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Accenture shares 6% in premarket trading Monday after the company said late Friday that it would embed a team of evaluators inside Anthropic to stress-test its AI models. The AI company called the partnership an important step toward its commitment to pace development of the technology. Accenture’s shares are down roughly 30% this year on market jitters about corporate IT spending and concern that AI tools could take away business from professional-services firms.

US equity investors are expected to look out for Fed speak, purchasing managers' indexes, and Iran g

Ireland says the company breached European Union privacy rules over its handling of users’ location data.

CEO BRIEF NEWSLETTER FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam is my guest on this week’s episode of WSJ Leadership Institute Presents: Leaders. And while Subramaniam may not be as well-known as his iconic predecessor Fred Smith, he has a remarkably clear, tech-driven vision of what the next era of FedEx needs to look like.

Uranium enrichment—a key step in making nuclear fuel—is a unique corner of the energy market. American company Centrus Energy is hoping to disrupt that world order. The decline is partly because there is more nuclear equity available on the public market, according to Vikram Bagri, equity analyst at Citi.

Novo Nordisk shares plunged in early trading as the company pledged to launch more than five blockbuster drugs and deliver more than $23 billion in new sales in coming years. The plans disappointed investors hoping for more concrete turnaround plans from Chief Executive Officer Mike Doustdar after the Danish drugmaker lost its lead in the booming obesity market to Eli Lilly. Bloomberg's Sanne Wass reports.

The plan should make all Omnicare creditors, including the Department of Justice, whole.

Shares in Novo Nordisk fell more than 4% as its CEO laid out plans to launch new blockbuster drugs in the next few years while expanding into further treatment areas.

AI-linked stocks rose in the U.S. premarket and stocks rose across the globe as the continued fall in oil prices boosted market sentiment.

Investing.com -- Shares of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery climbed after the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Paramount and California’s attorney general have made progress in settlement talks over the company’s proposed $81 billion merger with Warner Bros.

Trump’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) scoldings continue to fall on deaf ears.

Paramount executives and a coalition of states that sued to block its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros spent the weekend hashing out the details of a possible settlement. Among the concessions that have been discussed by Paramount and California's attorney general is a $1.

US equities are vulnerable to a further increase in energy prices and bond market volatility, according to Morgan Stanley strategists, who see the S&P 500 Index dropping as much as 7% in such a scenario.

This under-the-radar mining stock boasts a Superscore of 77 from our Hidden Gems Primary database, part of The Motley Fool's Moneyball Database system. Here's why.

Stocks have largely powered through a wall of worry this month, though rising bond yields, geopolitical risk in the Middle East, and AI jitters have given investors reason to pause

Shares in the Swiss company rose more than 3% after it announced the long-term partnership designed to support future business opportunities.

Europe’s indexes all gained at the open, retracing some of Friday’s sharp losses. Banks and technology stocks rose, while energy-sensitive stocks were supported by a fall in oil prices.

Among the major deals in focus are Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery’s merger, Fertitta Entertainment’s acquisition of Caesars Entertainment, Norfolk Southern’s merger with Union Pacific, and FedEx’s acquisition of InPost.

Wedbush's Dan Ives says a Tesla-SpaceX merger has 80% odds by 2027, calling it a bid for the world's largest company.

Dorothee Blessing, Global Investment Banking Co-Head at JPMorgan, says it's been a busy year for dealmaking. She speaks exclusively with Menaka Doshi from the sidelines of the JPMorgan India Conference.

Asian shares mostly advanced Monday as investors monitor updates ahead of the expected meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington which could cover trade, artificial intelligence and geopolitics. U.S. futures were higher, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters following talks Sunday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York ahead of the two leaders’ meeting that the U.S. had “a very successful engagement” with the Chinese side. Samsung Electronics jumped 5%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix climbed 1%.

The federal government handed IBM $1 billion last week to help the build the first pure play quantum wafer foundry in the US.

Alphabet’s robotaxi unit found a government willing to admit what most regulators only mutter.

The company has discussed a series of concessions as part of advanced settlement talks with a coalition of state attorneys general, hoping to clear a path for its $81 billion Warner Bros. deal.

Andrew Obin’s team came back from a key Washington conference with a new risk investors need to watch.

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Share markets edged higher in Asia on Monday as AI's insatiable demand for data buoyed chipmakers, and oil eased as hopes Saudi Arabia could boost supplies

The airline has dropped any pretense of being passenger-friendly, and it’s working.

"Having 2,000 items at or below $1 is very meaningful for the consumer, always has, but especially in this environment."

Stellantis will join other automakers who police advertised discounts, making it tricky to locate the lowest price.

Investing.com -- Jefferies expects the S&P 500 to extend its gains through the end of 2026 and into next year, arguing that stronger-than-expected corporate earnings and continued artificial intelligence investment can outweigh risks from inflation, higher oil prices and elevated bond yields.