Double-check your sausage before putting it out for guests this holiday season. Portland-based Olympia Provisions has recalled about 1,930 pounds of ready-to-eat “holiday kielbasa sausages,” according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service on Friday. The sausages were available at retail locations in California, Oregon and Washington, and…
Popular Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam plans to pause production at its main distillery on January 1, according to the James B. Beam Distilling Co. The decision comes as Kentucky faces an increasing supply of aging barrels and uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Kentucky has an all-time high of 16.1 million aging barrels…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The S&P 500 rose on Monday, supported by a rise in artificial intelligence names, to start a shortened holiday week. The broad market index gained 0.64% to…
19 November 2025, China, Shanghai: Boats sail past downtown Shanghai on the Huangpu River. The tallest building on the skyline is the Shanghai Tower (rear). Bernd von Jutrczenka | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets climbed Monday as investors parsed China’s central bank’s decision to keep its loan prime rates steady. The People’s Bank…
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Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Broadcom could all hit $3 trillion market caps next year. Currently, four companies have market caps above $3 trillion: Nvidia (NVDA +1.51%), Apple (AAPL 1.00%), Alphabet (GOOGL +0.86%) (GOOG +0.88%), and Microsoft (MSFT 0.16%). By the end of next year, that number is likely to rise to seven. Let’s look at…
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Several lucky ticket holders are walking away with thousands after securing a win in Saturday’s Powerball drawing. More than 120,000 tickets bought in the Commonwealth won prizes. That includes one ticket that won $150,000 and five that each won $50,000. The winning numbers for Saturday’s Powerball drawing were 4, 5, 28,…
In this article GOOGL TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Waymo vehicle stuck between Parker and Beaumont, on the north side of Turk Boulevard in San Francisco. Credit: Matt Schoolfield Alphabet-owned Waymo has resumed its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after a temporary pause during blackouts that plagued the…
Cars sit in the lot of a Tricolor dealership in Houston, Texas © Mark Felix/Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase was aware for more than a year of “serious material weaknesses in accounting practices” at Tricolor Holdings, the Texas-based subprime auto lender and retailer that collapsed in September, according to a civil lawsuit from its bankruptcy trustee. According…
In advance of hurricane force winds moving into Colorado earlier this week, Xcel Energy preemptively shut off power to protect areas of the state from extreme fire danger. But due to the outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder. Boulder’s NIST F-4 atomic clock uses cesium atoms…
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The S&P 500 doesn’t have a reputation for being stuffed full of dividend stocks. Indeed, the index as a whole is presently (19 December) offering a yield of 1.21%. Compare this to, for example, the FTSE 100‘s 3.16% and you can see why income investors are more likely to consider buying shares closer to home….
Fstop123 | E+ | Getty Images For homebuyers, getting one preapproval for a mortgage that has palatable terms may seem good enough. More than two-thirds — 69% — of homebuyers submit only one mortgage application, according to a new report from Zillow. However, you shouldn’t stop there, experts say. With the average interest rate on…
In this article SNOW PYPL META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Vladimir Godnik | Fstop | Getty Images For years, Braden Wallake has posted everything from business lessons to animal pictures on his LinkedIn page. A fateful midweek post on a late-summer day stopped the marketing executive in his tracks. Wallake shared a teary-eyed…
In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) is considered to be one of the key beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom, thanks to robust demand for its advanced graphics processing units (GPUs). The stock has been under pressure recently due to…
Beth Hammack, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, center, speaks with attendees at the Columbus Metropolitan Club in Columbus, Ohio, US, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Brian Kaiser | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said she saw no need to change U.S….
There were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while blocking wind and solar, according to dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians. Surveyed by The Associated Press, many described 2025 as turbulent and challenging for clean energy,…
Greg Coffey, the Australian hedge fund star once nicknamed the ‘Wizard of Oz’, has emerged as one of the biggest winners this year © Micha Theiner/Cityam/Shutterstock Macro hedge funds are enjoying their best year since at least 2008, as huge swings in the price of currencies, commodities and bonds have provided fertile conditions for traders….
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This trend could break Micron’s historical patterns. It took computer memory company Micron Technology (MU +1.92%) 20 years to regain the highs it had achieved during the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century. But since finally hitting a new all-time high again in 2021, Micron’s stock has continued to soar. It is up…
After 232 years of production, the U.S. Mint stamped its final batch of pennies on November 12, 2025. In February, President Trump ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies because the government was losing money on every coin — since it cost 3.69 cents to produce every penny, the production process was nearly four…
When iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday, it marked the end of an era for one of America’s most beloved robotics companies. The Roomba maker, which had sold over 50 million robots since its 2002 launch, had survived 35 years of near-death experiences and technical challenges only to be undone by what founder…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — If you’re one of the 120 million Americans expected to travel this week, you’ll want to keep close tabs on the incoming storm. It’s just one more thing that could throw a wrench into your holiday travel plans. The holiday rush is in full effect, and with millions taking trips this…
Emilie Nasseh, a 30-year-old living in Manhattan, has made up to $2,000 a month through an unconventional side hustle: renting her clothes and accessories. Nasseh uses Pickle, a peer-to-peer clothing rental app where users share their wardrobes for profit. Some lenders may also list their clothes for sale. Among Nasseh’s most popular rentals were handbags,…
A pain ointment is being recalled due to dangers to children. Mamisan Pain Relieving Topical Ointment could be life-threatening for children, if they swallowed its packaging, federal officials say. Plantimex Distributors is recalling about 50,000 containers of the popular product after the ointment container’s lid failed child-resistent safety requirements, according to the Consumer Product Safety…
Updated Dec. 21, 2025, 8:24 a.m. ET AI-assisted summary No one won the $1.43 billion Powerball jackpot in the Dec. 20 drawing. The winning numbers were 4, 5, 28, 52, and 69, with a red Powerball of 20. Eight tickets sold across seven states won $1 million by matching the first five numbers. The jackpot…
Advertisement Leprino Foods, the world’s largest mozzarella maker, is closing one of its dairy processing plants in California’s Central Valley. The company that supplies cheese to Domino’s, Pizza Hut and Papa John’s is planning to shutter its East Plant at 490 F St. in Lemoore in early 2026, resulting in the loss of over 300…
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.6 billion — the game’s fourth-largest prize ever —after another drawing passed Saturday night without a winner. The winning numbers were 4, 5, 28, 52 and 69 with a Powerball of 20. The jackpot now has an estimated cash value of $735.3 million, Powerball said. In addition to…
Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI ‘from passive tool to active partner in journalism’. Published On 21 Dec 202521 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a new integrative artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with Google Cloud. Al Jazeera…
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s 4th District Court ordered Parker Wilde to pay a monetary judgment of up to $7.9 million on Thursday, 10 months after the Utah Division of Consumer Protection filed a complaint against him, alleging he scammed hundreds of people out of millions of dollars. From 2020 to 2023, Wilde, a Utah…
© FT montage/Dreamstime In a data centre outside of Osaka, Japan, Nvidia’s cutting-edge semiconductors are at the disposal of one customer: China’s Tencent. The advanced B200 chips are owned by Datasection — a Japanese marketing solutions provider that sharply switched into running AI data centres last year. Since then, Datasection has gained more than $1.2bn…
Recent weak economic data from China has contributed to cooling sentiment © Qilai Shen/Bloomberg A steep rally in Chinese stock markets has cooled in the past three months, as weak economic data and profit-taking bring this year’s steep rally to an end. The MSCI China index has fallen 7.4 per cent since September, its worst…
In this article META AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sad female worker carrying her belongings while leaving the office after being fired Isbjorn | Istock | Getty Images Layoffs have been a defining feature of the job market in 2025, with several major companies announcing thousands of job cuts driven by artificial intelligence….