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Jennifer Saibil  |  The Motley FoolTop business leaders see recession risk fadingCEOs of nearly 280 U.S. companies say the odds of a downturn in the second half of 2025 are shrinking, many shifting to growth expectations.Straight Arrow NewsThe S&P 500 is at nearly 6,000 and only 3% off of its all-time highs. While many investors are excited about the prospect of the market hitting new highs, some investors might be wondering how high it can go.It's a question that investors have grappled with many times, and yet the market has...

What is Juneteenth, America's newest federal holiday?Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans. It became a federal holiday in 2021.Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and became a federal holiday in 2021. Here's what to know about the holiday and what businesses will be open and closed on that day.June 19, 1865 is known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day when slaves in Galveston Texas learned of their freedom following the President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War.Juneteenth celebrations and...

Cowboys' $6.6 million, draft pick investments land them 2 flop warnings from ESPNEvery move looks good in the offseason. Upside is kind when evaluating a team's trades, free agent signings and draft picks during the spring and summer. But despite the front office's rosy wording around each of their acquisitions, the reality is there's risk in every move and they land on the negative side of the ledger as often as they do on the positive.For the Dallas Cowboys, they might have more boom-or-bust nature to their offseason than most...

But like some other “Trump effect” investments, Trump doesn’t deserve all the credit.TSMC said it had already spent $65 billion in Arizona over the past five years to build two fabrication facilities on its sprawling Phoenix campus and was weeks from breaking ground on a third after the Biden administration gave it a $6.6 billion grant from the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act last year. Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, told the Globe that the company had showed him plans to expand to six so-called fabs a couple of...

Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman on Drayk Bowen's leadershipNotre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman praises the leadership qualites of third-year linebacker Drayk Bowen, the former Indiana Mr. Football at Andrean High School.SOUTH BEND — It hasn’t been that long since Josh Lugg and Tommy Kraemer completed their Notre Dame football careers as starting offensive linemen.Yet they are proving just as effective as budding entrepreneurs in real estate management.South Bend-based Golden Legacy Partners, with Lugg and Kraemer as co-founders, announced Wednesday the strategic acquisition of ESC Property Services, which serves...