As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry has lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity “Emilia Pérez” in Oscar nominations Thursday.

Stocks took a leg up after Trump said Thursday in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum that he would “demand that interest rates drop immediately.” ...

The S&P 500 climbed to a fresh record on Thursday, driven by President Donald Trump’s calls for immediate interest rate cuts ...