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The S&P 500 ended 0.2% lower, while the Nasdaq 100 ended flat and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6%. Google is developing a server chip designed to optimize its Gemini AI model. A federal judge temporarily paused Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110-billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. The S&P 500 and Dow ended lower…

Benchmark indices on Wall Street, which had opened higher on Monday, July 20, gave up all the gains by the close of the session and ended with losses on fears of higher energy prices stoking inflation fears once again. The Dow Jones gave up nearly 600 points from the highs of the session to end…

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) slipped 0.19% to 7,443, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) edged 0.05% lower to 25,508, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) lost 0.59% to 51,839 as an early-session semiconductor rally lost steam amid mounting geopolitical concerns. Gold prices gained 0.10% to $4,008.09 as of U.S. market close, and the 10-Year Treasury yield…

If you’re looking for long-term investment gains, growth stocks aren’t the only game in town. Recent market forecasts from Vanguard say U.S. value stocks (companies rated as undervalued compared to their fundamentals) might outperform U.S. growth stocks over the next 10 years. Two popular Vanguard exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offer slightly different approaches to investing in…

Microsoft has been one of the worst large-cap tech stocks of 2026. While Nvidia kept climbing and the broader market recovered from its early-year lows, Microsoft went the other direction. The stock has shed roughly a fifth of its value this year, even as Azure kept growing and the AI business kept expanding. Investors who…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during Pershing Square Capital Management LP’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. equity futures were flat Monday evening after higher oil prices weighed on the major indexes and…

Good morning, and welcome to the ABC’s finance blog! I’ll be guiding you through the latest market action for the next few hours. It looks like the local share market will start its day modestly lower. ASX futures, which are a rough indicator of how the market may open, have risen by about 0.4%. The Australian dollar has risen slightly to 69.96…

Trade tensions are flaring between the Trump administration and Canada once again. On Monday, Donald Trump announced a new 50% tariff on some Canadian goods under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which empowers the US President to impose additional duties of up to 50% on imports from any foreign country that discriminates…

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted to a quiet finish Monday after stocks of chipmakers and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom trimmed some of their recent losses. The S&P 500 dipped 0.2%, coming off its first losing week in the last three and just its third since the end of March. The Dow…

TABLE OF CONTENTS Businessman sits at the table and working on computers to check investment performance. The best stocks to buy now focus on large- and mid-cap companies with impressive earnings outlooks. getty The S&P 500 gained nearly 8% in the first half of 2026, despite geopolitical tensions, lingering inflation and an energy supply shock.…