Private investment firms that are helping finance America’s artificial intelligence race and the huge buildout of energy-hungry data centers are getting interested in the local utilities that deliver electricity to regular customers — and the servers that power AI.

Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.

Larry Fink, an acclaimed and adventurous photographer whose subjects ranged from family portraits and political satire to working class lives and the elite of show business and Manhattan society, has died.

Stocks fell amid fresh worries about the banking sector, although Wall Street more than halved its losses by the closing bell.

President Bill Clinton says he is amazed by the massive response to the return of the Clinton Global Initiative.

World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres, Jordan’s Queen Rania, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will help relaunch the Clinton Global Initiative in September.

Red state officials are coming out swinging against growing Wall Street efforts to consider environmental risk in investment decisions.

For decades, the free flow of trade across much of the world allowed the richest nations to enjoy easy access to low-priced goods and supplies.

Saudi Arabia’s annual investment forum has drawn over a thousand participants, with big-name U.S. financiers and business leaders back on the stage three years after many stayed away following international outcry over the killing of a government critic in a Saudi consulate.

Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas TribuneA bill filed in the Texas Senate Thursday would direct the state’s massive investment funds to divest from any companies that “boycott” fossil fuels. Pressure is increasing on Wall Street for companies and investment funds to reduce their financial support for oil and gas companies; environmental activists have long called for Wall Street and university endowments to stop investing in fossil fuels, and several universities have complied. Texas state funds identified in the bill include the $46 billion Texas Permanent School Fund, the largest such K-12 fund in the U.S; the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, which manages nearly $165 billion in investments; and the Employees Retirement System of Texas and Texas Municipal Retirement System of Texas, which each manage $31 billion. AdSenate Bill 13 — low numbered bills signal a high priority for lawmakers — would also prevent companies, retired beneficiaries and others from suing the state over the divestments. In February, before the winter storm that left millions of people across Texas without power and killed dozens, Lt. Gov.