Holiday spending slowdown

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• Alphabet making long-term bet on AI by issuing century bonds

  by Daniel Ackerman

  

  The company’s borrowing tens of billions of dollars to build out data centers. Some of those bonds, in the United Kingdom, have a 100-year maturity date.

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• This banana importer is dealing with non-tariff headwinds

  by Kristin Schwab and Sarah Leeson

  

  Now that Organics Unlimited, a banana importer based in San Diego, isn’t feeling the bite of tariffs, the dollar’s weakness is front and center.

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• December's retail sales numbers were flat, despite expectations

  by Carla Javier

  

  The data from the Census Bureau could mean that consumers are pulling back — or it could just mean that they did more of their holiday shopping in November.

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• An energy company cut the power. Then came the backlash

  

  In late December, Colorado’s largest utility shut off power to thousands of customers. Xcel Energy said a downed power line could have ignited a wildfire. Instead, the shut-off sparked a backlash.

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• The Numbers

  by Kristin Schwab

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• For crypto, how much of "Fimbulwinter" remains?

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Bitcoin has lost more than 40% of its value since last October.

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• AI vibe scamming is here

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  AI coding agents make it possible for anyone to build a sophisticated-looking website, including scammers.

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