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The nation's biggest tech conference was originally scheduled to run Jan. 5-8 in Las Vegas, but will now close on Friday, Jan. 7, amid an avalanche of criticism of it taking place at all.

Legendary actor Betty White has died about two weeks from her 100th birthday. Entertainers and fans paid tribute on Twitter on New Year's Eve.

High-quality dividend-paying stocks, relative to bonds, now offer compelling value.

Here are some tips for paying it off in the New Year.

U.S. stock indexes are trading mixed Friday afternoon, with risk appetite waning on New Year's Eve.

Many consumers want to rethink how their razors and razor blades are first, manufactured, and what happens to all that plastic after disposal.

Betty White, a sitcom star who rewrote the book on aging, is dead at 99

U.S. oil futures on Friday settled lower on the eve of 2022, marking the first decline in the past eight sessions, but the loss belies a stellar year for crude bulls, with the commodity posting the sharpest annual rise since 2009. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for February delivery declined $1.78, or 2.3%, to end at $75.21 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after gaining 0.6% on Thursday. For the week, oil rose 1.9%, rose 13.7% in December and posteed a 0.3% rise in the quarter. Читать дальше...

Gold futures closed solidly higher Friday in 2021's final session, but the precious metal still registered the steepest annual drop since 2015 as investor appetite for the traditional safe-haven asset sagged. The precious metal advanced in the final week, month and quarter of the year but it wasn't sufficient to help avoid closing in negative territory and registering the sharpest yearly drop, down 3.6%, since the metal ended down 10% in 2015. February gold rose $14.50, or 0.8%, to settle at $1,828.60 an ounce... Читать дальше...

Baker Hughes data on Friday afternoon showed the U.S. weekly active oil-rig count standing pat at 586. Oil rigs were steady at 480 and those rigs drilling for natural gas held at 106, according to the companies data. For the year, rigs are up 235, with those drilling for oil increasing by 213 and gas rigs up by 23. West Texas Intermediate oil for February delivery held lower, down $1.58, or 2.1%, to trade at $75.25 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude values broadly are climbing... Читать дальше...

Shares of Oracle Corp. slipped 0.3% in afternoon trading Friday, putting them on track to extend their losing streak to 11 sessions. That would be the longest such streak since Oracle went public in March 1986, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The database giant's stock has now tumbled 15.3% since it last gained ground, when it rose 3.8% on Dec. 15 to close at a record $103.65. Highlighting the losing streak was the 11.2% drop in two days to Dec. 20, after The Wall Street Journal reported... Читать дальше...

Shares of Xcel Energy Inc. slumped 1.4% in midday trading Friday, and was the biggest decliner among the SPDR Utilities Select Sector ETF's components. The company said it has restored service for about 80% of its customers that lost power as a result of the "extremely high winds and wildfires" in Colorado. The company said about 15,000 customers remain without power, which suggests about 75,000 customers had lost power. The company said it currently has about 350 employees and contractors working to restore power. Читать дальше...

Coronavirus Update: Children being hospitalized for COVID-19 in record numbers

U.K. food shortages possible as new Brexit customs rules kick in on Jan. 1

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Shares of Nutriband Inc. rocketed 126.6% in very active trading Friday morning, after the developer of a fentanyl abuse deterrent patch said it was issued a full patent in South Korea for its lead technology Aversa. Volume spiked to 31.8 million shares, compared with the full-day average of roughly 55,300 shares, and enough to make the stock the most actively traded on major U.S. exchanges. The stock has already been halted once for volatility since the opening bell. The company said the patent... Читать дальше...

U.S. stock indexes on Friday were little changed but edging slightly higher, in the final trading day of 2021, with risk appetite waning on New Year's Eve. With most European markets closed or shutting down early on Friday, trading is expected to be thin in U.S. markets too as investors close out a good year for global equities with economies recovering from the global pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was trading 0.1% higher at 36,423, the S&P 500 index advanced 0.1% to 4,784,... Читать дальше...

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Shares of Xeris Biopharma Holdings Inc. shot up 24.3% on heavy volume in premarket trading Friday toward a five-month high, after the biopharmaceutical company said its Recorlev has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of endogenous hypercortisolemia in adults with Cushing's syndrome, which is a potentially fatal endocrine disease. Trading volume ballooned to 4.4 million shares, enough to make the stock the most actively traded ahead of the open, and well above... Читать дальше...

General Motors, Salesforce and PayPal are among the 20 S&P 500 stocks that analysts both heavily favor and expect to rise to the most.

Treasury yields edge lower in the final session of 2021, with investors finding some cause to buy government debt amid renewed jitters about omicron's spread.