Apptronik has raised $520 million in funding at a $5 billion valuation as the startup aims to commercialize its humanoid Apollo robots, potentially beating Chinese competitors and Tesla’s Optimus to the market. The new funding, announced on Wednesday, brings Apptronik’s series A funding round to $935 million. B Capital, chaired by Howard Morgan, co-led the…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the media before boarding Marine One for travel to Florida from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 6, 2026. Leah Millis | Reuters The House is slated to vote Wednesday on a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, in what…
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The Club’s top 10 things to watch Wednesday, Feb. 11 — Today’s newsletter was written by Jeff Marks, the Club’s director of portfolio analysis. 1. Stock futures rose after the January jobs report showed the economy added 130,000 jobs lasts month, double the consensus estimate of 65,000. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3% from…
El Paso International Airport Google Earth The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly grounded all flights in and out of El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days starting Wednesday, citing “special security” instructions, and then lifted the order hours later. “The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted,” the FAA said in…
Job growth was stronger than expected to start 2026, providing some relief to concerns about the state of the U.S. labor market. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 130,000 for January, above the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 55,000, according to seasonally adjusted figures the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday. The total also was an improvement…
Bitcoin’s short-lived bounce faded on Wednesday as the volatility in the world’s largest cryptocurrency continued. Bitcoin was trading at around $66,975.00 at 8:31 a.m. ET on Wednesday. The digital coin has been on a downward trajectory since hitting an all-time high above $126,000 in October with the sell-off intensifying over the last month. Bitcoin dropped…
Moderate Democrats looking for their party to take back control of the U.S. House in November are offering an alternative to the economic populism message peddled by their more liberal counterparts. A new blueprint from the center-left New Democrat Coalition, shared exclusively with CNBC, lays out a road map for addressing affordability — top on…
Half of the NFL’s 32 teams have changed head coaches over the past two years, including the Las Vegas Raiders doing so twice. So the odds are strong that plenty more will be fired over the next 12 months, too. That means that even though Week 1 of the 2026 season is seven months away,…
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Wednesday: Goldman Sachs upgrades Kingsoft Cloud to buy from neutral Goldman says it likes the cloud computing company’s AI investments. “We upgrade Kingsoft Cloud ( KC) to Buy from Neutral as we see the company as a key beneficiary of Xiaomi’s continued stepped-up AI investments to…
