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Netflix ended 2025 with a bang, but shareholders aren’t celebrating.The streaming giant came in slightly ahead of estimates for the fourth quarter, reporting record revenue of $12 billion and earnings per share of $0.56. Wall Street had expected Netflix to report revenue of just under $12 billion and earnings per share of $0.55. Last quarter, Netflix’s earnings came in well below estimates after a costly dispute with Brazilian tax authorities.Netflix’s first-quarter guidance wasn’t as rosy, however. The streamer’s forecast of $0.76 per share was below analysts’ estimates of $0.81 per share. Netflix also said it planned to spend about 10%…

A United Airlines airplane at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Nov. 6, 2025.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines on Tuesday said it could generate record earnings this year thanks to strong travel demand, with sales of premium seats, business travel and no-frills tickets robust in recent weeks.The carrier expects adjusted earnings per share of between $12 and $14 this year, in line with the $13.16 analysts expected. For the first quarter, United forecast per-share earnings of $1 to $1.50, while analysts had estimated $1.13 a share. United joined its rival Delta Air Lines in forecasting potential record earnings…

CPA Crossings, a provider of continuing professional education training, is collaborating with the Institute of Management Accountants to expand access to courses and certifications in artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, cybersecurity, data analytics and visualization, financial planning and analysis, sustainability and leadership.Processing ContentCPA Crossings has mostly been partnering state CPA societies, so the move to team up with the IMA is a departure. But the IMA represents a large potential market, with a global network of approximately 120,000 members in 150 countries. CPA Crossing’s network of distribution partners, including state CPA societies, will have access to the full catalog of…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Loan Huynh, an attorney who serves as the chair of the immigration department at Frederickson & Byron, a law firm based in Minneapolis. The following has been edited for length and clarity.These are not normal times.There’s a huge concentration of ICE enforcement right now in Minnesota, specifically here in the Twin Cities. My law firm works with both employers and their employees.Employees are very scared — they may be specifically being targeted by ICE, or they have family members or loved ones who are being targeted by ICE and they want…

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department said the so-called “warrior dividend” of $1,776 for members of the military announced by President Trump during a prime-time address last month would not be taxed. Processing ContentThe money is coming out of the $2.9 billion allocated in last July’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to supplement the basic allowance for housing payable to members of the uniformed services. Last month, President Trump announced the special bonuses would be sent to 1.45 million members of the military before Christmas.”In honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776, and…

Paramount Skydance has asked most of its employees to return to the office five days a week, and now it’s asking them how in-person work is going.David Ellison’s company asked employees to grade its RTO efforts by filling out a quick survey asking for feedback on “what’s working well and where we can improve to better support you.””We want to know where there are challenges so we can contact you directly if needed to understand how to address your concerns,” Paramount told employees in the RTO survey, which was viewed by Business Insider.In the survey, Paramount asked employees about 12…

President Donald Trump arrives for an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 19, 2025.Will Oliver | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDrug pricing. Looming patent cliffs. Dealmaking. The first year of Trump 2.0.Those are among the themes that dominated conversations last week as drugmakers of all sizes met with investors to map out their plans for 2026 and beyond at the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. After geopolitical uncertainty weighed on dealmaking during the first half of 2025, investors and drugmakers sounded optimistic that 2026 may mark a turning point for the sector. Investors are beginning…

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesNetflix will report its fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, with questions surrounding its pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery’s assets top of mind for investors. In recent years Netflix’s quarterly reports have been mostly steady — with the exception of a miss on earnings estimates last quarter, related to a unique one-time charge. Netflix stopped reporting subscriber numbers in early 2025 — when it said it had more than 300 million global subscribers — and has instead focused on its strategy shift toward growing its advertising-supported business. For several quarters, Wall Street…

European Finance Ministers are discussing using the bloc’s anti-coercion trade instrument and other economic countermeasures following President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs over the Greenland dispute.Processing Content”We do not want to escalate this, but if others keep on escalating then there will need to be a European answer,” Danish Economic Affairs Minister Stephanie Lose told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with her counterparts. “We don’t rule out anything at the moment.”While tariffs damage both the U.S. and EU economies and should be avoided, Finance ministers will talk about the possible use of the EU’s trade…

Steven Bartlett said one use of AI has mattered more to his business than anything else: translating his podcast into other languages.”There’s nothing more important than what we’ve done for our business than translations. Period,” Bartlett said during the “What it Takes to Build” panel at the World Economic Forum at Davos on Tuesday.The British entrepreneur and host of “The Diary of a CEO” podcast was in conversation with Jessica Lessin, the CEO of The Information, alongside Bret Taylor, formerly the co-CEO of Salesforce and CTO of Meta.Bartlett said using AI tools to translate the podcasts was initially an “expensive…