A stack of old mobile phones are seen before recycling process in Kocaeli, Turkiye on October 14, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images As the U.S. and China vie for economic, technological and geopolitical supremacy, the critical elements and metals embedded in technology from consumer to industrial and military markets have become a pawn…
At the halfway point of the year, one trend clearly evident among investors is the search for resilient trades. “This year, and even so in the last couple of weeks, we’ve just seen this idea of investors building more resiliency into their portfolios,” Matt Bartolini, head of SPDR Americas Research at State Street Global Advisors,…
In recent years, the technology sector, especially its biggest names like Apple, had developed the reputation of being the safest choice in a volatile stock market. Tech stocks are now back, even after the big hit many took in 2025’s first half. At the first half’s closing low on April 8, the S&P 500 was…
Elon Musk stands as he is recognized by U.S. President Donald Trump during Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Stocks are wobbling. Inflation is expected to tick higher again, if maybe only in the short-term,…
Frederic J. Brown | Afp | Getty Images Ownership of electric vehicles continues to rise in the U.S., with nearly six million battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids currently on the road. Even though that’s still a fraction of the overall market and the growth rate of EV sales has slowed, automakers remain invested in…
This week’s news that the DeepSeek Chatbot app, developed by China, was downloaded from the Apple app store significantly more times than the US-developed ChatGPT from Open AI, wiped billions off the global tech market. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Plenty of Americans are discovering the AI search powers of DeepSeek,…
Mark Rutte, incoming secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), during a transition ceremony at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Mark Rutte, the affable and meticulous former Dutch premier, has a daunting task ahead to keep the defense alliance a global force. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday called the U.S. stock market inflated and said he felt more cautious than others in the business world because of the risks from deficit spending, inflation and geopolitical upheaval. “Asset prices are kind of inflated, by any measure. They are in the top 10% or 15%” of historical…
Europe will respond to any tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in a proportionate way, the European Union’s commissioner for the economy told CNBC on Wednesday. “If there is a need to defend our economic interests, we will be responding in a proportionate way,” Valdis Dombrovskis told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick on the sidelines of…
President-Elect Donald J. Trump won the White House based partly on his promises to rein in immigration, with targeted policies that range from sending criminals to their home countries to more sweeping ones like mass deportations. During the campaign, Trump pledged to end the Temporary Protected Status that allows workers from select countries to come to…