Lincoln National Corp. is in advanced talks with Talcott Financial Group for a reinsurance deal that would shift billions of dollars of life insurance reserves off its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the deliberations. The deal is expected to focus on...

The dollar’s recent gains are at risk if the selloff in artificial intelligence stocks deepens, according to Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Torsten Slok. International investors embracing the AI theme have spurred record net foreign inflows into US equities on a...

President Donald Trump shocked Wall Street when he called to bar big investors from the US housing market. Six months later, the effort ended in a compromise that still offers the biggest landlords plenty of ways to grow. The deal, encoded in broader housing...

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Morgan Stanley’s Lisa Shalett urged investors to be cautious on chipmakers as evidence mounts that their pricing power is limited, suggesting that the stocks may have rallied too far on optimism around artificial-intelligence spending. “We are seeing the AI data...

SpaceX (SPCX) stock is trading near $153 on July 9. All the initial gains since its IPO have been wiped out, despite the stock’s inclusion in the Nasdaq-100, and a slew of high price targets coming from big Wall Street banks. Goldman Sachs initiated the stock with a...

Software firm Planview Inc.’s push to refinance its debt in the private credit market has faltered, according to people familiar with the matter, leaving its owners TPG Capital and TA Associates under pressure to provide additional capital. The tech company, which has...

The wave of AI-fueled earnings surprises that powered stocks in the last earning season will be tough to repeat, making it unlikely the results alone will spark a major rally, according to Christian Mueller-Glissmann. While companies are still likely to beat...

Apollo Global Management Inc.’s Torsten Slok warned that companies outside the giants of the technology sector are failing to show gains in profitability from their spending on artificial intelligence, posing risks to Big Tech valuations. “We need to see profit...

For years, the Magnificent Seven tech giants commanded investors’ attention, dominating the S&P 500 Index and determining which way the overall stock market was headed. Those days are over. While the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index is up 16% in 2026 and the...

For months, the knock on Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) hasn't been its business. It has been the bill. When management raised its 2026 capital expenditures guidance in April to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion, shares sank on the news. And heading into...

Wall Street is kicking off the second half of 2026 with fresh conviction: shrugging off one shock after another, markets are set to grind even higher. A diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds and commodities just posted its strongest first-half return since 2021...

A United Launch Alliance rocket lofted 29 satellites for Amazon.com Inc., paving the way for the start of the company’s broadband service later this year in a challenge to SpaceX’s dominant Starlink network. The Atlas V rocket carrying the latest batch of Amazon Leo...