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Andrew Ross Sorkin’s first book, Too Big to Fail, was a bestseller about the financial crisis of 2008, published the following year. His second, 1929, out this week, takes readers “Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How it Shattered a Nation”. It’s been 16 years between books, but Sorkin hasn’t been…

Pgiam/iStock via Getty Images It was a volatile week on Wall Street, but the three major indexes still ended with solid gains. Investors weighed persistent U.S.-China trade tensions, a prolonged government shutdown, the kickoff of the third-quarter earnings season, and renewed concerns about the health of regional banks. Source link

Wall Street thinks The Trade Desk and Atlassian can ride the Nasdaq bull market higher over the next year. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.52%) recently entered a new bull market after crashing when President Trump began imposing tariffs earlier this year. Since 1990, the growth-focused index has been through six other bull markets, and it…

Investing in Buffett-sanctioned stocks with meaningful upside potential is generally a great move. Warren Buffett gained his reputation as the best investor of all time by beating the market over the long run. It’s not a bad idea, then, to look into his (and his team’s) stock picks for inspiration. And in Berkshire Hathaway‘s $257.52…

Stock splits artificially decrease a company’s share price and increase its outstanding share count without changing the market cap. Stock splits are tools that publicly traded companies can use to artificially lower their stock price and increase their outstanding share count without changing their market cap. The most common reason a company may conduct a…

Ever wondered what it’s like to have a couple of cosmos with your favorite actor, or two drams of whiskey with a Silicon Valley legend? That’s what we’re going to be doing here in this new column from The Free Press. Each week, a writer will invite a newsmaker, a trendsetter, or a power broker…

This artificial intelligence (AI) winner has seen its shares jump more than 300% this year. Nvidia (NVDA 0.86%) and Palantir Technologies (PLTR 0.11%) have been two stocks investors could count on for outsized gains over the past few years — and that continues as they both head for increases of more than 30% and about…

The Nasdaq Composite entered a new bull market earlier this year, and history says the technology-heavy index could soar in 2026 (and beyond). The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.52%) peaked in December 2024, and then dropped sharply when President Trump began imposing tariffs in early 2025. The technology-heavy index slipped into bear market territory and reached…