Coming into this week, companies in the S&P 500 index were on track to deliver growth of nearly 50% in earnings per share for the spring from a year earlier, according to FactSet.

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Manufacturing and construction are now early sources of job growth, helped by an AI investment boom that has so far been unconstrained by still-high borrowing costs.

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Relatively simple AI tools can help developing economies boost economic growth, but they risk becoming dependent on the U.S. or China if not careful, the World Bank said.

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U.S. job openings fell slightly in June, but the labor market continued to show resilience in the face of an economic shock from Iran war.

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Former Reagan economic advisor Art Laffer analyzes the economic impact of state and federal tax cuts.

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June openings fell to 7.36 million, but immigration curbs and retirements may have pushed the break-even hiring rate close to zero.

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As Trump tours LA and Las Vegas to sell tax cuts, Newsom fires back over the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

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Artificial intelligence could enable developing countries to gain a century’s ‌worth of development in a decade if they act quickly on power, connectivity and skills gaps, the World Bank said in a report on Tuesday.

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President Trump has struggled to connect with voters on the economy as elevated inflation and feelings of uncertainty have overshadowed the stock market gains he often talks about.

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Talk to people across industries and you’ll hear that the boundless vibrancy we once took for granted has faded, with a broken housing market and the Trump 2.0 administration partly to blame.

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Ari Emanuel, WME Group executive chairman and TKO Group CEO and executive chairman, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss why he’s in favor of the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger. The deal remains on hold due to antitrust concerns.

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President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy and other issues.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Anna Paulson said Tuesday she was keeping an “open mind” about what lies ahead for monetary policy in an outlook that ​could call for higher rates.

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Plus, Beijing accelerates its buildup in space and a drone maker cleans 28 tons of waste from Mount Everest |WSJ China for Aug. 4.

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Markets won’t stop trying to predict the Fed’s actions in the face of less information.

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