Faarea MasudBusiness reporter
The Spanish government has fined property rentals giant Airbnb 64m (£56m) for advertising unlicensed apartments.
It also said that some of the properties advertised in… [+2540 chars]

The government has been cracking down on the rentals firm as neighbourhoods protest against holiday lets.

BBC News

Airbnb fined £56m by Spain for advertising unlicensed properties - BBC

Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Dealmakers are heading into the final weeks of 2025 on a $100 billion cliffhanger.
Paramount Skydance Corp.s hostile bid to snatch Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. from under th… [+6849 chars]

Paramount Skydance Corp.’s hostile bid to snatch Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. from under the nose of Netflix Inc. encapsulates the themes that have shaped a...

Yahoo Entertainment

Warner Bros. Is Blockbuster Finale to $4.5 Trillion M&A Haul - Yahoo Finance

Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Monday.

CNBC

Here Monday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Viking, Hershey, Marriott, Dollar General & more - CNBC

The November jobs report is landing at an odd time on a Tuesday in mid-December, instead of (whats usually) the first Friday of the month due to the lingering impact of the historically long governme… [+7068 chars]

The November jobs report is landing at an odd time – on a Tuesday in mid-December, instead of (what’s usually) the first Friday of the month – due to the lingering impact of the historically long government shutdown.

What this week’s jobs data could reveal about the US economy - CNN

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 11, 2025, in New York City.
This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.
Here … [+4588 chars]

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Market rotation, the Fed's Kevins, Netflix's 'Star Wars' moment and more in Morning Squawk - CNBC

Information in Investors Business Daily is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as an offer, recommendation, solicitation, or rating to buy or sell securities. … [+1064 chars]

A video Sunday showed a Model Y driving without occupants in Austin.

Investor's Business Daily

Tesla Model Y Drives Without Occupants. What We Know. - Investor's Business Daily

Stock futures rose Monday following a mixed week on Wall Street amid a big rotation out of tech and into parts of the market trading at lower valuations. Traders also braced for a slew of U.S. econom… [+1232 chars]

The moves come after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite fell last week, as Oracle and Broadcom led a rotation away from artificial intelligence stocks.

Stock futures rise as big week of economic data kicks off: Live updates - CNBC

Randy Kaplan has been running restaurants for 40 years. Its all he knows. 
So when the veteran restaurateur saw a lack of affordable, high-quality fast casual burgers in the Noe Valley neighborhood … [+8049 chars]

San Francisco's Hi-Way Burger, in Noe Valley and North Beach, offers a burger and fries for $14.45 using high-quality, locally sourced ingredients.

SFGate

The SF burger combo under $15 that everyone should know about - SFGATE

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Korea Zinc Co. plans to build a smelter in the US for about $7.4 billion, backed by the American government and other investors, to bolster suppl… [+2319 chars]

The firm, the world’s biggest smelter of the metal, is seen as a strategic player in efforts by the US and its allies to secure supply chains for critical...

US to Back Korea Zinc’s $7.4 Billion Critical Minerals Plant - Yahoo Finance

Thomas Schäfer, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, Brand Group Core and CEO of the Volkswagen brand, said: The ID. Polo marks the beginning of a new generation of Volkswagen: with fr… [+2455 chars]

The countdown to the new ID. Polo is on: Just a few months before its world premiere, a fleet of almost production-ready ID. Polo prototypes is covering the final test kilometres in numerous regions worldwide. The goal: to achieve the highest quality and perf…

Volkswagen-newsroom.com

Reinventing a bestseller: ID. Polo on the road to series production - Volkswagen Newsroom

In boardrooms across the globe, a specific anxiety is taking hold. It isnt just the fear of robots taking jobs; it is the paralyzing worry of buyers remorse in a market moving at breakneck speed. Acc… [+6364 chars]

Bill Briggs recognizes an old inertia inside the boardroom: "I felt it in my travels, but I hadn't been able to quantify it."

Fortune

Deloitte’s CTO on a stunning AI transformation stat: companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people - Fortune

Syracuse, N.Y. When Carmen Spinoso saw the dramatic changes happening in shopping malls, he didnt give up on the industry. He jumped on a business opportunity.
Spinoso, a former leasing agent and ex… [+10482 chars]

Carmen Spinoso has built a company that manages 43 shopping malls nationwide.

syracuse.com

Meet the Syracuse exec who’s betting on the future of malls when others are running away - Syracuse.com

NEW YORK -- The Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, turns into a winter wonderland every holiday season.
Green garlands, giant nutcrackers, baubles and bows go up in early November on the… [+6592 chars]

Many U.S. consumers say they’ve noticed higher than usual prices for holiday gifts in recent months, according to a a December poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research

ABC News

US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases - ABC News

President Trump and his advisers have an almost messianic belief the economy will take off in the first quarter of next year, based largely on stimulus from the "One Big Beautiful Bill" he signed in … [+4449 chars]

Trump's bullish belief is key to understanding why he's so reluctant to say there's an "affordability crisis."

Axios

Trump's article of faith: Economy will soar in '26 - Axios

Affordable, familiar and reassuring are the features that make American chain restaurants a near-ubiquitous presence throughout the country; it is almost as if they are baked into our roadside cultur… [+7624 chars]

Some of the nation's largest restaurants boast of decades-long survival through economic downturns, stiffer competition, and changing American palates. And we still love them anyway. Why?

For Americans, the love for chain restaurants runs deep - NPR

Planned Parenthood faces external pressures from federal budget cuts and hostile state governments. But current and former employees at the organization’s Minnesota-based Midwest affiliate complain that management is making matters worse.

Minnesota Public Radio News

Staff complaints, financial pressures roil Planned Parenthood in Minnesota - MPR News

NEW YORK (AP) Wall Street is rising at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go. The S&amp;P 500 rose 0.3% in early trading Monday… [+4560 chars]

Wall Street is rising at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in early trading Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 150 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq c…

Associated Press

Asian shares slip after Wall Street logs its worst day in 3 weeks - AP News

The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.1 billion after there were no winners in Saturdays night drawing. Its the second-largest jackpot this year and the 12th to cross the $1 billion threshold… [+1040 chars]

The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.1 billion after there were no winners during Saturday’s night drawing. It’s the second largest jackpot this year and the 12th to cross the $1 billion threshold in the past five years.