S&P 500 equal weight ETF rises Stock Chart IconStock chart icon Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP), 1-day S&P 500, Nasdaq open lower The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite opened lower Thursday. Here are the numbers: S&P 500 falls 0.2% Nasdaq falls 0.4% Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 0.2% — Sarah Min GE Aerospace … Read more
In early 2024, the rector of a university in Budapest received a startling request from a top Hungarian government official. The official told the rector, Professor Gergely Deli, that Ludovika University of Public Service should hold a climate change conference and extend an invitation to an unlikely guest: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the widely reviled former president … Read more
A second – and bigger – barrage of air attacks by the United States has hit Iran in two days, as fragile peace talks between the two countries appear at risk of collapsing. The US attacked several parts of Iran’s capital Tehran early on Thursday, just hours after hitting several cities in the southern part … Read more
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Erling Haaland is having the time of his life in the World Cup. The Norway national team striker scored two goals to send soccer royalty Brazil home. After the game, he’s chuckling to himself, … Read more
The United States launched dozens of strikes on Iran early on Wednesday in what it said was retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on commercial ships in the highly contested Strait of Hormuz, sparking widespread fears of the renewal of all-out war in the Middle East. After the US attacks, President Donald Trump told reporters at a … Read more
28 stocks in the S&P 500 trade at new 52-week highs The Live Nation logo is displayed at a Live Nation corporate office on March 9, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images On Monday, 28 stocks in the S&P 500 traded at new 52-week highs. Names that hit this milestone included: … Read more
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned commercial vessels to only use routes through the Strait of Hormuz approved by Tehran, reopening a point of friction in fragile negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of the strategic waterway. The warning came after Oman announced a new shipping transit route through … Read more
Stocks open higher The three major averages opened Thursday’s session in the green. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.8% and 1%, respectively, shortly after the opening bell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 316 points, or 0.6%. — Sean Conlon Trip.com Group shares fall The U.S. listed shares of Trip.com Group tumbled … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100. Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell. “To me … Read more
Five men have been arrested, accused of conspiring through an online group to carry out an attack at a White House UFC event.Those arrested include: Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio; Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, California; Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, California; Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Missouri; and … Read more