January’s stock-market rally has seen U.S. equities hit record highs time and again, leaving the major benchmarks at lofty altitudes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.08% has gained 2.2% so far in January, while the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.24% has …
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The latest victim of the retail apocalypse? Birthday cards. Papyrus, the greeting card and stationery chain, will close all its stores in the United States and Canada after its parent company filed for bankruptcy, another casualty of the long-running decline of …
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The US government continues to fight itself over just how to curb Huawei’s dominance in 5G. One thorny issue in that fight is how to choke back sales of US semiconductors and other technologies to Huawei, even though the revenue those sales provide is …
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‘Mini’ nuclear reactors delivered in prefabricated chunks on the back of trucks and assembled cost effectively onsite could become a reality by 2029, according to Rolls-Royce (LON:RR). The British blue chip, known globally for its aviation, shipping and land …
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