because it’s loaded with crusty old companies in Europe and Japan? By the way, both of these overseas funds, developed and emerging, beat the S&P 500 by a lot in 2025, too, but that was partly because the value of the dollar tanked last year as the Federal Reserve was cutting interest rates.
Tencent is in talks to become Manus' largest shareholder as investors seek alternatives after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the AI start-up, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing two sources. (Reporting by Preetika Parashuraman in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)