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The day Trump's Republicans were routed, US stocks posted their biggest gain since August

The S&P 500 rose 1.58% on Nov. 4, the day Republicans lost both the Senate and the House. Markets cheered not Democratic policy but hopes that the Iran war could end, which...
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GM Leaves the NYSE After More Than 100 Years for Nasdaq — What Changes for Shareholders?

GM's move to Nasdaq changes not the company's value but its eligibility to join the Nasdaq-100 index. If it is added, funds tracking the index, which total $1.4...
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Record money poured into a 3x chip ETF in a week prices fell. What happened to it?

In the second week of October, when chip stocks fell, the 3x chip ETF SOXL took in more than $7 billion in a single week, a record, yet through Oct. 16 the fund's price...
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Mideast oil is back. Why are prices still high?

Middle East oil exports for the week through Oct. 18 topped 24 million barrels a day, above the prewar 23.3 million, yet Brent crude stood at $108.86 on Oct. 21. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is only...
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Tesla weighs a SpaceX merger. What changes for Tesla shareholders?

Tesla and SpaceX have each formed a special committee to study a merger, but no terms or timeline have been set. If it happens, Tesla shareholders' share will be decided not by SpaceX's results but...
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The Nasdaq fell 4.5% in a week. What should you check first?

The Nasdaq fell 4.5% on Oct. 12-16, its worst week since late June, yet its biggest one-day drop was only 2.1%. What made the weekly total was not one bad...
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With an Iran war on, why are U.S. defense stocks down 19% from their August high?

U.S. defense stocks have fallen even as the Iran war goes on, and the market blames the November midterm elections, not the war. Defense company sales come from the defense budget...
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Gold fell 25% from its peak, silver 53%. Same precious metals, so where did the gap come from?

Since January's record high, gold has fallen 25.5% and silver 53.2%. 58% of silver demand comes from factories, and solar companies have started using less of the now-pricier silver, and...
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Tesla rose 5% on crypto exchanges overnight. Why did the real stock fall?

While U.S. markets were closed, a Tesla contract on crypto exchanges rose about 4.9% to roughly $378, yet the next day Tesla shares opened at $368.51 and closed down 2.13% at $354.72. The...
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Chips fell 7 days in a row. Why are U.S. drug stocks at records?

On Oct. 15, as the U.S. chip index fell for a seventh straight trading day, the S&P 500 health care index hit a record and the S&P 500 itself rose 0.33%. Amid inflation and rate...
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Bitcoin miner IREN rents AI chips to Anthropic. Better than mining?

IREN borrowed at an average rate of 6% against income from its Microsoft contract, while the same company paid 9% on a loan for a different project (the two are not directly comparable)...
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Americans are spending more. Why is Wall Street worried?

U.S. consumer spending rose 0.9% in August while after-tax income rose only 0.3%, and covering the gap pushed the saving rate down to 4.1%, the lowest since November...
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Nvidia made its fortune selling chips. Why does it want to buy an AI company?

Nvidia is in talks to buy U.S. open-model AI company Reflection AI, which it put $800 million into a year ago, or to raise its stake, the...
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US stocks are at a record. So why hasn't mine moved?

The S&P 500 closed at a record on Oct. 6, but five days earlier, as of Oct. 1, the small-cap Russell 2000 was 8.5% below its August record, and iCapital judged that most of...
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Why the Nasdaq fell on a report that OpenAI's sales grew

A report said OpenAI's end-of-September revenue (stretched to a full year) was about $50 billion, $20 billion below the $70 billion the market expected. But sales...
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US adds just 29,000 jobs. Why did the Nasdaq-100 hit a record?

The US added just 29,000 jobs in September, about a third of the 85,000 to 90,000 expected. Because the Fed was in the middle of raising rates, the odds of another hike in October fell...
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Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO: why ETFs must sell Nvidia

If Anthropic lists on the Nasdaq, Nasdaq-100 ETFs may buy Anthropic 15 trading days after listing, raising the money by selling a little of existing stocks like Nvidia...
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After GLP-1, the next war is peptides: who wins the $100 billion market?

Per Reuters (February 2026), Goldman Sachs sees global obesity-drug sales reaching $105 billion in 2030, yet obesity drugs that cost about $1,000 a month at launch now start...
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Micron's revenue hit a record 4.8 times last year's. So why did the stock slip after hours?

Micron forecast next-quarter revenue about 8% above market expectations, but its gross margin (the share of sales left after subtracting costs) outlook came in 0.45 percentage points below expectations. The company...
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Diet drugs to cancer to aging: why the peptide market grows

Eli Lilly's Q2 revenue rose 48%, and volume rose 60% that quarter, but the prices it actually received fell 13%. Peptides are now spreading into cancer and immunity drugs and production...
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McDonald's stock is down 31%. Is the Big Mac too pricey to sell?

McDonald's protected its profits while the US Big Mac got 23% pricier over six years. Now it has guided for "slightly negative" US sales this quarter...
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Taiwan becomes the world's No. 4 stock market. Where does Korea rank?

Taiwan's stock market has risen to No. 4 in the world at about $5.3 trillion in market value, while Korea ranks 7th (MarketCapWatch, as of Sept. 23). Korea, which overtook Taiwan in May...
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The Saudi pipeline stopped, yet oil fell for five days. Why did it jump again in one?

Even after the Saudi pipeline stopped, Brent crude fell for five straight days to $99.25 on Sept. 22. But the next day, news that US crude inventories had risen by 3 million barrels...
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Meta's AI assistant took off. Why did bank, insurance and gym stocks fall?

On Sept. 22 the Nasdaq hit a record high, but Charles Schwab fell 6.1% and Planet Fitness 9.5%. Investors worried that AI could switch customers who never bothered to switch on their own...
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