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Napheesa Collier, #24 of the Minnesota Lynx, scores the game-winning basket during the game against the New York Liberty in Game 1 of the 2024 WNBA Finals at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 10, 2024.Nathaniel S. Butler | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesBasketball fans will have even more chances to see their favorite stars play in the Women's National Basketball Association in the 2025 season.WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that the league will expand its regular season from 40 games to 44 games, and its Finals series from five games to seven games, both beginning next year. The Finals round will be a 2-2-1-1-1 format for home games, with the higher seed hosting first.The three-game first round of the playoffs will alternate hosts, instead of the hi...

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tesla — Shares of the electric vehicle maker tumbled nearly 9% after its robotaxi event underwhelmed investors . Morgan Stanley analysts noted that the event "overall disappointed expectations" due to a lack of details in several areas, including how the company is going to compete against ride-sharing companies, such as Lyft and Uber . Shares of those names jumped following the event, with Lyft surging more than 9% and Uber gaining nearly 11%. Wells Fargo — The stock gained more than 5% after the San Francisco-based lender reported better-than-expected profits . Third-quarter adjusted earnings were $1.52 per share, topping the $1.28 per share expected from analysts polled by LSEG. Revenue, however, came in at $20.37 billion, slig...

The Uber logo is seen in the rain in Krakow, Poland, on Jan. 6, 2024.Klaudia Radecka | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesTesla's hyped robotaxi unveiling posed a threat to Uber's ride-sharing aspirations, but it has turned into a boon for the stock instead.Uber shares had been falling on the initial investor excitement leading up to Thursday's event — particularly slumping in early August and mid-September — but surged more than 9% on Friday on renewed enthusiasm that the company is well positioned to advance its autonomous vehicle offerings. The move pushed the stock to a 52-week high and it was leading the S&P 500 higher during the session.That is a massive turnaround for Uber's stock, which is now up nearly 22% over the past month and about 38% for the year. Lyft, another major player, is also...

Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesInflation has eased gradually across the broad U.S. economy, and some areas of consumer spending, such as furniture and gasoline, have even deflated over the past year.Deflation is when prices decline for goods and services.It is rare for prices to fall from their current levels across the economy at large, economists said.However, prices for many physical goods have deflated as supply-and-demand dynamics return to normal following pandemic-era contortions."Outside of goods prices, I don't think we'll see price cuts," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's."[Businesses] will hold the line on price if demand is soft but outright price declines are very rare, and even in a recession are not common," Zandi said.Additionally, prices fo...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to a news conference following the September meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesThis week's inflation data provided more evidence that the Federal Reserve is nearing its objective, fresh on the heels of the central bank's dramatic interest rate cut just a few weeks ago.Consumer and producer price indexes for September both came in around expectations, showing that inflation is drifting down to the central bank's 2% target.In fact, economists at Goldman Sachs think the Fed may already be there.The Wall Street investment bank Friday projected that the Commerce Department's personal consumption expend...