Day: October 1, 2025

Stock futures are little changed as investors look past government shutdown: Live updates
World

Stock futures are little changed as investors look past government shutdown: Live updates

A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE Stock futures are little changed Wednesday night after the S&P 500 logged a fresh high and investors appeared to shrug off concerns tied to the latest U.S. government shutdown. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 20 points, or […]

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Trump administration cancels nearly  billion in climate funding to blue states: Vought
Politics

Trump administration cancels nearly $8 billion in climate funding to blue states: Vought

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, from left; Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget; Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota; and U.S. Vice President JD Vance speak to members of the media following a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. […]

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Microsoft sales chief Althoff gets new role as CEO of company’s commercial business
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Microsoft sales chief Althoff gets new role as CEO of company’s commercial business

President of Microsoft North America Judson Althoff speaks on stage during We Day at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, on April 23, 2015. Mat Hayward | Getty Images Microsoft‘s top-ranking sales leader, Judson Althoff, has been promoted to a bigger role as CEO of the company’s commercial business. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, wrote in a memo […]

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S&P 500 closes above 6,700 for first time as traders bet on short-lived shutdown
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S&P 500 closes above 6,700 for first time as traders bet on short-lived shutdown

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Wednesday as traders were hopeful that a U.S. federal government shutdown would be brief and possibly have little impact on the economy. The broad market index gained 0.34% to close at 6,711.20. Earlier, […]

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Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status
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Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status

Migrants walk in a caravan during U.S. Presidential election day, in an attempt to reach Mexico’s northern border, in Tapachula, Mexico November 5, 2024.  Daniel Becerril | Reuters A group of about 1,200 migrants set out walking before dawn in southern Mexico on Wednesday aiming for the capital where they hoped to legalize their immigration status and find more […]

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Santoli’s Wednesday market wrap-up: Mixed but resilient tape pushes stocks to new highs
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Santoli’s Wednesday market wrap-up: Mixed but resilient tape pushes stocks to new highs

(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) A new quarter but the same old routine in the markets: A mixed but resilient tape pushing the benchmark index to new highs through persistent momentum in core AI plays, retail-trader favorites and […]

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NASA employees on Artemis missions with SpaceX, Blue Origin to work through shutdown
Technology

NASA employees on Artemis missions with SpaceX, Blue Origin to work through shutdown

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty Images NASA is requiring employees involved in Artemis missions with contractors SpaceX and […]

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Alabama man files lawsuit against immigration authorities after citizen’s repeat arrests in raids
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Alabama man files lawsuit against immigration authorities after citizen’s repeat arrests in raids

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers carry out a raid as part of Operation Cross Check in Sherman, Texas, on June 20, 2019. Charles Reed | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Reuters An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has […]

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Google cuts more than 100 design-related roles in cloud unit
Technology

Google cuts more than 100 design-related roles in cloud unit

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has laid off more than 100 employees in design-related roles, CNBC has learned. Earlier this week, the company laid off employees within the cloud unit’s “quantitative user experience research” […]

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Intel stock pops on news company is in early talks to add AMD as a customer
Technology

Intel stock pops on news company is in early talks to add AMD as a customer

Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan speaks at the company’s Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. April 29, 2025. Laure Andrillon | Reuters Intel is in early talks with AMD to manufacture chips for it in its foundry business, according to a report from Semafor. Intel shares rose as much as 6% on the […]

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