Federal agents confront protestors in Minneapolis, near the intersection of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, where federal law enforcement agents shot and killed Alex Pretti earlier on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. The shooting two weeks after an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Good prompted escalating clashes between law enforcement and protesters. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By LAUREN HIRSCH Chief executives of Target, Best Buy, General Mills and Cargill

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq advanced ‌for ​a fourth consecutive session on Monday, as investors geared ‌up for a slew of mega-cap earnings and a Federal Reserve update on interest rate policy later this week. Both ​indexes hit their highest levels in more than a week and registered their longest string of advances since December. Gains in a handful of mega-cap names did most of the heavy ‍lifting for the S&P 500, with Apple, Microsoft, ​Alphabet, Broadcom and Meta among the b

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company for the popular video app said it had sold a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. operations to avoid a ban in the United States. (Timo Lenzen/The New York Times) By DAVID McCABE and EMMETT LINDNER TikTok said late last week that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok, concluding a six-year legal saga that saw the app banned by Congress and ensnared in politicking betwe

Investors who have been consumed by geopolitical turmoil to start the year may switch focus in the ​coming week to prospects for artificial intelligence-related profits and the path for interest rates, with a huge crop of earnings reports and a Federal Reserve ‌meeting on tap. U.S. stocks hit a rocky patch last week due to fallout from President Donald Trump’s aggressive stance to acquire Greenland, which threatened a new trade war with Europe. Get a daily digest of breaking

A billboard in Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan. 15, 2026. From the ballot box in California to the halls of Congress and Wall Street, several new initiatives would require more oversight of how Uber protects its passengers. (Tag Christof/The New York Times) By EMILY STEEL Uber faces mounting scrutiny across the country as lawmakers, investors and others move to hold the ride-hailing giant accountable for a pervasive pattern of sexual violence during rides. In California, a propos

MSCI’s global equities gauge was higher ‌on ​Thursday and the dollar dipped as investors showed signs ‌of relief a day after U.S. President Donald Trump dropped tariff threats against eight European countries and ruled out seizing Greenland by ​force. Trump said on Thursday that the details of a U.S. agreement over Greenland are still being worked out after he stepped back from threats to seize the Danish territory. In an interview on Fox Business ‍Network from the World Econ

All three Wall Street benchmarks closed ​higher on Wednesday, buoyed by the news that a framework for an agreement on Greenland ‌had been reached, averting the possibility of new U.S. tariffs on European allies. “We have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that ‌were scheduled to

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Jan. 13, 2026. Economists from across the ideological spectrum warn that Trump is setting the country on a path that will, in the long run, leave the economy less dynamic in the decades ahead. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By BEN CASSELMAN For all the chaos along the way, President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House is ending with an economy that looks, by most conventional mea

U.S. bank stocks fell in morning trading on Tuesday ‌in ​a broader market decline as investors waited to ‌see if the Trump administration’s January 20 deadline to implement a 10% cap on credit card interest ​rates would take effect. The administration has said the proposed cap will improve affordability for everyday consumers, while banks have warned that it could reduce credit availability because ‍they would be unable to adequately price for ​the risk associated with the un

Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, during a conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit in New York, Dec. 3, 2025. The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation — not anymore. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times) By PETER S. GOODMAN Even in the heyday of the liberal democratic order, the conceit of the World Economic Forum induced skepticism: Once a year, the wealthies