US stocks finished Tuesday little changed after a volatile session dominated by anxiety over President Trump’s looming Iran deadline, a spike in oil, and a late-day bid for risk assets as traders bet on a short-term de‑escalation. At the end of the…
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has turned a tidy $6.4 billion in gains into more than a victory lap; it has become a live case study in how a concentrated portfolio, a flair for macro hedges, and a very public persona can compound…
Broadcom’s latest AI alliance with Google parent Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL, GOOG) and Anthropic is less a routine chip deal and more a declaration that the quiet power behind the cloud plans to stay loud for the next decade. The three-way pact locks…
US stocks traded with a muted positive bias Monday as investors weighed tentative cease-fire efforts in the U.S.-Iran conflict against still-elevated oil and rate expectations. Early gains were modest, but they extended last week’s rebound as traders remained positioned for further geopolitical…
The illusion of comfort that has defined much of American life in recent years is colliding with a far harsher reality taking shape beneath the surface. Robert Friedland, the influential billionaire investor and mining magnate, has been sounding the alarm that many…
Mohamed El‑Erian is warning that the global economy is drifting toward a slow‑growth, high‑inflation mix as the Iran conflict lingers, but his message is oddly constructive for investors willing to respect risk while hunting opportunity. Think of it as the market equivalent…
OpenAI’s purchase of TBPN turns a buzzy tech talk show into a strategic asset, and in the process makes the company look less like a lab and more like a network—in every sense of the word. The deal may read as “chasing…
The latest March jobs report delivered the economic equivalent of a plot twist: the US economy added 178,000 jobs while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, confounding forecasts that had braced for a far softer print. Instead of signaling a labor market…
US stocks ended a volatile, holiday-shortened week mixed but resilient, as investors juggled Iran-war headlines, oil shock, and shifting Fed-cut expectations while the major indexes largely shook off early Thursday losses tied to Strait of Hormuz risks.
Index performance and tone
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