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Micron to Buy Taiwan Plant for $1.8 Billion

The Boise, Idaho-based company plans to acquire the Taiwanese chip-making site to meet surging demand for memory-storage products.

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Bayer Shares Rise After U.S Supreme Court Agrees to Review Roundup Case

The conglomerate is challenging litigation that claims its flagship weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.

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Are Megabanks Next in the Crackdown on Stock Buybacks?

After the Trump administration's threats to defense contractors and home builders, the risk has jumped for bank shareholders.

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Commercial Builders Are Losing Their Appetite to Build Anything but Data Centers

Spending on data-center construction is expected to rise by 23% in 2026, while the building of offices, hotels and apartments is seen declining slightly.

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Elliott Reiterates Opposition to Revised Offer for Toyota Industries

The U.S. activist investor said a stand-alone plan would offer a path to a much higher valuation.

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Taiwan's Flagship Chip Maker Charts a Future Beyond Taiwan

TSMC has for decades provided a "Silicon Shield" to its namesake island. Now it sees both business and geopolitical reasons for going big in the U.S.

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Trump Purchased Netflix, Warner Bonds in Days After Deal Announcement

The investments, valued at up to $2 million, were detailed in a recent ethics disclosure form released by the White House.

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Trump Says He Plans to Sue JPMorgan for Allegedly 'Debanking' Him

President Donald Trump has previously accused both JPMorgan and Bank of America of "debanking."

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Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away

Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI.

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Rail Regulator Sends $71.5 Billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Deal Back for Redo

The Surface Transportation Board has said that the application is incomplete and is inviting the companies to revise and resubmit it.

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Bank CEOs Carefully Push Back on Trump's Credit-Card Rate Cap

Bank executives are tiptoeing around President Trump's call to temporarily cap credit-card interest rates at 10%, opposing the idea while making sure not to antagonize the White House.

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Chris Hohn's TCI Made $18.9 Billion Last Year, Shattering Hedge-Fund Records

Stock pickers enjoyed a banner year in 2025, capitalizing on geopolitical uncertainty and the AI boom.

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Fox Went All In on Live Programming. It's Paying Off.

Big brands are returning to Fox News, contributing to a run-up in its parent company's shares that has validated a series of contrarian bets on the future of entertainment.

 

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January 19, 2026 07:00 ET (12:00 GMT)

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