Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Getty Images) In This Story The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes fell sharply Tuesday after February consumer confidence missed expectations, coming in at 98.3 compared with the consensus of 103.0, and down from 105.3 in January. It was the worst decline since August. U.S. government debt rallied and the dollar…
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) In This Story U.S. stocks were little changed in early Tuesday trading as global trade tensions intensified. President Donald Trump reaffirmed that tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will proceed once the current 30-day reprieve expires. Additionally, his administration is reportedly pushing for stricter U.S. semiconductor restrictions while urging…
MicroStrategy Inc., the dot-com-era software maker whose metamorphosis into a leveraged bet on Bitcoin has transfixed Wall Street, is joining the Nasdaq 100 Index, the benchmark’s overseer said Friday. Software company Palantir Technologies Inc. and Axon Enterprise Inc., a maker of Tasers and police body cameras, will also be added. Illumina Inc., Super Micro Computer…