Suddenly, housing stocks have gone from hot to not. The iShares U.S. Home Construction exchange-traded fund, the ITB, has fallen more than 1 percent in the last week after advancing more than 50 percent year to date. The ETF is still the best-performing U.S. industry group ETF this year, according …

Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 6, 2017. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that the United States will formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “That city …

“Think breedable Beanie Babies.” So states the FAQ for CryptoKitties, a new game for collecting, breeding and selling digital cats that is so popular, it is clogging up the network of digital currency ethereum. Players have spent the equivalent of $6.7 million and counting buying CryptoKitties, which can sell for …

Alex Bowie | Getty Images A British Army mobile patrol moves past IRA graffiti in the Republican Ardoyne district of north Belfast, 19th April 1976. Decades-old wounds The lengthy guerrilla war over Northern Ireland’s constitutional status, which began officially in 1969, saw more than 3,500 people lose their lives in …

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump poses with fellow world leaders during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. NATO has warned that U.S. concern over Iranian terror activity should not spell the end of a fragile nuclear deal. In 2015, a group of countries that …

Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney walk out after a meeting at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster Township, N.J. on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. A top White House aide says President …

Tim Chong | Reuters U.S. Army Major Rod Secor poses with a AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven, a small hand-launched remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV), at the U.S. military booth at the Singapore Airshow in Singapore. Shares of AeroVironment, a military drone maker, soared 31 percent in early trade Wednesday after the …

Square is trading in a bear market, but if the charts are any indication, now could be the perfect time to buy the high-flying payment stock. Shares of Square rallied more than 4 percent Wednesday morning after CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that bitcoin is coming to “a lot more” users …

Bill Clark | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., listens during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on several nominees on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. A former Democratic congressional aide is accusing Sen. Al Franken of sexual misconduct — forcibly trying to kiss her 11 years …

Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of the closing bell, November 30, 2017 in New York City. Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Alphabet — Evercore ISI initiated coverage of …