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US stock futures rose Monday evening after a sharp rally in equities earlier in the day, as investors largely brushed off geopolitical concerns tied to Venezuela and focused instead on potential economic upside for US companies. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) held steady, while futures attached to the S&P 500 climbed 0.1%. (ES=F) Nasdaq…

Warren Buffett has experienced some of highest peaks among investors across the globe, but even the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ has made some mistakes. Here’s what he learnt from his biggest blunder: “If you pay too much for them, you can turn a good business into a bad investment.” At the start of this year, Warren…

Billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir Technologies, started a position in Microsoft in the third quarter. Billionaire Peter Thiel is best known for his role in co-founding Palantir Technologies. But he also runs the hedge fund Thiel Macro, which made three interesting trades in the third quarter: Thiel Macro sold 100% of its stake in…

US stock market rallies strongly as investors absorb Venezuela shock and focus on growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more than 400 points, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite also moved higher, signaling broad-based confidence across equity markets. The Dow is near 48,858, up nearly 1% on the day. The S&P 500…

Ireland Owens January 1, 2026 at 9:49 AM (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images) ©(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images) While President Donald Trump oversaw strong U.S. economic growth during the third quarter of 2025, some concerns with the economy still remain heading into 2026, an analyst told the…

Michelle Chapman, The Associated Press Updated January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM Chevron logos are displayed at a gas station in Columbus, Miss., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) Shares of major U.S. companies in the energy sector are sharply higher Monday after President Donald Trump announced plans to take control of Venezuela’s oil…

Blockchain investigation firm TRM Labs says ongoing cryptocurrency thefts have been traced to the 2022 LastPass breach, with attackers draining wallets years after encrypted vaults were stolen and laundering the crypto through Russian exchanges. In 2022, LastPass disclosed that attackers breached its systems by compromising a developer environment, stealing portions of the company’s source code and…

Shares in major US oil refiners rallied on Monday as the industry priced in a potential opportunity for the refiners to benefit from the Trump administration’s ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Gulf Coast-based Valero Energy Corporation (VLO) led the way up, gaining more than 10%. Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC), the largest refiner in the…

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Several companies could see massive gains by 2030 to join the vaunted club. The number of S&P 500 companies in the $1 trillion club has grown substantially since Apple became the first U.S. company to surpass $1 trillion in market capitalization in August 2018. At the time of this writing, Nvidia and Apple have market caps…