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April was an impressive month for the major stock market averages — and while May is usually the beginning of a seasonally weak period for stocks, recent momentum might just continue in the month ahead. Last month, the S & P 500 soared more than 10%, its best month since November 2020. The Nasdaq Composite , which climbed more than 15%, saw its strongest monthly performance since April 2020, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped roughly 7% — its largest monthly gain since November 2024. .SPX mountain 2026-04-01 S & P 500, performance since April “Surprisingly strong earnings growth…
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2020, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda pledged to build a city of the future, a place where researchers, engineers, and scientists could live and work together. It was framed as the start of a transformation for the world’s largest car company, moving it toward becoming a fully fledged mobility company. Six months ago, after Toyota spent an estimated $10 billion to build an urban paradise atop a disused factory, the first residents moved in. One-hundred handpicked “Weavers,” residents chosen to boost the tech cred of the sensor-laden mini-metropolis, began settling in. Last week, I got…
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Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday: Bernstein reiterates Apple as outperform The firm raised its price target on the stock to $350 per share from $340. “Apple’s FQ2’26 results and FQ3 was strong across the board. Revenue grew 17% you in FQ2 and was guided to grow another 14-17% in FQ3. Gross margins also beat expectations at 49.3% for FQ2 and guided to 48% for FQ3.” Goldman Sachs upgrades KE Holdings to buy from neutral Goldman says the China real estate company has an “attractive re-entry point.” “We believe the share price movement post the recent…
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Thursday, March 26, 2026.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesMeta is back in a New Mexico courthouse on Monday as part of an ongoing child safety case that could determine whether the company is considered a public nuisance and must spend potentially billions of dollars to fix its products.The social media company lost the first round of the trial centering on claims brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez that it failed…
Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMost people don’t know and don’t have much reason to care what a currency swap line is, except that the financial instrument could soon help markets understand what Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh’s unique ideas about Fed independence really mean.Warsh has said categorically the Fed should be “strictly independent” in the making of monetary policy. But he adds that he’s…
OpenAI logo is seen in front of Elon Musk photo in this illustration taken March 11, 2024. Dado Ruvic | ReutersElon Musk contacted OpenAI President Greg Brockman to gauge interest in a settlement two days before their high-stakes trial got underway in Oakland federal court, according to a new court filing.When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk allegedly said, “By the end of this week, you and Sam [Altman] will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be,” the filing, made on Sunday, stated.The exchange is the latest flashpoint in a lawsuit…