White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, July 16, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. Leavitt’s departure…
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks after the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on May 14, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cerebras Systems raised its full-year guidance in the second earnings report following the chipmaker’s IPO in May. But the stock tumbled about…
In 2026, gold has been a tough trade to time right, falling from a 10-year high over $5,300 an ounce that it reached early in the year by as much as 18%, according to Goldprice.org. But last week was the precious metal’s best week since January, while gold mining stocks had their hottest five-day run…
Pedestrians walk past the north entrance to the U.S. Treasury Department headquarters building on April 30, 2025, in Washington, DC. J. David Ake | Getty Images The U.S. budget deficit soared to its highest monthly level in more than five years amid a surge in Medicare costs and as interest on the federal debt continued…
Joshua Kushner, left, founder of Thrive Capital, and former Disney CEO Bob Iger during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 10, 2026. Getty Images (L) | CNBC (R) The Los Angeles Lakers have sold — again. Less than a year after buying a controlling ownership stake in the…
Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett speaks to reporters outside of the White House in Washington, on Aug. 7, 2026. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A tax break for Americans selling their primary residence could become part of the Trump administration’s midterm pitch. But experts say such an effort is unlikely to happen…
US President Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One before it departs Leesburg Executive Airport in Leesburg, Virginia, on April 24, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump was sued on Wednesday over the controversial sale of advance notifications of his posts on Truth Social. The lawsuit, filed in U.S….
(L to R) Jensen Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia Corporation, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, arrive for a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 2023. Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Last month, American tech giants came…
A Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (Comac) C919 aircraft under assembly at the Comac Shanghai Research and Development Center on May 4, 2017. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s homegrown C919 passenger jet departed on its first scheduled international commercial flight Wednesday, marking a milestone in Beijing’s push to develop an alternative to Boeing…
A Kalshi billboard displaying New York City mayoral election odds in Times Square in New York, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Adam Gray | Bloomberg | Getty Images The New York City Council is investigating marketing practices by prediction market platforms, the office of Council Speaker Julie Menin said on Wednesday. In letters to…
