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December 22, 2025
Predictions Markets Will Make the Stock Market Obsolete. Yes or No?
As prediction markets surge, Wall Street is grappling with an uncomfortable question: Is there any distinction left between investing and gambling?
Burlington Stores Offers More Than Coats to Keep Investors Warm This Winter
The stock has long underperformed competitors. That may be about to change.
Long Read
China’s Tencent Is Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips Through the Cloud
Tencent is using a Japanese cloud service to access Nvidia Blackwell chips that remain banned to Chinese customers.
Long Read
These Stock Funds Are Crushing the Market. Here Are Their Picks for 2026.
These market-beating funds see bargains in stocks like AppLovin, Wells Fargo, and Boeing. Where they’re investing for 2026.
Long Read
What $1,000 at Birth Will Get You. (Not Much.)
Millions of children will receive $1,000 at birth from so-called Trump Accounts. Some generous billionaires are pitching in more. It doesn’t add up to much, Allan Sloan writes.
3 minute read
Retailers Are Pushing Store Brands. Why Wings and French Macarons Are Big Money Makers.
Walmart, Target, and Kroger are competing with national brands by promoting their own products with healthy ingredients and innovative flavors to lure customers.
Long Read
How Companies Are Using AI to Squeeze More From Your Wallet
Companies like Instacart and Delta are using AI to set prices. What you pay may hinge on how much the AI knows about you.
Long Read
Stop Obsessing About Risks and Let the Banks Compete
The entire financial system would be more stable from more innovation and less regulation, Karen Petrou writes in a guest commentary.
Long Read
There’s No Quick Fix for Soaring Health Insurance Costs. These Accounts Can Help.
Health-savings accounts are expanding to more Americans. How to make the most of them.
4 minute read
Worries About the Bond Market Are Rising. Don’t Sell.
Easing monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policies creates a “triple easing,” which means the current credit cycle has room to run.
3 minute read
Boeing, Waste Management, and Other Bargain Stocks Beyond the Megacaps
Ann Miletti, head of investments at Allspring Global Investments, says her team finds plenty of stocks to like in unloved parts of the market.
Long Read
Copper Is at Record Highs. What Chile’s New Leader Means for the World’s Supply.
Chile, the world’s top copper producer, elected a pro-business president, as world copper prices surge to record highs on expected demand from electric vehicles and artificial intelligence data centers.
3 minute read
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