David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brad Garlinghouse, chief executive officer of Ripple Labs Inc. Investors are buzzing over a report that speculated on the size of Seagate’s early investments in cryptocurrency company Ripple and now Wall Street is weighing in. “Seagate is up sharply this morning as …

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks about his administration’s National Security Strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, December 18, 2017. President Donald Trump is close to making a decision on who to nominate as vice chair of the …

Getty Images Secretary of Energy Rick Perry testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, October 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Federal regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and nuclear power plants in some parts …

Saeed Khan | AFP | Getty Images First customers display their iPhone X sets at an Apple showroom in Sydney, Australia on November 3, 2017. Apple’s capital return program will get much larger, according to one Wall Street firm. UBS reiterated its buy rating on Apple shares, saying the recently …

Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post | Getty lmages Sergio Hernandez works on the median just east of the new I-25 interchange in Castle Rock, Colorado. Now that the Republican tax package has been signed into law, Trump is planning to move forward with a massive infrastructure program. The …

Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook prepares to greet customers that will purchase a new iPhone X at an Apple Store on November 3, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. Apple just released a security patch for iPhones and iPads — this time in response to the “Spectre” vulnerability that first …

The big banks kick off earnings this week, and it could be make or break time for the surging sector. Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan and BlackRock are set to report Friday before the bell, with the market implying moves of 3 percent, 2.5 percent and 2 percent in either direction …

Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Gaming fans play ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ from EA Sports at the Los Angeles Convention Center on day one of E3 2017, the three day Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the biggest events in the gaming industry calendar, on June 13, 2017 …

Joe Raedle | Getty Images A deployed airbag is seen in a Chrysler vehicle at the LKQ Pick Your Part salvage yard on May 22, 2015 in Medley, Florida. The largest automotive recall in history centers around the defective Takata Corp. air bags that are found in millions of vehicles …

To be aggressively optimistic on this stock market now is to bet that it can challenge the greatest bull market of all-time — the 13-year run that ended in early 2000 . In terms of its cumulative gains, persistence, valuation and the public’s exposure to stocks, only the final years …