Wall Street fell short of a record following mixed profit reports from big companies. The S&P 500 ended essentially flat Friday, a day after rallying within 0.1% of its all-time high set last month.

AI spending is prodigious. The current mania resembles the internet bubble and earlier enthusiasms like RCA in the 1920s.

U.S. export prices increased by 1.3% in January, while import prices in the U.S. climbed by 0.3% from the previous month during January. U.S. industrial production rose by 0.5% in January versus a ...

Manufacturing output, a subset of total industrial production, declined last month by 0.1%. In manufacturing, a big increase in aerospace and transportation-equipment production offset declines in the ...