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GM reports 2025 results, $6B buyback and 2026 guidance
General Motors (NYSE:GM) is pivoting from a year of heavy restructuring toward a record-setting 2026, unveiling a $6 billion share repurchase authorization and a 20% dividend hike even as it absorbed a massive $7.2 billion charge to realign its electric vehicle ambitions.
Synchrony beats profit targets as consumer resilience defies revenue miss
Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) reported fourth-quarter net income of $751 million on Tuesday, capping a fiscal year defined by stabilizing credit trends and a tightening focus on operational efficiency.
Provident Financial Holdings reports Q2 net income of $1.44M
Riverside, California-based Provident Financial Holdings (NASDAQ:PROV), the holding company for Provident Bank, reported financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025.
Insights
What’s behind the panic-buying of gold?
In times of uncertainty, we often look for something solid to hold onto. Lately, it seems the world’s investors have decided that “something solid” is, quite literally, gold.
The metal’s soaring price is more than just a market trend; it's a global barometer of anxiety.
When faith in currencies, governments, and traditional financial systems begins to waver, we see a familiar flight to the perceived safety of this timeless asset.
Surprise! Lithium gets a recharge
Well, pull out the party hats and dust off the stock tickers.
Lithium, the commodity that investors and analysts had all but left for dead in the great market purge of 2023-2024, is back.
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Billionaire bears take a swipe at Tesla
The stock market has long treated Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) less as a traditional automaker and more as a futuristic technology cult, with its valuation soaring on the gravitational pull of its CEO, Elon Musk.
This persistent "Musk Premium" has burned countless short-sellers.
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Can Bitcoin bring down the global financial system?
Bitcoin has vaporised more than US$800 billion in its latest crash and sucked US$1 trillion out of the broader crypto market.
With nearly US$2 trillion in market value and rising allocations from Wall Street firms, ETFs, pension funds, and insurers, Bitcoin is increasingly woven into traditional finance.
Economy
Economy
Japan’s bond selloff is gathering pace
Japan’s bond market has been sliding all week, with the 10-year yield now near 2.37% and the 40-year pushing above 4.2%, both multi-decade highs.
Trump threatens 'crushing' champagne tariffs as Macron snubs peace board
U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his confrontation with European leaders on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, threatening to impose a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne.
The F1 in Abu Dhabi’s billion dollar secret
If you think the Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi is just about who gets to spray the rose water, you aren’t looking at the balance sheet.
As the sun sets over the Yas Marina Circuit this weekend, we aren’t just witnessing a sporting event; we are watching the closing bell of one of the most efficient capital-generating machines in modern sports.
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