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Presidents get too much credit or too much blame for the economy, it’s often said, but the public never fails to render its own judgment. They gave Joe Biden and Kamala Harris a failing grade and put Donald Trump back in the White House. Here are the high-water marks — and biggest low points — during the Biden/Harris administration.

As more companies require remote employees to return to the office, working parents are struggling not only with upended schedules, but with the expense of additional child care.

A tech publication writes of the “near certainty” that a company is interested in buying Intel. But it’s not clear which one might fit the bill.

“Don’t hold your breath,” for deficit reduction, says a Bank of America economist.

Do we really want to live in a country without Nvidia, Tesla or Viggo Mortensen?

Also: Value stocks, the start of earnings season, retirement planning for people of all ages and a new development in the space race.

Carriers with greater exposure to premium travel will fare better this year, analysts say.

Bank’s stock price hits record high this week and board awards Solomon stock bonus to vest in 2030.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a bipartisan law that aims to ban TikTok on Sunday if the video-sharing app continues to be controlled by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd.

Just in time, clean-energy companies Rivian Automotive Inc. and Plug Power Inc. have closed loan agreements with the Biden administration that will fund the construction of manufacturing plants in the United States.

Software companies like Salesforce are marketing their newest generative artificial-intelligence products as “agents” and “digital labor” — but analysts doubt agentic AI’s ability to take jobs or make a lot of money anytime soon.

The U.S. economy has separated itself from the global pack — and its lead could widen in the new year.