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Buy the dip or wait it out? Young investors react as retail stock selling hits one of its highest levels since COVID crash.

Some see another buying opportunity. Others fear the worst isn’t over. A market rout is testing the instincts of a generation raised on quick rebounds.

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The ‘Musk selloff’ deepens as Tesla and SpaceX combine for $456 billion two-day wipeout

Investors worry a divided Washington could derail “Elon, Inc.”

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After tech-stock rout, October jobs report could bring relief — or more pain

After a tech-led meltdown in the stock market, the October jobs report on Friday morning could bring investors some encouraging news — or add to their misery.

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Is this ‘the big one’ for the stock market? Wall Street sounds off as tech plunges.

A punishing selloff in the tech space caused carnage in the stock market Thursday, one day after equities saw a big bounce after the Democrats swept Tuesday’s midterm elections.

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The October jobs report is out Friday. Here's everything to expect

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the October nonfarm payrolls report Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET.

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As Nvidia’s stock enters a bear market, bargain hunters see a golden buying opportunity

Portfolio managers say chip demand should be resilient even in a period of political uncertainty.

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The year’s most successful stock-market trades are unraveling — perhaps for good

Wall Street’s top trades of 2026 are coming undone as a violent rotation rattles the U.S. stock market.

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A record number of first-time home buyers now pay in cash. Here’s where they get the money.

All-cash buyers are becoming more common, despite a housing market that’s been struggling with affordability issues.

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This pancreatic cancer treatment is on track for ‘one of the best drug launches of all time’

Revolution Medicines’ brand-new treatment brought in far higher sales than expected in its first few weeks on the market.

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Micron, Sandisk and other AI stocks are falling hard: ‘Investors don’t like uncertainty.’

Wall Street is digesting the prospect of a slower AI buildout in the wake of the midterm-election results.

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Learning from ‘Love Is Blind’ money drama

Hear me out: These reality-TV couples are having really important conversations about love and money heading into tonight’s finale.

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Billionaires aren’t off the hook for higher taxes, even if they did dodge California’s wealth tax

Silicon Valley spent big to kill California’s wealth tax — but incoming Democrats are eyeing a national fight.

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An Anthropic IPO when the AI trade is this turbulent? Godspeed!

Wall Street takes a harder look at AI costs after historic midterm results. Plus, the upside to Apple’s lack of artificial-intelligence spending.

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Bank of England hikes interest rate for the first time since Iran war, warns inflation will near 5%

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Here's what the Democratic election rout could mean for the U.S. economy

The biggest forces shaping the economy aren't going to change just because the party in power did.

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A strategist draws a 1980s parallel to argue bipartisanship could power a ‘bull stampede’

In the 1980s, a Republican president, a Democrat Speaker of the House and an inflation-fighting Federal Reserve chairman powered a stock-market rally.

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‘I have no financial safety net’: I’m 66, rely on Social Security and have just $500 in savings. What hope do I have?

“In the wake of the midterm elections, how many Americans are living in poverty?”

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Research firm declares ‘end of the AI trade as we know it’ — and Asian tech stocks reflect the shift

Now that absolute value is much harder to find in the AI trade, with bets having to be made on a longer-term, more speculative basis, it’s time to search for relative value within the sector, says one research service.

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