Stock market today: Live updates

Stock market today: Live updates

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 25, 2026. NYSEDow futures rose early Thursday as traders awaited the first of two inflation reports due this week. Futures linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 89 points, or 0.17%. S&P 500 futures rose 0.1%, but Nasdaq-100 futures fell 0.17%. The action comes … Read more

Widow sues Amazon, aviation partners over deadly Miami jet crash

Widow sues Amazon, aviation partners over deadly Miami jet crash

NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy details investigation into fatal Amazon cargo plane crash in Miami. Danamarie McNicholl reports on runway safety and flight delays. The widow of a man who died in the Amazon plane fire that crashed Sunday in Miami has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the retail giant and its aviation partners of … Read more

Hunter Biden’s ‘$LAPTOP’ crypto coin crashes minutes after launch

Hunter Biden’s ‘$LAPTOP’ crypto coin crashes minutes after launch

A cryptocurrency token launched by Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, abruptly lost almost all of its value within minutes of its debut Wednesday morning. Earlier this week, the younger Biden had touted the launch of the $LAPTOP meme coin, saying it was a way to reclaim a symbol that had defined news coverage of … Read more

NextEra secures $1.9B federal loan to restart Iowa nuclear plant for Google

NextEra secures $1.9B federal loan to restart Iowa nuclear plant for Google

S&P 500 companies report a whopping 53% increase in profits year over year as corporate profits rise. Taylor Riggs analyzes the market’s forward price-earnings ratios along with the rally in Magnificent Seven stocks. Energy giant NextEra Energy has secured a federal loan of up to $1.9 billion from the Department of Energy to restart Iowa’s … Read more

Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030 | Anthropic

Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030 | Anthropic

Artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within a decade, according to three researchers at industrial giant Anthropic, one of whom quit their job in protest. The latest fatalistic predictions came in social media posts on Tuesday from a researcher who said he resigned because Anthropic and his former employer, OpenAI, were ignoring or, at best, … Read more

5 things to know before the stock market opens Wednesday

5 things to know before the stock market opens Wednesday

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future issues in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. Don’t miss CNBC’s interview with Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf today at 10 a.m. ET. Watch it live on CNBC or CNBC+. Stock futures are lower this morning after a day of losses for all three major averages. … Read more