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Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) investors are having a terrific Friday, as shares of the renewable energy company surged 47.8% through 10:30 a.m. ET. Last night, Bloom Energy announced a deal to supply up to 1 gigawatt’s-worth of fuel cells to electric utility American Electric Power (NASDAQ: AEP). Start Your Mornings …

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expanded his lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer Microsoft as a defendant. Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, California, said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally …

By Sinéad Carew (Reuters) – Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR) were up more than 6% on Friday, hitting a record high, after it announced late on Thursday that it would list on the Nasdaq and expects eligibility to join the Nasdaq 100 index. The data analytics software company said …

(Bloomberg) — Super Micro Computer Inc. investors have spent two months waiting for the company to file a plan that would allow it to remain listed on the Nasdaq exchange. With the deadline now just days away, that plan is yet to materialize. Most Read from Bloomberg The server maker …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales increased slightly more than expected in October, but underlying momentum in consumer spending appeared to slow at the start of the fourth quarter. Retail sales rose 0.4% last month after an upwardly revised 0.8% advance in September, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on …

Oil and natural gas are highly volatile commodities. That’s probably the first lesson that investors in energy stocks learn from owning shares in companies like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN). Even more-stable industry participants, like Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), can see their value shift around because …

Dividend stocks can be fantastic long-term investments. Over the past 50 years, the average dividend stock in the S&P 500 has outperformed nonpayers by more than 2-to-1. The best returns have come from companies that consistently increase their dividends. There’s a long list of great dividend growth stocks. Realty Income …

The year is winding down, but the bull markets are still charging ahead, getting a boost from improved sentiment after the presidential election. While the next few months will be a time of transition, a few things are likely. The Trump administration is expected to pursue a far looser regulatory …

By Naomi Rovnick LONDON (Reuters) – Big global investors are exiting popular trades that bet on US President-elect Donald Trump’s tax and tariff policies boosting Wall Street and wreaking damage abroad and swooping in on some of the Nov. 5 election’s biggest market victims. After US stocks and the dollar …

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Options players are piling in to riskier bets across the U.S. stock market, supporting a rally that has come on the back of fading election worries and expectations of a Republican lock on power in Washington next year. The bullish plays span …