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© David McNew / Getty Images Oil prices shot above the $100 per-barrel mark again last week, as the war in Iran took a troubling turn. With things rapidly escalating in the Strait of Hormuz and oil prices briefly flirting with the $120 level, there’s serious concern about what the broader implications will be for…

© metamorworks / Shutterstock.com Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) stock advanced 5% Tuesday morning, with shares testing the $63 level after closing Monday at $59.69. In a more muted move, NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) stock rose 3% with shares moving toward $12.50 after previously closing at $11.97. The moves come as nuclear energy broadly draws fresh investor attention, with…

Global investment companies have quietly acquired tens of thousands of acres of historically open timberland in Washington’s Wahkiakum and Pacific counties – and they’re locking the gates behind them, cutting off roads that hunters, hikers, and off-road riders have used for generations.The story playing out along the Elochoman River Valley is a preview of what’s…

Key Points Symbotic gets 84% of its revenue from Walmart. This makes it a vendor, not a platform company. The company’s $22.3 billion backlog sounds massive until you realize only 13% of it will convert to revenue within 12 months. Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) is the stock Wall Street couldn’t stop talking about over the last…

US stock market Dow Jones crash today wiped out nearly 380 points, pulling the index down to 45,846.59, while the S&P 500 fell 0.60% to 6,585.05 and the Nasdaq dropped 0.68% to 22,002.54. In early trade, losses were even deeper, with the Nasdaq sliding as much as 1.4%, showing how intense the selling pressure was.…

Live Updates Yesterday Oil prices are back above $98 after the U.S. hit Iranian production facilities, including the world’s biggest natural gas field. As noted by CNN, the latest attacks will add to fears of a longer-lasting war. “Energy markets are having to continuously price in a more prolonged disruption to oil and gas flows…

© ShutterstockProfessional / Shutterstock.com What we’re looking at may be the most paradoxical environment in decades. Defensive ETFs like the Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF (NYSEARCA:FSTA), Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:VPU), and iShares US Aerospace & Defense ETF (BATS:ITA) are crushing the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks. This is not because these defensive…

The S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.62%) is America’s most widely followed stock-market index because of its diversified composition and strict entry criteria. It hosts 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy, and those companies must maintain a minimum market capitalization of $22.7 billion. In addition, they must be profitable. This ensures the S&P 500…

JPMorgan lowered its 2026 year-end S&P 500 target to 7,200 from 7,500, warning that investors have become complacent in their expectation that oil-price spikes will be short-lived. The US stock market has been resilient amid surging oil prices since the Iran war began nearly three weeks ago. JPMorgan said this relative calm relies on one…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and Chair Jerome Powell highlighted the increasingly uncertain outlook for the U.S. economy and inflation in the wake of the Iran war, suggesting the Fed could stand pat for an extended period. Fed policymakers maintained their forecast for an…