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Antonio Filosa, Stellantis North America COO and Jeep CEO, speaks at the Stellantis press conference at the AutoMobility LA 2024 car show held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on November 21, 2024. Etienne Laurent | AFP | Getty ImagesDETROIT — Five years after the transatlantic automaker. Stellantis was formed through a merger, but the business hasn’t always worked out as investors expected.The company’s U.S. shares, created on Jan. 16, 2021 through a $52 billion merger between Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler and France-based Groupe PSA, have fallen about 43% over the past five years. Italian listed…

Luke Littler defeated the legendary Paul Lim 6-1 in the first round of the Saudia Arabia Darts Masters to advance to the quarter-finals against Jan van Veen in a rematch of the World Darts Championship final.This will be the first meeting between Littler and Van Veen since Littler won 7-1 in the canter to become the world champion for the first time in 10 years. In a replay of the first round of the Bahrain Darts Masters, Littler led Lim 4-0 in the canter, but his power score was too much for the “Singapore Slinger” to handle. The 18-year-old began…

Tether (USDT) stablecoin logo.Cost Photo | Null Photo | Getty ImagesAmid the US military intervention in Venezuela, local residents rushed to secure their savings by exchanging Bolivales for a dollar-pegged digital token called USDT. While the timing of the attack may have surprised some, the subsequent acceptance of stablecoins by Venezuelans did not. From the Middle East to Latin America, ordinary people are turning to USDT to hide and protect their wealth from authoritarian regimes and protect themselves from hyperinflation. And now, with US President Donald Trump threatening to intervene in regional affairs between Colombia and Iran, that survival strategy…

This is a much more public show of support than Powell has given so far, but it comes after President Trump threatened the Fed chair with criminal charges.Published January 19, 2026January 19, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareUS Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will attend Supreme Court oral arguments regarding the attempted removal of Fed Director Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support for a central bank chairman.The high court is considering whether President Donald Trump can fire Cook, as he said he would do in late August, in an unprecedented attempt to remove one of the seven…

Beijing — China’s birth rate will hit a record low in 2025 as its population declines for the fourth year in a row, deepening demographic challenges that could drag down the world’s second-largest economy for decades to come. The birth rate in 2025 will fall to 5.63 per 1,000 people, below the 2023 low of 6.39 per 1,000, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. This decline suggests that the small increase in births in 2024 was an outlier rather than a reversal of the steady decline since 2016. Officials also reported that China’s economy will grow by 5%…

Thomas Frank has claimed he feels supported by the Tottenham board despite increasing pressure on his job as head coach.Frank revealed he had lunch with the most important elements of Spurs’ leadership on Monday following Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat to relegation-threatened West Ham. Sky Sports News revealed on Monday that Frank will be given Tuesday’s Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund after a meeting was held at board level regarding his future. image: Thomas Frank says he “feels trust” from club officials. Spurs bosses are thought to be considering all options after fans booed Frank and chanted “You’ll be sacked…

Candidates often worry about making a good impression during the hiring process, but they should pay just as much attention to how the company presents itself.Amanda Augustine, career coach and resident career expert at Resume.ai, says if something doesn’t feel right during a job interview, don’t ignore your gut.“A candidate’s experience is often a reflection of how they treat and respect employees,” Augustine says. No matter how great a job looks on paper, “if it’s not a great experience interviewing and going through the vetting process, chances are it won’t be a great experience on the job,” she says.According to…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shulz Memorial Lecture Series on Monday, December 1, 2025 in Stanford, California. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is scheduled to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to remove Fed Director Lisa Cook, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC on Monday.Mr. Powell’s scheduled appearance comes as the Fed chairman is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., over his multibillion-dollar plan to renovate the central bank’s headquarters…

The AI industry entered 2025 with strong momentum.  There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were $1 billion in size or larger.  The industry didn’t slow down in 2025. While less companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion, four — Anthropic raised two rounds over $1 billion — significantly more companies raised multiple rounds compared to 2024, eight.   How will 2026 compare? Elon Musk’s xAI announced a $20 billion Series E round and Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs raised a $250 million seed round (with OpenAI as the lead investor) in the first few weeks of 2026, so signs point to another strong…

What do many workers want to leave behind for 2026? The 9-to-5 schedule. Instead, many people are interested in employing a technique called “microshifting.”Owl Labs’ 2025 State of Hybrid Work report reports that 65% of workers are interested in microshifts, defined as working in “short, nonlinear blocks based on an individual’s energy, responsibility, and productivity patterns.””Microshifting appeals to employees not only as a scheduling preference, but also as a way to regain control of their increasingly fragmented work lives,” Owl Labs CEO Frank Weishaupt told CNBC Make It. “Employees are coming up with improvised solutions to reconcile the demands of…