Stock futures are higher but with less than 10 full trading days left in the year, the Santa rally seems increasingly elusive, with traders struggling to find catalysts. The S&P 500 tested a key technical level on Tuesday, coming close to breaking below its 50-DMA. As of 7:15am ET, S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%, pointing to the […]

Amazon is in talks with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to invest more than $10 billion, The Information reported, citing multiple people familiar with the discussions. The proposed round would value OpenAI at half a trillion dollars, underlining just how capital-hungry Sam Altman’s chatbot company has become, as it expects to burn through more than $100 billion over […]

Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Euroclear and the Looming Breach of Trust The alliance financing the war in Ukraine is facing a new problem. Seven members of the European Union want to block the expropriation of the Russian central bank assets held at Euroclear. This puts the continuation of war financing at risk. At the same […]

Bonnie Herzog, managing director and senior consumer analyst at Goldman Sachs, told clients Tuesday that, after consumer staples’ underperformance in 2025, it is time to buy nicotine, energy drink, candy, and beauty stocks heading into 2026 as a stronger consumer backdrop emerges. Herzog wrote: Our View — 2025 has been another year of underperformance by […]

Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has signed a new binational agreement with Mexico, advancing efforts to solve a decades-long sewage crisis plaguing residents both north and south of the transnational Tijuana River. Trash lines the beaches near the Tijuana River mouth outside of San Diego, Calif., on […]