Sunday, 8 November 2026
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While investors may think of Alphabet (GOOG +1.53%) (GOOGL +1.74%) as an artificial intelligence (AI) stock, Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX +0.45%) could also be considered one as well. SpaceX has a quickly growin…
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV26) closed down -0.63 (-3.46%) on Friday, and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV26) closed down -9.90 (-1.89%).
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV26) is down -0.64 (-3.52%) today, and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV26) is down -13.20 (-2.52%).
Meta's watershed social media trial just wrapped up in California, but now attention is shifting to the wider industry with TikTok, YouTube and Snap next on the firing line.
OpenAI will cut SpaceX-owned Cursor’s model access in November, citing Musk’s history of broken contracts.
ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI: On Wall Street, fortunes are often won and lost with the tiniest advantages. Like, can your firm find some brilliant trading strategy in some corner of the global market? Or can you keep it a secre…
Live cattle futures faced weakness on Friday, with contracts down 45 cents to $1.30, as October fell $6.20 on the week. Cash trade picked up later on Friday with $222 sales surfacing across the country. The Friday morni…
The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves as the war with Iran roils the global crude trade, President Donald Trump announced Friday.
Soybeans posted 14 to 30 cent gains across most contracts on the Friday session. September was up 51 ¼ cents on the week, as November rallied 48 ½ cents. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was up 20 1/2 cent…
Corn futures held onto the Friday gains into the close, with contracts settling 1 to 4 cents higher. September rallied 28 ¼ cents on the week, with December 28 cents. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was b…
Cotton futures faced pressure to close the week with Friday losses of 19 to 114 points across the board. December still held up for a weekly gain of 303 points. Crude oil was down 9 cents per barrel, with the US dollar …
The dollar index (DXY00) rallied to a 2-week high on Friday and finished up by +0.61%. The dollar jumped on Friday on hawkish comments from Fed Chair Warsh, who warned inflation isn’t meaningfully slowing and vowed that…
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed down by -0.25% on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down by -0.02%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down by -0.70%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU…
A federal judge on Friday rejected an effort by President Donald Trump to transfer to federal court the New York state criminal hush money case that ended with his conviction.
Microsoft’s software offers capabilities that will be critical for AI, one analyst notes.
If Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh wanted to put the bond market on alert, he certainly got his wish Friday: odds of an interest-rate hike by the central bank in its September meeting jumped to nearly 60 percent after…
Lean hog futures were 90 cents to $1.27 higher to close Friday, with October up $1.02 on the week, led by the Friday strength. USDA’s national base hog price was at $89.57 in the Friday PM report, down 19 cents from the…
Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. (ARQT) received a notice under Rule 144 that Terrie Curran intends to sell restricted common stock through Merrill Lynch. The notice covers 38,200 shares of common stock with an aggregate m…
Two banks have paused selling products of Mark Walter's Delaware Life amid concerns of federal probes into how the insurer's parent company reported about $20 billion in assets that were affiliated with other entities c…
Corn and wheat prices have surged to their highest levels in more than three years. But the forces driving recent rallies for these two crops are notably different.
Apple on Friday increased the monthly price of Apple TV, its streaming service, to $14.99, or $119 per year. It was previously $12.99 per month, or $99 per year.
Treasury yields at the short end of the curve spiked while those on the long end edged lower after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said in a keynote address in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that the central bank still has …
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole speech Friday to answer critics of his muddled July press conference, delivering a clearer warning that stubborn inflation could push the Fed toward a rate hike.
A record number of Americans are taking money from their 401(k) plans before retirement, according to a new study from investment firm Vanguard. In 2025, 6% of Vanguard customers with retirement funds initiated a 401(k)…