US stock markets close near flat ahead of Nvidia earnings

The U.S. labor market seemed to be on upswing after a surge in new employment early this year — but a summer slowdown in hiring and fewer help-wanted ads suggest it won’t get any easier to find a job.

My coverage of Nvidia (NVDA -0.98%) comes with an investing regret. Though I have covered it since 2017, I passed on adding shares because I perceived it as overvalued. Then, when it experienced retracements of over 50%, as it did in 2018 and 2022, I saw that as a pullback from its overvalued status. Dismissing…

Personal Finance Published: Thursday, September 17, 2026, 18:08 [IST] The Onam celebrations may have ended for the rest of India but in Kerala it ends with the oman bumper lucky draw. lottery holders in the state are hopefully waiting for the draw of the Thiruvonam Bumper BR-111, which has the first prize of Rs. 30…

Digital Transactions News staff August 26, 2026 Acquiring, Automated Clearing House, Digital Currency, Fraud & Security, Issuing/Originating, Mergers & Acquisitions, Point-of-sale, Transaction Processing Miracle Pay, a provider of payments technology for merchants, said it will work with zerohash, a provider of cryptocurrency technology, to enable stablecoin acceptance at…

Top 25 Firm Withum acquired Farber Hass Hurley in Chatsworth, California, effective as of Sept. 1. Processing Content FHH, founded in 1990, adds three partners and approximately 30 employees to Withum’s Los Angeles office. The deal expands Wiithum’s assurance and consulting practice, and strengthens its industry and service capabilities, including in industrial and consumer products,…

The market is just emerging, but domestic banks may already be exposed to global risk. This article appears in the October issue of Global Finance Magazine. Japan’s private credit market may still be small, but its exposure to private credit is not.  That is an important distinction as the Bank of Japan warns that growing…