business news
South Korea’s Kospi leads regional rebound, up 5%, as Trump comments drive oil lower
A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index (C) and the Korean won/USD exchange rate (R) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on April 9, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea’s Kospi opened more […]
Read More
Democrats threaten more Iran war powers votes, call for Hegseth, Rubio to testify
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol after President Donald Trump selected Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to replace Kristi Noem as the Department of Homeland Security secretary on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A group of Senate Democrats on Monday laid out a […]
Read More
Elon Musk’s xAI wants to build a power plant in Mississippi. Regulators plan a key meeting on Election Day
Elon Musk waves to the crowd during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters With Elon Musk’s xAI planning to build a massive, natural-gas burning power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, the state’s environmental authority has scheduled a board meeting for Tuesday — Election Day […]
Read More
Warsh to meet Tillis as Senate confirmation remains blocked
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) attends a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s annual report to Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 5, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh will meet this week with the Republican senator who has […]
Read More
Watch live: Trump holds press conference as Iran war fallout roils oil market
[The stream is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump is set to hold a press conference at his Miami-area golf club. The president’s comments at Trump National Doral are coming within hours of him telling CBS News […]
Read More
Oracle is building yesterday’s data centers with tomorrow’s debt
Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle’s debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is no longer planning to expand its partnership with Oracle in Abilene, Texas, home to the Stargate data center, because it wants clusters with […]
Read More
FBI obtains records of Arizona Senate audit of 2020 Maricopa County election results, Republican says
People deposit their mail-in ballots for the US presidential election at a ballot collection box in Phoenix, Arizona on October 18, 2020. Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty Images A federal grand jury issued a subpoena for records of the Arizona state Senate’s audit of 2020 election results in Maricopa County, the Senate president said […]
Read More