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Stock market today: Alphabet and Microsoft help Wall Street clinch its best week in nearly 6 months 04/26/2024 04:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The best week for U.S. stocks since November closed out with more gains thanks to Alphabet and Microsoft on Friday. The S&P 500 rallied 1% to finish its first winning week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 153 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite jump JPMorgan's Dimon hopes for soft landing for US economy but says stagflation is a possible scenario 04/26/2024 04:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he’s hopeful the Federal Reserve can bring down inflation without causing a recession but wouldn’t rule out more troubling possibilities, such as stagflation. In an interview with The Associated Press at a Chase branch opening in The Bronx, D Berkshire Hathaway's real estate firm to pay $250 million to settle real estate commission lawsuits 04/26/2024 02:09pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions 04/26/2024 12:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social � US Silica agrees to go private in $1.85 billion acquisition by Apollo Global 04/26/2024 10:56am • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Silica has agreed to go private in an all-cash acquisition by Apollo Global Management that values the industrial minerals company at about $1.85 billion. In a Friday announcement, U.S. Silica said that shareholders would receive $15.50 in cash for each share owned as of the d Exxon Mobil profit declines in 1st quarter as natural gas prices fall 04/26/2024 08:04am • Exxon Mobil's profit declined in its first quarter as natural gas prices fell and industry refining margins dropped. The energy company earned $8.22 billion, or $2.06 per share, for the three months ended March 31. A year earlier it earned $11.43 billion, or $2.79 per share. The results didn't meet 2 men charged in the UK with spying for China are granted bail after a court appearance in London 04/26/2024 07:26am • LONDON (AP) — A former researcher working in the U.K. Parliament and another man charged with spying for China were granted bail Friday after an initial court appearance in London. Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged with violating the Official Secrets Act by providing i Trading Trump: Truth Social's first month of trading has sent investors on a ride 04/26/2024 12:04am • WASHINGTON (AP) — There have been lawsuits, short-selling and rampant speculation. Now, as Trump Media & Technology Group approaches its first month as a publicly traded company, it’s clear that — like the man it’s named after — there’s nothing typical about the stock. “If I woke Should I Use a Wire Transfer or Cashier's Check for Closing? 04/25/2024 08:00pm • If you've finally reached the closing stage of the homebuying process, then you are nearing the finish line. However, closing involves a specific set of procedures that must be followed carefully to avoid delays or complications. One of these processes is securing a bank-certified payment method, Arkansas officials say a Missouri doctor whose body was found in a lake died by suicide 04/25/2024 06:47pm • The death of a highly regarded Missouri emergency room doctor whose body was found 11 months ago in a northwest Arkansas lake has been ruled a suicide, Arkansas authorities said Thursday, in a case that fueled social media speculation about whether his disappearance had been tied to his cryptocurren Detroit-area man charged with manslaughter in fatal building explosion 04/25/2024 05:54pm • MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit businessman was charged with involuntary manslaughter Thursday in connection with an explosion at a building he owned in which a nitrous oxide cannister propelled through the air, striking and killing another man. Noor Noel Kestou, 31, of Commerce Tow These apps allow workers to get paid between paychecks. Experts say there are steep costs 04/25/2024 05:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced in 2019, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn. “You know how they get you — the algorithms — like they’re reading your mind,” Branch said. “The ad said I could get up to $100 this week and repay it in my n José Ramírez hits grand slam, AL-leading Guardians beat Red Sox 6-4 04/25/2024 05:09pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — José Ramírez belted his sixth career grand slam and had three hits, Will Brennan added a solo homer and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Boston Red Sox 6-4 on Thursday. Cleveland has the best record in the American League at 18-7 and matched the second-best mark in franchise his A passenger's guide to new refund rules for airlines 04/25/2024 01:52pm • Starting in about six months, air travelers will have an easier time getting a refund when things go wrong on a U.S. airline. In most cases, inconvenienced fliers won't have to do a single thing to get their money back. Wednesday, the Biden administration issued final rules to require air That's rich: Rise in all-cash transactions helping drive price gains for most expensive US homes 04/25/2024 09:10am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Well-heeled home shoppers are increasingly paying cash, helping turbo-charge price gains for the most expensive U.S. homes. The median sale price of luxury homes, or those valued in the top 5% of the market nationally, hit an all-time high $1.23 million in the first quarter, an