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The rapid adoption of consumer-facing artificial intelligence is reshaping the peak shopping season and prompting major retailers to overhaul their digital playbooks. Research from Salesforce projects that generative AI will influence roughly $263 billion in global online holiday sales this year, accounting for about 21 percent of all digital orders placed in November and December. The forecast […]
Television analyst Jim Cramer believes Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) will remain largely unaffected by the latest shift in U.S. monetary policy. Speaking on 13 December 2025, shortly after the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates, Cramer argued that the social-media company’s fortunes are dictated more by product developments and corporate messaging than by fluctuations in […]
Egyptian authorities have presented the fully restored Colossi of Memnon, two monumental statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III that once marked the entrance to the ruler’s mortuary temple on Luxor’s west bank. The unveiling ceremony on Sunday concludes nearly 20 years of archaeological work designed to reassemble, conserve and re-erect the twin figures, which had lain in fragments […]
New York – Two widely held U.S. equities, semiconductor supplier Broadcom and warehouse retail chain Costco Wholesale, are confronting heightened investor sensitivity after recent developments exposed the risks that come with premium price-to-earnings multiples. Broadcom: AI Backlog Meets Margin Concerns Broadcom on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter results that included approximately $73 billion in backlog tied to […]
Brown University confirmed that two people were killed and nine others wounded after gunfire erupted on its campus on the morning of December 14, 2025. Campus and local police officers responded within minutes of the first emergency calls, locking down academic buildings and residence halls while they searched for the shooter. Authorities said a person of […]
Television commentator and former hedge-fund manager Jim Cramer said Tesla, Inc. is being valued less as a traditional car manufacturer and more as an emerging technology enterprise, following the most recent cut in U.S. interest rates. Cramer offered the view during a broadcast on December 13, 2025, noting that the Federal Reserve’s move may help the […]
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley spent part of Thursday visiting students wounded in this week’s shooting at Brown University, city officials confirmed. The mayor’s appearance at Rhode Island Hospital came as law-enforcement agencies continued piecing together the events that left three undergraduates injured and shook the Ivy League campus. According to Providence Police, gunfire erupted outside […]
Equity markets across the Asia-Pacific region opened the week in negative territory, with South Korean benchmarks posting the steepest losses as investors awaited a fresh round of economic indicators from China and digested last Friday’s pullback on Wall Street. The Kospi dropped 2.16 percent on Monday, while the tech-focused Kosdaq slid 1.17 percent. Among the largest components, […]
Authorities in Rhode Island detained a person of interest early Sunday in connection with a shooting that left two people dead and nine others injured on the Brown University campus in Providence. The individual, described by investigators as a man in his mid-20s from Wisconsin, was taken into custody at approximately 3:45 a.m. inside a […]
The average interest rate on a home equity line of credit (HELOC) has slipped below 7.5% nationwide, according to analytics firm Curinos, as lenders reset pricing to the new prime rate of 6.75%. Curinos’ latest weekly data put the typical HELOC rate at 7.44% for applicants with a credit score of at least 780 and […]
Australian authorities say two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday evening, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more in what officials have labeled a terror attack aimed at the Jewish community. New South Wales Police reported that one suspected shooter died at the scene while […]
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott disclosed on Tuesday that she awarded $7.17 billion in unrestricted grants to approximately 225 nonprofit organizations during 2025. The latest round of contributions raises her publicly reported charitable outlays to $26.3 billion since she began detailing her philanthropy in 2019. Scott published the figures in a personal essay that emphasized the […]