Canadian stocks set record for records in ‘jaw-dropping’ year
It makes little sense, when viewed from early April, that Canadian equities are closing out their second-best year this century....
Dollar set for worst year since 2017 with Fed drama center stage
The dollar is poised for its sharpest annual retreat in eight years and investors say more declines are coming if...
Gold and silver stumble at the end of best year since the 1970s
Gold and silver fell on the last trading day of 2025, though both remained on track for the biggest annual...
Copper records biggest annual gain since 2009 on supply bets
Copper had its best year since 2009, fueled by near-term supply tightness and bets that demand for the metal key...
Lay’s drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn’t know their chips were made out of potatoes
Lay’s wants you to remember that it came from humble, homegrown beginnings. PepsiCo, which owns the chip giant, is giving...
‘Quiet luxury’ is coming for the housing market, The Corcoran Group CEO says. It’s not just the Hamptons, Aspen, and Miami anymore
Today’s luxury housing market is expanding from grand, extravagant mansions toward “quiet luxury,” emphasizing understated comfort, according to Pamela Liebman,...
Trump’s TACO tariff parade: Here are all the times he talked a big game and didn’t back it up on trade
President Donald Trump made a lot of tariff threats and trade promises this year. Many materialized into a barrage of...
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says a Reddit thread about people interviewing at the company convinced him his ‘Back to Starbucks’ plan is working
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol found evidence his efforts to turnaround the coffee chain’s fortunes are working while scrolling on Reddit....
Erased: what 2025 revealed about America’s real economic risk
The December 16, 2025, jobs report confirms that the stall observed since spring has hardened into a structural contraction. While...
Retirement is changing. Here’s why companies need to change, too
America’s workforce is on the verge of an unprecedented transformation. More Americans are turning 65 in 2025 than any year...
Trump moves to freeze federal funds for Minnesota, demanding daycare audit after ‘blatant fraud that appears to be rampant’
President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Tuesday that it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota and demanding an audit of...
The world is awash in wealth but starved for productivity—and that imbalance is distorting growth, debt, and opportunity. We need AI to come through
The good news is that the world is richer than ever, with $600 trillion in wealth. The bad news is...
The world’s richest added a record $2.2 trillion in wealth this year—and they increasingly lost faith in the American Dream
The world’s richest people saw their wealth increase more than ever in 2025, but a funny thing happened along the...
Strange political bedfellows not that strange in the season of the new nihilism
In what has been an entirely bizarre and surreal decade of Trumpworld U.S.A, the most bizarre moment yet might have...
Zohran Mamdani to get sworn in twice—once underground at abandoned Subway station and once before freezing block party
Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York City as the clock ticks over into 2026 — but the celebrations...
