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Plus: American Eagle shares soar following its controversial ad campaign. Figma misses the mark on profit expectations. Katherine Sullivan hosts.
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We’re racing to the end of 2025 and a year where AI and tariffs have dominated the headlines, gold has been the best investment so far. The team looks at why gold is rising, Figma’s sharp post-earnings decline, and crack open three IPO prospectuses to put on investors radar
Tyler Crowe, Matt Frankel, and Jon Quast discuss:
- Gold outperforming the S&P 500 and crypto in 2025
- The gold mining stock at the top of the best performer list
- Figma’s earnings
- IPOs on deck worth an extra look
Companies discussed: NEM, PLTR, STX, FIG, XYZ, SOFI, GEMI, BRCR, FIGR, BROS
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Plus: New York area businesses say they are using artificial intelligence more. And a recent study suggests corporate cybersecurity training is fairly ineffective. Julie Chang hosts.
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Despite the relatively low magnitude, earthquakes in Afghanistan this week have left more than1000 dead. Afghan researcher Zakeria Shnizai from the University of Oxford unpicks some of the main causes of the country’s vulnerability to earthquakes.
Also this week, we talk to the climate scientist who led a 400+ page rebuttal to the US Department of Energy’s report on climate change.
We hear about research which has mapped the activity of over 600,000 neurons in 279 regions of the mouse brain to learn more about how decisions are made.
And we get the latest updates on 3I/ATLAS, the latest interstellar comet streaking its way across our solar system, just before it disappears behind the sun.
Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Ella Hubber Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
(Image: Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan. Credit: Anadolu via Getty Images).
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Could Polymarket make a return to the U.S. with the CFTC's no-action letter to QCX?
The CFTC granted a no-action letter to QCX, Polymarket's new U.S. acquisition, over certain regulatory requirements involving events contracts. Is the prediction market coming back to America? CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.
Plus: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends his ouster of the CDC’s director during a Senate hearing. And fashion designer Giorgio Armani dies at age 91. Alex Ossola hosts.
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The Messenger prompts a conversation on video games and divinity. Oz Woman replies to the earlier series on the Anunnaki. Following up on the earlier news about China's artificial womb, PoodleCrab and others walk through the positive -- and negative -- implications. A brief homily on Cracker Barrel. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.
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