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Berkshire Hathaway’s stock moved higher this week despite a broader market retreat, narrowing its year-to-date lag versus the S&P 500 and underscoring the conglomerate’s growing cash position ahead of a widely anticipated message from Warren Buffett. Shares outperform as tech-led sell-off hits indexes The company’s Class A and Class B shares each gained 4.5% over the five trading sessions […]
Bitcoin showed tentative signs of stabilization Friday morning, inching higher after a sharp retreat earlier in the week that sent the cryptocurrency beneath the psychologically important $100,000 threshold for the first time in more than four months. Data from LSEG placed the digital asset at $101,933, up 0.8% from the prior session’s close. The limited […]
President Donald Trump declared in a newly released video that “only a foolish person” would oppose eliminating the Senate filibuster, linking the 60-vote rule to the prolonged federal shutdown that has halted large portions of government operations. His remark surfaced while negotiations between the White House and Congress remain stalled and a series of cascading […]
A federal court on Friday permanently prohibited former President Donald Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops in Portland, concluding that the White House overstepped its legal authority when it ordered the mission in late September 2025. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, issued a 106-page decision following […]
Google is moving its in-house semiconductor effort into a new phase, introducing the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit and signaling that custom silicon has become a central pillar of the company’s artificial-intelligence infrastructure strategy. The latest processor, called Ironwood, will be offered to Google Cloud customers “in the coming weeks,” according to the […]
Online brokerage Robinhood has added mortgage lending to its product lineup, offering home loans at below-market rates to customers enrolled in its Robinhood Gold subscription plan. The service, developed in partnership with Sage Home Loans, follows a beta phase conducted earlier this year and is now being deployed to eligible users across the United States. […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation is coordinating with airlines and airport operators after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered carriers to scale back schedules at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. The directive, issued as thousands of federal workers remain furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown, […]
Hundreds of commercial flights were cancelled across the United States on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) directed airlines to scale back operations at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports. The agency’s order, issued amid the ongoing federal government shutdown, immediately reduced the number of takeoffs and landings carriers are permitted to schedule each […]
The temporary suspension of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments that began on Nov. 1 has placed food banks across the United States under acute pressure as they attempt to support millions of households that normally rely on federal assistance. SNAP, which serves about 42 million Americans, has been on hold during the ongoing federal […]
Television host and market commentator Jim Cramer advised viewers to add to their positions in Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) following the company’s most recent earnings release, but cautioned against purchasing the entire desired allotment at one time. During a call-in segment on his program, Cramer noted that WM had risen roughly three dollars in […]
The federal government remained partially closed for a 38th consecutive day on Friday, extending the longest shutdown in United States history as senators left the Capitol without an agreed path forward. Republican lawmakers dismissed a Democratic proposal that would open agencies only if the current stopgap measure carried a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act […]
Washington, D.C. — Senate Republicans on Friday turned aside a proposal from Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer that would have reopened federal agencies while extending enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits for one year. The federal government entered a partial shutdown on Oct. 1 after lawmakers failed to pass a new spending measure. Since […]