The S&P 500 touched a record high ‌and ​angled for its fifth advance in a row ‌on Tuesday with a mixed reception for the latest earnings reports and a steep selloff in health insurers countering ​optimism ahead of megacap reports. UnitedHealth led losses in healthcare stocks and in the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a 19% tumble after the Trump administration proposed an increase in ‍Medicare insurer payment rates. The plan was another woe ​added to the insurer’s disappoin

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