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Home of the brave: As America parties, is it time you shake it off - or bet on new US superstars?

Today

Even the Dow Jones index of 30 stocks this week got into the party mood, closing above 52,000 for the first time thanks to its latest member, Alphabet, Google's parent company.

Musk's SpaceX eyes boost as it lands in Nasdaq 100

Today

Millions of ordinary investors are set to become indirect owners of SpaceX shares next week.

Even I need lessons to master AI - and I'm the boss of Google

Today

Everyone in Britain seems to be struggling to find the time to keep up with AI - and that includes the boss of Google.

Rolls's record engine revival: Inside the 100-year-old Derby hangar where no-nonsense boss is masterminding a British manufacturing triumph

Today

Derby's sprawling Rolls-Royce campus, employing 15,000 people, has been at the cutting edge of British industry for more than a century.

Author Sophie Hannah: Book deals are great... but I've made millions from backing a start-up tipped by my daughter's singing teacher

Today

Sophie Hannah is an author best known for her psychological crime novels, such as Haven't They Grown.

City traders in £7bn bet against the pound in Andy Burnham's Britain

Today

In a blow to Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham, speculators are ramping up sell positions in the expectation that sterling will fall against the dollar.

Savvy savers beat doom-mongers, says HAMISH MCRAE

Today

The simple explanation of what has happened to bond prices is to note that wars cost money in all sorts of ways and push up inflation, so investors want a bigger premium to lend to governments.

Disney's £43m Shanghai surprise amid lucrative deal with the Chinese government

Today

Disney banked its biggest-ever profit payout from a non-US theme park last year as part of a lucrative deal with the Chinese government, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Pay revolts halve as FTSE firms fight to keep top talent

Today

It comes as leading firms look to boost how much their chief executives can be paid as they compete in what they say is an increasingly international market for top executives.

Here's who Burnham will target for tax raids. I'm petrified, warns JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Yesterday

It won't be long before Burnham is this country's Prime Minister. Like me, I imagine you're not as titillated as Labour MPs are about the prospect of Burnham at the helm - and rightly so. I'm petrified.

ALEX BRUMMER: There are healthy signs the Supreme Court is not totally capitulating to Trump

Yesterday

Today, July 4, as America commemorates its 250th birthday, there are healthy signs that the Supreme Court is not totally capitulating to Trump.

Save our Saturday jobs! Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis urges Burnham to make it easier for firms to hire amid youth jobs crisis

Yesterday

The retail entrepreneur, whose empire includes lingerie brand Boux Avenue, stationery firm Rymans and homewares chain Robert Dyas, is the latest big name to call for action on youth jobs.

We're worried a neighbour will buy the paved council-owned land near the bottom of our garden and build on it - what are our options?

Yesterday

Do you have any advice on any other action we can take and can we ask the council to impose any conditions, regarding use, should the sale go through?

Britain's economy losing speed as services shrink

Yesterday

The closely-watched purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey for the sector gave a reading of 48.8 in June - on a scale where the 50-mark separates growth from contraction.

Investor revolt against Ocado chairman over plot to oust chief executive Tim Steiner

Yesterday

A top-10 investor has written to Ocado Group's board calling for chairman Adam Warby to be removed after it was reported he has been spearheading a hunt to replace Tim Steiner.

The Jeep for an electric era: RAY MASSEY drives the Compass EV

Yesterday

Priced from £34,520, it the Compass has a fully electric version, which I drove, and a 48v petrol-electric mild e-hybrid. A plug-in hybrid is to follow.

Will a plug-in hybrid car actually save you money? Sales are soaring but is it worth buying one?

Yesterday

Plug-in hybrid sales are up more than 41%. They're supposed to be a cost-saving 'stopgap' to EVs but will you really save money? We look into the claims - and the verdict isn't great...

I went on a lads holiday to Kyrgyzstan - my unusual trip choice saved us money, says JAMIE BOYS

Yesterday

While you may not have even heard of it, millions are now heading to the landlocked nation some dub the 'Switzerland of Central Asia'.

Halifax to vanish from the high street as Lloyds ditches the brand - should we care? This is Money podcast

Friday

Goodbye Halifax! It's is being scrapped by Lloyds after 173 years. But why would you kill off one of Britain's best known and trusted banking brands?

Surge in demand for annuities as retirees look to swerve inheritance tax on their pension: Are they worth another look?

Friday

Britons are reconsidering annuities, however data still shows widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they work.

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