Year: 2025
Economy grows, chip tariff delay, new S&P 500 record and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Shop ’til you drop A person carries shopping bags during Black Friday shopping at Garden State Plaza on November 28, 2025 in Paramus, New Jersey. Eduardo Munoz […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Nike, Dynavax Technologies, UiPath & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Nike — The sportswear stock rose 2% after a filing showed that Apple CEO Tim Cook bought nearly $3 million worth of Nike shares. Dynavax Technologies — The biopharmaceutical stock surged 38% after Sanofi said it will acquire Dynavax in a deal with a total equity […]
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AAA CEO Gene Boehm: Record holiday travel ‘not impacted necessarily by affordability’
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Squawk Box Gene Boehm, AAA president and CEO, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the record holiday travel this year, impact of low gas prices, and more. 04:45 11 minutes ago Source
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Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Thos Robinson | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy could see how dramatically artificial intelligence was altering e-commerce. In June, he told employees that AI agents will start to infiltrate aspects of everyday life, “from shopping to travel to daily chores and tasks.” Four months later, Jassy said on an earnings call that Amazon expects to partner with third-party agents, and has […]
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10-year Treasury yield lower as investors mull rates path following strong GDP data
U.S. Treasury yields edged slightly lower on Wednesday as investors positioned for a shortened trading day ahead of the holidays. The 10-year Treasury yield — the benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — was 1 basis point lower at 4.159% by 4:15 a.m. E.T. Yields on the 2-year Treasury note were largely unchanged, at 3.528%. The 30-year bond yield, meanwhile, […]
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‘Witch hunt’: Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting ‘censorship’
A former EU commissioner has hit back after receiving a U.S. visa ban for alleged censorship. The Trump administration imposed visa bans on Thierry Breton, a former European Union commissioner behind the Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, accusing them of censoring U.S. social media platforms. “The State Department is taking decisive action […]
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Oil giant BP to sell 65% stake in $10 billion Castrol unit
Britain’s BP has agreed to sell a 65% shareholding in lubricants business Castrol to Stonepeak for $6 billion, months on from the oil giant seeking a buyer for the unit. The deal comes as the company looks to launch a strategic reset, including a green strategy U-turn and the divestment of $20 billion of assets […]
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European markets poised for lackluster open ahead of shortened trading session
LONDON — European markets are expected to open in flat to negative territory as investors take stock of the volatile year during Christmas Eve’s shortened trading session. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 and Germany’s DAX were last seen edging below the flatline, while France’s CAC was 0.1% lower according to data from IG Group. The pan-European Stoxx […]
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Japan’s Sapporo Holdings to sell real estate business for $2.6 billion to KKR-led consortium: NHK
Cans of the Sapporo Black Label branded beer sit stacked at the Sapporo Breweries Ltd. factory in Eniwa, Hokkaido, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s Sapporo Holdings is planning to sell its real estate business to a consortium led by private equity firm KKR for 400 billion yen ($2.6 billion), public broadcaster […]
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Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
A Waymo car is halted on the road amid a power outage in San Francisco, California, U.S., December 20, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.d Reuters Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause its driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company said it’s updating its fleet so […]
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