Usa Financial News

By Chris Prentice and Douglas Gillison

Advisors searching forinvesting themes in 2024 may want to try AI, health care innovation and new supply chains, a BlackRock strategist says.

US regulators for the first time approved exchange-traded funds that invest directly in bitcoin, a move heralded as a landmark for the roughly $1.7 trillion digital-asset sector that will broaden access to the largest cryptocurrency on Wall Street and beyond.

Quiver Quantitative — The U.S. East Coast is grappling with significant power disruptions following a massive winter storm, affecting over half a million homes and businesses from Florida to Maine. According to PowerOutage.us, New York has been the hardest hit, with nearly 143,000 customers without electricity. This is closely followed by Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and New Jersey, experiencing approximately 105,000, 70,000, and 58,000 outages respectively. The primary power companies in these states include Con Edison (ED) in New York, FirstEnergy (NYSE:FE) in Pennsylvania, Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) in North Carolina, and Public Service Electric and Gas in New Jersey, a subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG).

By Hannah Lang

FOX Business correspondent Madison Alworth shares why for many first-time homebuyers, the American dream is delayed as a result of high mortgage rates and home prices on 'Varney and Co.'

FreedomWorks chief economist Steve Moore joins The Bottom Line to weigh in on the Biden White house blaming the GOP for 90% of the national debt increase.

By Ketki Saxena

By Johann M Cherian and Ankika Biswas

(Reuters) -SAP, the German software company, agreed to pay about $222 million to resolve two investigations into bribery schemes in seven countries, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.

By Steven Scheer

By Krystal Hu

A lot is riding on tomorrow’s US consumer inflation report for December for markets, which are pricing in relatively upbeat news.

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and David Randall

(Reuters) -Walmart on Wednesday said it had temporarily closed about a dozen stores due to scattered power outages on the East Coast following a massive winter storm that has put more than 90 million people under high wind and flooding advisories.

By Luc Cohen

Black, white, Hispanic and Asian adults in the U.S. largely agree that the government should focus on the economy and foreign policy issues in 2024

Pollution from greenhouse gases declined by nearly 2% in the U.S. in 2023.

Japanese authorities have resumed landfill work at the planned new site of the U.S. military base on Okinawa despite protests by island residents that it tramples on their rights

Faculty at California State University could stage a systemwide strike later this month after school officials ended contract negotiations with a unilateral offer of a 5% pay raise, far below what the union is demanding

The World Economic Forum says false and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence is the top immediate risk to the global economy