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2026-01-03T10:43:01.239Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. President Donald Trump’s trade war was partially intended to boost US-made goods. Nearly a year later, the results aren’t entirely clear. Fill out our survey if you’re buying more American-made products — and why. 2025 was supposed to be a big year for American manufacturing.Indeed, boosting US-made goods was…

Bitcoin ATM fraud reached new highs in 2025, with scammers reportedly stealing $333 million from victims, the FBI said.In most cases of bitcoin ATM fraud, scammers impersonate either a company or a bank and flag supposed suspicious activity on the victim’s account, advising them to deposit money into a bitcoin ATM to protect their funds or remedy the issue. That money then goes directly into the scammers’ account.Bitcoin ATMs have increased in popularity in the US, with over 30,000 machines in the States in 2024 — which is about 81.27% of the bitcoin ATMs in the world, according to finance…

Critical Role’s chief creative officer, Matthew Mercer, had been spearheading his eight-member crew’s relentless push into the big leagues of nerdworld for 10 years.That was until this July, when he announced that he’d be giving up control of one of the crew’s biggest priorities, their long-running “Dungeons & Dragons” Twitch livestream.In an August appearance on the podcast “Crispy’s Tavern: Tales and Tea,” Mercer said he’d felt the threat of burnout and thought he needed a break. He said he’d started to feel a “continuous need to produce creatively,” which was “a very draining and very scary thing.”To be sure, Mercer…

President Trump has signed a bipartisan bill that aligns the deadline for claiming prior-year tax refunds or credits with the extended filing period granted to taxpayers affected by natural disasters. Processing ContentThe bipartisan bill, known as H.R. 1491, the Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act, was sponsored by Rep. Gregory Murphy, R-North Carolina, and Jimmy Panetta, D-California, with the support of the American Institute of CPAs.The Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act gives taxpayers who have been affected by disasters more opportunities to meet their tax obligations without extra confusion and anxiety. It extends the time for filing a claim for…

Influencers are no longer a buzzy category for investors writing big checks. Artificial intelligence, social commerce, and new community apps are now the primary focus among creator economy investors.In 2025, venture capitalists and private equity firms largely avoided shelling out for startups whose businesses catered narrowly to social media stars. Some of those companies have failed to live up to investors’ growth expectations, such as FaZe Clan.Instead, VCs are making big bets on companies that are trying something new with social media, whether that’s merging e-commerce into the social feed, shaking up the content creation process with AI video generation,…

Isreal Adeyanju co-owns Kọ Café, a West African coffee shop in New Jersey that attracts locals for its food and community events, including open mic nights, live podcast recordings, and workshops on homeownership and career development.When the café opened in 2023, Adeyanju was renting the space for $1,400 a month. But when the 3,600-square-foot building, which includes two upstairs apartments, went up for sale, Adeyanju and one of the café’s co-owners, Samuel Osei-Afriyie, moved to buy the entire property.With the help of investors, Adeyanju and Osei-Afriyie bought the building for $740,000. They own 85% of it, and their investors own…

A pedestrian passes in front of the Saks Fifth Avenue Inc. women’s store at Brookfield Place in New York, U.S.Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSaks Global named a new CEO on Friday as the retailer is reportedly on the cusp of filing for bankruptcy protection.The parent of high-end department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue, which is privately held, will now be led by Richard Baker, the company’s executive chairman, Saks said in a news release. He will continue to hold the executive chairman role.With the shakeup, three-decade long Saks executive Marc Metrick will leave the company. The news release said Metrick’s is…

2026-01-02T15:47:28.878Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Big-name hedge funds mostly had strong years, led by managers such as Michael Gelband’s ExodusPoint and D.E. Shaw. It was a choppy year for funds, which battled markets strained by geopolitical stress from tariffs and international conflicts. Most funds still trailed the S&P 500’s 16.4% return on the year,…

The world’s 10 richest people are worth more than Amazon after another banner year for billionaires.The group’s combined wealth rose by $579 billion in 2025 to surpass $2.5 trillion, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows. Amazon, one of the world’s largest companies with more than 1.5 million employees and over $600 billion in annual net sales, has a market capitalization just below that amount.Last year’s biggest wealth gainer was Elon Musk. He cemented his status as the richest person on the planet with a $187 billion increase in net worth to $619 billion, the wealth ranking shows.His fortune surged because the…

Michael Saylor has long noted that Bitcoin’s volatility “is a feature, not a bug” when pitching his cryptocurrency accumulator Strategy Inc. Processing ContentInvestors will soon see the downside of that, with the company likely to report a multibillion-dollar loss when it releases results for the just-ended fourth quarter. That would be a swing from a $2.8 billion profit in the previous quarter, reflecting an unrealized loss tied to the falling value of the company’s roughly $60 billion  Bitcoin stockpile. “There was this one-time pop, but that is a different story in this quarter,” said Aaron Jacob, an associate professor at Brigham Young…