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Despite rising mortgage rates and declining desire for home purchases, new home sales increased somewhat last year. However, there was a price for that increase. The U.S. saw a positive year-end with a 3.6% increase in new home sales in December. Builders sold more homes in 2024 than the year before, with new-home sales up 2.5% annually, but high borrowing rates that affected both home purchasers and builders. The health of the resale market contrasts sharply with the rise in new-home sales. Due to a dearth of available homes and high housing expenses, existing-home sales fell to their lowest level…

Since starting Wegovy, one of the GLP-1 medications that more and more individuals are taking to treat diabetes or reduce weight, Tori Allen says she is overjoyed to have shed 80 pounds. However, the 39-year-old Chicago resident stated that she is more than eager to pay the price of losing weight. In particular, Allen had to spend over $5,000 on new clothing to fit her slimmer body. Her recent fashion zeal also has a psychological component. Allen told MarketWatch, “I want to reward my body because I look better.” Furthermore, Allen is not the only GLP-1 user who is changing…

Novo Nordisk said a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial of amycretin, which activates both the GLP-1 and amylin receptors to help manage blood sugar and weight, achieved weight loss of 22% on a 20 milligram once-per-week dose taken for 36 weeks. This trial was done by injecting patients – which is how popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy are administered – but it’s also being developed for oral administration. It said most of the side effects were gastrointestinal and mild to moderate in severity. Novo Nordisk said it is now planning further clinical development of amycretin in adults with overweight or obesity.…

What if businesses don’t have to invest nearly as much as they think in creating AI models? Given the increased focus on DeepSeek, a Chinese AI software that has become the most popular app in the U.S. software Store, investors are asking themselves that question on Monday. According to reports, the company was able to create a model that works similarly to ChatGPT from OpenAI without investing as much money. Wall Street is concerned about the implications of DeepSeek’s success for firms such as Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), Marvell Technology Inc. (MRVL), and others whose stocks have surged…

Americans purchase food, vehicles, TVs, toys, appliances, and other goods from Mexico and Canada totaling $900 billion annually; should President Donald Trump follow his threat to impose 25% tariffs, the cost of these products could increase. Viewing them as a negotiation tool to get concessions for the United States, few trade analysts and economists think the president will implement such high tariffs. The stakes are surely very high, though. Comprising roughly thirty percent of all imported commodities, the neighbors to the north and south are the main commercial partners of the United States. The United States imported $ Daly billion…

On substitutes for Nvidia Corp., Wall Street is always debating One analyst just mentioned a well-known name that is not usually discussed. D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria says Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) (GOOG) silently has the “most compelling alternative to Nvidia GPUs.” Tensor processing units, Alphabet’s version of accelerators capable of handling machine-learning chores, are produced by the business. Apple (AAPL) selecting these “are a viable, and maybe even superior, alternative to Nvidia GPUs (as evidenced by Apple),” Luria noted. Luria praises Alphabet’s semiconductor technology highly, but given his neutral rating he really has a contrarian opinion of the stock. And…

Inquire of anyone in the bond market why the 10-year Treasury yield has been declining from its top of 4.8% earlier in January; you will most likely find that President Trump’s first week back in the White House lacked any significant tariff activity. Though not the 60% level he mentioned on the campaign trail, Trump did indeed keep alive the threat of 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada starting perhaps as soon as Feb. 1. Said his team was exploring a 10% duty on Chinese imports. Another theory holds that American government bonds merely were oversold because yields…

Before his visit to the White House, Donald Trump started a meme coin; it shot when he was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States last week. Based on data from CoinMarketCap, the coin attracted a lot of interest, particularly from retail traders, and was trading for $33.1 on Friday, valued $6.6 billion. Nevertheless, the Trump meme coin has not yet added to the president’s net worth based on The Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes Billionaires list, two reliable journalistic wealth monitors. Based on the assessment of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Trump’s net worth was $6.4 billion as…

Over his executive order allowing TikHub still to operate for its current U.S. customers, President Donald Trump has attracted a lot of questions. One of the issues has been on why he altered his opinion on the Chinese-owned app following first presidential term ban efforts. “Because I got to use it,” the president remarked to reporters on Monday. “And keep in mind, little children rule TikHub mostly. To be honest, I believe we have more issues than China’s need for knowledge on small children derived from it.” In a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Trump underlined once more the 170…

Aiming squarely at markets and your money, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders; but, what will they really do? Here, MarketWatch examines Trump’s first week of his second term and analyzes how his actions can affect your wallet—as well as maybe your phone. Digital coins Trump’s Thursday order establishing a working committee charged with overseeing the distribution and functioning of digital assets delighted crypto investors. One industry member told MarketWatch that U.S. digital-asset policy is undergoing a “sea change”. The order guides the working group to assess the establishment of a national digital-asset stockpile. The possible building…