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FILE - This July 15, 2013, file photo, shows a sign for Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Wall Street eyes M&A revival if new Trump administration ushers in lower rates, looser scrutiny

Wall Street is betting corporate dealmaking could bounce back next year if the new Trump administration ushers in lower interest rates and looser regulatory scrutiny.
 
FILE - A home for sale in Sudbury, Mass., is shown on Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

Rental home investors poised to benefit as mortgage rates, high home prices sideline buyers in 2025

 
FILE - Fast food restaurant signs line Peach Street in Erie, Pa., Aug. 26, 2014. (Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP, File)

Restaurants, other services still in grip of high inflation even as overall rate slows

 
FILE - Pedestrians walk past 666 Fifth Avenue, June 20, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Switching jobs? There’s more to do with your 401(k) than just rolling it over

 
FILE - A sign announcing a house for sale is displayed in Prospect Heights, Ill., on March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Home listings climb in nation’s priciest markets as locked-up inventory starts to shift

 

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Shoppers emerge from a store, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)

Shoppers helped keep the economy out of a recession. Now investors hope for even more

 

Google, Facebook take bigger share of ad spending, but economic slowdown could hurt growth

 
FILE - An advertisement for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin displayed on a tram, May 12, 2021, in Hong Kong. Now that bitcoin funds are trading, which is the best to own? The answer is not necessarily the one that rises the most. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Not all bitcoin ETFs are the same. Here are some questions to consider before buying any

 
FILE - A "for sale" sign is posted in front of a home in Sacramento, Calif., March 3, 2022. The recent pullback in mortgage rates is spurring more homeowners to put their homes up for sale, though the increases so far have been too modest to return the housing market’s inventory of available properties back to even pre-pandemic levels. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Lower mortgage rates prompt home owners to list properties, but housing supply remains constrained

 
Pedestrians pass the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024 in New York. The S&P 500 was lower in midday trading after pulling to the brink of its all-time high set roughly two years ago. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Wall Street’s hopes for rate cuts may be too optimistic, like they’ve been so many times before

 
FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is seen in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The signs of life shown by the IPO market, especially in the second half of the year, are giving analysts hope that more companies will be enticed to go public in 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Companies grew more confident about initial public offerings in 2023, raising recovery hopes

 
FILE - A residential development under construction in Eagleville, Pa., Friday, April 28, 2023. Homebuilders are stepping up construction of single-family homes following a steady decline in mortgage rates and broad expectation among economists that home loan borrowing costs will ease further in 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Homebuilders step up construction of single-family homes as 30-year mortgage rate eases below 7%

 
FILE - A sign announcing a house for sale is posted outside a single family home, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Exeter, N.H. Several housing economists are projecting that mortgage rates will ease moderately next year, though the forecasts call for the average rate on a 30-year home loan to remain above 6%. While lower rates could help bring more buyers off the sidelines, the projected declines are unlikely to encourage homeowners who locked in rock-bottom rates two years ago to sell. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Lower mortgage rates next year unlikely to entice ‘rate-locked’ homeowners to sell, economists say

 
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, a subject's waist is measured during an obesity prevention study in Chicago. Obesity rates in the U.S. have been rising steadily for well over a decade and some of the world’s biggest drug developers are tapping into the growing treatment market. Novo Nordisk reported another surge in profits and revenue during its most recent quarter with a big assist from Wegovy, an injectable treatment for weight loss approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2021. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Big Pharma scrambles to feed demand for weight-loss treatments amid rising US obesity rates

 
FILE - A sign is seen near a home being remodeled, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, in Towson, Md. Homebuyers who can afford to bypass the highest mortgage rates in two decades are increasingly forgoing financing and paying all cash. Homes purchased entirely with cash accounted for 34.1% of all sales in September, up from 29.5% a year earlier. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Bypassing mortgage rates: Share of US homes bought with cash hits highest level in nearly a decade

 
FILE - Delta planes are shown at their gates June 13, 2022, at Salt Lake City International Airport, in Salt Lake City. Major airlines including United Airlines, Delta and American expect fuel costs to keep rising through the end of the year, putting a dent in profits for an industry that has seen earnings growth in 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Airlines expect heavier drag on profit growth from rising fuel costs

 

Down market? Years of soaring prices, limited home sale inventory drive profits for sellers

 
FILE -= People look at the Apple's new iPhone 15 models on the first day of sales at an Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. For the first time in a year, the big companies in the S&P 500 may be seeing their profits grow again. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Analysts’ outlook of another quarterly profit drop is bad for stocks. But they’re routinely wrong

 
FILE - A development of new homes in Eagleville, Pa., is shown on Friday, April 28, 2023. Sales of new U.S. homes hit a 5-month low in August 2023, as sky-high mortgage rates continue to strain prospective homebuyers’ ability to afford a dwelling. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Sky-high mortgage rates leave homes unaffordable for more buyers, sending new home sales tumbling

 
FILE - A pumpjack of Wintershall DEA extracts crude oil at an old oil field in Emlichheim, Germany, March 18, 2022. Oil prices are creeping higher and raising concerns about the impact on inflation’s cooling trajectory, consumers’ wallets and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Oil prices creep higher, raise inflation concerns

 
FILE - A "SOLD" sign decorates the lawn of a new house in Pearl, Miss., Sept. 23, 2021. U.S. home loan applications are at the lowest level in decades, the latest evidence that rising mortgage rates and home prices are shutting out many aspiring homeowners. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Fewer apply for home loans as borrowing costs, rising prices shut out prospective homebuyers

 
An umbrella held by a tour group leader passes the front of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in New York City. Wall Street is drifting Wednesday and stocks are mixed a day after their latest tumble in what's been a messy August. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

A resilient stock market helped boost gains for 401(k) savers in the first half of 2023

 
FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo the logo for Alphabet appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Big technology companies provided the energy for most of broader market's sharp ascent in 2023 and their latest financial reports so far justify that confidence from investors. Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet reported strong profit growth that beat analysts’ forecasts. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Big Tech backs stock gains with solid results, growth prospects

 
FILE - An unsold 2023 Model X sports-utility vehicle sits outside a Tesla dealership Sunday, June 18, 2023, in Littleton, Colo. After enjoying a strong run where they could keep raising prices to boost their profits, companies are now stuck in a vise. On one end, revenue is under pressure as the global economy remains fragile. On the other, companies are having to pay higher wages for workers, among other costs. Caught in the middle are corporate profit margins, which measure how much profit companies make on each $1 of revenue. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

After raising prices sharply, corporate profits get squeezed as inflation eases

 
FILE - A pumpjack of Wintershall DEA extracts crude oil at an old oil field in Emlichheim, Germany, March 18, 2022. Falling crude oil prices and lingering worries about the global economy have been sapping power from energy stocks throughout 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Energy sector left behind as Wall Street exits bear market

 
FILE - A sign is seen near a home being remodeled, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, in Towson, Md. Would-be homebuyers are willing to take on sharply higher mortgage payments, even as home prices have begun to pull back in 2023. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Elevated mortgage rates are leading to sharply higher monthly payments even as home prices ease

 
FILE - A sign is displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Halfway into 2023, and so little on Wall Street has gone according to plan. The S&P 500 has climbed roughly 14% as one of the most-predicted and longest awaited recessions in history has yet to appear. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

After a raucous first half of 2023, Wall Street is still wondering if recession is in the cards

 
File - Signage hangs from a Macy's store in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Macy's, Target and Dollar General are warning investors their sales will suffer during the remainder of 2023 as consumers shift spending to essentials. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Consumers are spending, but Wall Street and businesses expect a tighter squeeze ahead

 
FILE - This is a new housing development in Middlesex Township, Pa., on Oct. 12, 2022. Among the roughly 63% of U.S. homes with a mortgage, average homeowner equity per borrower was $274,070 in the first quarter of 2023, down 1.9% from the same quarter last year, according to real estate data tracker CoreLogic. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Shedding equity: Housing slowdown leads to first annual drop in US homeowner equity since 2012

 

Bonds, haven for elderly and cautious, are getting torched

 

Economic recovery stalls as consumers signal caution

 

Sustainable funds hold their own as markets tumble worldwide

 

Corporate America has a 1%, too, more influential than ever

 

Real estate stocks surge as investors balance risk

 

Stock-picking fund managers are clawing back. Can it last?

 
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