U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event to make an announcement from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. Nov. 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday announced deals with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to slash the prices of some of their obesity drugs, including upcoming…
(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) The market broadly hesitated just below record highs, finding nothing much to react to in the latest Fed-White House drama as stocks generally held to the broad expectation created by Fed Chair Powell’s…
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Toru Hanai | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party overwhelmingly found the support of voters in a Sunday election, sweeping a supermajority —…
Coach Brian Daboll on Monday refused to reveal whether rookie Jaxson Dart or veteran Jameis Winston will serve as the New York Giants’ backup quarterback for their season opener Sunday at Washington. Russell Wilson is set to start against the Commanders. Dart, the first-round pick who is being groomed as the QB of the future,…
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. Siemens and Nvidia announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to develop industrial and physical AI solutions to bring AI-driven innovation to industrial workflow. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg…
The progress of Chinese tech companies across the entire stack is “remarkable,” OpenAI’s Sam Altman told CNBC, pointing to “many fields” including AI. Altman’s comments come as China races against the U.S. to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — where AI matches human capabilities — and roll out the technology across society. Chinese progress is…
It’s time for many NFL teams to start shopping for their next quarterback. When looking for veterans, this offseason will be as interesting as any in recent memory, in large part because the 2026 draft has so little to offer at the position. There’s the consensus pick at No. 1 overall, Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza….
Investors are discounting two major risks for the stock market heading into 2026, according to Torsten Slok, the chief economist at Apollo Global Management. For the new year, Slok is standing by an overall bullish thesis but acknowledged that one major headwind is the market currently pricing in more interest rate cuts than the Federal…
Bill Self shared the keys to the Kansas Jayhawks’ success in Manhattan this time around in the Sunflower Showdown against the Kansas State Wildcats with a 86-62 win. <
Warren Buffett will no longer write the letters that accompany his firm, Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports, nor will he field questions at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, he wrote in a letter published on Monday. “As the British would say, I’m ‘going quiet,’” he wrote. “Sort of.” Even after Greg Abel takes the reins as…
