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How investor Stephanie Link is playing 2026. Several stocks to play the big themes

Several underperforming stocks, including Meta and Union Pacific, are poised to gain ground in 2026, Hightower Advisors' Stephanie Link told CNBC.

Berkshire Hathaway shares dip as Warren Buffett exits and Greg Abel era begins

Investors digested the formal end of Warren Buffett's six-decade tenure as chief executive and the start of a new era under successor Greg Abel.

What are today's mortgage interest rates: January 2, 2026?

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Exxon is breaking out at the turn of the new year. Why Jay Woods thinks it's a buy

This is not what one would expect with crude oil trading under $60 a barrel and nearing new 52-week lows.

Tesla no longer world's biggest EV maker after its sales drop for second year in a row

Updated on: January 2, 2026 / 10:28 AM EST / CBS News

The Club's top 10 things to watch in the stock market Friday

The S&P 500 is up early this morning as the market kicks off its first trading session of 2026.

Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16%

Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries report follows a steep rally in the company's stock in the last few months of 2025.

Any way you look at it, the U.S. stock market is expensive as the new year begins, BofA says

The vibes are good on Wall Street as 2026 begins. There's just one issue: Stocks are really expensive.

RH, Wayfair shares rise after Trump delays furniture tariffs again

Shares of furniture retailers rose in early Friday trading after President Donald Trump delayed an increase in tariffs.

The 2026 stock market is looking a lot like the bifurcated market of 2025

A look inside the S&P 500 shows a major division, with five sectors higher, led by industrials, and six sectors lower, led by consumer discretionary.

Buffett hands over the reins, the stock market's losing streak, airline class wars and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Mizuho says tariff relief could drive next leg higher for Wayfair

Mizuho's $130 price target implies a 29% upside for shares of Wayfair.