Year: 2025
Goldman Sachs makes big bet on ETFs specializing in downside protection
ETF Edge Goldman Sachs makes big bet on ETFs specializing in downside protection Published Sat, Dec 13 202511:00 AM EST Blair Bao WATCH LIVE Source
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Todd Combs’ stellar 15-year career at Berkshire started with an unsolicited letter to Charlie Munger
Todd Combs, one of Warren Buffett’s handpicked investment lieutenants and a key executive at Geico, Berkshire Hathaway’ s crown jewel insurance business, is leaving the conglomerate after a 15-year tenure that helped define the firm’s post-Buffett transition. Combs, 54, first caught the attention of Buffett’s late partner Charlie Munger, who famously recounted receiving an unsolicited […]
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Belarus frees Nobel winner Bialiatski, opposition figure Kalesnikava as U.S. eases potash sanctions
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2021. Mikhail Voskresensky | Kremlin Sputnik | via Reuters Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava after two days […]
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MacKenzie Scott announced another $7.1 billion in 2025 charitable donations—she’s now given away $26.3 billion since 2019
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has unveiled the final tally for her 2025 charitable donations, which totaled $7.17 billion in gifts to roughly 225 organizations, she wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday. “This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal […]
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‘Stranger Things’ ushered in a new era for Netflix
Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo star in Season 5 of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Courtesy: Netflix The original concept for what would become “Stranger Things” was rejected by more than 15 studios before landing a spot on Netflix’s roster of original programming. A decade later, the show created, written and directed by […]
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SpaceX insider share sale sets $800 billion valuation amid possible IPO, Reuters reports
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared for launch carrying NASA’s IMAP mission, which will study the boundary of the Sun’s heliosphere and other scientific payloads, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Joe Skipper | Reuters SpaceX is preparing to go public next year and has opened a […]
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U.S. Veterans Affairs agency plans as many as 35,000 health-care job cuts this month, Washington Post reports
A person walks past the Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters a block from the White House on March 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to eliminate as many as 35,000 health-care positions this month, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, […]
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Fighting continues between Thailand, Cambodia after Trump claim of ceasefire
A person walks past the closed Ban Klong Luk border crossing from Thailand to Cambodia, in Aranyaprathet town in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo on December 12, 2025. Lillian Suwanrumpha | Afp | Getty Images Cambodia said Thai forces, including fighter jets, continued to strike targets across their disputed border on Saturday morning, […]
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YouTube’s CEO limits his kids’ social media use — other tech bosses do the same
Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube speaks during a panel for the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children’s social media use, as the harms of being […]
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Hannah Rothschild on privilege, duty and shaping a centuries-old family legacy
Hannah Rothschild during a special recording of “CNBC Meets: Legacies” at a private banking event organized by United Overseas Bank in Singapore on Nov. 19. CNBC Dame Hannah Rothschild has long understood that being born into one of Europe’s most storied dynasties confers not only privilege but a deep sense of duty, as she works […]
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