Page Updated: Friday, October 23, 2026 3:16 AM ET

International Business Times - Top Stories

AI Spending Woes And Rising Oil Prices Weighed On Markets. The Nasdaq Had Its Worst Day In Months.

11 hours ago

Hedge Funds Are Ramping Up Stock Shorts to Five-Year Highs. Goldman is Warning of a Squeeze.

11 hours ago

U.S. Layoffs Are Near A 57-Year Low. But Finding a Job is Increasingly Hard for Many.

11 hours ago

Oil Futures For 2027 Have Jumped Almost 20%. Traders Believe Relief Could Take Longer Than Expected.

11 hours ago

2 In 3 Americans Disapprove Of How Trump Is Handling AI. Most Believe It Will Likely Eliminate Many Jobs.

20 hours ago

Anthropic Unveils Claude Duet To Challenge OpenAI And Meta In The AI Agent Field

15 hours ago

Meta Beat Expectations In The Last Quarter. Its Stock Is Plunging Anyway.

15 hours ago

AI Agents Are Accessing U.S. Bank Accounts Without Their Approval. Lenders Are Pushing Back.

15 hours ago

Barclays To Cut Thousands Of Jobs In AI Efficiency Push. 5% Of The Company Will Be Laid Off.

15 hours ago

The Largest Wealth Fund In The World Got Hit By Rising Interest Rates. It Lost Tens Of Billions In Q3.

15 hours ago

Executives Are Twice As Likely As Workers To Trust AI Over Their Own Judgment, Study Shows

20 hours ago

Hamas Has No Intention Of Disarming And Is Seeking To Build Up Forces In Gaza Again, Israeli Intelligence Concludes

15 hours ago

Democrats Sue Trump Administration Over Alleged Election Interference, Claim Officials Are Being Intimidated

7 hours ago

The Saudi-Houthi War Keeps Escalating. Aramco Is Now Evacuating Its Headquarters.

15 hours ago

Iran Claimed To Hit Several More Tankers In The Hormuz Strait. Oil Prices Are Climbing Further.

19 hours ago

Companies Are Spending Billions To Build Data Centers. The Timeline For Them To Pay Off Is Fuzzy.

11 hours ago

Nearly 1 In 4 Insured Americans Skipped Medical Care Over Cost As Coverage Leaves Gaps

11 hours ago

Less Than Half Of Republicans Are Still Optimistic About Trump's Tariffs, Data Shows

11 hours ago

Voters Face Higher Cost of Living as Midterms Loom. Import Prices Saw The Highest Jump in Years.

8 hours ago

Details Of Moderna's Breakthrough Cancer Vaccine Got Leaked. Its Stock Is Plunging.

11 hours ago

Meta's Board Convinced Zuckerberg To Stay In California Despite Its Wealth Tax. Here's What He Was Offered.

11 hours ago

Why This Gen Z Tech CEO Says the Future Belongs to Generation Alpha

9 days ago

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Why AI Could Kill the Creator Economy

9 days ago

Larry Sharpe on What Replaced the American Dream: "The Empire Is Falling"

9 days ago

Tango Supports FRIDA Ukraine's Mobile Cancer Detection Program Through Tango for Good

10 hours ago

Sentient Launches First Open Benchmark to Test Whether AI Models Can Prove Where They Came From

1 day ago

Hola Prime Simplifies Prop Trading Rules With Launch Of It's Rulebook

1 day ago

Wall Street Is Trading Near Record Highs. The Richest 1% Own More Than Half Of America's Stock Wealth.

10 days ago

S&P 500 Profits Set To Surge More Than 30% In Q3 With AI Giants Dominating Growth

10 days ago

SpaceX Could Borrow $40 Billion For Nvidia Chips As Musk Makes A Massive New Bet On AI. Its Stock Fell.

15 days ago

Hedge Funds Are Ramping Up Stock Shorts to Five-Year Highs. Goldman is Warning of a Squeeze.

11 hours ago

The Largest Wealth Fund in the World Got Hit by Rising Interest Rates. It Lost Tens of Billions in Q3.

16 hours ago

Companies Keep Posting Solid Results. Stocks Climbed Again.

20 hours ago

Trump Called Musk To Restore Ukraine's Access to Key Satellites. They Began Working Shortly After.

12 hours ago

Young Voters Appear To Be Turning On Trump And Republicans in General: Poll

15 hours ago

Kylie Cemented The Buzz. Victoria's Secret Stock Has Soared This Year As Wall Street Raises Its Bets.

15 hours ago

Home Sales Are Falling Across America. These 10 Cities Are Holding Up Better Than The Rest.

20 hours ago

It's Not Luxury Cars or Designer Bags. Having Three Kids May Be The New Sign Of Wealth.

1 day ago

Military-Grade Heat Ray Could Be Used To Drive Off Migrants at the Southern Border

1 day ago

Bitcoin ETFs Lost $65 Million In A Day. One BlackRock Fund Accounted For Every Dollar.

9 days ago

China Launches National Blockchain As Part Of Wider Plan To Accelerate Expansion Of Digital Economy

8 days ago

Moving Beyond the Rust-Proof Myth Toward Smarter Metal Maintenance

12 hours ago

Why Leadership Training Stops Working in Real Conversations

12 hours ago

How Ö-61 Wines Is Introducing a New Category of Premium Wines Through Co-Creation, Storytelling and Flavor Innovation

12 hours ago

Persian Gulf Oil Exports Surpass Prewar Levels, but Shipping Costs Keep Soaring

1 day ago

United Airlines' Fuel Bill Jumped 62% In One Year. Now It's Cutting Its 2026 Profit Outlook.

1 day ago

SpaceX Revenue Surged AI Takes the Lead. Its Stock is Soaring.

15 hours ago

Nevada Faces The Highest Automation Job Risk. Nearly Half of Its Workforce Could be Impacted.

2 days ago

World Already Can't Prevent Key Warming Climate Target, UN Report Claims

1 day ago

Over 10% of Americans Say They Received Food from a Food Bank or Pantry in the Past Year

11 hours ago

Almost 4 in 10 Americans Don't Trust the Integrity of the Upcoming Midterms, Poll Shows

1 day ago

Tensions in the Gulf Keep Climbing. Washington Reportedly Prepares to Order the Departure of Some Personnel from Embassies.

15 hours ago

Iran Warns Against Renewed Attacks, Says it Will Conduct 'Offensive Retaliation'

1 day ago

Another Country is Will Seek to Send Military Personnel to Saudi Arabia as it Keeps Fighting The Houthis

1 day ago

Democrats Look Beyond a House Victory: Why a Senate Takeover Remains a Tougher Fight

1 day ago

Trump Endorsed Netanyahu Ahead of the Israeli Elections. JD Vance is Not Following Suit.

2 days ago

Alberta Overwhelmingly Votes to Remain Part of Canada, Defeating Secessionist Push in Win for PM Carney

2 days ago

Sanctioned Oil Tankers May Get a U.S. Reprieve from Trump. But Freight Costs Might Not Feel a Difference.

6 days ago

Websites are Racing to Patch Software Powering Up to 70% of the Web as AI Uncovers Critical Flaws

1 day ago

Trump Calls for Data Center to Give 'Dividends' to Communities as Backlash Threatens AI Expansion

1 day ago

OpenAI's Most Powerful AI Models Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring. One Then Lied About It.

1 day ago