Looking for areas of the market well positioned for early 2026, many insurers set up favorably with momentum turning higher and relative trends showing improvement. This is an area of the market where we would view a pullback as an opportunity to build exposure. An insurer with a bullish catalyst is Chubb (CB) . Last…
The three major averages posted a winning session on Monday, kicking off the holiday-shortened week on a positive note. <
A U.S. military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea on Dec. 20, 2025. Department Of Homeland Security | Via Reuters The escalating…
A guest poses for a photograph during the Jellycat Road Trip to Joy at Nordstrom Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Jeff Schear / Stringer/ Getty Images Christmas is just around the corner and if you’re a stuck on what to gift your Gen Z family members, a cuddly plush toy might be the answer this…
Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Monday rebuked President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland, the U.S. president’s latest move in his long-running effort to acquire the autonomous island territory of Denmark. “Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, and territorial integrity must be respected,” Nielsen said in a statement. “We are happy…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Markets: The S & P 500 was up Monday to kick off the holiday-shortened trading week. The market was buoyed by strength in AI names like…
The stock market this year is heading for double-digit gains as 2025 winds down, but investors should take an active role if they want to prepare for success in the new year. The S & P 500 is higher by about 17% year to date, powered by surges in communications services and information technology stocks….
Bottles of Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey stand on display during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 30, 2020. Noriko Hayashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the…
One thing is clear in 2026: AI adoption will play a greater role in deciding which stocks wind up next year’s winners. Wall Street expects AI enablers — the chipmakers, cloud providers, and datacenter companies that are the “picks and shovels” for the AI revolution — will remain a driving force for the stock market…
Ted Sarandos, left, co-CEO of Netflix, and David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Mario Anzuoni | Mike Blake | Reuters Hours before Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to sell its studio and streaming assets to Netflix, Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, called WBD CEO David Zaslav to inform him Netflix wouldn’t be bidding any…
