Markets
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Stocks slip on Wall Street after last week’s rally
Aug 25, 2025 10:53 am - Stocks on Wall Street closed broadly lower Monday, giving back some of the big gains the market notched last week on hopes for interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.
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Wall Street soars on hopes for lower interest rates as the Dow surges 846 points to a record
Aug 22, 2025 1:31 pm - Wall Street rallied to its best day in months after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted that cuts to interest rates may be on the way. The S&P 500 leaped 1.5% Friday for its first gain in six days and finished just shy of its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 846 points to its own record after topping its prior high from December. The Nasdaq composite jumped 1.9%. Treasury yields tumbled in the bond market as traders upped their bets that the Fed will cut its main interest rate at its next meeting in September.
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Renewables battling climate change now need to insure against it
Aug 20, 2025 10:44 am - Solar and wind energy companies are betting on a novel form of insurance to protect their assets against wild and volatile weather — the very type of climate risk they were set up to fight.
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Wall Street holds at a standstill near its record heights
Aug 18, 2025 10:36 am - Wall Street is holding near its record heights on Monday, ahead of a week likely to be dominated by updates from the head of the Federal Reserve and from some of the biggest U.S. retailers.
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U.S. stocks tap the brakes as Wall Street heads toward the finish of a record-setting week
Aug 15, 2025 12:18 pm - U.S. stocks are edging back from record levels on Friday, led by drops for technology companies, but Wall Street is still heading toward the finish of another winning week.
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Most U.S. stocks fall after a disappointing inflation update, but Big Tech keeps Wall Street steady
Aug 14, 2025 3:28 pm - Wall Street is edging back from its record heights on Thursday after a disappointing report said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists expected.
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Wall Street clocks another winning week
Aug 08, 2025 3:46 pm - U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, capping a choppy week of trading with the market’s third winning week in the last four and another milestone.
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Wall Street drifts as stock markets worldwide take Trump's new tariffs in stride
Aug 07, 2025 11:57 am - Stocks are slipping on Wall Street Thursday after President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs took effect on dozens of countries.
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The Bank of England cuts its main interest rate to 4%, the lowest level since March 2023
Aug 07, 2025 6:50 am - The Bank of England cut its main interest rate Thursday by a quarter percentage point to 4%, as policy makers seek to bolster the sluggish U.K. economy.
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Trump’s broad tariffs go into effect, just as economic pain is surfacing
Aug 07, 2025 6:37 am - President Donald Trump began levying higher import taxes on dozens of countries Thursday, just as the economic fallout of his monthslong tariff threats has begun to create visible damage for the U.S. economy.