U.S. stocks eked out marginal gains on Friday to cap off the best three-week stretch for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite since 2020, Dow Jones Market Data show. The S&P 500 SPX gained 5.78 points, or 0.1%, to finish Friday’s session at 4,514.02, accor...

Microsoft Corp. shares MSFT extended their decline late in Friday’s session as OpenAI announced that Sam Altman has stepped down as chief executive of the ChatGPT creator. Altman’s exit “follows a deliberative review process by the board, which conclud...

New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of five attorneys general have reached a $6.5 million settlement with Morgan Stanley for allegedly “compromising the personal information of millions of customers nationwide.” The bank did not dec...

Oil futures climbed on Friday, recouping most of the losses seen a day earlier that pulled prices to their lowest since July. Saudi Arabia is planning to prolong its voluntary oil production cut into next year, the Financial Times reported Friday. The ...

Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR were rising 3.4% in Friday’s session toward their highest close in nearly two years. The stock recently changed hands at $20.43 and is on track to log its highest finish since Nov. 30, 2021, when it ended at $2...

Baker Hughes BKR on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil rose by 6 to 500 this week. That followed two consecutive weekly declines. The total active U.S. rig count, which includes those drilling for natural gas, also cli...

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN is eliminating several hundred jobs related to its Alexa smart assistant and shifting resources toward generative AI, the e-commerce company said in a memo to employees on Friday. The company, which plans to eliminate positions in...

Share of Gap Inc. GPS gapped 20% higher at Friday’s opening price of $16.39 Thursday’s close was $13.67 — then kept climbing to be up 30.9% toward a 21-month high in morning trading, after the apparel retailer beat quarterly profit expectations by a wi...

Shares of ChargePoint Holdings Inc. CHPT plunged 36.4% toward a record low Friday, after the electric vehicle charging station company warned of a revenue miss and announced departures of two top executives. The stock was also headed for the biggest on...

AT&T Inc. T plans to create a standalone managed cybersecurity services joint venture, the company said Friday. WillJam Ventures, a Chicago-based investor, has agreed to make a capital investment in the new business. “At close, the new cybersecurity jo...

Shares of Safe & Green Development Corp. SGD blasted 158% higher in active morning trading Friday, and have skyrocketed 16-fold in two days. The stock has been halted for volatility once since the open, with volume swelling to 12.6 million shares to pu...

U.S. stocks opened mostly higher Friday, with the S&P 500 attempting a fourth straight day of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA was up 0.2% soon after the opening bell, while the S&P 500 SPX rose 0.1% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP edged down...

Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA edged up 0.4% in premarket trading Friday, to reverse the losses suffered after a backlash over controversial comments made by Elon Musk, the electric vehicle giant’s chief executive officer. The stock has dropped as much as 1...

Canopy Growth Corp.’s stock CGCCA:WEED was up 1.7% in premarket trading on Friday after the Canadian cannabis company said it identified two qualified buyers for its BioSteel brand and assets. The anticipated proceeds of the deals are expected to impro...

Shares of Eli Lilly & Co. LLY rose 0.67% in premarket trading Friday after drug giant announced plans to spend $2.5 billion to build a new manufacturing facility in Germany. The new facility is aimed at expanding Lilly’s injectable product and device m...