Actor Austin Butler attends the 16th Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, Nov. 16, 2025. Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty Images With an affordability crisis taking hold, financial stability is in fashion. Whether it’s wearing a quarter-zip sweater or the latest “401(k) mullet” hairstyle, young men, especially,…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire Hathaway’s stock outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 stock index this week as investors sought safety from a sell-off for technology stocks sparked by concerns that…
Two armed members of Iran’s police special forces stand behind a country flag placed on an armored military vehicle during a pro-Government rally in downtown Tehran, Iran, on January 12, 2026. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Virtual Embassy in Iran issued a security alert early Friday urging American citizens to “leave Iran…
Defense spending has been the talk of Singapore’s Airshow this week but that’s not an accurate way to measure military strength, Palmer Luckey, founder of defense tech firm Anduril Industries, said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” Wednesday. That comes after U.S. President Donald Trump in January expressed interest in raising the U.S military budget to…
Attendees during the Singapore Airshow in Singapore, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. The show runs through Feb. 8. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images With geopolitical uncertainty on the rise, defense buyers at the Singapore Airshow say they are prioritizing sovereignty, from local production and co‑development to owning the…
Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images This tax season, some families could see a bigger tax break for their children due to changes from President Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill.” Enacted in July, Trump’s legislation permanently increased the maximum child tax credit to $2,200 per child for 2025, up from $2,000. That value will be…
Employees work on the assembly line of new energy vehicles (NEVs) at a workshop of China FAW Group’s Hongqi Fanrong Plant on July 5, 2023 in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. Zhang Yao | China News Service | Getty Images DETROIT — The unraveling of the U.S. electric vehicle push is increasingly raising concerns of…
Megan Lieu is an influencer who makes content about tech and gives career advice on social media. Tech companies like Microsoft and Google are going after new users for their AI services the way any marketer tries to make their products look cool: through social media influencers. Other artificial intelligence players, including OpenAI, Anthropic and…
Bitcoin tumbled toward $60,000 this week as investors reassessed its utility. And while there isn’t one clear catalyst driving the bloodbath, one thing is clear: the crypto market is in crisis. “There’s nothing going on in the marketplace that should have necessitated this type of a crash,” Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of alternative…
Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Healthy Returns newsletter, which brings the latest health-care news straight to your inbox. Subscribe here to receive…
