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The wheat complex was in rally mode leading to the grains higher on Wednesday, with export concerns out of the Black Sea. Chicago SRW contracts were mostly 26 to 32 1/2 cents in the green at the close…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday that the Trump administration's overhaul of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans up to $26.5 billion so far, the latest Democratic …
The megarocket’s success is SpaceX’s “single most important watch item,” one analyst says.
This isn’t the new Musk biography everyone’s talking about. This is the 2015 Musk biography by Ashlee Vance. I started reading it in July, before I knew there was a new one. It’s fine: Musk never chan…
Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) stock has accelerated in 2026 as the company taps into the surging demand for memory processors. Sandisk is a leader in NAND Flash memory, which is used for everything from smar…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been the lead regulator on event contract exchanges for over 30 years after it issued a 1992 ruling on the Iowa Electronic Markets, widely recognized as th…
IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, who has been tapped to lead the expansion of Trump Accounts, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday that he expects every family could someday have one of the new tax-deferred i…
Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC, a 10% owner and investment adviser to RENN Fund, Inc., made an open-market purchase of 756 shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share on July 13, 2026, bringing i…
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) today is down -0.46%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is down -0.04%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is down -1.28%. September E-mini S&P futures …
The cost of the latest artificial intelligence models is increasingly breeding anxiety among finance executives, who have started directing employees to consider open-source alternatives.
Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, admitted “mistakes” in his handling of the release of millions of files stemming from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, which revealed sur…
What to know about positioning for the second half of 2026, and where we see opportunity by sector.
The dollar index (DXY00) is up by +0.18% today. The dollar is moving higher today as better-than-expected US economic reports signal economic strength. Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell to a 10-…
Also lagging the market Thursday are semiconductors shares, down on the day by about 4.7% as a group, led down by AXTI, trading lower by about 12.7% and Kopin, trading lower by about 10.3%.
Major U.S. indices weakened, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 turning negative, while chip, computer hardware, and AI stocks led declines. Gambling and airline stocks bucked the trend. Analysts warn of mar…
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the Senate banking committee, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh struck the right in an appearance before the panel…
The Board of Directors of Coca-Cola announced the election of a new company officer and the approval of the company's regular quarterly dividend. The company declared a regular quarterly dividend of 5…
President Trump has called for a temporary waiver of the federal gas tax, which costs drivers 18.4 cents per gallon.
Citizens Financial Group (CFG) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.3 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.25 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.92 per share a year ago. The…
Top 10 Dividend Stocks to Buy in 2026 Plus, how dividend stocks have performed so far this year. David Sekera, CFA and Susan Dziubinski
One-year fixed savings accounts are offering inflation-beating rates of up to 4.9%. We've rounded up the best deals available on the market now.
Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices. That is according to new analysis from Bain & Company using …
UnitedHealth Group on Thursday posted second-quarter earnings that blew past estimates and raised its full-year profit outlook, as the company better manages high medical costs and uses AI to help str…
Nvidia unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan.