Business news
- Berkshire Hathaway shares dip as Warren Buffett exits and Greg Abel era begins - Investors digested the formal end of Warren Buffett's six-decade tenure as chief executive and the start of a new era under successor Greg Abel.
- Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16% - Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries report follows a steep rally in the company's stock in the last few months of 2025.
- Meet the 2026 stock market. It's the same AI-reliant market of 2025 - Tech's outperformance to start the new year suggests the AI trade still has legs, at least for now.
- Will he stay or will he go? Powell is not saying whether he'll stay on Fed board when chair term ends - Fed Chair Jay Powell has so far skirted the question of whether he'll stay on with the Fed when his term ends this year.
- Buffett, in final interview as CEO, says Berkshire has the best odds of any company for lasting a century - Berkshire has "a better chance I think of being here 100 years from now than any company I can think of," Buffett said.
- Orsted files legal challenge over Trump's halt to $5 billion offshore wind project - Shares of Orsted, the world's largest developer of offshore wind farms, rose more than 4% on the news.
- Trump says U.S. will intervene if Iran 'violently kills' protestors - Protests erupted last week over the government's handling of a sharp fall in the nation's currency and soaring prices.
- China’s BYD poised to overtake Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time - The milestone would cap an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.
- European stocks poised to start 2026 in positive territory; gold and silver prices rally - European markets were set to kick off the first trading day of the year on a positive note.
- China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is building robots and fortune-telling AI apps at the same time - Hangzhou’s AI ecosystem now spans everything from cutting-edge robotics to experimental apps built by solo founders.