Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures gain as US-Iran tensions rise, PCE inflation looms
US stock futures rose on Friday as investors braced for a heavy slate of economic data after the end of a three-day winning streak for the Dow and S&P 500.
Contracts linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) edged 0.2% higher. S&P 500 futures (ES=F) climbed roughly 0.4%,
Read MoreThis AI Stock Could Offer Life-Changing Gains
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This AI player already is seeing explosive revenue growth.
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The company offers something in great need right now: capacity for AI workloads.
Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have soared in recent years, leading the S&P 500 higher.
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Read MoreBill Gates Has Nearly 30% of His $36.6 Billion Portfolio Invested in One of Warren Buffett's Favorite Stocks
Nearly $11 billion of the Gates Foundation’s portfolio is parked in a single stock.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust — the investment vehicle that funds the foundation’s charitable work around the globe — holds a portfolio valued at roughly $36.6 billion today. Nearly 30% of the entire trust — just shy of $11 billion —
He worked on Wall Street for nearly 50 years. Here’s what he learned about your finances
When Howard Silverblatt first started working on Wall Street, the S&P 500 was at 99.77 points. The week before he retired, the benchmark index was up by 70 times that, to 7,000.
That’s an eye-popping increase — but maybe not surprising, considering Silverblatt started his career on May 17, 1977.
This January Silverblatt hung up his hat after a nearly 49-year run at Standard &
Read More3 Top-Ranked Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds Worth Betting on
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) is a world-renowned company that has been providing investment management, portfolio design and advisory services to individual and institutional investors worldwide since 1988. Its strategies span asset classes, industries and geographies. As of June 30, 2025, GSAM had $2.9 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide.
The fund has more than 1700 professionals across 34 offices worldwide.
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AppLovin’s Rally Hits a Rough Patch
After an extraordinary run that sent shares soaring nearly 300% over the past year, AppLovin suddenly lost momentum in early October. The sell-off came as a shock to investors who had watched the ad-tech company become one of Wall Street’s brightest stars.
The trigger was a Bloomberg report revealing that the SEC had opened an investigation into AppLovin’s data-collection practices.
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Why Did Buffett Buy Google?
When Berkshire Hathaway showed up with a new position in Alphabet, more than a few eyebrows went up. Alphabet, after all, is pursuing everything from autonomous driving to quantum computing, hardly the plain-vanilla playbook Buffett made famous.
But once you dig in, the move becomes far less mysterious. Alphabet is still, above all else,
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Buffett Would Love This Moat, Freeport’s Hidden Growth Engine
In the short run, tariff headlines can turn Mr. Market into a nervous wreck. In the long run, owners do fine by owning scarce, low-cost assets run by rational people. Freeport-McMoRan fits that bill.
U.S. copper prices sold off after Washington excluded refined copper from its new 50% tariffs and instead targeted semi-finished products like wire,
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