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It’s time for Yahoo Finance’s market minute. I’m John Highland.
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We are taking a look at stocks today pushing higher. They’ve now erased all the uh losses that they faced since the start of the Iran war.
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Semafor business and finance editor Liz Hoffman sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi at the Semafor World Economy conference in Washington,
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The S&P 500 (^GSPC +1.18%) rose 1.18% to 6,967.38, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +1.96%) gained 1.96% to 23,639.08, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.66%) added 0.66% to 48,535.99 as cooler wholesale inflation and tentative U.S.-Iran de-escalation hopes buoyed stocks.
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The stock market has been off to a shaky start to 2026. The S&P 500 is up less than 1% entering trading Tuesday, but for much of the year it’s been in negative territory. Many top growth stocks have been performing even worse, as investors have moved away from high-priced stocks that may be vulnerable to declines.
Dividends are a direct return on your investment, but not all dividends are created equal. If you are using dividends to supplement Social Security in retirement, you need to focus on companies that have proven they can support their dividend through thick and thin. In the energy sector, rising oil prices will make it easier for riskier companies to pay big dividends.
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Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock took a bit of a dive last week after Big Short investor Michael Burry made a comment about the company. Burry argued that Anthropic was “eating its lunch” on X before later deleting the post.
The actual threat posed by Anthropic to Palantir is a matter of debate.
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The nation’s biggest banks posted another quarter of strong profits, helped by a resilient economy and a flurry of dealmaking for their investment banking units.
But the strong profits were clouded by the banks’ outlook for 2026, as executives warn that high oil prices are starting to negatively impact the consumer and further geopolitical uncertainty could hamper economic growth as the year progresses.
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The US must scale up its power infrastructure at a rapid pace not seen in at least 10 years to compete in a world of artificial intelligence, Xcel Energy CEO Bob Frenzel said Tuesday.
“We need to build at a pace of generation and transmission that we haven’t seen in the past decade,” Frenzel said at Semafor World Economy in Washington,
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Oklo Inc. (NYSE:OKLO) is one of the best AI energy stocks to buy in 2026.
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Analyst sentiment surrounding Oklo Inc.
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