President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year. By Christine Zhang In recent years, macroeconomic tides have ebbed and flowed, but one ...

As many market participants anticipate a year-end rally, there are mounting indications that such an outcome is far from assured. Investor positioning appears increasingly stretched, with multiple ...

YouTube’s move to stop sharing streaming data for Billboard’s music charts could change how we think about metrics Billboard’s latest change, and YouTube’s subsequent action, point to a more ...

This week, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" takes the record outright, as it posts an unprecedented 20th week on top of the Hot 100. And, given the likelihood of it returning to No. 1 — not just next ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The S&P 500's forward 10-year returns are often misrepresented as tightly and negatively correlated with its trailing P/E ratios. Statistical flaws—non-independent samples and outlier events—made the ...

Spotify isn’t waiting until the year is wrapped to give you a snapshot of your listening behavior. Users of the music streaming service annually await the annual release of Spotify Wrapped, which ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The housing market keeps getting worse. Home prices have risen more than 50 percent since the start of the pandemic. About a third of Americans households now spend more than 30 percent of their ...

The messages from the chart, in most investors’ interpretation (especially the bears’ these days), are so clear that they are almost irrefutable. The most common interpretation is that the chart ...

The song has been streamed over 3 million times in under a month. A song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...