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Benchmark indices on Wall Street ended Thursday’s trading session with gains, albeit off the session’s highs, recovering some of the losses seen during Wednesday’s sell-off, particularly in tech shares. The Dow Jones gained close to 300 points. At one point, the index had risen close to 450 points towards the 49,600 mark. Both the S&P…

Verizon Gets Final California Approval to Secure $9.6 Billion Frontier Deal The telecommunications company navigated conflicting demands from federal and state officials to close the acquisition. —- Trump to Push Plan for Tech Companies to Fund New Power Plants The White House proposal, set to be announced Friday, would involve an emergency auction within the…

S&P 500 – Daily Chart – 160126US Stock Futures Outlook: Fed Expectations and Earnings Keep Bias Positive In my opinion, the short-term price outlook remains cautiously bullish. Optimism about upcoming earnings and expectations of an H1 2026 Fed rate cut support the positive outlook. These fundamentals align with constructive technicals. Additionally, increased speculation about an…

Longtime Wall Street economist and market strategist Ed Yardeni doubled down on a call he first made years ago: that the 2020s could turn out to be a modern-day echo of the Roaring 1920s. And in his view, the forces driving that boom are still very much intact. “I could see the S&P 500 getting…

Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal! AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous. Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy. In fact, AI is already…

The company made a dramatic change to its revenue guidance, a move very much noticed by analysts and investors. Investors were eager to buy shares of e-commerce artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Rezolve AI (RZLV +14.04%) on Hump Day. This came on the heels of two bullish analyst notes published before market open that morning. With…

NEW YORK (AP) — A surging stock market and a flurry of deal making padded the profits of Wall Street’s two big investment banks, which both saw a double-digit jump in profits in the fourth quarter. Goldman Sachs’s net earnings rose 12% from a year earlier, posting a profit of $4.62 billion, or $14.01 a…

David Jagielski, CPA, The Motley Fool January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM Key Points Data from the past 30 years suggests there is a moderate correlation between January’s performance and the rest of the year. It’s the extreme performances in the first month that investors should watch out for. Crashes can, however, come quickly and…

GIFT City GIFT City enables easy access to global stocks and dollar mutual funds for Indians. Digital onboarding and tax-efficient structures simplify international investing GIFT City insurance products mainly target NRIs with USD-denominated offerings Did our AI summary help? GIFT City, India’s International Financial Services Centre, lets investors access global stocks, dollar-denominated mutual funds, and…

Jamie Dimon didn’t have much trouble telling Warren Buffett he’d hired one of his top lieutenants. The JPMorgan CEO said that he called Buffett after hiring Todd Combs in December, who will lead a new $10 billion group at the bank and act as a special advisor to Dimon. “It’s a free country, and people…