US stocks today: Dow soars 600 pts, Nasdaq 1.5% as chip stocks rally eyeing Nvidia results, Iran peace deal hopes

Wall Street’s main indexes closed more than 1% higher on ​Wednesday, bouncing back from a three-day selloff with a boost in sentiment from technology and chip stocks, which rose ahead of Nvidia’s quarterly results. Investors will look to the latest report from Nvidia , the leading artificial intelligence chipmaker and the world’s most highly valued […]

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Jeff Bezos calls Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary ‘a good business decision’

Podcast host Emily Austin discusses Melania Trump’s film ‘Melania,’ and the hypocrisy of celebrity activism at events like the Grammys on ‘Kudlow.’ Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday defended his company’s decision to back a Melania Trump documentary, saying he had no involvement in the deal and rejecting claims it was intended to curry favor […]

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These 5 high-yield savings accounts have no minimum balance requirement

While the national average rate for a savings account is 0.38%, the best high-yield savings accounts (HYSAs) boast rates of 3% to 4% APY — or even higher in some cases. However, some financial institutions require account holders to keep a certain amount of money in their HYSAs in order to earn the highest rate. […]

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Bound for Mars, Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveils filing for blockbuster IPO

SpaceX took the wraps off its IPO filing on Wednesday, opening the books of the company that has already revolutionized rocket technology, with even larger ambitions to colonize Mars and build AI data centers in space. The listing is poised to become the first trillion-dollar U.S. market debut and could set the stage for a […]

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Fed minutes reveal policymakers worried about Iran war energy price impact

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank president Austan Goolsbee discusses Kevin Warshs new agenda on The Claman Countdown. Federal Reserve policymakers were concerned about high energy prices contributing to inflationary pressures in the economy when they held interest rates steady last month, the minutes from the meeting show. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed panel […]

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