Breaking News: Markets
- Ken Griffin’s flagship hedge fund at Citadel rises 10.2% in volatile 2025 - Citadel's flagship multistrategy Wellington fund, its largest, gained 10.2% in 2025, according to a person familiar with the firm's returns.
- Chip stocks rally to start 2026 after third-straight winning year - Investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-adjacent sector following another big year of gains.
- Berkshire Hathaway shares dip as Warren Buffett exits and Greg Abel era begins - Investors digested the formal end of Warren Buffett's six-decade tenure as chief executive and the start of a new era under successor Greg Abel.
- Meet the 2026 stock market. It's the same AI-reliant market of 2025 - Tech's outperformance to start the new year suggests the AI trade still has legs, at least for now.
- Buffett, in final interview as CEO, says Berkshire has the best odds of any company for lasting a century - Berkshire has "a better chance I think of being here 100 years from now than any company I can think of," Buffett said.
- European stocks poised to start 2026 in positive territory; gold and silver prices rally - European markets were set to kick off the first trading day of the year on a positive note.
- Asia-Pacific markets set to start 2026 on a mixed note - Some Asian markets are still closed for the holidays, including Japan and mainland China.
- Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis speak out against data center boom. It's a bad sign for AI industry - Sen. Bernie Sanders has called for a data center moratoriu, while Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed back on the AI industry in Florida.
- A 5 million percent return in 60 years leaves Warren Buffett’s legacy unmatched - Warren Buffett has handed over the reins after a six-decade run that turned an unremarkable textile mill into one of the most powerful compounding engines in history.
- Economist Mark Zandi sees the Fed surprising with three rate cuts in first half of 2026 - Markets and Fed officials themselves see only modest easing in the year ahead.