The University of Michigan’s gauge of consumer sentiment rose to a preliminary July reading of 72.6 from a June reading of 64.4.

Gold futures inch higher on Friday, with prices posting best week since April after a batch of encouraging U.S. inflation data help drag the dollar to its lowest level in more than a year.

The number of global tech layoffs has gone up more than eightfold since mid-January, according to Layoffs.fyi.

The more than 804,000 borrowers affected by the relief have been paying on their student loans for decades.

The import price index fell 0.2% in June, the Labor Department said Friday. This is the fifth decline in the past six months.

Gold hasn’t served a vital economic function since the government stopped treating it as money back in 1971

“We expect search to fundamentally change, but change will take time, and our analysis of 3 key AI success factors still put GOOGL in the best position to disrupt/improve its own business,” Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak wrote Thursday.

“AI” may be the two most frequently spoken letters in business this year, but the technology is not as high a priority as one might think when it comes to business spending.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says the U.S. economy remains strong but consumers are spending a little more slowly.

The troubled Canadian cannabis company has struggled to make money and issued a going-concern warning last month.