Stock markets
- Nike shares move higher on big insider purchases by CEO Elliott Hill, director Tim Cook after down year - The retailer's insiders picked up shares near the end of a rough year.
- Retail investors close out one of their best years ever. How they beat Wall Street at their own game - Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points, giving them outsized benefits from the market's run this year.
- China to restrict silver exports, echoing rare earths playbook - The U.S. added silver to its nationally designated list of critical minerals in November.
- China EVs in 2026 look less like a boom and more like a survival test as global expansion ramps up - Analysts predict China's electric car market will see growth slow significantly in the year ahead.
- Silver tops $80 for first time, then stages dramatic reversal overnight - Silver slid more than 3% on Monday, after topping $80 for the first time ever in overnight trading.
- China to crack down on AI chatbots around suicide, gambling - The proposed rules come as Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot startups Minimax and Z.ai have this month filed for Hong Kong IPOs.
- Wall Street wrote off Palantir as too expensive. Retail investors can't get enough - The stock, which made its market debut in 2020, is an indisputable star of the retail investing world.
- Citadel to return $5 billion in profit to investors, source says - The firm's flagship-multistrategy fund, known as Wellington, gained 9.3% in the year through last week, the person said.
- Gas prices fall to four-year lows as millions embark on holiday road trips - The average price of unleaded gasoline in the U.S. is at its lowest since 2021, according to AAA.
- To lower crypto investment risk, the market is starting to diversify - Cryptocurrency market volatility won't go away, but the market is beginning to apply portfolio diversification ideas to assets like bitcoin.