Oil futures posted their highest finish in two weeks on Wednesday, buoyed by a weekly decline U.S. crude inventories and ongoing strength in implied demand for gasoline.

Analysts believe TSMC is providing AMD with ‘extra’ help during chip shortage, helping it continue to step up challenge to its larger rival

Gold futures ended slightly lower on Wednesday, then extended their decline into the post settlement trading session after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy has made progress toward reaching its standards for tapering its bond-buying program.

Stock market likely to face ‘readjustment period’: deGraaf

Shares of Yum! Brands Inc. YUM, +1.64% rose 1.64% to $125.48 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.47% falling 0.47% to 4,401.46 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.24% falling 0.24% to 35,058.52. This was the stock’s sixth consecutive day of gains. Yum! Brands Inc. hit a new 52-week high, surpassing its previous peak of $123.63, which the company achieved on July 26th.

GXO Logistics Inc., Victoria’s Secret & Co., and GameStop Corp. will replace Strategic Education Inc., World Fuel Services Corp. and Weingarten Realty Investors in the S&P MidCap 400 index, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning and educational apps, priced its initial public offering at $102 a share late Tuesday, above its expected range.

Microsoft Corp. finished yet another record-breaking year with more than $60 billion in profit and $165 billion in sales, showing why it has become only the second $2 trillion company in U.S. stock market history.

GE expected to swing to a profit in the second quarter, with results due out before Tuesday’s opening bell

Bit Digital Inc. shares were up 30% to $5.52 after the company said it and Digihost Technology Inc. have entered into a second strategic co-mining agreement where Digihost will provide certain premises to Bit Digital for the operation of a 100 megawatt bitcoin-mining system for a term of two years.