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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 3, 2026.Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersCloud and software stocks were a rare bright spot amid Thursday’s market decline.of WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD) rose 2.7%, marking the best day since April 24, when exchange-traded funds rose 4.7%. The main cloud stocks that rose on Thursday jumped 8.4%. Octa and Wix.comand its stock price rose about 7%. Mongo DB and in tap. sale pointan identity security technology provider for cloud companies, rose 6.5%. Z scaler It rose 1.5%. hubspot and paycom softwaretop holding amount WCLDrose 4.5% and 1.5%, respectively.Okta’s…

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from her post and appointing Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, to replace her.Noem’s firing from the Department of Homeland Security comes in the wake of a wave of criticism of the former South Dakota governor’s management of the agency and her heavy-handed response to President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, which led to the killing of two Americans by federal agents in Minnesota in January.She is the first Cabinet secretary to be fired during President Trump’s second term, but in contrast to his first term, the turnover in…

The US-Israel war with Iran continues to escalate, with the US government pledging to send more troops and military assets to the Middle East and Tehran expanding retaliatory attacks across the region.But on Thursday, senior officials under President Donald Trump shifted their focus to another military front: Latin America.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listSince taking office for his second term, President Trump has laid out plans to project American dominance throughout the Western Hemisphere. His control efforts coincide with military operations against alleged criminal networks across the region.At the first U.S. Counter-Cartels Conference on Thursday, speakers including National…

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4. This is a new foundation model that is being touted as “the most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as an inference model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or a model optimized for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro). The API version of this model will be available in a context window of 1 million tokens, the largest context window ever available in OpenAI. OpenAI also stated that GPT-5.4 was able to solve the same problem with significantly fewer tokens than its predecessor, highlighting improved token efficiency. The…

A “Now Hiring” sign is seen at an AutoZone in Hollywood, Florida on February 11, 2026. Joe Radle | Getty ImagesThe labor market in 2025 has been widely described as “unstable,” with virtually no job growth and significant headwinds expected. But in 2026, things will look more or less the same, and the buzzword seems to be “stable.”Employment is low and layoffs remain low, with companies reluctant to lay off workers as demand remains strong, but also reluctant to add employees due to uncertainties surrounding tariffs, inflation and geopolitics.But characterizations from Federal Reserve officials and market economists have become at…

This report is from this week’s Inside India newsletter, which brings you timely and insightful news and market commentary on emerging economies. Subscribe here.big storyIndia is unlikely to escape the aftermath of the escalating conflicts in the Middle East. Most of the country’s energy imports are at risk of disruption, and the aviation sector is facing higher costs due to airspace restrictions.But there is another multibillion-dollar concern the country must address. That’s remittance.India is the world’s largest recipient of remittances, accounting for nearly 3.5% of GDP, which is higher than the 2% share of exports to the US in the…

broadcomThe company’s shares rose about 5% on Thursday as CEO Hock Tan touted strong demand for the company’s chips amid the artificial intelligence boom.He told analysts on Wednesday that he expects AI chip revenue to be “well over $100 billion” in 2027 as demand for custom silicon designs increases. That far exceeds the bullish expectations of many Wall Street analysts, who are hoping for further upside potential after Tan said the company was approaching 10 gigawatts of capacity among its six customers. JPMorgan analysts estimate the company will reach $12 billion to $15 billion in revenue per gigawatt by 2027,…

CNN — Here we will look at earthquakes around the world. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) describes an earthquake as “a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden sliding of a fault. Stresses in the Earth’s outer layers press against the sides of the fault. Stress builds up, rocks suddenly slide, and the energy of waves traveling through the Earth’s crust is released, causing the shaking you feel during an earthquake.” Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake occurs. Scientists have used the Richter scale for years to…

Lewis Hamilton says his aim is to win the 2026 F1 title and Ferrari is “coming out of a bad situation” as he begins his second season with the team.Hamilton had a disappointing first season with Ferrari in 2025, failing to finish on the podium all year for the first time in his F1 career, but he is clearly in a positive mood heading into this weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix. It is the first time since 2021 that Hamilton has been able to challenge for the championship, and the 41-year-old insisted he is “much happier” than he was 12…

AI video generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, images, video, and audio. The Luma agent is powered by the startup’s Unified Intelligence family of models, with an architecture trained on a single multimodal inference system. Luma Agent is being pitched as a new way of working for advertising agencies, marketing teams, design studios, and businesses. Luma says its agents can plan and generate text, images, video, and audio while working with other AI models, including Luma’s Ray 3.14, Google’s Veo 3 and Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance’s Seedream, and Eleven Labs’…