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The Federal Reserve made its final decision of 2025, cutting interest rates for the third meeting in a row — and it set the tone for where interest rates will go in the new year. The call will have ripple effects across consumer prices, the job market, and Corporate America through 2026 and beyond. Thirty-year fixed mortgages, two-year auto loans, and credit card rates tend to fluctuate alongside the federal funds rate. And, while inflation remains above the Fed's 2% goal, mortgage rates have largely cooled in recent months in anticipation of rate reductions. Read more about how the decision will affect you on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eS3quTNa #economy #federalreserve #interestrates

Talk about the rich getting richer. Google has been one of the best-performing stocks of the year, up nearly 70%, and now has a market capitalization of $3.8 trillion. The company also happened to make what could turn out to be one of the most lucrative startup investments of all time, which could finally bear fruit next year.

Oracle has missed its quarterly revenue as stocks slide on Wednesday in after hour trading.

This summer, after Meta made a $14 billion investment in Scale AI and poached its 28-year-old founder, Alexandr Wang, and after A-list clients like OpenAI and Google halted work with the startup, a worker for Scale AI anxiously asked ChatGPT what it thought of his company's fate. He knew the chatbot well, having tested it for vulnerabilities. Its prognosis was grim. The contractor shared the chat logs with fellow workers at Scale AI. In one reply reviewed by Business Insider, one worker said that they were already on their way out, describing the startup as a ticking time bomb. The chatbot was drawing from a storm of headlines about Scale AI, which until this summer had been touted as one of the most ascendant startups in tech. Lately, it's lost some of its gleam, with investors significantly lowering valuations, workers sniping about pay, and rivals coming for its clientele. Scale AI says its balance sheets show the company is on the right path, with this quarter poised to be the year’s best. Take a closer look inside Scale AI after Meta on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eiEbDry8 (Credit: Getty Images; Tyler Le/Business Insider)

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The Fed cut rates for the third time this year, but rising dissent among officials signals a split over how to balance inflation and jobs. Powell says, 'I really want to turn this job over to whoever replaces me with the economy in really good shape.'

The future of HBO hangs on a surprising detail: how little bidders think CNN and other cable networks are worth.

CEO John Stankey said he made some missteps in addressing company culture at AT&T — and shed some new light on his internal memo that went viral. The lengthy memo, which was first reported by Business Insider in August, described how the company was moving to a "more market-based culture," setting off discourse about the state of workplace loyalty. Stankey gave some insight into the goal behind the memo during a conversation at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit on Tuesday. When asked to name a mistake he's made, Stankey said he was too slow to tackle the "culture evolution" that was needed. He said he put it among several areas of focus for the company and that instead he should've put it at the forefront and forced specific actions to make it happen. Read more of Stankey's comments on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/gKwwEfGf (Credit: Getty Images) #att #workplace #loyalty

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