Weeks after reports that Meta ​​​was offering $100 million signing bonuses to poach OpenAI talent, it turns out the social media giant's chatbot ambitions aren't panning out so well - as the company has frozen hiring in its AI division.

Viking Therapeutics Inc reported new clinical data for its oral obesity drug – sending shares sharply lower as investors balked at tolerability concerns and dropout rates.  

In this video, Ira Epstein discusses the mixed performance of major stock indices on August 20, 2025, noting that while the Dow closed higher, most other indices were down, with some recovery in big tech stocks like NVIDIA and Netflix.

Stock market's gotten a little wobbly this week. I don't really think that's surprising given some of the things we've been talking about here more recently.

West Texas Intermediate, the US crude oil benchmark, is trading around $62.80 during the early Asian trading hours on Thursday. The WTI edges higher as US crude oil inventories fall more than expected.

GBP/USD took another leg lower on Tuesday, falling around three-tenths of one percent and skidding into key moving averages.