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U.S. stocks traded higher this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining more than 300 points on Thursday. Following the market opening Thursday, the Dow traded up 0.51% to 51,754.78 while the NASDAQ rose 1.17% to 26,324.95. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 0.94% to 7,489.55. Leading and...

Kentucky sued prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket on Wednesday for running what its attorney general calls illegal sportsbooks, and named Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) and Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) as affiliates that helped route the bets. Attorney General Russell Coleman is...

Intel Is Turning into the U.S. Chip Bet that Wall Street Can Finally Explain Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has been a hard stock to own for years because the story kept changing faster than the numbers did. One quarter it was a turnaround. Then it was a manufacturing reset. Then it was a government-backed...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook says price increases on the iPhone and other devices are now “unavoidable,” as a historic memory chip shortage eats into the company’s profit margins. Cook told the Wall Street Journal that surging DRAM and storage prices have made the...

Empire Co (TSX:EMP) reported fourth-quarter financial results on Thursday. The transcript from the company's fourth-quarter earnings call has been provided below. Benzinga APIs provide real-time access to earnings call transcripts and financial data. Visit https://www.benzinga.com/apis/ to learn...

Few financial conversations carry more emotional weight than retirement. By the time couples reach their late 50s, they've often spent years building a vision of what the next chapter will look like.  Some dream of traveling. Others picture spending more time with family or simply enjoying a...

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) shares fell during Thursday trading after sector peer Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) lowered its fiscal guidance, triggering a broader selloff across the information technology services market. Accenture Alters Fiscal 2026 Projections Accenture altered its...

Michael Saylor‘s (NASDAQ:STRC) dropped below $89.50 Wednesday as crypto analyst DonAlt called Strategy Inc.’s (NASDAQ:MSTR) preferred stock “the worst Ponzi” he has ever seen, with buyers who paid $100 already down over 10%. DonAlt Lays Out The Death Loop In Plain Terms...

Finishing a car loan feels like a win, and it is. But the $400 a month that just freed up in your budget is one of the most powerful financial tools you will have this year, and what you do with it in the next few months will determine whether it actually changes your financial position or quietly...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is reportedly piloting a new system, Full Facility Load Balancing (FFLB), which is designed to optimize human movement within its robot-filled warehouses. Amazon’s latest initiative is not just about package handling, but also about human movement within its...

Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs has issued a warning for tech titans like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft Corp.(NASDAQ:MSFT), noting that their Return on Equity (ROE) faces severe downward pressure as massive artificial intelligence capital expenditures trigger escalating “...

Smartbird, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIRD) stock is trading higher on Thursday, continuing the upward momentum from Wednesday. The gains follow a multi-step corporate overhaul that completes the company’s transformation from a footwear retailer into an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure play....

(Editor’s note: The headline, ETFs and economic data were updated.) U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday, as the Dow Jones, Nasdaq 100, and S&P 500 indices advanced, following Tuesday’s sharp sell-off. Weekly initial jobless claims edged down by 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 226,000...

The traditional retirement formula has long been: work for 40 years, save diligently and finally enjoy life in your 60s or later. But some millennials are starting to question whether waiting that long is the best approach. That debate recently came up in a Reddit discussion after one person shared...

Kevin Warsh announced the Fed’s decision to hold rates steady at his first FOMC meeting Wednesday and deliberately avoided forward guidance, leaving markets to price in a rate hike by year-end as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) faces a fresh headwind. Warsh Killed Forward Guidance and Nine Committee...