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The numbers: Rising business investment is the surprise star of the five-year-old U.S. economic expansion — and it doesn’t look ready to slow down. A key gauge of investment rose in December for the ...

ASML beat Wall Street's sales and earnings targets for Q1. The company also raised its full-year sales guidance. Some investors were hoping that the company would deliver an even more explosive Q1 ...

Palantir stock is moving lower following recent comments from Michael Burry. Burry thinks Palantir's valuation could be in a bubble and thinks the company is losing ground to Anthropic. Anthropic ...

Why has the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price surpassed Brent? That was the question Rigzone asked Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Wealth, and Phil Flynn, a senior market analyst ...

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This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to some U.S. airports starting March 23 in an attempt to alleviate hours-long ...

No US president in living memory has gone to war with less public support than Donald Trump has for the war in Iran. Even Barack Obama’s much-maligned Libyan intervention began with 60% of Americans ...

Scientists investigating rising cases of colorectal cancer in younger adults uncovered a surprising difference in the physical properties of colon tissue. Credit: Shutterstock Younger colorectal ...

Customers line up outside a branch of Indymac Bank, which failed in 2008. When people think of a bank failure, they typically picture a crowd of anxious depositors demanding their money back. The bank ...

Some kids struggle with math. Now, scientists have pinpointed some of the specific thinking processes and brain regions that might explain why math is a little harder for some than others. When given ...

Nvidia 's strong earnings report made it clear that the company is still donning the AI chip king crown. So, why is the stock down in Thursday's session? The reason, according to CNBC's Jim Cramer, is ...