WBD employees fear job losses with Paramount merger

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An American flag flies at Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, California, on Sept. 12, 2025. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Warner Bros. Discovery board may have enriched its shareholders Thursday when it chose Paramount Skydance‘s acquisition offer over Netflix‘s, but it also terrified a lot of its employees. While some of those people own […]


Goldman’s Panic Index hits ‘max fear’ as traders warn Wall Street to ‘buckle up’

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A fresh selloff could hit Wall Street as soon as this week, with Goldman Sachs’ Panic Index signaling markets are near “max fear” despite Friday’s rally. Analysts at Goldman’s trading desk estimate that as much as $33 billion of selling could hit US equities this week, telling investors that they need to “buckle up,” according […]


Should we fear the AI boom? How it compares to 2000’s dot-com bubble

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Will an AI bubble turn this bull market into rubble? The growing chorus of doomsayers predicting death and destruction is giving “artificial intelligence” a whole new meaning. Many believe AI stocks climbed too far, too fast – setting the stage for an imminent 2000-style collapse. But take a closer look: While market sentiment has clearly […]


THE NEW YORKER Has a New Word Game to Keep Your Wolves of Fear at Bay for Six Minutes a Day

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation Code Increasingly Derivative Casual Word Games It probably is not the case that casual, complete-with-coffee digital brainteasers are not the internet equivalent of classified ads in newspapers: […]


Meta, Microsoft shares plunge as investors fear AI spending is overhyped

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Shares in Meta and Microsoft plunged Thursday after the tech giants announced plans to ramp up AI spending – and investors worried that the cash might not yield major payouts. Fears that artificial intelligence investments have been overhyped sent the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 1.3% as of about 3:30 p.m. ET Thursday. Meta’s stock cratered about […]


Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain

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President Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas. Toy makers, children’s shops and specialty retailers are pausing orders for the winter holidays as the import taxes cascade through supply chains. Factories in China produce nearly 80 percent of all toys and 90 percent of Christmas goods sold in America. The production of toys, Christmas trees and […]


CEOs stay mum but quietly fear Trump won’t pull off ‘Art of the Deal’ in trade war 

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The markets have been loving Donald Trump’s latest 180 on trade. He now seems to be going softer on tariffs after the markets rebelled against his earlier hard-line approach. But On The Money has learned that business leaders — those who make decisions on spending on investment as well as hiring and firing people — are […]


U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei

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The semiconductor industry has lobbied two presidential administrations to go easy with restrictions on selling cutting-edge computer chips to China. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, the world’s leading artificial intelligence chip maker, even traveled to Mar-a-Lago this month to discuss policy with President Trump. But with the Trump administration putting new curbs on […]


Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region

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French Champagne producers do nearly a billion dollars’ worth of business with the United States every year. But on Friday in Épernay, the world capital of sparkling wine, the only number on anybody’s lips was 200. That was the percent tariff that President Trump has threatened to impose on Champagne and other European wines and […]


Wine Businesses Fear Disaster in Threat of Huge Tariffs

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It’s not clear who will benefit if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose 200 percent tariffs on all wines and alcoholic beverages from the European Union, but it certainly would not be American consumers. The tariff warning was posted by Mr. Trump on social media Thursday in retaliation to 50 percent tariffs […]