Day: March 18, 2025

Stock futures are little changed as traders await Federal Reserve’s rate decision: Live updates
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Stock futures are little changed as traders await Federal Reserve’s rate decision: Live updates

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 14, 2025, at the opening bell.  Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images Stock futures hovered below the flatline Tuesday night as the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision looms. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 49 points, or 0.1%. […]

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Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC
Politics

Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC

Federal Trade Commission Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (L) and Alvaro Bedoya (R) sit behind FTC Chair Lina Khan as she testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal […]

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Google-Wiz deal is ‘litmus test’ for Trump administration’s handling of Big Tech
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Google-Wiz deal is ‘litmus test’ for Trump administration’s handling of Big Tech

The Wiz logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Seven months ago, Alphabet lost a marquee case against the Biden administration’s Justice Department, which accused the company of maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Weeks earlier, Google’s pursuit of cybersecurity vendor […]

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Watch astronauts return to Earth on SpaceX capsule after months on the ISS
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Watch astronauts return to Earth on SpaceX capsule after months on the ISS

[The stream is slated to start at 4:45 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to splash down on Earth on Tuesday evening after spending more than nine months in space. They were originally supposed to […]

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The Fed will update its rate projections Wednesday. Here’s what to expect
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The Fed will update its rate projections Wednesday. Here’s what to expect

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., Feb. 11, 2025.  Craig Hudson | Reuters Federal Reserve officials at this week’s meeting are expected to hold interest rates steady but adjust […]

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Yum Brands and Nvidia are teaming up to bring artificial intelligence to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC restaurants. Source

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Retail investors ditch buy-the-dip mentality during the market correction
Finance

Retail investors ditch buy-the-dip mentality during the market correction

Spencer Platt | Getty Images Individual investors, whose assets are more tied to the stock market than ever, have abandoned their tried-and-true dip-buying mentality as the S&P 500 recently fell into a painful, 10% correction. Retail outflows from U.S. equities rose to about $4 billion over the past two weeks as tariff chaos and mounting […]

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Bitcoin and ether slide as the Fed’s rate decision looms: CNBC Crypto World
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Bitcoin and ether slide as the Fed’s rate decision looms: CNBC Crypto World

ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email On today’s show, major cryptocurrencies fall ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on rates. Plus, President Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project said it sold $550 million in tokens, while the SEC’s acting chief said the agency’s considering dropping a crypto asset […]

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Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra and Rubin AI chips
Technology

Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra and Rubin AI chips

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrives to attend the opening ceremony of Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL)’s Tan Ke Plant site in Taichung, Taiwan Jan. 16, 2025.  Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday.  CEO Jensen Huang revealed Blackwell Ultra, a […]

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These stocks are contenders to start dividends — and have plenty of cash, Morgan Stanley says
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These stocks are contenders to start dividends — and have plenty of cash, Morgan Stanley says

Dividend stocks reward investors with the potential for enhanced returns over time, and a few companies may have the wherewithal to start offering the payments, according to Morgan Stanley. A few big names joined the ranks of dividend payers in 2024, led by tech giants Meta Platforms , Alphabet and Salesforce , that began making […]

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