Year: 2025

Amazon opens beauty and personal care store in Italy, as part of brick-and-mortar expansion
Technology

Amazon opens beauty and personal care store in Italy, as part of brick-and-mortar expansion

Amazon is opening a beauty and health products store in Milan, marking the company’s latest brick-and-mortar experiment. The store is located in the city center of Milan, Italy, and features a range of beauty and personal care items, as well as non-prescription drugs, Amazon said in a blog post. The first store, which is called […]

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India’s oil minister says ‘we play by the rules,’ as markets weigh U.S. energy sanctions
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India’s oil minister says ‘we play by the rules,’ as markets weigh U.S. energy sanctions

India will cooperate with international sanctions, the country’s oil minister told CNBC on Tuesday, as markets eye future U.S. policy under the new administration of President Donald Trump. “We play by the rules. If there is an international sanction, which is anchored, we would not want to go around it or anything,” India’s Minister of […]

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Anduril to take over Microsoft’s  billion U.S. Army headset program
Technology

Anduril to take over Microsoft’s $22 billion U.S. Army headset program

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and Anduril Industries, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Anduril Industries, Palmer Luckey’s defense-tech startup, will take over Microsoft‘s multibillion-dollar augmented reality headset program with the U.S. Army, the companies […]

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Trading the inflation report: Where JPMorgan sees the market going under different CPI scenarios
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Trading the inflation report: Where JPMorgan sees the market going under different CPI scenarios

Wall Street is looking toward Wednesday’s consumer price index report for insights on the economy. With inflation concerns at top of mind for investors, the CPI report could jolt the market either higher or lower. The data is scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m. Dow Jones economists expect the headline inflation rate to have risen […]

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Tequila, mezcal are the only spirits growing in sales, but tariffs would be ‘catastrophic,’ industry group says
Business

Tequila, mezcal are the only spirits growing in sales, but tariffs would be ‘catastrophic,’ industry group says

A seller holds up a bottle of Casamigos, tequila from Diageo, the world’s leading spirits maker, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to impose tariffs on Mexico that could affect up to $1.6 billion in tequila sales, at a liquor store in Monterrey, Mexico, December 10, 2024.  Daniel Becerril | Reuters The U.S. spirits industry […]

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Anduril to take over Microsoft’s  billion U.S. Army headset program
Technology

Anduril to take over Microsoft’s U.S. Army $22-billion headset program

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and Anduril Industries, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Anduril Industries, Palmer Luckey’s defense-tech startup, will take over Microsoft‘s multibillion-dollar augmented reality headset program with the U.S. Army, the companies […]

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Super Bowl 59 attracts record 127.7 million viewers
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Super Bowl 59 attracts record 127.7 million viewers

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts celebrate with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl LIX Mike Segar | Reuters The Philadelphia Eagles weren’t the only ones who scored big at the Super Bowl. The NFL’s championship game attracted a record 127.7 million viewers on Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research. […]

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Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that board hasn’t ‘seen anything official from Elon’
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Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that board hasn’t ‘seen anything official from Elon’

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at Station F, is seen through glass, during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 11, 2025.  Aurelien Morissard | Via Reuters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a memo on Tuesday that the company hasn’t received “anything official” from Elon […]

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Watch out for this unexpected tax hit from your municipal bonds
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Watch out for this unexpected tax hit from your municipal bonds

As tax season revs up, investors might be on the hook for reporting – and paying – obligations on their tax-free municipal bonds. Investors are likely gathering the documents they need to file their 2024 tax returns, which are due on April 15. It was a big year for income-generating investments , even as the […]

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Ken Griffin says Trump’s ‘bombastic’ trade rhetoric is a mistake that’s eroding trust in the U.S.
Finance

Ken Griffin says Trump’s ‘bombastic’ trade rhetoric is a mistake that’s eroding trust in the U.S.

Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, speaks during The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit in New York City, Dec. 4, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Citadel CEO Ken Griffin sent a stern warning against the negative impact from President Donald Trump’s combative approach to U.S. trade policy. “From my vantage point, the […]

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