People shop at a grocery store in Brooklyn on December 12, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Affordability has been a source of household frustration and a key focus of political discourse in recent months, as prices for everyday goods and services continue to rise. “People are…
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Tubi hit profitability this year doing what other streaming services are trying to: attract younger audiences who are willing to sit through ads. The Fox Corp.-owned free streaming platform has long been among a sort of second tier of streaming services alongside lower-budget and less popular offerings like…
A logo on the Sanofi exhibition space at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 15, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Sanofi will buy U.S. vaccines company Dynavax Technologies for around $2.2 billion (1.9 billion euros), the French drugmaker said on Wednesday,…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Nike — The sportswear stock rose 2% after a filing showed that Apple CEO Tim Cook bought nearly $3 million worth of Nike shares. Dynavax Technologies — The biopharmaceutical stock surged 38% after Sanofi said it will acquire Dynavax in a deal with a total equity…
Tuesday saw the release of much better-than-expected economic data , and Wall Street is weighing what that could mean for the Federal Reserve in the new year. Real gross domestic product rose at a 4.3% pace for the third quarter, far ahead of the 3.2% that economists surveyed by Dow Jones were estimating. Though the…
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, Dec. 8, 2025. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s a near certainty that enhanced subsidies for health insurance purchased on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will expire at year’s end amid political gridlock — and some consumers are poised to be hit especially hard by the loss. The expiration of…
Every year, Hillary Lanier puts her holiday shopping on credit, racking up debt that takes months to pay off. This season, the production planner said her total balance across four credit cards is in the five-figure range. “It’s definitely higher prices,” she said. Lanier, who buys gifts for her parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and coworkers,…
A Starbucks barista demonstrates how to brew coffee using a siphon at the Reserve Store in Seattle. Starbucks With tax season approaching, millions of workers could soon claim the “no tax on tips” deduction, which offers a tax break for returns filed in 2026. But some experts question which workers will benefit from the policy. …
U.S. President Donald Trump announces the creation of the “Trump-class” battleship during a statement to the media at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on December 22, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the…
Dr. Thomas Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Heidi. Courtesy of Thomas Kelly In 2017, Thomas Kelly graduated from medical school and finally became a doctor — a career he had dreamt about as a kid and spent years working towards. But once he started practicing, Kelly realized that the job was different from…
