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There may be no more important question for the West’s competitive position in advanced industries than whether China is becoming a rival innovator. While the evidence suggests it hasn’t yet taken the…
On opening weekend, the leading South Korean beauty retailer's new store in Pasadena, California, had 6,000 customers move through its doors, and it currently sees an average of more than 1,600 visito…
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a digital advertising juggernaut. That goes without saying. In the first quarter, it collected $77.3 billion in ad revenue, up 16% year over year and represe…
The United States and Iran traded another round of overnight attacks as fighting spread across the Gulf, with Tehran claiming strikes on military, intelligence and fuel-support facilities in Bahrain a…
Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: $META) is in talks to lease as much as $10 billion of computing capacity to Anthropic, opening a possible path into the AI cloud market as demand for chips and data center…
Live cattle futures posted losses of 97 cents to $2.67 across most contracts on Friday. August was down $10.77 this week. Cash trade settled in at $238-240 in the north this week, with Southern trade …
A high bar is set for Q2 results. Plus: A sector that could surprise, what to watch in big bank earnings, and the World Cup’s effect on the US economy.
The wheat complex was in rally mode to close out the week, finishing higher in all three exchanges. Chicago SRW contracts were 4 ¾ to 9 ½ cents higher across most contracts, with September up 42 ½ cen…
Follow updates on the war in the Middle East for Wednesday, July 15, here. See earlier developments below.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed down -1.01%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.77%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -1.49%. September E-m…
Corn futures shrugged off the early weakness on Friday to close near the highs of the day, up 2 ¼ to 3 ½ cents across most contracts. September was 5 ¼ cents higher on the week with December up 6 1/2.…
Cotton futures saw weakness extend to Friday, with contracts closing down 62 to 89 points on the day, with December down 291 points this week. Crude oil was up another $3.50 per barrel, with the US do…
In the first full budget since Labor's landslide election victory last year, the government is putting some money back in workers' pockets and increasing taxes on investors.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a tec…
In trading on Friday, shares of Cerence Inc (Symbol: CRNC) entered into oversold territory, hitting an RSI reading of 29.5, after changing hands as low as $8.37 per share. By comparison, the current R…
Cotton futures are heading 87 to 99 points lower so far on Friday, amid some outside market pressure. December cotton futures expire today. The outside markets are pressure factors, with the US dollar…
The "tokenmaxxing" trend has drawn scrutiny from auditors and risk officers, who are now conducting deeper reviews of how artificial intelligence tokens are consumed, not just how many are used. As en…
NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - The dollar was flat on Friday, but ended the week lower as tame U.S. inflation data led traders to cut bets on imminent rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes suspends use of law to reduce prison sentences, pending further review.
A giant slingshot sounds more like a county fair stunt than a serious space plan. Yet one California company is trying to turn that simple idea into a new way to send satellites skyward, replacing fir…
Cotton futures are heading 87 to 99 points lower so far on Friday, amid some outside market pressure. December cotton futures expire today. The outside markets are pressure factors, with the US dollar…
President Donald Trump on Friday blasted Canada for wildfires enveloping swaths of the United States in a smoky haze, and said he would add the costs of that pollution to existing tariffs.
Lean hog futures are trading with 50 cent to $1.02 gains across most contracts at midday. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $96.68 Friday morning, down $3.49 from the day prior. The CME L…
Specifically, Chair Warsh said that “financial markets perform best when they react to incoming data. I think the financial markets work less efficiently when they ask a question. How will the Federal…