Check out some of the stocks posting the biggest moves in midday trading. Alphabet — Shares of the Google parent jumped more than 1% and hit a new all-time high. Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded the Google and YouTube parent to overweight from neutral, citing the company’s artificial intelligence capabilities. Google also announced the addition of more…
The Washington Commanders in white and burgundy, versus the Philadelphia Eagles in a National Football League game. Josh Harris led the $6bn acquisition of the Commanders in 2023 © Kyle Ross/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Specialist sports investor Bruin Capital has raised $1bn from investors led by Apollo Global Management co-founder Josh Harris for a new investment…
Americans are feeling increasingly hopeless about their employment prospects, new survey data showed Thursday. The perceived probability of finding a job hit a record low of 43.1% in December, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest Survey of Consumer Expectations, a closely watched survey that has been running since 2013. Additionally, the…
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) (“Paramount”) notes Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: WBD) (“WBD”) decision not to engage on Paramount’s $30.00 per share, fully financed all-cash offer to acquire all of WBD. Throughout this process, Paramount has diligently and constructively addressed each concern raised by WBD. As detailed in Paramount’s December 22 amended proposal and subsequent filings, Paramount cured every issue raised by…
President Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Jan. 6, 2026. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on housing affordability has found a clear villain: institutional investors that own large swaths of single-family homes in fast-growing Sun Belt cities, where…
Maersk and HMM container ships at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. trade deficit six months into President Donald Trump‘s tariffs tumbled to its lowest level since mid-2009, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. With exports rising and…
Today, Apple and Chase announced that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, with an expected transition in approximately 24 months. Apple Card users can continue to enjoy the award-winning experience of Apple Card, which includes up to 3 percent unlimited Daily Cash back on every purchase, easy-to-navigate spending tools, Apple Card Family,1 access…
Samsung Electronics today announced its earnings guidance for the fourth quarter of 2025. Consolidated Sales: Approximately 93 trillion Korean won Consolidated Operating Profit: Approximately 20 trillion Korean won The above estimates are based on K-IFRS. Please note that Korean disclosure regulations do not allow earnings estimates to be offered as a range. To comply with…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who alleged a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Attorneys for the two tech companies have also agreed to settle several other lawsuits filed in Colorado, New York and Texas from families…
In January 2026, a claim circulated online that Barron Trump, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, made $400,000 from insider trading bets related to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture before it happened. Some claims presented the same $400,000 profit but with Donald Trump as the beneficiary. The claims came from reporting about an anonymous…
Economists argue the renminbi is being used to fuel an unprecedented trade surplus © Paul Yeung/Bloomberg Economists and investors in China and beyond are calling on Beijing to allow a sharper appreciation of the renminbi, arguing that the currency is significantly undervalued and is being used to fuel an unprecedented trade surplus. Over the past…
In this article US2Y US10Y Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Dec. 10, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. Treasury yields moved higher on Thursday as investors looked ahead to key jobs data and continued to monitor geopolitical developments….
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Silver fell for a second day with investors positioning for an annual rebalancing of commodity indexes that will see futures contracts worth billions of dollars sold in the next few days. Gold steadied, paring earlier losses. The white metal fell as much as 5.5%, following a drop of almost 4% in the…
HSBC said: ‘The settlement . . . recognises the bank’s co-operation with the investigation, as well as the corrective measures it took to address the historic issues’ © AFP via Getty Images HSBC has agreed to pay just over €300mn in fines and back taxes in France to settle a sprawling dividend fraud investigation that has embroiled several…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press conference to unveil the official Trump Accounts website, at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 17, 2025. Aaron Schwartz | Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday pressed the administration’s desire for lower interest rates, saying they are the key to future economic growth….
Hyundai Motor Group’s integrated AI Robotics value chain Hyundai Motor Group’s manufacturing facilities are helping to develop reliable robots that are tested and trained internally. Thanks to various capabilities within the Group, we can supply parts, mass-produce robots, and provide one-stop robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS). Working with affiliates like Boston Dynamics, the Group is expanding its mass-production…
AUSTIN, Texas – Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) today announced the completion of new multi-year Airline Use and Lease Agreements and Signatory Cargo Agreements that have established the financial and operational framework for how passenger airlines and cargo companies will operate at AUS for the next decade. These milestone agreements provide the necessary financial foundation for…
I would like to thank the California Bankers Association for the invitation to join you today.1 Throughout my now seven years as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, I have found that direct outreach with bankers has been the most effective way to learn about and understand your perspectives on improving the regulatory and…
This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” images of women and sexualized images of what appear to be minors. However, that’s not the only way people have been using the AI to…
Down the hall from crowded keynotes, whirring robot vacuums and exoskeleton try-on booths, more than 40 tech experts from CNET Group crowded into a ballroom at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. There, we spent six and a half hours carefully selecting 63 finalists and one official Best of CES 2026 winner out of thousands…
By Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee SEOUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected a three-fold jump in fourth-quarter operating profit from a year earlier to a record high as tight supply and a surge in artificial intelligence-driven demand stoked prices for conventional memory chips. The results highlight how chip prices have rocketed…
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) charity says its analysts have discovered “criminal imagery” of girls aged between 11 and 13 which “appears to have been created” using Grok. The AI tool is owned by Elon Musk’s firm xAI. It can be accessed either through its website and app, or through the social media platform X….
From left, Donald Trump Jr, Zack Witkoff, Eric Trump and Zak Folkman, co-founders of World Liberty Financial in New York, pictured in August © Spencer Platt/Getty Images A cryptocurrency venture backed by President Donald Trump has applied for a US banking licence that would broaden its access to the traditional financial system. The Trump family’s…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on January 06, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose on Thursday, while the Nasdaq Composite came under pressure as investors moved away from technology stocks. The 30-stock Dow climbed 270.03…
Emily Holt BBC The new year is a natural time to reflect, and for many of us, that involves thinking about our careers. Kristina O’Neill and Laura Brown are both editors who lost their jobs after restructures, and they initially thought it was the end of the world. “I poured my heart into the role……
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Intel Corporation today announced that it will report fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 financial results on Thursday, January 22, 2026, promptly after close of market. Intel will then hold an earnings conference call at 2 p.m. PT that day to discuss the results. A live public webcast of the earnings conference call…
Today, Apple and Chase announced that Chase will become the new issuer of Apple Card, with an expected transition in approximately 24 months. Apple Card users can continue to enjoy the award-winning experience of Apple Card, which includes up to 3 percent unlimited Daily Cash back on every purchase, easy-to-navigate spending tools, Apple Card Family,1…
New York — EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally: The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for…
SHENZHEN, CHINA – AUGUST 26: An aerial view of the Shenzhen skyline on August 26, 2020 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by He Shaoping/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell Thursday after Wall Street closed lower amid rising geopolitical tensions and comments from U.S….
Jonathan JosephsBusiness reporter, BBC News AFP via Getty Images President Trump’s favourite word is tariffs. He reminded the world of that in his pre-Christmas “address to the nation”. With the world still unwrapping the tariffs “gift” from the first year of his second term in office, he said they were bringing jobs, higher wages and…
The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and its extensive library of hit TV shows and films like “Harry Potter,” “Game of Thrones,” and the DC Comics titles is dragging on. The studio on Wednesday said its board had unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a “leveraged buyout” that…
GameStop is providing details on a new compensation package for CEO Ryan Cohen that is dependent on him meeting certain “significant” performance targets. The video game retailer said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that Cohen would have to grow its market capitalization to $100 billion and it would need to hit $10 billion in…
A Sharpa robot takes a photograph with a Fujifilm Instax camera during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week © Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Do you need a $500 noise-reducing ice cube maker? What about a giant hologram machine, or a lolly that makes music while you eat it? The Consumer Electronics Show…