Starbucks workers’ union escalates strike on Black Friday

The Starbucks workers’ union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities.
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: CME Group, Tilray Brands, SanDisk & more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in premarket trading.
‘To sustain the ride, they started to dilute it’: How Black Friday became a retail letdown

Black Friday used to be the biggest in-person shopping event of the year, but for six straight years, online sales have outpaced stores.
AI shopping comes with its own perils this Black Friday

Agentic AI is transforming the way people shop online, and it comes with heigheted risks of digital fraud for retailers.
‘Green light’ away from AI trade: Two ETF executives see a key market shift underway

Markets may have entered a new cycle. Here’s why.
These stocks are outperforming this year and are cheap heading into 2026

There are a host of companies that have rallied this year and are well-loved by analysts, but still remain strong buying opportunities for investors.
What’s going on at Nexperia? Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit

Dutch chipmaker Nexperia has published an open letter urgently calling on its China unit to help restore supply chain operations.
CME halts futures trading after ‘cooling issue’ at data center

A technical problem obstructed futures trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the early hours of Friday morning.
‘Time to act now’: The push to develop Europe’s blockbuster rare earths discoveries

From an ‘invisible mine’ to a radical relocation, two mining companies at the heart of Europe’s resource security push are taking very different approaches.
South Korea joins growing number of countries imposing sanctions on Prince Group as probe into Cambodian scams widens

The measures are Seoul’s first independent sanctions regarding transnational crime and the “largest single sanction measure in history.”