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NEW YORK — The highest court in New York did not hear Donald Trump’s appeal of his gag order in his hush-money case on Tuesday. The restrictions will remain in place after he was found guilty of all 34 counts of felony in the trial last month. The Court of Appeals decided that the order does not bring up “substantial” constitutional issues that need to be dealt with right away. The decision is the latest legal setback for the former Republican president. He has been protesting against a gag order that keeps him from talking about witnesses, jurors, and other…

In recent years, a lot of people have crossed the border illegally. This has caused a lot of debate about U.S. immigration policy. However, official estimates show that the rise in migration across the U.S.-Mexico border has been great for the federal budget. The Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday that the rise in immigration since 2021 and its expectation that it will continue until 2026 will bring in $1.2 trillion in federal tax revenue over the next few years while only costing $300 billion. The CBO said that most of the extra money comes from immigrants paying payroll taxes…

Trump Media & Technology Group is the parent company of former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform. On Tuesday, shares of the company fell because there wasn’t much news before the midweek Juneteenth holiday. Trade in the stock was around $30.15 just after 2:30 p.m. ET, down more than 13%. The S&P 500 went up 0.2 percent. Dow Jones Market Data said that Trump Media stock was on track for its worst close since April 17, when it closed at $26.40, and its biggest drop in value since April 16, when it dropped 14.2%. At first, it wasn’t clear what…

NEW YORK — Apple is ending Apple Pay Later, its buy-now-pay-later service, just a year after it launched in the U.S. Instead, it will work with Affirm and Klarna, two companies that already dominate the market. Apple has been building a financial services business from scratch for several years. This is an admission from a company AAPL, -0.86% known for making hit products that it is hard and very competitive. With Apple Pay Later, iPhone buyers could pay for purchases up to $1,000 over four equal payments, with no fees or interest. The service came out to a lot of…

Vanguard, the second-largest financial advisory firm in the country, will start charging a lot of new fees to brokerage account holders on July 1. One of these fees is $100 to close an account or move assets to another firm. People who have at least $5 million in assets will not have to pay that fee, though. Vanguard has always offered low-cost ways to invest and was one of the first companies to offer passively managed index funds. This account-closure fee is a first for the company. Not all customers are happy with the new fees. A 39-year-old Vanguard customer…

On Monday, U.S. regulators sued Adobe Inc., saying that the software company and two executives “lied to consumers” by hiding the cancellation fee for a popular subscription plan and making it too hard for customers to cancel their subscriptions. An announcement from the FTC said that the claims were made in a federal court complaint that was sent by the Federal Trade Commission and then filed by the Justice Department. Adobe said Monday in a statement that it would defend itself in court. Adobe ADBE, +0.68% stock prices went down 1.3% at the end of Monday’s regular trading session. The…

Nvidia quickly rose to become one of the biggest companies in the U.S. On Tuesday, the chip maker became the most valuable company in the country. Nvidia shares NVDA, +3.51% rose 3.5% on Tuesday, making the company bigger than Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.45% by market value at the end of the day. Microsoft had a market cap of $3.32 trillion, Nvidia had $3.34 trillion, and Apple Inc.’s AAPL, -1.10% was third with $3.29 trillion. Tuesday was the first time that Nvidia was the biggest during the day, and that trend continued until the end of the day, making Nvidia the…

While U.S. stocks are on what seems like an unstoppable record-setting rally, investor excitement seems to be fading. This could be a quiet week, since Wednesday is a holiday that breaks up the week. On June 19, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq, and the U.S. bond markets will all be closed to honor the end of slavery in the United States. Even though Black communities have celebrated Juneteenth since the 1800s, it wasn’t until 2021 that President Joe Biden made it a federal holiday. Since kids aren’t in school during the summer and investors are taking vacations, the…

Based on how inflation and the U.S. economy are going now, the head of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve said Monday that one drop in interest rates “would be appropriate by year’s end.” In a speech in Philadelphia, Patrick Harker said that the Federal Reserve is still “surrounded by an air soaked with uncertainty” about how inflation will move in the future. The Fed and Wall Street SPX DJIA were shocked when prices went through the roof in the first four months of the year. Prices then started to slow down a bit in May. Harker said that “more data is…

Charles Evans, who used to be president of the Chicago Fed, said on Monday that he thinks the U.S. central bank might lower interest rates in September. Evan Evans told BourseWatch, “I suppose September is possible if the data get better.” Since July of last year, the Fed has kept its key interest rate in the range of 5.25% to 5.5%. Before lowering rates, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that the Fed is “looking for something that gives us confidence that inflation is moving sustainably down.” Fed officials have been using “a very careful communications strategy,” according to…