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The $999 iPhone 16 Pro and $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max have everything we've come to expect in a year-over-year upgrade. They lack Apple Intelligence at launch but make up for it in other ways.

In addition to announcing two ‘Pro’ iPhone 16 models, Apple also announced the vanilla models. In this article, we’ll compare those two devices, the Apple iPhone 16 vs Apple iPhone 16 Plus. Much like the two ‘Pro’ models,

Stocks jumped Thursday morning as investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s eye-popping half-point interest rate cut.

U.S. stocks rose after the Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rates by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75% to 5%. That was the first rate cut in over four years that marked the beginning of a monetary-easing cycle in the world's largest economy.

For the first time since 2020, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates as expected amid falling inflation in the U.S. economy. Rates were cut by 50 basis points, or a half percent.