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In a New Year’s address, Xi Jinping made a rare acknowledgment of the flagging economy while reiterating the government’s growth targets.

The business and trade select committee says the schemes are so poorly designed, the application process is like a second trial.

One leading lobby group said it would result in a "costly start" to 2025 for many bus passengers.

The new year starts with a 1% increase in domestic gas and electricity prices under Ofgem's price cap.

Wall Street strategists see further gains for the S&P 500 in 2025 as a broadening of earnings growth and a resilient US economy continue to drive the bull market rally.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Investors are expecting more gains for the U.S. stock market in 2025 after two straight standout years, fueled by a solid economy supporting corporate profits, moderating interest rates and pro-growth policies from incoming President Donald Trump. The benchmark S&P 500 was up 23.31% in 2024, even with a recent speed bump, marking its second-straight year of gains exceeding 20%, lifted by megacap tech stocks and excitement over the business potential of artificial intelligence. Investors are more confident about the economy than this time a year ago, with consumers and businesses having absorbed higher interest rates and the Federal Reserve now lowering them - albeit by not as much as hoped.

US stocks slipped Tuesday, continuing an uncharacteristic limp to the finish after a roaring year of trading.

Here's why this tech investor thinks Intel has a lot of proving to do.

Mexico's tax authority SAT issued new tariffs on Tuesday, which it said will strengthen the surveillance of goods from Asia, a measure that could impact popular online retailers like Shein and Temu. Goods that enter Mexico via courier companies originating from countries that do not have an international treaty with Mexico will be subject to a duty of 19%, SAT said in a statement shared with reporters.

Nearly half the states in the U.S. are raising their minimum wages in 2025, meaning pay hikes for more than 9 million workers, according to a new report.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is stoking new speculation that the Trump administration could end one of the oldest fights on Wall Street by loosening the federal government’s grip over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

America's housing shortage appears to be easing, but the major reason for the increase in homes on the market provides little comfort, according to a new report.

Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is stoking new speculation that the Trump administration could end one of the oldest fights on Wall Street by loosening the federal government’s grip over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Financial stability is top of mind as households get set to ring in the new year.

A clash between BlackRock and the FDIC over the money manager’s holdings of US banks will play out in the waning days of President Joe Biden’s administration.

Stocks were setting up for a fitting end to a roaring year of trading after an uncharacteristic limp into the finish.

It has been another great year for retail investors.

Box office returns have started to stabilize. But nine of the top 10 box office hits this year were sequels. And the 10th was “Wicked.”

A clash between BlackRock and the FDIC over the money manager’s holdings of US banks will play out in the waning days of President Joe Biden’s administration.

The S&P 500 is set to post back-to-back annual gains of more than 20 percent for the first time since the late 1990s. Analysts expect stocks to continue rising in 2025.

Stocks were setting up for a fitting end to a roaring year of trading after an uncharacteristic limp into the finish.

US authorities allege he was responsible for the collapse of two coins, prompting a massive crypto sell-off.

(Bloomberg) -- For all the exuberance about Tesla Inc. benefiting from Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Wall Street isn’t so sure the carmaker can avoid its first annual sales decline in over a decade.Most Read from BloombergMigrant Crisis Pushed US Homelessness to Record High in 2024Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg are estimating the company may deliver around 510,400 vehicles in the final three months of the year. That would set a new quarterly record for Tesla, but the company would ne

For decades, UBS' Art Cashin wrote a New Year's poem. With Cashin's passing, his sons sent this homage to their father.

The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.

People looked up financial topics on Investopedia over the course of the year, with searches for some emerging as very popular. Investopedia's Caleb Silver discussed the findings.

The companies have found plenty of new channels to the U.S. market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.

Immigration is supposed to be one of Trump's strong suits, yet his own supporters are now bickering over it.

President-elect Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell have clashed before, and there is a chance they could do so again in 2025.

The boss of the world's biggest building society told the BBC that more needs to be done to support women at work.

Several industry watchers who spoke to CNBC forecast bitcoin will hit $200,000 in 2025.

At a shelter in the Flushing area of New York, Hui Muslims who fled oppression in China are concerned about the president-elect’s vows to tighten asylum policy.