The year just ended saw more strong gains for the stock market, but with valuations at levels only seen during the Covid-19 pandemic and the dot-com bubble, trouble could be on the horizon. Last year, technology companies led the S & P 500 to rally more than 16%, extending the run that began in late…
Monica Virga, a 38-year-old entrepreneur based in Norway, found it unsettling to go from a period of working 20 hours a day to almost zero while on holiday, she said. “I would… end up popping into my emails again and checking up on things with work that I didn’t need to be in,” she said….
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The debts that Venezuela owes ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil are not an immediate priority for the Trump administration after the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC on Wednesday. “The huge debts that are owed Conoco and Exxon, those are very real and need to be recompensed in the future,” Wright told…
The Zhipu AI logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC, better known as Zhipu, edged higher on their Hong Kong debut, following a $558 million initial public offering that made it the first of China’s “AI tigers” to go public. The…
Four intriguing teams. Two huge games. However, those two matchups are drawing very different types of action in the College Football Playoff semifinal odds market. “It looks like we’re gonna get more two-way action on Miami-Ole Miss, and Oregon-Indiana might be the polar opposite, with one-way traffic,” Caesars Sports head of football trading Joey Feazel…
FILE PHOTO: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Aug. 26, 2016. Raymond Boyd | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s owners announced Wednesday the paper will be shutting down in a few months, citing financial losses. Block Communications Inc. announced it will cease publication on May 3. The paper is printed on Thursdays and Sundays and…
President Donald Trump prepares to depart for the Army/Navy football game in Baltimore, at the White House in Washington, Dec. 13, 2025. Aaron Schwartz | Reuters President Donald Trump reserves the right to use military force to secure oil interests in Venezuela, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday. “The president, of course, reserves…
Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images There’s movement going on in the Magnificent Seven group of stocks. Shares of Alphabet, the parent of Google, rose 2.4% on Wednesday, to give the firm a market capitalization of $3.89 trillion. Meanwhile, Apple, the parent of the iPhone (so to speak), retreated 0.8%, and ended the…
With conference play upon us, it’s fair to start wondering which of the undefeated women’s college basketball teams might actually be able to stay that way. Here are the four teams that have yet to log an L in 2025-2026, as well as some notable opponents that they have already taken care of and those…
