CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Existing TikTok users were able to resume using the popular social media app following a short shutdown on Sunday, but anyone seeking to download or update the app in the past week have run into notifications from the app stores that they cannot download them. Android users who go to download…
STORY: Wall Street’s main indexes rose Wednesday, with the S&P 500 hitting an intraday record high thanks to strong Netflix earnings and a rally in tech shares. The Dow gained three-tenths of a percent, the S&P climbed about six-tenths and the tech-heavy Nasdaq added nearly 1.3%. Shares of Netflix surged more than 9.5% after the…
Nasdaq futures (NQ=F) are jumping this morning after President Trump announced Stargate, a push to help support AI growth in the United States. Among the big companies involved in the project are OpenAI, Oracle (ORCL), and SoftBank (SFTBY). One stock that is soaring is Netflix (NFLX). The streamer reported fourth quarter results that handily beat…
On Monday and Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would be keeping one of his key campaign promises and imposing by Feb. 1 a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico as punishment for allowing drugs and migrants to cross into the United States as well as an additional 10% tariff on goods from…
The S&P 500 achieved an all-time intraday peak on Wednesday because investors stay positive after companies show good earnings results. On Wednesday, the index reached 6,100 points and marked the new highest point since it hit its previous high at 6,099.97 in December 2024. During this period, the Nasdaq performed better than other market indices,…
There’s only one hour left in the trading day, which means it’s time for Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton to cover the biggest market stories and guide investors to the closing bell on today’s Market Domination. PIMCO’s head of US public policy Libby Cantrill discusses the uncertainty around President Trump’s tariff proposals, even after he…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) leads the charge for stock gains, rising by over 1.2% to cap off the first trading day since President Trump returned to the White House on Monday. Trump’s decision to delay tariffs — pushing back initiatives that could tax imports from Canada and Mexico by 25% to February 1…
Major U.S. stock indices open higher on January 21, following U.S. President Trump’s proposed tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods and the implications. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1% to 43,934.33, and the S&P 500 was up 0.7% to 6,042. The Nasdaq Composite rose just 0.5% to 19,742 Investors feeling optimistic in the face…
Williams-Sonoma (WSM) CEO Laura Alber hasn’t waited for President Trump to enact more tariffs on China. She has taken action and could take more action in the years ahead. “In the first Trump administration, we saw the first wave of tariffs, and we reduced our China exposure by 50%,” Alber told Yahoo Finance at the…
Da Wei is director of Tsinghua University’s Centre for International Security and Strategy in Beijing. His research focuses on China-US relations and US security and foreign policy. In this interview, he discusses US President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech and first day back in the White House. I’d like to start by asking about US President…