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Diesel reached a record national average of $5.90 a gallon on Labor Day, increasing costs for freight and deliveries that can eventually reach consumers through food and other goods.

The average 401(k) balance reached $155,800, an increase of 13.1% from a year earlier, and IRA balances rose 10% over the same period to a record $144,523.

Private equity funds have significantly underperformed the S&P 500 over the past several years, highlighting that expensive and difficult-to-access investments aren't necessarily superior to the inexpensive funds available to virtually anyone.

OpenAI emphasized cybersecurity risks surrounding its newest model while Anthropic moved to make its latest technology more attractive to customers.

After a volatile public-market debut that sent shares soaring before a sharp reversal, SpaceX stock has spent roughly three weeks trading in a narrow range around $140.

Nvidia could increasingly use dividends and stock buybacks to support its valuation, following the playbook that helped Apple shares command a higher price-to-earnings multiple.

The benchmark index stands below 7,700 on Wednesday.

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has emerged as one of the most prominent critics of the Treasury's expanding intervention in the bond market.

Trillions of dollars in market value have shifted as investors moved away from many of the semiconductor stocks that dominated the artificial intelligence boom and back toward software companies.

Nvidia's Data Center business is expected to have generated more than $85.4 billion in quarterly revenue, a 107% increase from the same period last year.

The S&P 500's Shiller price-to-earnings ratio recently reached 42.2, the highest level in more than 26 years, putting the closely watched valuation measure within striking distance of its November 1999 record of 44.2.

The potential financing from Nvidia would represent a jump of more than 50% from the $20 billion valuation Perplexity finalized about a year ago as a result of the AI agent Perplexity Computer.

While Bessent has tools that can affect the supply and structure of government debt, a sustained attempt to push Treasury yields lower could eventually require cooperation from the Federal Reserve.

Official foreign institutions now hold about 12% of outstanding U.S. Treasury securities, down from roughly 40%.

Investors will be chasing clues these events may offer on whether the artificial intelligence-led stock market rally would be able to sustain itself amid uncertainty over growth and interest rates. Despite Warsh's aversion to offer guidance, investors would expect at least broad clues on how the Fed intends to approach the policy framework.

The new valuation of $10.6 billion from $8 billion represents an increase of roughly 32.5% in less than a year.

Companies on the S&P 500 are closing out one of their strongest earnings seasons in years, with part of the extraordinary growth coming from soaring valuations of artificial intelligence companies.

Among Americans who spend money on sports, 47% said they have gone into debt to pay for those expenses, like tickets, streaming subscriptions, and merchandise.

Investors are entering a period of the calendar that has historically been volatile during midterm election years.

New research found that industries with greater exposure to AI automation have generally experienced weaker growth in job openings since the second half of 2022.

For the first time, a majority of U.S. adults under 30 say they are more concerned than excited about AI in daily life.

Cash levels among fund managers have fallen to just 3.5%, well below Bank of America's 4% threshold for what the firm considers a contrarian "sell signal."

Marathon Petroleum, Valero Energy and HF Sinclair have each surged more than 80% this year, compared with an approximately 11% gain for the S&P 500.

Anthropic filed its prospectus with the SEC in June and has since begun preliminary meetings with potential investors.

Nearly 1,340 investors disclosed positions of fewer than 100,000 shares each, collectively representing less than 1% of reported holdings.

Bankers and investors are using revenue estimates two years into the future to determine how much the AI company could be worth.

The index crossed 7,800 for the first time last week.

The Consumer Price Index rose just 0.1% in July after declining 0.4% in June, and annual inflation eased to 3.4% from 3.5% the previous month. PPI prices were also below expectations.

Resume Now analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network, or O*NET, focusing on stamina, static strength, reaction time, spatial orientation, time sharing, and problem sensitivity.