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Viking Therapeutics stock jumps after ‘great’ trial of weight-loss drug

Viking Therapeutics stock rose in early trade on Monday as the company showed its oral weight-loss drug in clinical trials was successful.

Harris and Trump command the market’s attention — but Jerome Powell may steal the spotlight

Investors are anxious about the possibility that it could take days, or even weeks, for the results of this week’s presidential and congressional races to be known. But Tuesday’s vote is hardly the only major market-moving event on the calendar.

Consumers are anxious ahead of the election. Corporate America is feeling it

Like it or not, there’s an election on Tuesday. Voters are stressed. And to at least a small degree, so are corporations.

Trump election odds tumble on betting markets after Iowa poll shows Harris lead

Harris is now the favorite on betting site Predictit.

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Here’s how stock-market investors can cut through Harris-Trump election noise

Wall Street makes trading elections sound as easy as falling off a log. Reality often disappoints.

Don’t take the betting market odds on Tuesday’s U.S. election too seriously

This year’s U.S. presidential election has suddenly made betting on politics a topic of mainstream conversation.

Election 2024: How Trump vs. Harris could shape taxes, home prices and grocery costs

Your guide to where the presidential candidates stand on key economic and money issues.

Social Security’s trust fund is expected to be depleted in 2033. Where is the solution?

Voters want straight talk from candidates on this No. 1 issue.

Workplaces prep for election clashes by canceling meetings, OK’ing remote work

As the 2024 presidential campaign reaches its feverish end, employers want staff coexisting peacefully and staying productive — even if the election results suck up attention and stoke emotions.

Fed seen agreeing to quarter-point rate cut, while disputes flare about the road ahead

Next Thursday, economists expect broad agreement among Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues on a decision to reduce their benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to a range of 4.5%-4.75%.

What will OPEC+ decide on oil output? Here’s why it’s complicated.

Developments in the Middle East have and worries about the prospects for global demand have fueled volatile trading in the oil market in recent weeks and that makes an upcoming decision by major oil producers known as OPEC+ even more complicated.
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