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UPDATED with a statement from The Washington Post: After The Washington Post was hit with layoffs cutting a third of its staff, its international reporters are faced with finding away home, some currently in war zones. Following Wednesday’s restructuring at the Jeff Bezos-owned company, Tokyo/Seoul bureau chief Michelle Ye Hee Lee launched a GoFundMe campaign…

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Global markets may be entering a new phase of volatility after Goldman Sachs warned that systematic funds could offload tens of billions of dollars in equities in the coming weeks. This wave of selling could ripple into Bitcoin, gold, and silver as liquidity conditions deteriorate. Sponsored Goldman Warns CTA Selling Could Accelerate as Liquidity Thins…

Most Super Bowl commercials aim to be faster, louder and shinier than the rest. And then there are Big Game ads from advertisers like Coinbase. After mystifying Super Bowl viewers in 2022 with a decidedly lo-fi ad showing nothing but a floating QR code, the cryptocurrency trading platform has returned with another spot that’s so…

Memory chips are becoming the new bottleneck in AI development. For the last three years, discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) chips have mainly revolved around Nvidia (NVDA +2.50%). Nvidia’s Hopper, Blackwell, and upcoming Rubin graphics processing unit (GPU) architectures serve as a core hardware foundation on which generative AI applications are designed. But over the…

Wall Street is eyeing another record session as U.S. stock futures pointed higher on Sunday, while the bond market digested the results of Japan’s snap election over the weekend. Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average rose 100 points, or 0.20%. S&P 500 futures were up 0.35%, and Nasdaq futures jumped 0.64%.  That’s after the Dow soared by…

Printed documents available at Epstein Library on the U.S. Department of Justice website are seen in this illustration photo. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Justice Department’s latest release of millions of documents related to the notorious sex criminal and financier Jeffrey Epstein has shed more light on the relationships he built with…

Updated Feb. 8, 2026, 8:38 p.m. ET Cincinnati-based supermarket giant Kroger will name former Walmart executive Greg Foran, 64, as its next CEO, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Foran, 64, who ran Walmart’s U.S. store operations for five years until 2019, will be the first-ever outsider to lead the retailer. He…

Getty Images Ahead of the election on Sunday, the BBC spoke to voters about the things they’re concerned about as they head to the polls. Here’s what they said: Rising cost of living “I used to spend about 10,000 yen ($64; £47) a week on groceries,” said voter Kanako Himura. “Now it’s always more. Prices…

Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating…

In this article KR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Greg Foran, then-CEO of Air New Zealand, during an interview on Nov. 1, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Grocery giant Kroger on Monday named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as ⁠its chief executive, capping a year-long search following the ouster of Rodney McMullen…

49 Cringe-Worthy Influencer Moments Posted 14 hours ago 1. I’m fine with TikTokers in general, but the “pranksters” have got to be stopped. None of the pranks are ever funny. They’re just cruel. 2. Is it just me, or do pranks almost always target minimum-wage employees? 3. Target employees are NOT paid enough to have…

Traders react as the Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses the 50,000 mark on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Feb. 6, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The S&P 500 rose on Monday, boosted by technology stocks, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached new heights as investors…

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Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — For months, investors have been growing increasingly anxious about how artificial intelligence will potentially transform the economy. Last week, those concerns suddenly spilled over into the stock market. The culprit was AI startup Anthropic, which released new tools designed to automate work tasks in various industries, from legal and data…

Interest in gold has skyrocketed in recent weeks, with the price of one ounce hitting an all time high of $5,600 on January 29 before settling back to just under $5,000 on Sunday. As economic conditions fluctuate and geopolitical tensions rise, more individuals are seeking gold as a secure investment. In this visual explainer, Al…

The president’s leading health official is getting mocked for his “medieval survival”-style Super Bowl meal plans. “Super Bowl Sunday today is a snacking holiday in the U.S. You are—as the CEO of MAHA, what would you have as a Super Bowl snack?” host Peter Doocy asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr….

Few ideas are as central to the nation’s identity as that of the American Dream. With the 250th birthday of the United States coming up in July 2026, it’s worth stepping back to examine a concept essential to the nation’s self-image. The term “American Dream” was actually coined in the 1930s by historian James Truslow…

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The biggest investments for the tech billionaire’s foundation are exceptionally low-tech businesses. Bill Gates was once the wealthiest person in the world by an absolutely astonishing margin. The Microsoft (MSFT +3.11%) founder became the world’s first centibillionaire, reaching a net worth of $100 billion in 1999 amid the dot-com bubble. It would be another 18…

With crypto’s multi-month downturn accelerating into a freefall last week, bulls were frantically grasping for technical signals, or maybe yarns about the blowup of some leveraged hedge fund, that might signal a final bottom for this bear market. Perhaps the ultimate sign of a bottom, though, might be the cheers arising from those who have…

“Among those laid off are reporters in war zones living without electricity, breaking news hub reporters and editors in Seoul and London who cover atrocities around the world every day, correspondents who upended their lives to move overseas just a few months ago, and indispensable local staff without whom our journalism would be impossible,” organiser…

Brothers91/Getty Images A budget of $50 won’t get you all that much from many big-name tool brands, but at Harbor Freight, it’s enough to buy a wide range of tools, sometimes with money to spare. Some of Harbor Freight’s tools are even available for less than $25. Despite their low prices, the top-rated products don’t…

President Donald Trump is showing support for the pending Nexstar–Tegna merger. Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday where he shared his thoughts on the deal, which is under review by the FCC, writing in favor of the merger that he says “will help knock out the Fake News.” “We need more competition against THE…

Bill Gates is quietly trimming his footprint around his famed $132 million Xanadu 2.0 compound outside Seattle. The Microsoft cofounder put up for sale a $4.8 million property “nestled into one of Medina’s most coveted hillsides,” according to the listing—a four-bed, three-bath home that he bought for $1 million in 1995, property records reviewed by…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to keep home prices high, bypassing calls to ramp up construction so people can afford what has been a ticket to the middle class. Trump has instead argued for protecting existing owners who have watched the values of their homes climb. It’s a position that flies in the…

The Stepback The $82.7 billion deal will force Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Apple TV, and other rivals to make some changes. Feb 8, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC The Stepback The $82.7 billion deal will force Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Apple TV, and other rivals to make some changes. Feb 8, 2026, 1:00 PM…

Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own right, alongside the latest movie…

Wall Street’s foremost financial institutional has transformed from Wall Street’s bedrock to a stock market liability. From a purely statistical standpoint, Wall Street loves President Donald Trump. While getting from Point A to B was a roller-coaster ride, the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.19%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.34%), and growth stock-dependent…

Elon Musk’s move last week to combine SpaceX and xAI has created one of the world’s biggest and most valuable private companies, which analysts say offers a mix of potential growth and financial risk as it heads toward public markets. The two companies are very different. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and has established itself…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flare-up in tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland. The creator of the “Made O’Meter” app, Ian Rosenfeldt, said he saw…

Warsh has argued that artificial intelligence will trigger a historic increase in productivity © Brendan McDermid/Reuters Top academics have dismissed Kevin Warsh’s claim that an AI-induced productivity boom will create room for interest rate cuts, according to a snap FT economists’ poll that highlights the challenges facing Donald Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair. Warsh,…

With an upcoming FIFA World Cup being staged across the nation, 2026 was supposed to be a bumper year for tourism to the United States, driven in part by hordes of arriving soccer fans. And yet, the U.S. tourism industry is worried. While the rest of the world saw a travel bump in 2025, with…