A slide in Tesla Inc. on Friday is capping off a round trip of epic proportions in the company’s shares. Expectations that the electric-vehicle maker would benefit from CEO Elon Musk’s close relationship with President Donald Trump made its stock one of the top...

Millennium Management, Citadel and other top hedge funds posted lackluster returns in February, as market gyrations reversed momentum on key trades and clobbered popular stocks. Multistrategy firms with an equity market-neutral bias took some of the biggest hits....

Just two weeks ago, high-flying mega-tech stocks and their chipmaking cousins were powering the Nasdaq 100 Index to yet another record. It was the 53rd all-time high for the tech-heavy benchmark since March 2023, when ChatGPT launched dreams of an artificial...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rejected the idea that President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes will ignite a new wave of inflation, and suggested that the Federal Reserve ought to view them as having a one-time impact. “I’ve agreed not to talk about prospective Fed...

The company is raising $240 million and pushing into software. Defense startup Shield AI has finalized a deal to raise $240 million from investors at a valuation of $5.3 billion — a funding round that adds billions to the company’s valuation, and underscores Silicon...

Oil prices for next year have fallen alongside nearby futures markets, a move that runs the risk of menacing supply growth. While US crude slipped toward $65 a barrel Wednesday to briefly touch the lowest level since May 2023, average prices for 2026 are closer to...