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Alphabet hits a milestone as it closes in on Nvidia

Alphabet added a record $421 billion to its market cap as massive cloud growth and AI momentum sent shares soaring.

Veeva Systems to join S&P 500 index, replacing Coterra Energy

Veeva's stock has been hit this year along with the rest of cloud software as investors fear the impact of …

The memory trade is faltering as Western Digital’s stock slides in the face of earnings beat

Investors are panning upbeat results from Western Digital and Sandisk after massive one-year stock rallies.

Saving for retirement when you make less than $35,000 won’t be much easier with Trump’s new executive order

Experts have been working to fix this problem for decades — but outside of workplace plans, success has been hard …

SpaceX may face an easier path to S&P 500 entry if these newly proposed rules take hold

As SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly gear up for IPOs, S&P Dow Jones Indices is considering whether to allow ‘fast-track’ …

Gold posts its biggest 2-month drop ever. How its price could still double over the next 5 years.

Gold prices cemented the worst two-month decline in history on Thursday, based on the price of heavily-traded futures contracts.

LIV Golf has lost its Saudi funding. Golfers who rejoin the PGA Tour may face financial fallout.

A Saudi sovereign fund reportedly poured more than $5 billion into the golf league. The fund now says its investment …

Could Powell’s decision to stay worsen relations between the Fed and the White House?

“I think there’s a point where standing up to Trump moves into poking the bear with a sharp stick,” one …

Rivian’s latest earnings may have been the ‘low point.’ Here’s what comes next.

Rivian Automotive on Thursday posted decent first-quarter earnings, but the company really wants investors looking to the future.

FISA Section 702: Congress passes short-term surveillance program extension just before deadline

The controversial foreign surveillance program was due to expire by the end of Thursday.

Sandisk’s eye-popping earnings beat fails to extend the stock’s big rally

The company says it’s transitioning to a business model of “multiyear customer engagements.”