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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…

By the end of the decade, the U.S. will be markedly older. One in five Americans will be at least 65 by 2030, and by 2034, older adults will outnumber children for the first time, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This demographic reality is already transforming the economy — from the size of the…

Wisconsin retiree sees higher ACA premium MADISON (WKOW) — As 2026 begins, many Americans face difficult decisions about their health insurance. Enhanced tax credits for Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expired at the end of December. More than 20 million Americans now see an average premium increase of 114%. WKOW sat down with Vicki Walsh,…

Many mutual fund advisors have been recommending to invest in large cap schemes in the current financial year. They believe that the large cap category may do well as the market is entering into the expensive territory. These advisors say that the stock market is at an all-time high and the market is likely to…