Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citi all posted strong earnings returns — signs a dealmaking wave may be here to stay.

Tech stocks helped lead the way following an encouraging profit report from ASML, which is a major supplier to the semiconductor industry.

Wall Street’s banner first half in trading was based on handling tariff-induced market chaos. The third quarter showed the biggest banks can also seize on the stock market’s steady march higher.

Asia-Pacific markets were higher Wednesday, breaking ranks with Wall Street's declines after U.S. and China exchanged blows in a renewed trade feud.

Follow all the latest U.S. market action for Wednesday here as stocks look to recover their poise after some trade-talk volatility and earnings season continues apace.

Wall Street’s biggest banks are taking advantage of rising stock underwriting after a powerful equity rally reignited the IPO market, fueling double-digit percentage gains in advisory revenue.

Ninety-eight per cent of all external wall insulations fitted under the Energy Company Obligation scheme since 2022 need corrective work, as does 29 per cent of the internal wall insulation, according to the results of sample audits.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a journalist at the New York Times, chronicled the turmoil of 2008 in “Too Big to Fail”, which was published in 2009 and adapted into a film in 2011. Now, with “1929”, he has turned his attention to the seminal stockmarket and banking crash of modern history, to which all others are inevitably compared.

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood says AI in healthcare could drive the next big boom, calling the sector "the most inefficiently priced part of the market."