©Studio One-one | Moment Unreleased | Getty Images Depending on where you live, relying on a postmark to prove you mailed your tax return, mail-in ballot, bill payment or any other time-sensitive document by a specific date may no longer work as you expect. As the U.S. Postal Service continues implementing operational changes in an…
Shoppers near a Nike store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, Nov. 24, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nike shares rose 3% in Wednesday trading after insiders picked up the stock near the end of a rough year. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who serves as a director at the athletic apparel…
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they hold a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters When Mao Zedong declared in 1949 that China had “stood up,” it marked…
A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Retail investors have had a gangbuster year in 2025. Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points this year, providing strong returns as the market climbed to all-time highs. Once thought of as unsophisticated and easily duped,…
Charlie Ergen Karl Gehring | Dever Post | Getty Images Wall Street grew increasingly obsessed with the artificial intelligence boom this year, pouring money into chips, data centers and applications. But investors looking beyond Silicon Valley found outsized returns in another location: space. Some of the year’s biggest market winners were defense companies that benefited…
On Dec. 8, Federal prosecutors in Texas unsealed documents that revealed an investigation into a massive smuggling network that stretched across the U.S. and the world. Dubbed “Operation Gatekeeper” by the feds, the investigation wasn’t focused on drug smuggling or stolen goods but rather an alleged secret, underground network of suppliers for Nvidia‘s graphic processing…
Michael Burry attends the New York premiere of “The Big Short” at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on Nov. 23, 2015. Jim Spellman | WireImage | Getty Images Renowned investor Michael Burry on Wednesday denied shorting Tesla‘s shares after calling the EV maker “ridiculously overvalued.” In a social media post on X, the…
Bulgarian grape harvesters work in the vineyards of Chateau de Meursault in Meursault, in the Burgundy region of central-eastern France, on August 26, 2025. (Photo by ARNAUD FINISTRE / AFP) (Photo by ARNAUD FINISTRE/AFP via Getty Images) Arnaud Finistre | Afp | Getty Images It’ll come as no surprise that sales of Champagne peak in…
The logo of Chinese-owned semiconductor company Nexperia is displayed at the chipmaker’s German facility, after the Dutch government seized control and auto industry bodies sounded the alarm over the possible impact on car production, in Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 23, 2025. Jonas Walzberg | Reuters China has urged the Netherlands to swiftly correct its “mistakes” over…
The U.S. on Tuesday announced sanctions on a group of 10 individuals and entities based in Iran and Venezuela that are allegedly linked to the weapons trade between the two countries. Those targeted include a Venezuelan company, Empresa Aeronautica Nacional, which is allegedly linked to millions of dollars of Iranian drone sales to Venezuela. The…
