Shares of IonQ Inc. IONQ soared on Thursday after CEO Niccolo de Masi made bold statements comparing the company’s trajectory to that of Nvidia Corp NVDA.
What To Know: The move follows a Barron’s interview in which de Masi outlined IonQ’s ambitions to dominate the quantum computing sector,
The Dow was cruising to session highs with a half-hour left to go in Thursday’s session.
The blue-chip index was up 230 points, or 0.5%. The S&P 500 was up 0.6%. The Nasdaq Composite was up 0.9%.
Though bond yields briefly spiked prior to the open after the House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill,
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Stocks were choppy Thursday as investors weighed the pros and cons of the Trump administration’s new tax bill. One of the three main indexes did manage to close in positive territory thanks to a big rally in tech stocks.
Ahead of the open, Wall Street was met with news that President Donald Trump’s “big,
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While most personal loans are fixed-rate loans, meaning that the interest rate does not change over the life of the loan, borrowers with variable-rate personal loans are directly impacted by the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. In addition, Federal rate hikes and inflation do impact interest rates for new fixed-rate personal loan borrowers,
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As investors navigate persistent market instability driven by global trade tensions, tariff negotiations,
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By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. climbed this week to its highest level since mid-February, a setback for home shoppers that threatens to slow sales further this spring homebuying season.
The rate increased to 6.86% from 6.81% last week,
Chinese carmaker BYD Company ADR BYDDY might have stolen the April electric vehicle title in Europe, but markets didn’t bat an eyelid. Neither did Tesla TSLA shares.
BYD sold 7,231 battery electric cars (BEVs) in Europe in April,
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In the escalating trade war sparked by former U.S. President Donald Trump, China has found an unlikely pressure point: pigs.
After Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing responded in April with retaliatory measures—one of which included slapping heavy tariffs on American breeding pigs and other forms of livestock genetic material.
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