Gold prices continued rising in 2026 amid geopolitical uncertainty. The stocks with the 10 largest market caps in the S&P 500 index have an outsized weighting. Crude oil prices little changed ...

Tech giant Nvidia became the first company in corporate history to briefly surpass a $5 trillion valuation in October thanks to its role in the AI boom. Insatiable demand from global companies for its ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

The Census Bureau’s first snapshot of population data for 2025 confirms some big trends, like a major shift in immigration as the U.S. cracks down on border crossings and steps up deportations. The ...

Sweet or savoury? Donut or bagel? Who will be victorious . . . ? The battle of the baked goods returns in this latest riotous addition to comics genius, Neill Cameron's bestselling series. Everybody ...

From a distance, this map of the ocean looks complete. In truth, knowledge of the seabed remains patchy. As of 2025, little more than one quarter of the seabed has been measured directly. The ...

Lyor Cohen, the company's global head of music, argued that Billboard's formula for the charts doesn't put enough weight on ad-supported streams. By Ethan Millman Music Editor YouTube will stop ...

YouTube will stop submitting its data to the U.S. Billboard charts next month due to a dispute over how streams are counted, according to an announcement Wednesday from the streamer’s global head of ...

Specks of dust from Saturn’s rings appear to float much farther above and below the planet than scientists thought possible, suggesting the rings are more like a giant dusty doughnut. The main ...

AT&T agreed to a $177 million settlement for two data incidents in 2024 that exposed customer info. A federal judge is scheduled to grant final approval of the settlement on Jan. 15, 2026. Time is ...