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FILE- In this Sept. 17, 2018, file photo Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk speaks after announcing Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla Inc. reports earnings on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

How Musk could use the free-speech leverage granted by his Twitter stock buy

Zach Halaschak · April 5, 2022 11:00 am

Elon Musk speaks at the Automotive News World Congress.

Musk has likely already made more than $1 billion on Twitter investment

Zach Halaschak · April 4, 2022 9:50 pm

Bitcoin hits highest levels in 2022 amid steady climb

Bitcoin hits highest levels in 2022 amid steady climb

Zach Halaschak · March 30, 2022 12:00 am

In this Feb. 24, 2022, photo, a woman leaves an exchange office with screen showing the currency exchange rates of U.S. Dollar and Euro to Russian Rubles in Moscow, Russia. The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia and the resulting crash of the ruble have the Kremlin scrambling to keep the country's economy running. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, that means finding workarounds to the economic blockade even as his forces continue to invade Ukraine.

Russian stock exchange resumes trading with restrictions a month into war

Zach Halaschak · March 24, 2022 4:49 pm

In this Feb. 24, 2022, photo, a woman leaves an exchange office with screen showing the currency exchange rates of U.S. Dollar and Euro to Russian Rubles in Moscow, Russia. The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia and the resulting crash of the ruble have the Kremlin scrambling to keep the country's economy running. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, that means finding workarounds to the economic blockade even as his forces continue to invade Ukraine.

Moscow stock exchange has limited reopening three weeks after Ukraine invasion

Zach Halaschak · March 21, 2022 6:52 pm

An explosion is seen in an apartment building on Friday, March 11, 2022, in Mariupol, Ukraine,

Goldman Sachs warns markets are too relaxed about risks from war

Zach Halaschak · March 18, 2022 6:13 pm

Investment firm puts chance of ‘civilization-ending’ nuclear war at 10% but says to buy stocks

Zach Halaschak · March 7, 2022 8:09 pm

Gold prices surge above $2,000 as war rages in Ukraine

Zach Halaschak · March 7, 2022 5:43 pm

A demonstrator holds a poster show Russian President Vladimir Putin during a rally in protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022 in Paris. From Tokyo to London to Taipei, Ukrainians living abroad and hundreds of protesters have turned out on the streets to join anti-war rallies spreading around the world as Russia's troops pressed toward Ukraine's capital.

Russia in ‘tremendous financial distress’ as stock markets shuttered

Zach Halaschak · February 28, 2022 5:58 pm

A Chinese investor watches as the Shanghai Composite Index falls at a brokerage In Beijing on Monday, May 6, 2019. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite index dives on Trump threat of more China tariffs.

Stocks reverse losses and end in the green after Russian invasion of Ukraine

Zach Halaschak · February 24, 2022 9:42 pm

Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers driving on a road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to "consequences you have never seen."

US markets tumble into correction territory after Russia invades Ukraine

Zach Halaschak · February 24, 2022 6:05 pm

In this Wednesday, March 19, 2014, file photo, Specialist Meric Greenbaum works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. 2014. U.S. stocks are falling in midday trading Monday, March 24, 2014, as tensions with Russia escalate.

Russian stocks crater by as much as 45% after attack on Ukraine

Zach Halaschak · February 24, 2022 4:13 pm