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The Federal Reserve sparked some appetite for risk-taking in markets on Wednesday, but that seemed to fade on Thursday.

The Russell 2000 small-cap stock index was on track Thursday to suffer an ominous-sounding development on its daily chart: a so-called death cross.

Shares of memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc. jumped in extended trading Thursday after the company’s fiscal second quarter showed that it is still seeing a boost from AI, with its highest-capacity memory products surging in growth.

FedEx cuts its profit outlook for the third time in a row, thanks to “continued weakness and uncertainty in the U.S. industrial economy.”

Shares of Nike Inc. moved higher after hours on Thursday after the sneaker maker reported fiscal third-quarter results that beat Wall Street’s estimates, as the company tries to focus more deeply on the needs of athletes.

March 20 is the 25th anniversary of the 2000 dot-com bust.

The battle over the agency centers around what’s taught in K-12 schools, but one of its main functions is sending out funds to schools and colleges.

Wondering what fixing the program will look like? A new report gives us a clue.

U.S. government debt rallied Thursday, pushing yields lower across the board, on the Federal Reserve’s base-case view about the likely transitory nature of tariff-driven inflation.

Crude futures notched back-to-back gains on Thursday, with prices finding support from growing tensions in the Middle East that raise the risk of supply disruptions in the oil-rich region.