Finance
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Wall Street Surges After Democrats Win Congress as Dow Jumps More Than 1,200 Points
Wall Street rallied sharply Wednesday morning after Democrats won Congress. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq reversed overnight losses; here's…
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California Proposition 40: Billionaire Wealth Tax, Healthcare Funding and Sergey Brin’s $102 Million Fight
California votes on a one-time 5% billionaire wealth tax for healthcare as Google co-founder Sergey Brin funds competing measures. What…
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AI Investment Boom Sparks New Warnings About Debt, Market Concentration and Financial Risk
The artificial intelligence investment boom is generating vast spending on data centers, processors and power infrastructure, but financiers and regulators…
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Google Gemini Copyright Dispute: EU Court Adviser Says AI Answers May Infringe Publishers’ Rights
A legal opinion released Tuesday by an adviser to the European Union's highest court could influence how artificial intelligence companies…
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Black Sea Shipping Attacks Put Grain Exports at Risk and Raise Food Price Concerns
Escalating attacks on cargo shipping in the Black Sea are disrupting grain trade from Russia and Ukraine and creating new…
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AI Investment Boom Raises New Warnings About Concentration, Debt and Market Risk
Technology companies and financial investors are committing massive sums to data centers, computing chips, electricity infrastructure and artificial-intelligence systems. Leaders…
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Black Sea Shipping Attacks Raise New Worries About Grain Exports and Global Food Prices
Renewed attacks involving commercial shipping in the Black Sea are raising concern about export routes used by Ukraine and Russia,…
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Google Parent Alphabet Launches €6 Billion Bond Sale as AI Spending Grows
Alphabet launched a €6 billion bond sale, testing investor demand for technology-sector debt as AI infrastructure spending accelerates.
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Candy Costs Up, AI On the Shopping List, and a Rare Shift in the Housing Math
The holiday money squeeze is real. Halloween candy prices climbed well beyond general food inflation this year, with chocolate still…
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Oil Bites, Gold Slides, and a December Rate Hike Now Looks More Likely Than Not
A small dip in mortgage rates offers little relief: Forum Nadlan’s tracker puts the thirty-year fixed rate just above seven…
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