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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the opening bell rings on March 24, 2026. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesStocks soared Wednesday as oil prices fell and traders hoped the U.S. and Iran would reach a cease-fire deal.of Dow Jones Industrial Average It rose 305.43 points (0.66%) to close at 46,429.49. of S&P500 It rose 0.54% to 6,591.90. Nasdaq Composite It rose 0.77% to end at 21,929.83.The Associated Press, citing anonymous officials in Islamabad, reported that Iran had received a 15-point proposal from the United States to end the war. The New…

The number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz has increased after Iran announced that “non-hostile” ships could pass through in coordination with Iranian authorities. But the future is uncertain, according to the captain of an oil tanker who was allowed to sail safely after being stranded in the area for three weeks. “While certain parties may say they will allow safe passage, the conditions for safe passage depend on many factors and there are too many parties involved,” Captain Sumanth Bhaktavatsaram said. Mr. Bhaktavatsaram, an Indian national, is a tanker captain with 27 years of seafaring experience. But…

Elena Rybakina defeated Jessica Pegula over three sets on Wednesday to advance to her third semifinal at the Miami Open.The No. 3 seed fought through a match that lasted two hours and 15 minutes to beat No. 5 Pegula 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, her fifth straight win against the American in seven months. The Australian Open champion will now face either world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, whom she defeated in the first Grand Slam final of the year, or Hayley Baptiste. “The match against Jessica is always very difficult,” Rybakina said after the match. “She started playing well, so I was…

Deccan AI, a startup that provides post-training data and evaluation work to meet the growing demand for training and improving AI models, has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of the work performed by a workforce of experts based in India. The all-stock Series A round was led by A91 Partners, with participation from Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures. While frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic build core models in-house, much of the post-training work, from data generation to evaluation to reinforcement learning, is increasingly outsourced as companies seek to increase the reliability…

OpenAI is raising an additional $10 billion from investors as part of a historic funding round, CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday.The new capital brings OpenAI’s record funding to “over $120 billion,” Fryer said in an interview on “Mad Money.” This far exceeds the ChatGPT creator’s original goal of $100 billion. OpenAI announced its first round of funding in late February, likely the last private fundraising round before a potentially blockbuster initial public offering (IPO).Andreessen Horowitz, DE Shaw Ventures, MGX; TPG and T. Rowe Price They are participating in a new $10 billion pledge, Friar said. especially,…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump National Doral on March 9, 2026 in Miami, Florida.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesRead more CNBC’s political coverage”That’s right, the Supreme Court of the United States cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars — all they needed was a ruling — and they cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars and they couldn’t care less,” Trump fumed. “They didn’t really care about it.””And they disgust me,” Trump said, referring to Gorsuch and Barrett.Trump added: “They’re disgusting because they’re bad for our country.”Justice Brett Kavanaugh, another Trump…

A senior official in Tehran has warned that intelligence reports suggest that “enemies of Iran” are planning to seize Iranian islands with support from unnamed countries in the region.Mohammad Berger Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s parliament, said on Wednesday that any such attempt would be met with targeted attacks against “critical infrastructure” of regional countries supporting the operation, which he did not name.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list”Iran’s military is monitoring the enemy’s movements and if the enemy takes any steps, we will attack the critical infrastructure of the regional country with continuous and persistent attacks,” Gharibakh said in…

Thursday’s newspaper top news and transfer rumors…liverpoolLiverpool will face a tough battle to sign Bayern Munich star Michael Olise this summer, but the German giants insist their star player is not for sale. Olise is attracting attention from Liverpool as a potential replacement for departed Mohamed Salah – Daily Mail A turbulent summer at Anfield could deepen further as the Saudi Pro League targets both Liverpool’s Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes this summer – The Independent Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports News’ Kabe Solhekol talks about where Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah could head this summer…

Now, the United States and China are engaged in an all-out war to build the most powerful AI on the planet. The Chinese government is spending billions on domestic models, tightening its grip on high-tech sectors and nervously watching AI talent gravitate toward American companies. A Carnegie Endowment study released late last year found that 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers at U.S. research institutions in 2019 are still employed. But Manas, one of China’s hottest AI startups, quietly relocated to Singapore and sold itself to Meta for $2 billion. Did anyone think there wouldn’t be a cleanup…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned investors Tuesday against trading on headlines about the U.S.-Iran conflict, citing an unpredictable stock market filled with uncertainty.”We have so many stories unfolding because of this war that I think it might be a waste of time and money to try to redeem it,” the “Mad Money” host said. “The conclusion is this: … it makes more sense to stand on your head.”Kramer said mixed signals between President Donald Trump and the Iranian government make it nearly impossible to bet on the outcome of the war.Look at Tuesday’s “wild day” of trading, Cramer said. like oil…