Dec 18, 2025
Why Booking, Expedia Are AI’s Top Travel Partners

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape how hotel rooms may soon be searched and booked, as emerging platforms like DirectBooker seek to give AI agents direct, real-time access to hotel rates, availability, and amenities. Online travel agencies, including Booking Holdings…

Dec 18, 2025
Lululemon Cheaper Than Nike? Elliott Deal Highlights Disconnect

Lululemon Athletica Inc (NASDAQ:LULU) and Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) are navigating similar consumer slowdowns, but the stock market is treating them like entirely different businesses. One trades like a premium franchise. The other trades like a value stock — despite stronger…

Dec 18, 2025
Joby Moves Fast To Turn Air Taxis Into Everyday Travel

Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE:JOBY) is intensifying its efforts to integrate electric air taxis into everyday travel, aligning new infrastructure plans with a faster production timeline as regulators move to open the skies to eVTOL aircraft. Joby Aviation has partnered with…

Dec 18, 2025
Low-Beta ETFs Step Into The Spotlight As JPMorgan Flags Crowded AI Trades

As turbulence reemerges in the U.S. stock market, ETFs designed to dampen volatility are finding fresh relevance. According to JPMorgan strategists, "extreme crowding” in speculative growth and second-order AI stocks has pushed risk to uncomfortable levels. This sets the stage…

Dec 18, 2025
Internet Stocks Need AI Profits In 2026, Analyst Says

Internet stocks are entering 2026 on shaky footing after lagging behind the broader market in 2025, as execution missteps, intensifying generative AI competition, and uneven margins overshadow a relatively stable macroeconomic backdrop, raising the stakes for companies to demonstrate real…

Dec 18, 2025
Trump Media Bet Makes TAE The Face Of US Energy Ambition: Analyst

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NASDAQ:DJT) stock rose on Thursday following a merger announcement centered on nuclear fusion ambitions. The company said it will merge with TAE Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at over $6 billion. Wedbush analyst Dan…

Dec 18, 2025
DoorDash Via ChatGPT – What’s Cooking?

DoorDash Inc. (NASDAQ:DASH) stock gained on Thursday after it announced on Wednesday that it partnered with ChatGPT parent OpenAI to integrate grocery shopping directly into ChatGPT. The move allows users to turn recipes into grocery orders delivered from local stores…

Dec 18, 2025
Spire Global Joins $151 Billion Pentagon Missile Defense Contract Pool

Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE:SPIR) scored a seat at the table on the Pentagon’s $151 billion SHIELD contract vehicle, positioning the company for future defense work just as disappointing earnings and a trimmed outlook exposed ongoing financial headwinds. The satellite-data company…