BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets began the new year Friday with gains, while U.S. futures and oil prices also advanced. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 2.2% to 26,189.79 on a strong rally in tech shares. E-commerce giant Alibaba climbed 3.2% and search engine and technology company Baidu jumped 7.5% after it said it plans to…
Singapore tops the list in the 2025 Global Talent Competitiveness Index by INSEAD and Portulans Institute. Calvin Chan Wai Meng | E+ | Getty Images Singapore’s economy expanded 5.7% year on year for the fourth quarter, the highest since 2021, driven mainly by a sharp increase in manufacturing output during the three months through December….
People celebrate the New Year at the Bank of China building in Central in Hong Kong, China, January 1, 2026. Lam Yik | Reuters Asia-Pacific markets are set to open mixed Friday to kick off the new year. All three major indexes in the U.S. pulled back on New Year’s Eve, but still clocked gains…
Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis agree on virtually nothing. But they found common ground this year as leading skeptics of the artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom. The alignment of two national figures on the left and right signals that a political reckoning is brewing over the AI industry’s impact…
Still life of the big three injectable prescription weight loss medicines. Ozempic, Victoza and Wegovy. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Novo Nordisk’s shift from a market darling to a serious underperformer has set the stage for a transitional 2026 as the Danish drugmaker…
The Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images West Texas dust, iron-tinged and orange-red, rides the wind and sticks like a film to everything you touch. It clings to skin and the inside of your mouth, a fine grit that turns every…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, Feb. 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters After a tough start to the year, Google closed out 2025 with its strongest performance — from Wall Street’s perspective — since 2009, when the company’s shares doubled…
One kilogram and a five hundred gram gold bars next to one kilogram silver bars at The Vaults Group gold dealers arranged in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Gold and silver prices lost ground on Wednesday as investors booked profits after a historic annual rally and exchange…
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…