The Miami Dolphins have landed one of the top head coach candidates in this coaching carousel cycle. Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley has reached an agreement to become the Dolphins’ next head coach, NFL Media reported Monday. This will mark the 46-year-old Hafley’s first head coaching job in the NFL. Hafley has previous…
We’re heading into a holiday-shortened trading week. Don’t let that fool you, though. There’s enough on the calendar to fill a full week. Earnings season is ramping up. The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge is due out (albeit a little stale). And we’re having our first Monthly Meeting of the year. 1. Earnings outside the portfolio:…
NFL futures bets often revolve around success, primarily via wagers on Super Bowl odds. There’s plenty of action on AFC and NFC championship odds, as well. What’s unusual is making a futures bet on the projection of exactly when a playoff team will fail. More unusual: an eight-leg parlay on such an occurrence. But months…
The first World team for the NBA All-Star Game is already looking loaded. And the fate of LeBron James’ record streak of All-Star selections will now be decided by coaches, or perhaps even Commissioner Adam Silver. Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokić, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Luka Dončić and San Antonio’s…
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and a dramatic Africa Cup of Nations. However, even by the tournament’s extraordinary standards, the final of the 2025 edition was like nothing we’ve ever seen before — albeit not in a good way. In the 93rd minute of a tense but largely uneventful encounter in…
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Memorial Lecture Series in Stanford, California, US, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell plans to attend oral arguments on Wednesday at the Supreme Court in a case challenging the…
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box on August 20, 2025. CNBC OpenAI will make 2026 its year of “practical adoption,” the artificial intelligence startup’s finance chief said in a blog Sunday. “The priority is closing the gap between what AI now makes possible and how people, companies, and countries are using…
The Sundance Film Festival may be a little bittersweet this year. It will be familiar in some ways as it kicks off on Thursday in Park City, Utah. There will be stars, from Natalie Portman to Charli XCX, and breakout discoveries, tearjerkers, comedies, thrillers, oddities that defy categorization and maybe even a few future Oscar…
Arizona is the unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the first time. The Wildcats received all 61 votes from a media panel in Monday’s poll, a week after picking up all but one first-place vote. Arizona (18-0) won both of its games last week to remain among…
One thing many workers are keen to leave behind heading into 2026? The 9-to-5 schedule. In its place, many are interested in adopting a practice called “microshifting.” In Owl Labs’ 2025 State of Hybrid Work report, 65% of workers reported being interested in microshifting, defined as working in “short, non-linear blocks based on personal energy,…
