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Falling oil prices and hopes that Fed rate cuts will help curb inflation boosted markets today, Sept. 17, 2026.

As Fed and inflation worries mount, Casey's General Stores, Johnson & Johnson, and PepsiCo stand out as defensive dividend payers with healthy balance sheets, growing payouts, and buyback programs.

The Federal Reserve's first rate increase since 2023 barely dented crypto prices, but what comes next could change calculations on Wall Street.

Judge Brinkema filed a full remedies opinion in U.S. v. Google's ad-tech monopoly suit. The court publicly released the unredacted document. Both sides were given 14 days to propose redactions for confidential business information, but neither side did so.

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Tom Lee called a historic Q4 stock rally on television, and the Fed raised rates less than 24 hours later. Now Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP face a much steeper climb than Lee's bullish case lets on.

The Dow lost 630 points on the Fed's rate hike. A day later, chip stocks took most of it back.

After the Fed's September rate hike, oil futures show backwardation signaling lower prices ahead as demand destruction and rising non-OPEC supply threaten to undercut inflation and economic growth.

Stocks moved higher, a sharp reversal from yesterday's market action, after the Federal Reserve announced a rate increase. Peter Boockvar, CIO at One Point BFG Wealth Partners, credits the equity gains to easing in Treasury yields, alongside the pullback in oil futures. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.6%.

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are at odds over how to manage the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield.

Three CEOs with hundreds of billions already committed to AI infrastructure made separate calls to the White House last week, and a proposed federal oversight body quietly disappeared. Here is what each of them said on their earnings calls that explains why.

U.S. stocks are rebounding from a sell-off driven by the Fed’s interest rate hike and high fuel prices. Major indexes are higher today: The Nasdaq is up around 1.5%, the S&P 500 gained 1% and the Dow industrials rose 0.

AP is benefiting from firmer steel demand, rising backlog and restructuring gains, but cyclical markets and inflation remain challenges.

All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Thursday, a day after the Federal R

The bigger risk is what the Fed does next

On September 4, WSJ and Reuters reported that NHTSA opened an investigation into Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s Cybercab after the company began offering rides in Austin, Texas. The agency will examine the technical data and methodology Tesla used to self-certify the two-seat vehicle, which lacks a steering wheel, pedals, accelerator, and mirrors. NHTSA will also assess […]

Nasdaq Leads Market Rebound After Fed Delivers First Rate Hike in Years

While it’s understandable that the surprising news has caused a sizable selloff in Citi stock, the pessimism could be an overreaction.

A federal appeals court declined to enforce most of a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) illegally threatened employees with reprisals for trying to unionize and pretended to surveil organizing efforts, Reuters reported on September 4. In a 2-0 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that a Wichita, […]

Consumer staples could be a good hunting ground for stockpickers., whether inflation goes up or eases.

A federal judge's 106-page opinion, made public Wednesday, orders interoperability, data sharing, and an internal compliance monitor

Jeffrey Gundlach thinks the Fed's own forecast exposes a contradiction at the heart of its rate decision, and he sees the same kind of stress already showing up in the bond market for AI companies before most equity investors have noticed.

Stocks climbed Thursday as the 10-year Treasury yield fell below 5% and oil prices eased, partially reversing Wednesday's Fed-driven losses

Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi outlines what the Federal Reserve's rate hike decision could mean for Treasury yields (^FVX, ^TNX, ^TYX).

Stocks were rallying to kick off Thursday's session with support from easing oil futures and Treasury yields. The upswing marked a rebound from yesterday's selloff which followed an interest-rate increase from the Federal Reserve and remarks from Chairman Warsh. The S&P 500 gained 1.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 1.6%.

US stock index futures pointed to a sharply higher opening on Thursday as crude oil prices and Treasury yields retreated, following a late-session sell-off on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve’s latest interest-rate increase. The anticipated rebound follows a difficult Wednesday session in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a three-month low and the S&P 500 recorded its lowest closing level in more than a month.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 1.3% and the actively trad

Oil sanctions, tariff threats and shipping disruptions in 2026 have turned crude into a political weapon again, and that ripple runs straight into integrated oil and gas stocks. Price swings can punish some businesses while lifting others, so sitting on the sidelines risks missing both dangers and openings. This article walks through three large energy producers exposed to the latest Russia and Middle East headlines and explains how this news could matter for their shares. The stocks below...