Toyota’s mobility subsidiary will invest $44.3 million into a Japanese rocket company. Interstellar Technologies (IST) is slated to receive Woven by Toyota’s multimillion-dollar investment “by the first close” of its Series F fundraising, the rocket company said Tuesday. It also announced a “business alliance” with Toyota. IST said it “aims to leverage automotive industry expertise,

Sales of the traditional Ford Mustang declined in 2024 as carbuyers increasingly turned to the electric Mustang Mach-E, which topped its traditional counterpart last year. Ford released sales data last week that showed 44,003 traditional Ford Mustangs were sold in 2024. That was down from 48,605 the prior year, amounting to a 9.5% decrease. By contrast,

An Etihad Airways Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aborted its takeoff from Melbourne Airport in Australia on Sunday for technical reasons, according to reports. Etihad Airways Flight EY461 from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi began its acceleration on the runway just at around 7 p.m. before slamming on the brakes and coming to a stop. “The flight crew

The new year brought with it terror in New Orleans and the Las Vegas Strip with multiple fatalities.  Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured after a driver plowed a car into a large crowd at Canal and Bourbon streets in New Orleans in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Hours later, a

Tech giant Apple on Thursday agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that claimed its Siri voice assistant violated users’ privacy. A preliminary settlement was filed Tuesday night at a federal court in Oakland, California, which will be subject to approval by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White. Mobile device owners who

Popular alcohol producers had a bumpy morning as investors reacted to an advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General about alcohol and cancer. As of early Friday afternoon, Molson Coors shares had posted a 2.86% drop from where they started trading. Anheuser-Busch Inbev has declined about 2.04%.  Those two major producers were not alone. The stock

Natural gas prices surged more than 20% on Monday after a wave of forecasts over the weekend predicted incoming arctic air could set the U.S. up for the coldest January in a decade or more. Although prices pulled back some the next day, major market spikes this winter could be far from over. Phil Flynn,

The price of a dozen eggs in California has reached nearly $9 per dozen in some areas, as demand continues to rise amid an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu. In its overview of egg markets last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said the California benchmark for large shell eggs

People looked up a slew of financial topics on Investopedia over the course of the year, with searches for some emerging as particularly popular. Ten topics stood out as the ones that Investopedia readers searched for the most in 2024, the finance-focused site reported earlier in the month.  Investopedia editor-in-chief Caleb Silver discussed the findings

Egg production in the U.S. dropped 4% in November as the price of eggs and cases of bird flu continue to rise across the country, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced that in the month of November, egg production totaled 8.92 billion,