The costs of the services mentioned below are up-to-date at the time of publication. Credit monitoring services can help protect your personal and financial information from hackers and identity theft. A credit monitoring service provides an additional alert system by watching over your credit, offering alerts, scanning the dark web for your information and more. … Read more
Auliʻi Cravalho voices Moana in Disney Animation’s “Moana 2.” Disney The domestic box office is poised for its biggest Thanksgiving haul since the pandemic thanks to a Polynesian princess, a pair of witches and a revenge-fueled gladiator. Disney’s “Moana 2” is set to hit theaters Wednesday and generate between $120 million and $150 million in … Read more
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses Meta Shoppers looking for gadgets and gizmos powered by generative AI technology to gift to their loved ones won’t have many options to choose from this holiday season. Generative artificial intelligence has taken Silicon Valley by storm since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022. Although startups have raised … Read more
Inflation edged higher in October as the Federal Reserve is looking for clues on how much it should lower interest rates, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The personal consumption expenditures price index, a broad measure the Fed prefers as its inflation gauge, increased 0.2% on the month and showed a 12-month inflation rate of 2.3%. … Read more
People crossing street in Tokyo’s busy Akihabara downtown area Leopatrizi | Istock | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets started Friday lower, with investors assessing November inflation numbers from Japan’s capital of Tokyo and industrial production figures from South Korea. The headline inflation rate in Tokyo came in at 2.6%, a rebound from the 1.8% seen in … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed steep tariffs on imports could create winners in the stock market — particularly among companies that help businesses manage their supply chains, according to Redburn Atlantic. The investment firm identified five stocks that could see their prices rise if Trump implements his proposed tariffs: Descartes Systems Group , Kinaxis, Manhattan Associates … Read more
Cranberries are a Thanksgiving staple in many U.S. households — and scientists hope AI can help keep it that way. Americans typically consume 80 million pounds of the bright red fruit around the holidays, according to the Ocean Spray agricultural cooperative. With climate change and rising temperatures already creating challenges for U.S. cranberry farmers, researchers … Read more
Workers transporting soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, Oct. 31, 2010. Stringer | Reuters BEIJING — China will start limiting exports of critical metal tungsten this weekend, just as alternatives to Chinese suppliers of the metal are reopening. It’s a reversal of past decades, during which, … Read more
A Chinese bank worker prepares to count a stack of US dollars together with stacks of 100 Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province on March 9, 2010. STR/AFP | Getty Images Chinese authorities are contending with a weakening yuan as global investment banks forecast the currency to hit record … Read more
Investors should look beyond the most popular, large cap stock funds next year, but that doesn’t mean they have to get too defensive, according to Astoria Portfolio Advisors. John Davi, Astoria’s CEO and chief investment officer, told CNBC that the huge amount of cash that has flowed into index funds tracking the S & P … Read more