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The S&P 500 finished slightly lower on Monday as investors looked for signs of Middle East de-escalation while awaiting earnings reports from major technology companies later this week.

The second-quarter earnings season is set to gather pace, with results due from companies such as Alphabet, Tesla and Intel. These will provide a broader view of corporate health after an initial wave of reports largely from the financial sector.

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South Korea’s stock market is becoming one of the world’s most important gauges for the AI trade, with its sharp swings increasingly spilling over into Wall Street and beyond.

On Tuesday, the country’s benchmark Kospi index closed 3.6% higher following a program trading halt, extending another volatile stretch that began when a record-setting rally earlier this year gave way to a sharp pullback in recent weeks.

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“I have been lucky and healthy to get to 95…and, fortunately, I got exposed, partly accidentally, to what I liked to do very early on,” Buffett said, referring to his father’s ownership of a stock brokerage that gave him early investing lessons. “That was just an accident. If my father had been a plumber,

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This has been a history-packed year for Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 0.59%), S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.19%), and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.05%) hitting new highs and the largest-ever initial public offering taking shape.

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Social Security plays a central role in many people’s retirement plans. For some retirees, it’s a helpful source of supplemental income. For others, it’s their main source.

Recently, the Social Security Trustees reported that the program’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund is set to run dry by 2032. At that point, the program will still have incoming payroll tax revenue that it can use to pay benefits,

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