Many consumers are rightfully concerned about escalating trade tensions. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would impose 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on goods imported from China. He also signaled that tariffs on the European Union could be next. While Trump has agreed to halt the implementation of tariffs against Canada for at least 30 days
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In this article CMG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Chipotle restaurant stands in Manhattan, New York City, on Feb. 6, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday said traffic to its restaurants keeps rising, helping the company top analysts’ estimates for its quarterly earnings. However, the burrito chain disappointed
In this article AMD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT AMD CEO Lisa Su. Courtesy: AMD Advanced Micro Devices reported fourth-quarter results on Tuesday that beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings, but the stock fell about 4% in extended trading as the company missed estimates in its key data center segment. Here’s how
Kenneth C. Griffin (R) speaks during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2024 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. Eugene Gologursky | Getty Images Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s flagship hedge fund climbed in a volatile January, according to a person familiar with the returns. Citadel’s multistrategy flagship Wellington fund
In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT TrumpCoin cryptocurrency price on Binance website is displayed for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on Januar 20th, 2025 (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meme coins plummeted over the weekend as President Donald Trump signed long threatened tariffs
An American flag and a U.S. Department of Education flag fly outside the US Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 1, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | Reuters With the Trump administration looking for ways to close parts or all of the U.S. Department of Education, many of the country’s 42 million federal student
In this article MCD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT McDonald’s Shamrock Shake Source: McDonald’s McDonald’s is leaning on customers’ nostalgia for its McDonaldland characters to spur sales of its Shamrock Shake. The company said Tuesday that Grimace will reunite with his Irish uncle, Uncle O’Grimacey, bringing the mascot out of retirement after decades out
In this article FOXA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Fox Sports television camera during a game between the Utah Utes and the USC Trojans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Oct. 21, 2023. Brian Rothmuller | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images Fox Corp. is finally getting into the direct-to-consumer
In this article SIRI BRK.A Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. Grogan Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway once again scooped up shares of Sirius XM, boosting its stake in the satellite radio company to
Bundles of steel from Nucor Corporation sit for sale at Thompson Building Materials in Lomita, California, on Aug. 30, 2012. Patrick Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. steelmakers should be beneficiaries of President Donald Trump‘s new tariffs, but Wall Street warned that there are some risks in the longer term. On Saturday, Trump slapped
Vesnaandjic | E+ | Getty Images The cost to rent is coming down faster in some areas of the U.S. than others. Overall, rent affordability is improving thanks to a combination of factors, said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. One is, there’s more supply. “There are more apartments for rent now because there was
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The U.S. housing market was already struggling under the weight of high mortgage interest rates, a low supply of existing homes for sale and historically high home prices. Now tariffs on building materials are adding even more pressure. Roughly 30% of softwood lumber consumed in the U.S. is imported, largely from Canada. Wallboard, known as
Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday posted $770 million in fourth-quarter net profit, launching a $1 billion share buyback program in the first half of 2025. After weathering the storm of a turbulent government-backed tie-up with fallen domestic rival Credit Suisse in 2023, UBS hoped to achieve $7.5
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Asset management giant Vanguard announced broad fee cuts for many mutual funds and ETFs on Monday, reinforcing its standing as one of the cheapest options for investors. The move reduces fees on 87 different funds, and 168 total share classes of those funds. The average
A truck drives on its way to enter the United States at a border crossing at the Canada-U.S. border in Blackpool, Quebec, Canada, on Feb. 2, 2025. Andrej Ivanov | Afp | Getty Images Tariffs set to take effect Tuesday may mean consumers won’t get a reprieve from high borrowing costs this year, according to
Shana Novak | Stone | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could worsen existing drug shortages in the U.S., raise healthcare costs for patients and threaten cash-strapped generic drugmakers, some drug trade groups warn. Trump on Saturday announced he would impose a 25% tariff on nearly all goods shipped
In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., during a Bloomberg Technology television interview during the FoundryCon event in Palo Alto, California, US, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir shares surged more than 10% in extended
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, listens as investor Scott Bessent speaks on the economy in Asheville, N.C., Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Matt Kelley | AP President Donald Trump has made Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after firing former head Rohit Chopra over the weekend.
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that outlines plans to for a government-run sovereign wealth fund to serve as an economic development tool