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Storm Goretti paralyses Europe: snow chaos halts flights, trains, and buses

Winter weather simultaneously impacted northwest Europe on Wednesday, resulting in significant travel disruption for millions while also transforming Paris into a snow-covered environment where residents enthusiastically utilised sleds and skis. Storm Goretti, blowing in from the Atlantic, blanketed the French capital at dawn, causing further flight cancellations, traffic snarls, and widespread transport disruption. Shops prepared

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This stock is surging 10% ahead of CES—and it has a major Nvidia connection

Shares of Arbe Robotics Ltd. surged in early trading on Monday after the company announced a new automotive radar platform that integrates its perception technology with computing capabilities from Nvidia, lifting investor optimism around its positioning in the autonomous driving market. Arbe stock jumped 20.8% in premarket trading following the announcement. At the time of

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How to play Comcast-separated Versant stock as it lists on Nasdaq

Versant – a media business that Comcast has recently spun-off – started trading independently on Nasdaq today. The separation marks a significant reshaping of CMCSA’s media assets, with VSNT positioned as a standalone player under the leadership of Mark Lazarus. Versant’s portfolio includes notable assets like CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network, Rotten Tomatoes, and the Gold

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Europe bulletin: FTSE near 10,000, UK grills Grok, Denmark warns on Greenland

Europe’s markets and politics jolted into motion as a dramatic US intervention in Venezuela rippled across global finance and diplomacy. London stocks pushed toward historic highs amid a rush into defence and gold, while regulators intensified scrutiny of AI abuses and leaders from Copenhagen to Budapest warned of far-reaching consequences. From energy prices to Arctic

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTC) starts 2026 with $116M Bitcoin purchase

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) added to its Bitcoin holdings in early January, according to a recent regulatory filing. The company, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, purchased over 1,200 Bitcoin between January 1 and January 4 at an average price of $90,391 per coin, for a total outlay of about $116 million. Strategy @Strategy ·Follow Strategy

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Evening digest: energy stocks surge, Nvidia faces CES showdown, Trump rattles India with tariff threats

Markets lurched across energy, tech, and geopolitics as Washington injected fresh volatility into global trade and supply chains. Trump’s vow to reopen Venezuela’s oil fields sent US refiners and Chevron surging, while tariff threats against India rattled emerging-market confidence. In tech, Nvidia faces a defining moment at CES amid rising custom-chip competition, as Samsung deepens

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US opted for force in Venezuela, could China do the same in Taiwan?

Trump administration’s surprising attack on Venezuela this past weekend could “embolden” China on Taiwan, says Kurt Campbell, the former US deputy secretary of state. On January 3rd, Washington launched a military strike on Venezuela, detaining its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. White House justified the aggressive use of force, citing drug-trafficking charges

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Are Americans overpaying taxes in 2026? Here’s how to fix it

The IRS has quietly handed most American workers a modest tax break starting this month, but fewer are likely aware of it. Inflation adjustments and changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have lifted 2026 tax brackets and the standard deduction, meaning many taxpayers could keep slightly more of each paycheck. But, here’s the

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Ethereum’s $5K path divides experts ahead of 2026

Ethereum is trading above $3,200, still well below its all-time high of $4,953 on Aug. 24, 2025, when it missed the $5,000 mark by just $47. The 2026 potential for Ethereum to reach prices above $5,000 remains uncertain because different experts base their predictions on three main factors, which include value capture and protocol upgrades,

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X faces global scrutiny after Grok chatbot generated exploitative images

Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is facing mounting regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions after its Grok chatbot was used to create and share AI-generated sexualized images of children and women. Authorities in Europe, India, and Malaysia have launched investigations, while officials in Brazil and the UK have also raised concerns,

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