Earnings kick into high gear to start February amid ongoing trade worries

Earnings kick into high gear to start February amid ongoing trade worries

Earnings season ramps up another notch next week to start February, forcing investors to wade through a barrage of quarterly results amid ongoing policy uncertainty that promises upheaval for an already choppy stock market. The January jobs report is also due out Friday. Next week will be the busiest stretch … Read more

67 dead after American Airlines plane collides with Army helicopter

67 dead after American Airlines plane collides with Army helicopter

Search and rescue teams work near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., Jan. 30, 2025.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters There were no survivors after … Read more

Trump is reversing the Justice Department’s civil rights policies

Trump is reversing the Justice Department’s civil rights policies

The U.S. Department of Justice building is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 21, 2019. Leah Millis | Reuters Donald Trump kicked off his second presidential term with dozens of executive orders, many of which focus on hot-button culture war issues, from transgender and abortion rights to diversity, equity and inclusion … Read more

Apple proves naysayers wrong once again with lots to like from the quarter and outlook

Apple proves naysayers wrong once again with lots to like from the quarter and outlook

Apple defied the doom and gloom that had been building for weeks. Shares rose roughly 3% Thursday evening after the tech giant reported a slightly better-than-expected quarter. More importantly, guidance for revenue growth in the March quarter was much better feared. Revenue in Apple’s fiscal 2025 first quarter, which ended … Read more

Disabled workers are getting screened out of digital hiring

Disabled workers are getting screened out of digital hiring

Undefined Undefined | Istock | Getty Images Nearly 35 years after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility efforts — as well as the demand that all government workers return to offices — threatens to reverse … Read more

DeepSeek’s AI claims have shaken the world — but not everyone’s convinced

DeepSeek’s AI claims have shaken the world — but not everyone’s convinced

Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek rocked markets this week with claims its new AI model outperforms OpenAI’s and cost a fraction of the price to build. The assertions — specifically that DeepSeek’s large language model cost just $5.6 million to train — have sparked concerns over the eyewatering sums that … Read more

Microsoft delivers an earnings beat but misses where it matters most

Microsoft delivers an earnings beat but misses where it matters most

Microsoft couldn’t shake the bear thesis with its fiscal 2025 second-quarter numbers Wednesday, causing the stock to fall more than 5% in extending trading. Despite beating top-line and bottom-line estimates, the software giant’s disappointing cloud revenues and soft guidance renewed concerns its AI spending is not generating sufficient returns. Revenue … Read more

India’s finance minister faces a tough choice crafting the annual budget — boost growth or cut deficit?

India’s finance minister faces a tough choice crafting the annual budget — boost growth or cut deficit?

Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister, leaves the ministry to present the budget at the parliament in New Delhi, India, on July 23, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As the Indian government walks a tight rope between fiscal prudence and reviving growth, experts suggest it will likely favor cutting … Read more

Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in gold bar bribery case

Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison in gold bar bribery case

Former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) departs Manhattan Federal Court after his sentencing on Jan. 29, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images A judge sentenced an emotional former Sen. Bob Menendez Wednesday to 11 years in prison Wednesday for a years-long bribery and corruption scheme that saw him … Read more

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