Economy

Mike Intrator, Chief Executive Officer and founder of CoreWeave, (C) celebrates after ringing the opening bell surrounded by Executive Leadership and family during the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq headquarters on March 28, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images CoreWeave shares jumped almost 8% on Monday after […]

In this photo illustration, the new Twitter logo rebranded as X (X Corp.) is seen on a smartphone and Elon Musk Twitter account with the new X logo on a pc screen.Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesX, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon… […]

There are 9 million “akiyas” — empty houses — across Japan, according to official government data as of 2023. You2u | Istock | Getty Images Buying a home can feel like an impossible feat as large parts of the world face a housing shortage. This is not the case with Japan though, which is dealing […]

First there was Black Friday — then Cyber Monday. Now deal-thirsty consumers have a reason to shop online one day longer. “Travel Tuesday” — the first Tuesday after the American Thanksgiving holiday — targets those looking for discounts on trips, rather than flat-screen TVs. Search interest for “Travel Tuesday” rose more than 500% from 2021 […]

Formula One has always tried to be more than just a good sport. When Britain’s National Health Service needed accurate ways to monitor children’s vitals signs in the early 2010s, F1 team McLaren re-engineered the telemetric system it used to measure track performance for use on the ward. Now the sport is turning its expertise […]

A flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Zhejiang province, China, on May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — The size of China’s highly anticipated stimulus plans will likely depend on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, analysts said. Investors expect Beijing to announce details on fiscal support Friday. That’s when […]

A worker delivers Amazon packages in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. presidential election beckons and even though nearly 75 million people have already voted, according to NBC Newsnothing seems to have leaked out. You would figure the hedge fund algorithms would have picked up […]

An aerial view of the city of San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge in California, October 28, 2021.Carlos Barria | ReutersJan Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs trader, has been quietly working to build an urban utopia in California nestled near San Francisco and Silicon Valley. But just a few years after the mysterious… […]

A screenshot of Project Sunroof shows the map data offered by the pilot project, which is meant to help consumers plan solar installations for their homes.ScreenshotGoogle is planning to license new sets of mapping data to a range of companies to use as they build products around renewable energy, and is hoping to generate up… […]