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Microsoft, Oracle and ServiceNow could be the top stocks to play a software comeback

Published: Jan. 12, 2026 at 5:35 p.m. ET While artificial-intelligence infrastructure stocks have received much of investors’…

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AI won’t pay off if employees can’t do the work it demands

The U.S. urgently needs an education and workforce effort that can handle the significant changes stemming…

Emerging-market stocks — even in Venezuela — are rallying after Maduro’s capture

Published: Jan. 6, 2026 at 4:58 p.m. ET Stocks in emerging markets seem untroubled by geopolitical risk…

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Claudia Assis Claudia Assis is a San Francisco-based reporter for MarketWatch. Follow her on Twitter @ClaudiaAssisMW.

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Published: Jan. 2, 2026 at 12:43 p.m. ET You may already be familiar with the term “AI…

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Isabel Wang Isabel Wang is a Markets Reporter for MarketWatch.