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A federal holiday often portends a long weekend for travel -- or maybe just an extra day off to relax. But can a holiday also benefit your stock portfolio?A group of researchers who explored the so-called "holiday effect" says yes. Their study, published in 2025 in the Review of Financial Economics, looked at stock returns before and after the 11 federal holidays.The team found that three holidays in particular -- including Presidents Day -- "are more likely to yield positive abnormal returns." The other two were Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Thanksgiving.The researchers, who looked at 100 largest stocks by market capitalization on the New York Stock Exchange between 2014 and 2024, say the study has real-life applications.As co-author Nikolas Albertson, an economist at TradeWell Securities, told Barron's, they found "statistically significant results that holiday effects exist, and if you were to pair that up with common knowledge of the market, you could take advantage of the opportu

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UPDATE 2-Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI has stalled, WSJ reportsAdds background in paragraphs 2, 8-10; adds Nvidia comment in paragraph 6. Jan 30 - Nvidia's NVDA.O plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The chipmaker in September announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would have given the ChatGPT maker the cash and access it needs to buy advanced chips that are key to maintaining its dominance in an increasingly competitive landscape.The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said the companies are rethinking the future of their partnership, and the latest discussions include an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars as part of OpenAI's current funding round. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately emphasized to industry ass

Shares of Palladyne AI rose premarket after the maker of robotics software received a contract from the U.S. Air Force.The Air Force will harness the company's SwarmOS artificial-intelligence platform in a project--dubbed Hangtime--intended to coordinate actions of automated hardware, including satellites."The Hangtime project is a breakthrough that unites high-altitude assets and situational unmanned systems into one coordinated sensor network--delivering a major advantage for the defense industry," said Chief Technology Officer Denis Garagic, in a statement."For the first time, a single AI framework can coordinate assets across multiple domains, including satellites. That means these systems can now think and act together as a team, sharing what they see and learning as conditions change.". Shares of Salt Lake City-based Palladyne surged 30% to $8.52 in premarket trading.

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Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on Canada if it follows through on a trade deal with China and warned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that a deal would endanger his country.