Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Afternoon
- Wall Street falls as Oracle's funding woes hit tech stocks
- Oracle stock sinks as reported AI data center snag puts rising debt in focus
- Perfect storm of factors propels silver to record high above $65/oz
- GOP centrists help Dems defy Mike Johnson on ACA in stunning revolt
- Moderate Republican Revolt to Force January Obamacare Vote
- US Congress passes massive defense bill that includes support for Ukraine and Europe
- Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
- US Readies New Russia Sanctions If Putin Rejects Peace Deal
- Ukraine's defense minister warns Europe: Act now
- Jimmy Lai’s conviction is ominous for Hong Kong
General
- Stocks rise after shaky session on mixed U.S. economic data: Live updates
- Asian shares are mixed and oil prices jump as Trump orders a blockade of oil tankers to Venezuela
- Oil rises over 1% as Trump's Venezuela blockade stokes uncertainty
- Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels it a "terrorist" regime
- Mortgage rates move higher after the Fed rate cut, causing loan demand to drop
- Fed's Waller says monetary policy still in restrictive territory, Fed has room to cut
- Confidence in the economy hits four-year high for investors and executives
- Tricolor executives charged with ‘systematic fraud’ after subprime auto lender roiled banking sector
- Trump expands travel ban and restrictions to include an additional 20 countries
- Robinhood bets on the future of retail investing: betting
- Oracle at Center of Tech’s $500 Billion AI-Fueled Rent Spree
- K-Shaped US Economy Leaves Small Businesses Playing Catch-Up
- Look around: Bubbles are everywhere.
- A Record $184 Billion Bond Binge Stuns Latin America Bankers
- US to Dismantle Key Research Agency, Advancing Attack on Climate
- Vanke to Meet With Insurers, Banks in Shenzhen as Crisis Deepens
- Heating Costs Expected to Rise 9.2% This Winter
- Next Fed Chair in ‘No-Win Scenario’ as Selection Process Draws to a Close
- What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed
- Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Buoy Voters’ Views of the Economy
- Does China Have a Robot Bubble?
- Trump Orders Blockade of Sanctioned Oil Tankers in and out of Venezuela
- Bank of Japan on Cusp of Raising Rates to Highest in 30 Years
- For Ukraine’s Allies in Europe, a Bad Deal With Russia Is Worse Than No Deal
- Oracle’s $10bn Michigan data centre in limbo after Blue Owl funding talks stall
- JPMorgan pulls $350bn from Federal Reserve to buy up Treasuries
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI
- Vladimir Putin predicts European ‘swine’ backing Ukraine will lose power
- ‘World’s refrigerator’ runs hot and Arctic melt turns rivers orange