Year: 2025
Palo Alto Networks announces multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud
Palo Alto Networks will migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement, the companies announced on Friday. The companies said the deal is an expansion of their existing strategic partnership and will deepen their engineering collaboration. Palo Alto Networks is now using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power […]
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NY Fed President Williams says some ‘technical factors’ distorted November’s CPI reading downward
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Friday that “technical factors” likely distorted November’s inflation data, pushing the headline reading lower than it otherwise would have been. “There were some special factors of practical factors that really are related to the fact that they weren’t able to collect date in October and not in […]
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Inside Intel’s new Arizona fab, where the chipmaker’s fate hangs in the balance
Intel was once the world’s largest semiconductor company, but its market cap plummeted in recent years as the chipmaker fell behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and spent billions of dollars trying to catch up. Now, Intel has entered high-volume production of 18A, the new chip node it says will turn things around. The biggest problem? […]
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UnitedHealth Group commits to improvements after independent audit, patient backlash
UnitedHealthcare sign is displayed at its office building in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S., Dec. 11, 2025. Tim Evans | Reuters UnitedHealth Group on Friday released the first results from a sprawling independent audit of its business practices and committed to a wide range of steps to track and implement improvements in three specific areas. The health-care […]
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Quad witching, Nike slides, weed rules 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. Witching hour A trader works at his desk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after the opening bell in New York on December […]
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Wall Street banked on a flurry of deals under Trump in 2025. It wasn’t that simple
The Wall Street Bull statue covered in snow on Nov. 15, 2018. Erik Mcgregor | Lightrocket | Getty Images Wall Street expected U.S. mergers and acquisitions to roar back in 2025. The reality was something closer to fits and starts. Following the re-election of President Donald Trump more than a year ago, executives and bankers […]
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Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ defines wealth as an ‘extraordinary ability.’ Immigration experts say it raises questions
President Donald Trump’s new “Gold Card” visa program uses a novel definition of wealth as a job skill to allow the overseas wealthy to bypass immigration rules and secure citizenship, according to immigration attorneys. Trump last week announced the start of applications for the “Trump Gold Card,” a new investment visa for foreign nationals. In […]
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Waller had a ‘strong interview’ for Fed chair with Trump as president appears to turn focus to job market
Christopher Waller, governor of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during the C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, US, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller had a “strong interview” for the central bank chair position […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Oracle, CoreWeave, Nike, Coinbase & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Oracle — Shares were up more than 5% in the premarket after TikTok agreed to sell its U.S. operations to a new joint venture that includes the software giant and private equity investor Silver Lake. Coinbase — The crypto exchange rose nearly 3%. On Thursday, the […]
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Jeffrey Epstein files hit deadline for ordered release by DOJ on Friday
The Department of Justice faces a legally mandated deadline on Friday to begin releasing its criminal investigative files about the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The files’ ordered release comes after months of controversy over the Trump administration’s decision to renege on past promises by top law enforcement officials to make the documents and other […]
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