Shares of Samsung Electronics rose as much as 4.8% on Tuesday after the South Korean technology giant forecast record quarterly profit amid strong demand for artificial intelligence chips. Shares later pared gains to close 1.76% higher%. In its preliminary earnings guidance, Samsung projected its operating profit for the January-March quarter to reach 57.2 trillion won…
In this article UMG-NL BOL-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Activist investor Pershing Square said Tuesday it is planning to buy Universal Music Group in a cash and stock deal worth about 55.8 billion euros ($64.4 billion). Under the terms of the proposal, shareholders would receive a total of 9.4 billion euros ($10.85 billion)…
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged below $100 a barrel and Asia markets and U.S. stock futures jumped after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 4.8% and South Korea’s Kospi gained 5.6%. Futures for the S&P 500…
In this article .HSI .N225 .AXJO .KS11 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pedestrian walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on March 23, 2026. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Tuesday following a volatile trading…
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SQUAMISH, British Columbia (AP) — Authorities in British Columbia urged people to stay away from a rock face above a highway in the Canadian province where a red Volkswagen Beetle shell was suspended in an apparent prank by engineering students. BC Parks was working to remove the Beetle and expects to do so within the…
By Echo Wang NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) – SpaceX outlined details of its highly anticipated IPO at a meeting with its team of bankers Monday night, telling them it plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June following the IPO…
Construction is slowing down one of L.A.’s last “easy” travel experiences There was a time when flying out of Hollywood Burbank Airport felt like getting away with something. You could leave your apartment late, breeze through a modest security line, grab a coffee and still make boarding without the ritual stress that defines LAX. It…
Two more drug-making giants will officially start selling popular commercial medications on the White House’s discounted pharmaceutical site as soon as Monday, CBS News exclusively learned. American pharmaceutical companies Abbvie and Genentech become the 10th and 11th companies to provide their prescriptions at a reduced rate on the “TrumpRx” site. Abbvie, which struck a deal…
Under the law, swaps include event contracts, judges noted. The Dodd-Frank Act gave the CFTC discretionary power to review and prohibit six categories of contracts if it concludes any violate the public interest. Those categories include gaming contracts. So far, the CFTC “has not yet acted to review or prohibit any sports-related event contracts,” the…
In this article @CL.1 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Oil prices were little changed Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump made ominous threats against Iran ahead of his deadline for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen this evening. U.S. crude oil for May rose 54 cents to close at $112.95 per barrel. International benchmark Brent crude…
Trump wrote on Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”.
The most recent electric vehicle sales data provided a grim picture — at least for new EVs. Sales of new electric vehicles took a beating in the first quarter, falling some 28% year-over-year after the Trump administration axed the $7,500 consumer tax credit, according to Cox Automotive. Used EVs are moving in the opposite direction….
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York City on April 7, 2026. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images The S&P 500 posted a slim gain on Tuesday as traders grew hopeful that a proposal brokered by Pakistan may result in an eleventh-hour…
In this article HUM CVS UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz speaks during an event sponsored by the Action for Progress Coalition, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 2, 2026. Al Drago | Reuters The Trump administration on Monday…
The EPA certification for Rivian’s upcoming R2 was found and posted on Rivian Forums this morning, and it includes some interesting insights about the vehicle – including one note that has fans worried about cold weather range, but we reached out to Rivian to get the facts. The main, headline spec that everyone seems to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that an interest rate hike could be appropriate if inflation remains persistently above the central bank’s 2% target, the latest sign that some policymakers are moving away from a bias toward reducing borrowing costs. Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said…
Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. Iran’s military said that if the U.S. went ahead with its threats to hit its civilian infrastructure, the country would retaliate with its own strikes against the U.S.’ energy and…
If this were “Grand Theft Auto,” then “mission failed” would be plastered across the game screen. The NYPD says four people tried to steal multiple luxury vehicles from a Hell’s Kitchen parking garage Sunday morning. They got away … but at least some of the cars didn’t. Right before 6 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to…
That aspect of OpenAI’s vision requires firms like OpenAI to develop safety systems, among other efforts, that will help improve public trust in AI. And we should trust those systems will work and only interfere with these firms when actual dangers are looming, OpenAI seems to suggest. “As we progress toward superintelligence, there may come…
The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s. The News Media Guild, the union…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares in focus after JPMorgan kept a Sell rating and a $145 price target, a level that suggests roughly 60% downside from recent trading. The bank said the stock’s recent move reflects expectations for much better performance later in the decade, according to a Monday note from…
As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas blend traditionally left-leaning mechanisms like public wealth funds and expanded social safety nets with a fundamentally capitalist, market-driven economic…
A North Korean cyberattack that last Monday briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to carry out as part of a long-running campaign to target the code’s top developers. The hijacking of the Axios project on March 31 was in part successful because it relied on…
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A Caribbean Airlines passenger traveling to New York from Jamaica went into labor and gave birth over the weekend just as the flight was landing. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a press release, the airline said Caribbean Airlines’ Flight 005 was on its final…
With the FCC looking to ban foreign-made routers, the big question is whether your device of choice will be removed from store shelves. A new report using Speedtest.net data identifies which brands will be affected most, based on their popularity in the US. Speedtest.net’s parent, Ookla, examined user-submitted data from January 2025 to last month…
Earnings for the first quarter of 2026 will soon be announced, and there’s little question that profits will be squeezed by ever-rising fuel prices. Everyone will be listening to hear what the airlines have to say about future guidance, but United has decided it is not waiting around. In the last week, it has pushed…
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Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, has received commitments of close to $24 billion to back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery from three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, Variety has confirmed. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) agreed to provide about $10 billion to Paramount, with the state-controlled funds of Qatar and Abu Dhabi…
Stewart’s Shops is introducing a new half gallon ice cream flavor inspired by a Saratoga Springs couple. Mike and Linda Toohey bid $50,000 at a Saratoga Hospital Foundation gala last year in exchange for the rare prize of naming a new Stewart’s ice cream flavor. They selected the name Dake’s Passion, a vanilla ice cream…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that it has designated The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY”) as a financial agent of the U.S. government to support implementation of the new Trump Accounts program. Under this designation, BNY will manage the initial accounts and help develop the new Trump Accounts app — a…
10. “Private equity and consultants that are paid to tell you to just lay off workers.” —RiverParty442 “Funily enough, private equity and private credit are in trouble now, and they are cheesing their numbers so hard that it’s borderline fraud. Turns out you can only do the buy extract profits load with debts sell cycle…