Morning News: December 26, 2024

Japan Regulator Orders Aeon Bank to Fix Money Laundering Gaps

Sekisui Chemical to Mass-Produce Solar Films in $2 Billion Project

How Typhoons and Karaoke Crashed Japan’s Insurance Industry

Xi May Be Facing a No Good, Very Bad 2025

Turkey Lowers Main Rate to 47.5% in First Cut Since 2023

Russia Attacks Ukraine Energy Network in Christmas Assault

Russia Rejects Trump Call for Ukraine Truce, But Ready for Talks

America’s Big Natural-Gas Footprint Is About to Get Even Bigger

Will Trump Cut Short the Biden Clean-Energy Boom? Investors Are Nervous.

Cutting the Deficit Is Easy—It’s Just Unpopular

Elon Musk’s Go-To Cost-Cutter Is Working for DOGE

Stock Futures Slip as Markets Poised to Reopen After Christmas

How the Stock Market Defied Expectations Again this Year, by the Numbers

Bitcoin Drops Even as MicroStrategy Plans to Sell More Shares

Corporate Interests Commit Millions to Celebrate Trump’s Inauguration

The U.S. Needs a Productivity Miracle. It Might Just Get One.

How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America

OpenAI’s Voice Mode for ChatGPT Among Best AI Product Design in 2024

Why Taiwan’s Foxconn, an iPhone Supplier, Is Investing in Texas and Thailand

Alibaba, E-Mart to Create $4 Billion E-Commerce JV in Korea

Japan Airlines Delays Flights After Cyberattack

Coming to a Tiny Airport Near You: New Airlines

As Retailers Offered Holiday Discounts, Shoppers Showed Up

Will 2025 Be the Watershed Year for Return-to-Office Mandates? That Depends.

Eating in Designer Stores, Shopping on TikTok: Five Consumer Trends for 2025

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