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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 jumped 2%. Alphabet leaped 10.2% after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit last quarter. The parent company of Google also said it will start paying a dividend to investors and authorized a program
Some students who had formed an encampment as part protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and demanding that CU divest from activities in Israel were detained Friday afternoon as the protest continued for a second day. Sam Peña reports from on the ground.
The energy sector (XLE) is underperforming in Friday's trading session, following disappointing results from industry leaders Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX). S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin joined Yahoo Finance to discuss the geopolitical risks looming over the oil market. Yergin acknowledges that the current calm within the oil market will "entirely depend" on exogenous events. He notes that oil prices have reverted to levels pre tensions between Iran and Israel, which initially caused a slight uptick: "There's been a tug-of-war between geopolitics and the fundamentals of supply and demand," Yergin says. "In terms of the oil industry, they're commercial animals," Yergin tells Yahoo Finance, adding, "Their incentive is to produce as much as they can." However, he cautions that concerns about future production softening persist within the industry. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Angel Smith
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Technology spending plans by Microsoft and Alphabet's Google boosted AI stocks on Friday, including Nvidia and Super Micro Computer.
Javier Milei's measures to tame Argentina's inflation have boosted the peso to the top, rising 25% against the US dollar in the last three months.
Erich Andersen, general counsel for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to focus on fighting efforts to force a sale of the video app in the U.S., the company said on Friday. Andersen will remain at the company and become its special counsel to lead TikTok's effort to overturn legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden on Wednesday that gives ByteDance 270 days to divest short-video app TikTok in the United States or face a ban.
PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival, as the literary and free expression organization continues to face widespread unhappiness with its response to the Israel-Hamas war. Earlier this week, PEN called off its awards ceremony after nearly half of the finalists withdrew from contention. The festival, which brings in writers from around the world, was to have taken place next month in New York and Los Angeles. PEN CEO Suzanne Nossel expressed regret over the cancellation, saying it contrasted with why Salman Rushdie among others established the festival 20 years ago.
Hailey Cowan has withdrawn again, and so Melissa Gatto is now set to make her UFC bantamweight debut.
The POOSH founder shared the event on her Instagram Story, reposting photos and videos from her friends on her special day. Kourtney revealed her birthday breakfast was happening by posting a photo of a large mug bearing the logo "Kourt x iHop". In the photos, Kourtney was wearing a tiara, which had the words "Happy Birthday" at the top, a pair of large sunglasses, and a special necklace. The piece of jewellery had the first letter of her and husband Travis Barker's names, as well as those of all their kids.
The Nasdaq outshined the other major indexes on Friday as Big Tech stocks helped lift the tech-heavy index.
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TORONTO — Gains in base metal stocks helped lift Canada's main stock index on Friday while U.S. markets also rose, led by tech stocks as the Nasdaq gained two per cent. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 83.86 points at 21,969.24. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 153.86 points at 38,239.66. The S&P 500 index was up 51.54 points at 5,099.96, while the Nasdaq composite was up 316.14 points at 15,927.90. The Canadian dollar traded for 73.16 cents UScompared with 73.05 cents U
A new study analyzed crime data and evaluated 10 specific crime categories to rank states from the safest to the most dangerous.
An experienced guard who played in the national championship game two seasons ago became the fourth player to commit to the new UK coach on Friday.
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