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A hardware store owner in northern New Jersey said his business emptied its entire stock of rock salt on Tuesday morning as residents rushed to prepare for a powerful winter storm forecast to sweep across a broad section of the United States. The episode captures the sudden spike in consumer demand accompanying a system the […]
Artificial intelligence again dominated discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where corporate chiefs gathered from 20 to 24 January. Yet this year’s conversation moved beyond comparing large language models or assessing which chatbot performs best. Executives focused instead on how companies intend to weave the technology into everyday operations and how that […]
New York, Jan. 22, 2026 – Exchange-traded fund investors directed fresh capital toward broad bond and international equity products on Thursday, while some of the largest S&P 500-linked vehicles experienced sizable withdrawals, according to early-morning flow data. Broad Market Bond ETF Leads Fixed-Income Creations The iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) gathered approximately $279 […]
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The rapid expansion of private credit, an area of lending conducted by non-bank institutions, is drawing renewed scrutiny after several high-profile bankruptcies and warnings from prominent Wall Street figures. Although fears of an immediate crisis have eased since the autumn failures of auto-sector borrowers Tricolor and First Brands, analysts and regulators continue to question whether […]
Putting cash in a certificate of deposit (CD) rarely grabs headlines, yet the product’s combination of fixed returns and federal insurance continues to attract savers who value predictability. Current rate conditions show why: while the national average yield for a 60-month CD sits at 1.34% annual percentage yield (APY), several banks and credit unions are […]
Prince Harry, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and several European officials expressed strong disapproval on Friday after former U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that troops from NATO partners stayed “a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan. Trump made the remarks in a televised interview on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, while attending […]
WASHINGTON — Airlines across the United States have grounded thousands of flights scheduled for the holiday weekend as a widespread winter storm pushes east, threatening to blanket large portions of the country with snow, sleet and freezing rain and usher in a spell of sub-zero temperatures. Data from flight-tracking service FlightAware show more than 560 […]
Gold prices approached the $5,000 per ounce mark on Friday, capping the metal’s strongest week since 2020 and underscoring a broader flight to hard assets amid currency concerns and geopolitical tension. February futures on the COMEX settled at $4,983.10, up $69.70, or 1.42%, in late afternoon trading. The contract has risen 14% since the start […]
ABC News Live is streaming a broad slate of segments that range from animal care to severe-weather alerts. The service’s current roster is led by a video titled “Zoo elephants treated to ‘spa day,’” which shows pachyderms receiving attentive grooming in a setting identified only as a zoo. The clip places the animals at the […]
The National Weather Service (NWS) is tracking a large-scale winter system expected to sweep from the southern Rockies to New England between Friday and Monday, bringing heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain to more than 170 million people. Forecasters warn that snowfall could top one foot in some locations, while “locally catastrophic” ice accumulations may […]
President Donald Trump characterized a turbulent stretch on Wall Street as largely neutral when he landed in Washington on Thursday evening, telling reporters that the market is “just about even” despite days of abrupt tariff threats and subsequent pullbacks. His remark came at the close of a four-day trading week that featured sharp declines on […]