Month: January 2026
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Baidu, Wayfair, Tesla, Taiwan Semiconductor & more
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in premarket trading: Baidu — The Chinese tech giant jumped 12% after it said it plans to spin off its semiconductor unit , Kunlunxin, and list it in Hong Kong. Wayfair , RH , Williams-Sonoma — The home goods retailers rose following President Donald Trump’s decision to […]
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Will he stay or will he go? Powell is not saying whether he’ll stay on Fed board when chair term ends
Key Points Fed Chair Jerome Powell will have two years left on his term as governor when his chairmanship ends in May. Powell has so far repeatedly refused to say whether he will remain with the Fed in a decision that pits the personal against the professional. It’s a key question being asked on Wall […]
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Behind the mesh curtain: Why airline class wars will intensify in 2026
Planes line up on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on November 10, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images From Spirit Airlines’ fight for survival to American Airlines‘ planned glow-up, from new international routes and brand-new airport lounges to stingier frequent flyer policies, class divides in the sky […]
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Buffett says Berkshire has the best odds of any company for lasting a century as he hands over reins
Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway is better positioned than any company to endure for the next century as he handed over the CEO reins to his successor Greg Abel, whom he strongly endorsed. “It has a better chance I think of being here 100 years from now than any company I can think of,” Buffett […]
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Orsted files legal challenge over Trump’s halt to $5 billion offshore wind project
A turbine blade is lifted onto a rack near tower sections at the Revolution Wind project assembly site at State Pier in New London, Connecticut, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Danish renewables giant Orsted, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind farms, said on Friday that it had […]
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Trump says U.S. will intervene if Iran ‘violently kills’ protestors
A large anti-Israeli banner portraying an image of a Palestinian fighter and the slogan in Persian and Hebrew, “Endless Voice of Resistance” is erected in Palestine Square in Tehran on December 31, 2025. Israel’s Mossad spy agency issued a direct call on December 31, 2025,urging Iranians to press on with protests, saying it was supporting […]
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BYD’s China EV deliveries sharply decline in December, but lead overall sales in 2025
MUNICH, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 09: The Chinese producer of electric cars BYD presents its vehicles (EV) on the opening day of the IAA MOBILITY 2025 automobile fair on September 09, 2025 in Munich, Germany. The IAA is taking place as German automakers are seeing profits lag and are struggling to maintain market share while Chinese […]
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China’s BYD poised to overtake Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time
Imported BYD vehicles are parked at a port on March 27, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Chinese auto giant BYD on Friday is expected to dethrone U.S. rival Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles on a calendar-year basis. The milestone would cap an extraordinary […]
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China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is building robots and fortune-telling AI apps at the same time
HANGZHOU, China — In what is sometimes dubbed China’s Silicon Valley, tech giants and startups in Hangzhou are racing to build cutting-edge chips, robotics and brain-computer interfaces. Across town, aspiring founders are creating AI pets and fortune-telling apps. The city on China’s southeastern coast is reinventing itself as an artificial intelligence hub. A year after the […]
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European stocks poised to start 2026 in positive territory; gold and silver prices rally
European markets were set to open slightly higher on Friday, kicking off the first trading day of the year in positive territory. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 index was on track to open up around 0.2%, according to IG, with Germany’s DAX, France’s CAC and Italy’s FTSE MIB also poised to open at least 0.2% higher. […]
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