Markets
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Stocks pull back from their latest all-time highs on Wall Street
Aug 29, 2025 4:24 pm - Wall Street closed out another winning month Friday, even as stocks gave back some of their recent gains, pulling the market below its latest all-time highs. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% a day after climbing to a record high. The benchmark index ended August with a 1.9% gain, its fourth straight month of gains. It’s now up 9.8% so far this year.
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A US tariff exemption for small orders ends Friday. It’s a big deal to some shoppers and businesses
Aug 27, 2025 10:07 am - Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global trade with tariffs.
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Wall Street holds steady just below recent records
Aug 26, 2025 8:04 am - Stocks are holding near break even in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as indexes hover just below their recent all-time highs.
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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.