18+ min ago (915+ words) When a national chain closes, it may linger in the form of one or only a few single remaining locations. York Steak House, for example, stopped being a national chain in the mid-1980s and now only has a single restaurant left operating in Columbus, Ohio. That's true of a number of brands including Sizzler, Ponderosa, and Ground Round. A few of these chains, however, including one that went fully out of business and did not have a single operating restaurant for 16 years, are attempting to make a real comeback. Casa Bonita Founded in 1968. Once had multiple locations in OK, AR, and TX. Only the Lakewood, Colorado location remains as of 2025. Source: Casa Bonita Ground Round Grill & Bar Peak: Dozens of locations nationwide. After bankruptcy in 2004, most closed. Today only a handful survive, mostly independently owned. Source: Food Republic York Steak House…...

20+ min ago (543+ words) Who doesn't want to wake up a little'maybe a lot'richer? Back in 2017, billionaire entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban laid out a no-frills playbook for building wealth. His nine rules, shared in a Vanity Fair video, were exactly what you'd expect from someone who turned sweat equity into a billion-dollar payday: live cheap, build a cushion, avoid credit cards, and never stop learning. But one rule still stands out today for anyone with a high risk tolerance and a gambler's edge. Missed Nvidia and Tesla? RAD Intel Could Be the Next AI Powerhouse ' Just $0.85 a Share "If you're a true adventurer and you really want to throw the Hail Mary," Cuban said, "you might take 10%, put it in Bitcoin or Ethereum" but if you do that, you've gotta pretend you've already lost your money." No hype. No crypto evangelism....

31+ min ago (435+ words) NuScale is making nuclear power relevant again. It's not the only company doing so, though. Its future is fuzzy simply because the sales-to-installation-to-operational time frame is so long, and it's lined with stumbling blocks. 10 stocks we like better than NuScale Power " Have you heard the buzz surrounding NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) and want to find out for yourself what the big deal is? Keep reading. Although this shouldn't be the end of your due diligence, these three highlights will at least get you moving in the right direction. Until roughly a decade ago, nuclear power was being phased out. Then new materials, know-how, and sheer need rekindled interest in this clean and reliable source of energy. NuScale Power's sole focus is on the development, construction, and operation of SMRs. Its power plant design, in fact, is the first and (still)…...

39+ min ago (360+ words) TEL AVIV, Israel, November 30, 2025--Fairgen launches Fairgen Check, an AI-powered quality firewall for research data that detects survey fraud and automates post-collection review. Fairgen Launches Fairgen Check, a Last-Line Quality Firewall for Research Data The company is expanding its platform with an independent, AI-powered quality layer built to modernize and standardize post-collection review for research providers. TEL AVIV, Israel, November 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fairgen, the research-technology company known for its AI-augmented synthetic data solutions used by organizations including Ifop, Big Village, Cint, YouGov, L'Or'al, and T-Mobile, announced the release of Fairgen Check, a new assurance layer that helps insights teams protect data integrity as fraud and low-quality responses accelerate across the industry. Built for insights providers, Fairgen Check acts as a final gatekeeper after data collection. It reviews any dataset through a system that combines statistical anomaly detection with advanced language…...

43+ min ago (240+ words) Nov 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has commuted the seven-year sentence of "former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile, with a "White House official on Sunday countering the claims at trial brought by the Biden "administration that led to Gentile's conviction last year. Founded in 2013, GPB Capital Holdings used investor funds to take stakes in automotive, retail and other types of companies. It paid out regular "annual distributions to investors "from returns on these holdings. Former President Joe Biden's Department of Justice convicted then-CEO Gentile of securities "fraud in August 2024 after an eight-week trial, saying GPB's use of investor capital to pay these proceeds instead of tapping into funds "from its current operations constituted a Ponzi scheme. Gentile was "sentenced in May. Following reporting of Gentile's sentence commutation, a White House official told Reuters the Biden administration's Ponzi scheme claim was…...

43+ min ago (470+ words) Best Buy (BBY) stock is getting attention after the company delivered an impressive third-quarter earnings beat and lifted its full-year outlook, which has caught the eye of many investors and analysts. See our latest analysis for Best Buy. Best Buy's recent quarterly win has injected new life into its share price, with a 3.7% weekly gain following upbeat earnings and raised guidance. While year-to-date share price return is still down 8%, investors seem more optimistic about the company's growth potential as strategic initiatives start to pay off and recent news rekindles momentum. If this renewed optimism has you considering other opportunities, now is the perfect time to discover fast growing stocks with high insider ownership With shares still down for the year, even after upbeat news and raised guidance, the big question is whether Best Buy's latest moves and future growth are…...

45+ min ago (643+ words) Wondering if Chipotle Mexican Grill is attractively priced at its current level, or if investors would be paying a premium? Many investors are asking the same question right now. Recently, the stock has experienced some dramatic swings, with a 9.1% jump in the past week and a 6.1% gain over the last 30 days. However, it is still down over 40% since the start of the year. Much of the recent attention has focused on Chipotle's plans to expand digital ordering, which has caught Wall Street's interest along with new partnerships in delivery and a series of high-profile store openings. These developments show the company's intent to adapt quickly in a fast-changing market and may influence how the stock is valued in the coming months. On our six-point valuation scorecard, Chipotle currently earns a score of 3 out of 6, indicating mixed signals for bargain hunters....

50+ min ago (712+ words) Jacob Cooper started Pizza Bagel NYC in February, and it's now bringing in more than $20,000 per month. Cooper started the business shortly after leaving his six-figure tech job without any experience in the restaurant industry. He also went all-in on the startup and raised the initial funds by tapping into his equity. "I sold my equity back to my previous company," Cooper told CNBC. Cooper shared what goes into operating a pizza bagel business in New York City and how he grew it so quickly. Fast Company Calls It a "Groundbreaking Step for the Creator Economy' " Investors Can Still Get In at $0.86/Share Cooper told CNBC that he was the CTO of a startup that he started in college before launching Pizza Bagel NYC. That position didn't teach him about commercial kitchens, but it gave him a lot of experience…...

51+ min ago (354+ words) This dominant company is a clear leader in the artificial intelligence race. The market isn't asking investors to pay a crazy valuation to own shares. Investing in technology companies can be a great way to generate strong long-term returns. There are some very disruptive, innovative, and dominant businesses in this sector, and investors would be wise to take a closer look to find any potential opportunities. With that being said, here's the smartest tech stock to buy with $1,000 right now. Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a top choice for tech-stock investors. The company is a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), just releasing its latest Gemini 3 Pro large language model, which has been very well-received. Alphabet also makes chips, runs a thriving cloud platform in Google Cloud that is very profitable and growing rapidly, and integrates AI into its user-facing…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (343+ words) By Ahmad Ghaddar, Alex Lawler and Olesya Astakhova LONDON/MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - OPEC+ countries agreed to maintain group-wide oil "output quotas for 2026 in a meeting on Sunday, and also agreed "on a mechanism to assess members' maximum oil production capacity, OPEC said in a statement. Eight OPEC+ countries," holding a separate meeting on Sunday, also have an agreement in principle to maintain a pause in their output hikes for the first quarter of 2026, an OPEC+ source and a person familiar with OPEC+ talks said earlier. The meeting of OPEC+, which pumps half "of the world's oil, "comes during a fresh U.S. effort to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, which could add to oil supply if sanctions on "Russia are eased. Ministers have started a series of online meetings, two sources said. If the peace deal fails, Russia could see its supply…...