None of the three big indexes marked a feat worth hailing on Friday: the S&P 500 closed flat, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished slightly lower, and the Nasdaq Composite ticked a smidge higher.

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 ...

The numbers: U.S. Industrial production rose 0.5% in January, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. The gain was above ...

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 ...