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Here are some of the companies making the biggest moves in intraday trading. Moderna – The biotech giant’s stock rose 5% after the company gave an upbeat outlook for full-year earnings. Moderna expects revenue to increase by up to 10% from 2025 levels, exceeding the FactSet consensus call for a 5.9% increase. The company’s fourth-quarter loss was $2.11 per share, narrower than analysts’ expectations of a loss of $2.54 per share. Maplebear – Shares rose about 9% after the parent company of grocery delivery platform Instacart released optimistic forecasts for the current quarter. Instacart expects total transaction value to be…

For the 2025 tax year, eligible U.S. taxpayers can deduct up to $10,000 in interest on auto loans under a temporary provision enacted as part of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.However, most eligible borrowers’ deductions are much lower, primarily because even a large auto loan won’t accrue nearly $10,000 in interest in a single year. That figure is close to the total interest a borrower typically pays over the life of a 72-month new car loan, according to car shopping and auto data provider Edmunds.In fact, for most borrowers, the deduction is likely to save hundreds of…

Alibaba’s booth at the World Congress on Artificial Intelligence held at the Shanghai Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024.Null Photo | Null Photo | Getty ImagesWhile the U.S. market is focused on the impact Anthropic and Altruist’s tools will have on software and financial services, the Chinese tech giant this week released an AI model that shows advances in robotics and video generation.alibabaTikTok creator ByteDance and short video platform Kuaishoreleased a new AI model highlighting how Chinese companies are catching up with their U.S. counterpartsThis was announced after Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, told…

Cavan Images | Cavan | Getty ImagesIn early 2025, during the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s term, lawmakers pushed through a major last-minute bill that would increase Social Security benefits for some public pensioners.The Social Security Fairness Act was passed by both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, and Biden signed it into law on January 5, 2025.Several senators are now asking the Social Security Administration to reconsider what they say is an implementation flaw in the law that limits retroactive payments to certain beneficiaries to six months instead of one year.The Social Security Fairness Act repealed two provisions…

President Donald Trump’s former White House adviser Steve Bannon discussed opposition strategy with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, and Bannon said he wanted to “bring down” the pope, according to newly released files from the U.S. Department of Justice. Messages exchanged between the two men in 2019, made public last month in a trove of documents, revealed that Bannon courted the late financier after the first Trump administration left office in an attempt to undermine the former pope. Mr. Bannon had been highly critical of Mr. Francis, who was hostile to a “sovereignist” vision, a brand of…

Who: India vs PakistanContent: ICC 2026 T20 World CupLocation: R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri LankaWhen: Sunday, February 15th, 7pm (13:30 GMT)How to follow: All content will be broadcast on Al Jazeera Sports from 9:30 GMT, ahead of the text commentary stream.One of the world’s most-watched sporting events will be on the screens of viewers around the world on Sunday, after last-minute talks reversed Pakistan’s decision to boycott the T20 World Cup match against its neighbor and rival India.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn a show of solidarity with the Bangladeshi team, the Pakistani government intervened to prevent group…

What once felt like a luxury seems to have once again become an affordable everyday necessity.In January 2025, egg prices were soaring that some U.S. retailers were charging more than $9 for 12 eggs. Avian flu has reduced supplies, leaving grocery store shelves empty and some stores imposing purchasing limits. People online joked about using their retirement savings to buy cartons.Currently, prices are moving in the opposite direction.Egg prices in January fell a seasonally adjusted 7% month-on-month and 34.2% year-on-year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report released Friday. The CPI is the government’s main measure of consumer inflation,…

Simone Biles makes surprise appearance at Winter Olympics with husband Jonathan OwensSimone Biles is flipping the script at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The Olympic gymnast was delighted to be in the audience at the Milan-Cortina Games and appeared with husband Jonathan Owens to cheer on the athletes competing in the men’s single figure skating competition on February 13th. Wearing an ivory jacket, white jeans and matching stiletto boots, Simone and the Chicago Bears safety sat in the crowd and watched U.S. figure skaters Ilya Marinin and Andrew Tolgashev perform their programs. In fact, she was even photographed with Georgian athlete…

President Donald Trump speaks to the media while walking to board Marine One before departing from the South Lawn of the White House on February 13, 2026 in Washington.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party may be starting to loosen just a little. A handful of Republicans who regularly oppose him, such as Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, have become more vocal than ever. And in recent days, things have dawned between the president and a few powerful allies in Congress.As Mr. Trump, the undisputed leader of…

Arista Networks President and CEO Jayshree UralScott Mullin | CNBCshares of Nvidia and advanced micro device moved in the opposite direction on Friday after the CEO of Arista Networks She told investors that her company is moving some of its deployments to AMD.Nvidia stock fell nearly 3%, while AMD rose nearly 1%.”A year ago, it was almost 99% Nvidia, right?” Ural said on Arista’s earnings call late Thursday, when asked by an analyst about the company’s work with AMD. “If you look at our adoption now, AMD is becoming the preferred accelerator of choice at about 20%, maybe a little…