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Tesla shares have been cut in half since 14th April, the day Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter. Bill Mann discusses Delta Airlines projecting financial optimism in 2023, Moderna shares up 20% this week after promising results from a skin cancer treatment trial in combination with Merck, and Tesla shareholders being more nervous than before due to (among other things) Twitter taking more of CEO Elon Musk's time and attention. Plus, nearly 13 minutes in, Ricky Mulvey talks with Jack Caporal from The Ascent about the most popular financial New Year's resolutions and tips for keeping them. For more data on The Ascent's survey on financial resolutioins, click here: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/financial-new-years-resolutions/ Stocks mentioned: DAL, MRNA, MRK, TSLA. Holiday Music: White Christmas by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Host - Chris Hill; Guests - Bill Mann, Jack Caporal

A new 10-year deal with the London Stock Exchange sends shares of Microsoft higher. Jason Moser discusses the "win-win" deal between the two sides, how cloud services like Azure and AWS are becoming utilities, the short, not-so-happy public life of Weber Grill, and Peter Lynch's advice being a starting point (not a finish line) for investors. Plus, 12 minutes in, Ricky Mulvey talks with Eddie Alterman, host of the "Car Show" podcast, about the used car market and how GM is competing with Ferrari. Stocks mentioned: MSFT, LDNXF, AMZN, GOOG, GOOGL, WEBR, COOK, GM. Holiday Music: Sugar & Booze by Ana Gasteyer. Host - Chris Hill; Guests - Jason Moser, Eddie Alterman

Adam Cox is joined by Kevin Brown, from Scottish Friendly, to discuss new research which reveals parents’ ability to put money away for their children. They look how sensible it is to give children a Junior ISA as part of their Christmas financial gift, and how Junior ISA's can teach children about investing. https://www.scottishfriendly.co.uk/

Adam Cox is joined by tech and consumer expert Evelina Galli, from PriceRunner, to discuss how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting Brit's buying habits this Christmas. They discuss what products the public are buying more and less of this year, and Evelina gives her top tips for finding the best deals when Christmas shopping. https://www.pricerunner.com/

The Christmas/New Year fortnight is infamous for over-eating, and for some people it just doesn't seem right to leave food behind. Adam Cox invites us to visit the control room of our mind, where conscious links can be drawn between our appetite and the amount of physical exertion we undertake. Using this logic, he argues that overeating and excess for no other purpose is ridiculous: so some exercise to balance it out over the next fortnight might be worth considering!

Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor, despite being in a broken-down car in freezing weather, talked to Simon Rose about the latest interest-rate decisions from the Fed, the Bank of England and the ECB. With growth weakening, all three tilted away from a more hawkish position. In the UK, the pound and banks were lower ahead of the MPC's announcement while housebuilders were stronger because interest rate rises might not be as great as they might have been.

James Cameron-Wilson laments a 4th week of plunging box office, despite several old Christmas favourites reappearing. He recommends the true story of The Silent Twins (#23), finding it audacious, original and beautifully simple. Another pick is the DVD release of the exquisitely-made Emily with Emma Mackey about Emily Bronte, which he found intellectually daring and moving. And he also is keen on Netflix's The Swimmers, a true story about Syrian sisters, Olympic hopefuls, who refused to be deterred by the civil war.

Steve Caplin has a sackful of Christmas gift suggestions that should arrive before the holiday. For the extravagant, there's a 2-storey inflatable catamaran or a pimped iPhone 14 Pro Max. For the rest of us, choose between apps to produce spectacular portraits, a smart door lock, a space-saving Christmas tree, kitchen scales, a yodelling pickle, a rechargeable lantern, a travelling plug set, a folding fan, a belt for sailing through security, a suitcase to beat size restrictions and an app to keep track of all your online shopping.

Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the nurses' strike. When all solutions to the NHS's problems are difficult, he feels emphasis should be on patient outcomes. He looks at the new bullying claims against Dominic Raab, wondering why the relationship between government and the civil service has deteriorated so markedly. And he summarises an extraordinary year which, he says, shows just how the Conservatives have thrown away most of the advantages they held.

Last week's rather under-stated 'Edinburgh Reforms' will pave the way for a major step forward in the UK's contribution to global financial services. In what Mark Austin describes as a 'Darwinian evolution', this broad set of regulatory changes not only frees the City from decades of living under the European Union umbrella of directives, but also continues with measures to ease over-reaction following the 2008 financial crisis. Background Music: 'The New Order' by Aaron Kenny