Andreessen Horowitz has raised more than $15 billion across five new funds less than two years after its last fundraising haul, the venture capital firm said on Friday, as large VC funds continue to attract capital to meet strong investor appetite for technology startups, amid the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, raised $6.75 billion for a growth fund aimed at scaling up startups, $1.7 billion for an AI infrastructure fund a

U.S. manufacturing jobs in December continued an eight-month skid that began last spring after President Donald Trump rolled out aggressive import taxes that he pledged would lead to a resurgence of blue-collar jobs by reshuffling world trade to favor U.S. workers. The reshuffling has certainly occurred, with the U.S. collecting around $30 billion a month in tariff revenue, spread among U.S. consumers, importers, and overseas exporting firms, and as firms first frontloaded g

U.S. household wealth hit a record high of more than $180 trillion in the third quarter of 2025 on the back of an AI-boom in the stock market and continued gains in home prices, data from the Federal Reserve showed on Friday. The net worth of households and nonprofits rose to $181.6 trillion at the end of September from $175.6 trillion at the end of the second quarter in July, the Fed said in its quarterly release of national accounts data. The release was delayed by data-ga