Winter storm puts airlines to the test. Here’s what travelers need to know

Winter storm puts airlines to the test. Here’s what travelers need to know

A traveler near a departures board at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airlines are letting flyers change their trips ahead of a major winter storm that will put carriers to the test during one of the busiest … Read more

Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI buildout

Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI buildout

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk speaks at a Q&A session following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Pool | Reuters Three months ago Oracle named Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as its new CEOs. They’re off to a rough start. Oracle shares have plummeted 30% … Read more

Waymo pauses robotaxis in SF again due to flash flood warnings on Christmas Day

Waymo pauses robotaxis in SF again due to flash flood warnings on Christmas Day

Waymo autonomous taxis turns onto Post Street in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Waymo temporarily paused its robotaxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, ahead of expected storms in the area, according to a customer notification in the company’s driverless ride-hailing … Read more

Tariffs hit boots, bags and more as leather prices jump — and relief could be years away

Tariffs hit boots, bags and more as leather prices jump — and relief could be years away

Different types of leather are seen at the Rio of Mercedes cowboy boot factory, on July 31, 2025, in Mercedes, Texas. Ronaldo Schemidt | AFP | Getty Images Bootmaker Twisted X — known for its Western footwear — was thrown into chaos overnight when President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports in April. The … Read more

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about  billion in largest deal on record

Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO … Read more

A rotation into value stocks from growth could grow stronger in the new year

A rotation into value stocks from growth could grow stronger in the new year

A rotation into value stocks could grow in popularity in the new year. Value stocks — businesses that are priced cheaply by the market — have underperformed in all of 2025, but have enjoyed a late-year resurgence. As of Tuesday, the iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD) has outperformed this month and this quarter, up … Read more

Free streaming service Tubi is rivaling major players for viewership. Here’s how it’s winning

Free streaming service Tubi is rivaling major players for viewership. Here’s how it’s winning

Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty Images Tubi hit profitability this year doing what other streaming services are trying to: attract younger audiences who are willing to sit through ads. The Fox Corp.-owned free streaming platform has long been among a sort of second tier of streaming services alongside lower-budget and less popular offerings like … Read more

These 5 infrastructure stocks have more than tripled this year on the AI trade

These 5 infrastructure stocks have more than tripled this year on the AI trade

Wires and cables in a server room. Thomas Northcut | Digitalvision | Getty Images Nvidia has been the biggest infrastructure winner in the artificial intelligence boom, soaring in value by almost thirteenfold since the end of 2022 to a market cap of $4.6 trillion. While Nvidia’s rally continued in 2025, investors betting on other AI … Read more

Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages

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 … Read more

China’s mineral dominance gives Western magnet makers a moment in the sun

China’s mineral dominance gives Western magnet makers a moment in the sun

Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel at a Neo Material Technologies Inc. factory in Tianjin, China on June 11, 2010. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rare earth magnet makers are having a moment as Western nations scramble to build domestic “mine-to-magnet” supply chains and reduce their dependence on China. A turbulent … Read more