Stock Market

An AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon moved the stock market. It's not the first time fake news caused real financial hits.

5 fake news reports that caused real dips in the stock market

The Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act seeks to block members of Congress, from trading individual stocks.

Ocasio-Cortez, Gaetz push to ban Congress members from trading stocks

The U.S. is hosting South Korea's president who is expected to make a speech to a joint session of Congress.

South Korean president to address Congress: April 27 rundown

More than one in five senior federal employees reported owning or trading stocks that are influenced by decisions their agencies make.

Lawmakers consider stock trading ban for senior officials at federal agencies

Politicians regularly beat the market, making lucrative and sometimes strangely-timed stock trades. Two new ETFs mimic the moves of both parties.

These ETF funds let people trade stocks like members of Congress

Trading in dozens of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange was briefly halted after the market opened Tuesday morning.

Midday rundown: Stock market halts, Amazon debuts prescription subscription

Minutes from the Fed's latest meeting show officials worried the market could undermine the Fed's efforts to bring down prices.

Fed shows resolve in interest rate hikes but market still sees pivot in 2023

Elon Musk's Twitter saga was wild but what about these other top stories of 2022? We're recounting the biggest stories of the year in Five For Friday.

Musk’s Twitter takeover tops 5 biggest business stories of 2022

Protests are sparking up all over China in widespread resistance to the Chinese Communist Party unprecedented since Tiananmen Square in 1989.

China protests mark rebellion unseen in decades, direct challenge to Xi

Tech stocks have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, so with Meta's layoffs, is this another dot-com bubble crashing down again?

Meta executes major layoffs as worries grow over another dot-com crash