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With a bumpy start to 2025, quality stocks that have reliable dividends could become more appealing. The first trading day of the new year marked a volatile session for stocks, with all three major averages finishing yet another session in the red on Thursday after starting off the day with gains. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite have now declined for five consecutive sessions – their longest losing streaks since April – while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped for its fourth session in a row. Against this market backdrop, UBS screened for stocks that look high…

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Attendees view the 2025 Ford Bronco Stroppe Special Edition during the AutoMobility LA 2024 auto show at the Los Angeles Convention Center on November 21, 2024.Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Both General Motors and Ford Motor on Friday reported their best annual U.S. new vehicle sales since 2019, prior to impacts from the coronavirus pandemic and yearslong supply chain problems.GM reported 2024 sales of more than 2.7 million vehicles, up 4.3% from a year earlier. The automaker sold 2.9 million units in 2019.”The driving force for our business is new vehicles with great design and performance across our…

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he meets with House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2024. Brian Snyder | ReutersPresident-elect Donald Trump again called on fellow Republicans to select Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker of the House of Representatives on Friday, as the 119th Congress prepared to come into session.Trump’s support on social media came as Johnson — whose current term as speaker expired at 11 a.m. ET — faces a potentially very tight vote in the House, where the GOP holds an ultra-slim majority.If every one of the…

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A mother wipes away tears outside Anfield as she comforts her young son on a bitterly cold night.Liz O’Driscoll, who has travelled to Merseyside from County Kerry in Ireland with eight-year-old Liam, has just been informed by Liverpool staff that the two tickets she bought for the Premier League game against Aston Villa are fake.“We got to the scanner at the turnstiles and the light went red rather than green, so they sent us here to the ticket office,” she says. “I got them through the grapevine in Ireland. This fella said he knew someone who could sort it and…

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FILE PHOTO: Rosita Missoni poses before the Missoni Spring/Summer 2018 show at the Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy September 23, 2017.Stefano Rellandini | ReutersItalian designer Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous fashion house known for its bright and patterned styles, died on Thursday at the age of 93, a company official said.She had launched the business in 1953 with her husband Ottavio Missoni, developing a brand that became popular for its colorful knitwear featuring geometric patterns and stripes, including the signature zigzag motif known as fiammato.Born into a family of textile artisans close to the northern Italian town of…

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Employees works on the production floor of the SUSTAINera Circular Economy Hub at Stellantis NV’s Mirafiori complex in Turin, Italy, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesVehicle production by car maker Stellantis in Italy fell by 37% last year, hit in particular by a steep plunge in car manufacturing, union figures showed on Friday.To address overcapacity in Italy, the group has relied heavily on state-funded temporary layoff schemes. Stellantis in December presented a plan to boost production, but an increase is only expected from 2026 thanks to the launch of new models.The FIM-CISL union said Stellantis, which was created in…

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Goldman Sachs is keeping some market themes in mind into the new year. Stocks are coming off an unusually strong two-year period, with 2023 and 2024 both recording gains of more than 20% for the broad S & P 500 index. Now, investors are wondering if the bull market has further steam. There’s a lot to consider with the potential for more interest rate cuts and a change of party control in Washington. The average target set by market strategists suggests the S & P 500 can rise nearly 13% in 2025, according to CNBC Pro’s survey available exclusively for…

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A customer drinks a glass of beer at the Saxton Pub in Austin, Texas, April 5, 2023.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesThe U.S. surgeon general issued a new advisory warning Friday about the link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk, and pushed for policy changes to help reduce the number of alcohol-related cancers.U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said there is a “well-established” link between drinking alcohol and at least seven types of cancer, including breast, colorectum, esophagus and liver. For cancers including breast, mouth and throat cancers, increased risk may start around one or fewer drinks per day, according…

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Syria’s new leaders met the French and German foreign ministers in the capital, Damascus, on Friday in one of the highest-level Western diplomatic visits since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad last month.Annalena Baerbock of Germany and her French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, arrived in Damascus for the first such trip in years on behalf on the European Union, as world powers have begun building ties with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that leads the new Syrian government.Ms. Baerbock and Mr. Barrot met with Ahmad al-Shara, the group’s leader. Earlier in the day they visited the notorious Sednaya prison, where…

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