On a cold November evening in Shanghai in 2020, the world’s largest IPO was abruptly canceled by Chinese regulators. It was Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of tech giant Alibaba. The company’s founder Jack Ma, one of China’s most famous billionaires, was under scrutiny for comments seemingly criticising the country’s financial regulators. What followed was four years of…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak during a joint press conference after their official meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on November 19, 2025. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Ukrainian officials have spent the weekend scrambling to make up lost ground when it…
A Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicle on Nov. 20, 2024, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Yan Dobronosov | Global Images Ukraine | Getty Images European defense stocks fell on Monday, extending declines as Ukraine and the U.S. made progress on peace proposals over the weekend. The Stoxx Europe Aerospace and Defense index was 0.7% lower during morning deals,…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Nov. 21, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Last week on Wall Street, two forces dragged stocks lower: a set of high-stakes numbers from Nvidia and the U.S. jobs report that landed with more heat than expected. But…
European stocks are expected to start the new trading week on a positive note, following their global counterparts higher as hopes resurface for a Fed rate cut. <
Restaurants and bars in the Boat Quay district in Singapore, on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Singapore’s inflation rate climbed for a second straight month, year on year, with price growth in October topping analysts’ expectations. After hitting a four-year low in August, consumer prices rose 1.2%, compared with the…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 4, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures climbed in overnight trading Sunday as the market seeks to rebound into the Thanksgiving holiday week after a slide that’s knocked the air out of this year’s AI bull run. Futures on the Dow Jones…
Hong Kong Spreephoto.de | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets are set to start the week higher after the New York Federal Reserve President signaled that a third rate cut could happen this year. On Friday, New York Federal Reserve President John Williams suggested the Fed could lower its key interest rate from here as labor market…
Amina AlTai has always been a high achiever. As a child of immigrants, she was told to “keep your head down, work really hard, and if you do that, you’ll have everything you want,” she tells CNBC Make It. Her early career looked “great on paper,” she says: AlTai opened her own marketing agency in…
It’s natural to want to comfort a child when they’re crying. When parents see their kid hurting physically or emotionally, they often want to do anything in their power to stop their heartache. As a dual certified child life specialist and therapist, I’ve heard parents and even health care workers telling kids “don’t cry” while…
