This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch It is tempting, in assessing what 2025 brought for the U.K. economy and for Britain’s corporates and financial markets, to focus more on what didn’t happen than on what did. Most obviously, widely expected interest rate…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips, CNBC confirmed…
A restaurant displays a ‘hiring’ sign in its window in Manhattan on Dec. 16, 2025, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The U.S. November jobs report has something for everybody. Those convinced of weakness will highlight the higher-than-expected unemployment rate as well as the number of jobs shrinking in October. On the…
Narumon Bowonkitwanchai | Moment | Getty Images Shares of Chinese chipmaker MetaX Integrated Circuits soared about 700% in their market debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, after the company raised nearly $600 million in its initial public offering. Shares, which were priced at 104.66 yuan in the IPO, surged to over 835 yuan on debut, marking…
HashKey Group logo seen on a smartphone and on a pc screen. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images HashKey shares rose 3% Wednesday as they debuted on the Hong Kong stock exchange, after the crypto exchange raised $206 million in its initial public offering, at a time when crypto currencies have…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Dec. 15, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stateside ordered a “complete and total” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers moving in and out of Venezuela as…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York on December 16, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Stock futures traded near the flatline after the S&P 500 fell Tuesday, as investors weighed newly released U.S. economic data. S&P 500 futures slipped 0.08%….
Lovable cofounders Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin. Credit: Lovable Vibe coding startup Lovable’s latest funding round values the firm at $6.6 billion and includes U.S. VC firm Accel, sources with knowledge of the deal told CNBC. That figure is more than triple the $1.8 billion valuation the Swedish AI company achieved after closing its most…
Tarek Adieh, of Tampa, Florida, looks at cannabis flower from wholesaler Dep Kings at Champs Trade Show at the Palmer Events Center, Sept. 11, 2025. Jay Jannar | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week that would broadly expand access to cannabis. Industry advocates, executives…
A “Help Wanted” sign hangs in a restaurant window in Medford, Massachusetts, Jan. 25, 2023. Brian Snyder | Reuters Nonfarm payrolls grew slightly more than expected in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday in numbers delayed by the government shutdown. Job growth totaled 64,000 for the month, better than the Dow Jones estimate…
