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UnitedHealth’s earnings are a powerful reminder that the country's healthcare math, whether corporate or federal, just does not add up

The billionaire hedge fund manager says that U.S. economic strength now rests on high-productivity workers, with the bottom 60% “unproductive”

Tesla stock slides and markets go backwards as earnings season meets trade war chaos

Hedge funds are seeing their best growth in years, driven by a mix of fresh money, strong returns, and a flight to uncorrelated performance

The skies may not be friendly for everyone, but for those still flying — and sleeping — at the top end, they remain remarkably cloudless

For toy companies, the quarter preceding the holiday season functions as a preview — with Walmart and Target revealing their holiday sales estimates

GM’s profits still come from a very old-fashioned source — gas-powered pickups and SUVs built in North America

The widespread failure highlights just how centralized the internet-as-we-know-it has become. It also highlights AWS’s critical role

China's factories are booming, but a deepening real estate slump is weighing on the country's economic growth

Millions of Americans are in trouble with their student loans. But the Department of Education remains largely shuttered during the government...

A blowout quarter from America's second-largest bank illustrates larger trends in data and the economy

Wall Street's banks posted strong profits on the back of dealmaking and trading activity. But consumer business lines raise the prospect of...

New data shows China's dependence on American consumers is shrinking, offering an early verdict on Trump's renewed trade wars

As bank CEOs take the mic during a government shutdown, their coded messages to policymakers may carry extra weight

At the same time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb called the federal debt a “white swan,” or a crisis hiding in plain sight

Is this the bull market's final act? As mom-and-pop investors pile in, Wall Street observers hear echoes of past bubbles

Delta's Q3 results show the business increasingly looks like an airline-financial services hybrid. Here's why

With the government shut down, Wall Street's own data sources are flashing warning signs for job seekers, even as stocks rocket to new highs

The raise uses a special-purpose vehicle to keep debt off Musk's balance sheet and hardware in investors’ hands

Gold keeps shattering records, an extreme move for an asset that typically posts single-digit annual gains. Citadel's Ken Griffin calls it “really...

Gold is soaring, Bitcoin is back, and the dollar is sliding — even as jobs vanish and the government shuts down. What gives?

Big-name investors are lining up to buy OpenAI employees' shares, valuing the startup at $500 billion

From TikTok to the box office, fear is selling better than ever

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had floated the idea that half of chips for the U.S. market would need to be produced domestically

The tariffs include a 10% duty on lumber and timber, plus a 25% tariff on upholstered wood products such as kitchen cabinets and vanities

A Fed rate cut, tech’s AI surge, and expanding corporate margins have stocks rallying in the month that usually drags them down

The White House is pressing Taiwan to relocate fabs and suppliers to the U.S. in a bid to counter China. But the numbers strain credulity

The chipmaker has raised billions from Nvidia, SoftBank, even the government. Now it's courting an old partner

The president's proposal to overhaul the H-1B visa program has left companies scrambling and workers reeling

The Idaho-based chipmaker records another blowout, but Wall Street hesitates before the bell

Fed chair Jerome Powell spoke in somewhat stronger terms about the effects of tariffs on the job market

Firms have absorbed much of the trade war shock by taking hits to their profits and using up existing inventories. But that cushion won't last, the...

Thanks to AI and a sluggish economy, the first rung of the career ladder is disappearing for many young workers

The FTC alleges that Amazon used "dark patterns" to encourage Prime signups and discourage cancellations

From tech to schools, employers are courting former staffers — but with downgraded titles, no benefits, and a fraction of the salary

Stock futures point to fresh records after Powell delivers a cut—and a sober warning on jobs, inflation, and politics

The Federal Reserve delivered a modest rate cut as Trump demands more and bulls bet on good times to come

Fed Chair Jerome Powell will face reporters today in what may be the most politically charged moment of his carer

Markets are celebrating weak jobs data as a guarantee of Fed interest rate cuts and fatter corporate margins. But are record highs here to stay?

Making earnings reports more infrequent could slow the flow of information to investors and the public. Trump's call also fits a broader pattern

Prediction markets see a small interest rate cut as a lock this week. Now Wall Street is racing to predict the Fed's next several moves

Anthropic, maker of the popular AI chatbot Claude, has proposed to pay authors $1.5 billion in a landmark settlement. But the checks are not in the...

Trump's claims that "prices are down on just about everything" conflicts with data showing steady rises in the cost of housing, food, gas, and more

The ruling came late Tuesday and preserves Cook's role at the central bank for now. But a swift appeal is expected

Corporate personality tests don’t measure what they claim to measure — even as the corporate appetite for them remains voracious

Wall Street eyes a Fed rate cut with the next job number revisions as workers clings to jobs amid cratering confidence

As job growth stalls and prices rise, stagflation looms, leaving the Federal Reserve in a tricky position

Big tech companies are richer than ever and Wall Street is happy. But they're still laying off thousands of workers

Salesforce posted a solid quarter, but Wall Street remains hooked on megacap growth stories for tech stocks

The Oracle of Omaha, who turns 95 today, mastered superfan selling strategies decades before TikTok, Instagram, or Patreon
