Key Takeaways AI, tariff turmoil and a weaker dollar helped shape the year's returns, rewarding investors in hard assets over digital ones. Demand from solar panels, data centers and EVs drove silver and copper to their best years in decades. Close the books on 2025. The oldest money beat the newest as gold, adjusted for...

Although stocks closed lower on the last trading day of 2025, several names could gain ground in the new year, investors said Wednesday on CNBC's "Halftime Report." "I will admit it has a sour feeling to it … but whatever January may bring in the markets, we're likely to have a good year," Jim Lebenthal,...

Dec 31, 2025, 10:02 PM LOS ANGELES -- Two of the NFL's three Christmas Day games set viewership records. The Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings late afternoon game on Netflix became the most-streamed NFL game in U.S. history and the Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs night game set a record for Amazon Prime Video. The Vikings 23-10 victory...