Maria Aspan
Stories
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The health care industry's very bad year
The killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO has sparked scrutiny of the business of health care. But even the investors making money from this business have been unhappy with it this year.
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Big Health Care is ending a terrible year. Is anyone happy with this business?
Patients are protesting, bipartisan lawmakers are threatening regulation – and investors are selling their shares.
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The stock market had a great 2024. What will next year bring?
Investors are watching the Fed, the AI boom, and President-elect Donald Trump's promised economic policies.
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U.S. stock markets close to honor former President Jimmy Carter
The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq will both observe Thursday's national day of mourning in a Wall Street tradition dating back to 1865.
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Trump is ending DEI in the federal government. Corporate America is way ahead of him
President Trump is ending diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal government. But big companies have already been rolling back their DEI promises, for business as well as political reasons.
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U.S. stock markets tumble as investors worry about DeepSeek
The Chinese AI company may be about to burst Silicon Valley's bubble.
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The stock market reacts to Chinese AI startup DeepSeek
Chinese AI startup called DeepSeek became the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple store on Monday, replacing ChatGPT. That's rattling U.S. tech companies.
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U.S. stocks recover some ground on hopes for a trade-war reprieve
Wall Street is feeling tariff whiplash, plunging and then recovering some ground as President Trump said he would delay at least part of his promised global trade war.
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How corporate America got DEI wrong
President Trump is accelerating the attacks on diversity-in-business programs. But DEI experts say this may be the wakeup call big companies need.
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Exclusive: GM, Pepsi, Disney, others scrub some DEI references from investor reports
Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.
