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Current price of platinum as of Thursday, December 18, 2025

Economy

Intuit CEO says Gen Z is staving off recession by putting it on plastic: ‘Credit card balances are up 36-37%, but they still have jobs’

We ‘don’t have enough manpower’ for the delivery boom, says Singapore-based robotics founder

After Trump used prime-time speech to deny economic reality, his aides reassured him he did great

Mamdani gets 74,000 resumes in sign of New York City’s job-market misery

Banking

Today’s best high-yield savings account rates on Dec. 18, 2025: Earn up to 5.00% APY

$1 billion fraud revealed with guilty pleas from subprime auto lender Tricolor

Coinbase announces stock trading and new Kalshi-based prediction markets

Over half the workers in the $85 billion Union Pacific/Northern Southern railroads oppose the merger

Personal Finance

Elon Musk says there will be ‘no poverty’ in the future, implying Ray Dalio’s multi-million Trump Account pledge will be essentially redundant

Intuit CEO says Gen Z is staving off recession by putting it on plastic: ‘Credit card balances are up 36-37%, but they still have jobs’

After Trump used prime-time speech to deny economic reality, his aides reassured him he did great

Today’s best high-yield savings account rates on Dec. 18, 2025: Earn up to 5.00% APY

Investing

‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry piles misery onto tech stocks after Oracle fails to close AI debt deal

Ray Dalio donates $75 million to ‘Trump Accounts’ as Scott Bessent leads ‘50 State Challenge’ to invest in America’s kids

Experts say Amazon is playing the long game with its potential $10 billion OpenAI deal: ‘ChatGPT is still seen as the Kleenex of AI’

Netflix co-CEO faces the $100 billion question: ‘Why are you doing this deal?’

Real Estate

Current ARM mortgage rates report for Dec. 18, 2025

Current refi mortgage rates report for Dec. 18, 2025

Current mortgage rates report for Dec. 18, 2025: Rates remain steady for the moment

In a frozen luxury housing market, buyers are asking to ‘try before they buy’ and having sleepovers in multimillion-dollar mansions

Energy

How Bentley’s brand is creating business advantage in disruptive times

Embattled BP replaces CEO, naming Woodside Energy chief as first-ever woman leader of a Big Oil giant

A U.S. oil blockade on Venezuela could ‘devastate’ its economy and further pressure Maduro. But how far is Trump willing to take it?

Prices at the gas pump are the lowest since the pandemic and still falling—just in time for record-high holiday travel

Crypto

Coinbase announces stock trading and new Kalshi-based prediction markets

HashKey shares start trading in Hong Kong, as the city increasingly embraces crypto

The generational gap in crypto investment ‘has never been more marked’, says VP at Coinbase

Bittensor, the AI-linked cryptocurrency founded by a former Google engineer, just halved its supply. Here’s what that means

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Wall Street is scared that we’re looking at the end of the Fed’s independence

Exclusive: Twin Health, metabolic health startup, raises $53 million Series E at $950 million valuation

Starbucks’ CEO is ditching a merit system and giving all salaried staff a flat 2% pay raise instead

Beyond snubbing Tinder, Bumble, and casual flings, more than half of Gen Z is spending $0 monthly on dating, BofA finds

How Target let Walmart steal its rizz

Current ARM mortgage rates report for Aug. 21, 2025

Current refi mortgage rates report for Aug. 21, 2025

Current mortgage rates report for Aug. 21, 2025: Rates mostly hold for the moment

Southeast Asia’s ‘incredibly dynamic’ Islamic finance market is drawing in non-Islamic players

What is a reverse mortgage—and when should you take one out?

Fed minutes reveal concern over ‘the effects of higher tariffs’ as central bank left rates unchanged

Tesla shareholder group urges probe, ‘appropriate remedial action’ from Nasdaq over Elon Musk’s $29 billion pay package

Trump calls on Fed governor to resign after cabinet member raises accusation of mortgage fraud

Sony will pass on tariff costs to U.S. consumers by hiking PlayStation 5 prices

Washington DC leads America in unemployment rate for 3rd straight month

Target’s incoming CEO started as a summer intern 20 years ago—he tells Gen Zers to embrace feedback if they want to climb the ladder like he did

Trump once again gets fresh ammunition in his fight with the Fed, calling on Governor Lisa Cook to resign over mortgage-fraud claims

Cape Cod is considering taxing luxury home sales of $2+ million to raise funds for the housing market’s ‘missing middle’

AI anxiety has sent markets into a tizzy, but experts say the jitters will only ‘punish those chasing the froth’

Billionaire Epic CEO Judy Faulkner built her $5.7-billion-a-year software firm in a basement. She says not getting an MBA was a ‘really good thing’

Target stock is down 64% over 4 years—and investors who were ‘hoping for an external CEO’ are disappointed by the choice of its next leader

The exact salary the ultra-wealthy say they’d need to feel ‘comfortable’ in the current climate has been revealed—and it starts at $500,000

Trump may want lower interest rates for consumers, but it sure is convenient for the national debt he’s creating, too

U.S. tech stocks slide after Altman warns of ‘bubble’ in AI and MIT study doubts the hype

Current price of gold as of August 20, 2025

GPT-5 is getting all the buzz. But the new open models of AI matter more

Trump in talks for government to take 10% stake in Intel: What we know

Home Depot’s pricing strategy to balance margins and customer loyalty, says analyst

Exclusive: Crypto startup Legion raises $5 million to bring back ICOs—without the scams

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