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Vivakor reset its special dividend payment to September 5, 2026, citing administrative and regulatory steps. The spin-off delay is a yellow flag for execution risk.
Oneok, Sun Communities, and Accenture each pay a rising dividend and trade cheap for different reasons. The AI sell-off is the wrong place to look for income.
Ostium offers equity perpetual futures using direct Nasdaq feeds, bypassing oracles and closing a trust gap. SEC approval lets tokenized shares trade alongside traditional ones on the same order book.
Vertex's CF monopoly funds a broad pipeline. Pain, sickle cell, and renal data readouts over the next 12 months will test whether the company can become a multi-product biotech.
Retail gold sentiment hasn't reached the extreme lows that historically mark bottoms, a Seeking Alpha analyst writes. The decline may need more selling before a durable floor forms.
Webull Canada received CIRO approval to offer Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other crypto trading. Beta access starts in the coming weeks with low, transparent pricing.
OKX launched beta of an AI marketplace where developers list agents and agents bid on tasks, with payments settled onchain via escrow or pay-per-call. Reputation tracks across transactions.
GIG shares hit a 52-week high on Tadawul on June 30, with volume double the average. The rally comes ahead of Q2 earnings and follows a regional restructuring that lifted return on equity to 14.2%.
MLM published a slide deck for its M&A call on June 30, 2026. The deck requires JavaScript to view. Alpha Score 44.
OKX's AI marketplace lets autonomous agents hire each other and settle in stablecoins. CEO Star Xu sees one-person companies generating $1M annually. Partners include Opentensor Foundation, CertiK, and GenLayer.
Compliance roles now account for 10.4% of crypto job postings, up from zero in 2023. Exchanges lead the hiring push at 16% of their openings. Gaming and NFT hiring collapsed to 2.4%.
RedotPay picks OpenPayd to handle treasury and cross-border payments using stablecoins. The partnership makes stablecoin rails a bridge between local fiat and digital currencies.
Canada GDP rose 0.5% mom in April, beating the 0.4% consensus, after March's 0.1% contraction. May advance estimate shows 0.1% growth. The data gives the Bank of Canada room to hold rates steady at the July 24 meeting.
As MiCA's July 1 deadline nears, crypto firms are choosing Dubai's faster VARA license over the EU's 27-state passporting process, shifting liquidity and compliance hubs eastward.
SpaceX's $75B IPO pulls capital from crypto as BTC drops 37% from highs. Binance pre-IPO perpetuals fuel retail rotation. Arthur Hayes warns AI stocks are crowding out Bitcoin.
Australian regulator ACCC is suing Amazon over Prime Video ads, saying it forced existing subscribers to pay extra to skip ads. More than 1 million affected. Amazon rose 3.2%.
Vyriy Drone keeps some assembly lines manual so it can retool in hours, not weeks, as Russian jamming tactics shift. The trade-off: slower output for faster adaptation.
Bullish (BLSH) won Gibraltar regulatory approval to offer tokenized securities trading, placing it in a growing market alongside Securitize and Backed. No launch date set.
PJ's Coffee adds three craft sodas and a patriotic Firecracker Lemonade for $2.50, available July 1 through Aug. 3. The New Orleans chain expands summer menu with handcrafted drinks.
Methanex lowered its July ACP by $120 to $620, the lowest since January, citing weak demand and a supply glut. The cut pressures second-half revenue.
The Smoked Taco opens its 8th Utah location July 8 in Sandy, featuring a new Nashville Hot Chicken taco for $4.95. The chain uses 12-hour smoked meats and cheese-crusted tortillas.
CFO says input costs softening after West Asia tensions ease; Q1 and Q2 earnings still hit. Expansion plans on track with ₹10,000 crore capex.
Mirae Asset launched MAPS in Hong Kong on June 27, letting retail investors trade stocks and crypto from one app. The firm plans to expand into the US, Japan, and Singapore. Execution across two regulatory regimes is the key risk to watch.
Binance listed tokenized Microsoft and Meta stocks as the RWA market hit $347B. The bStocks are depositary receipts with no shareholder rights.
Petrobras agreed to buy a 50% stake in the Itaimbezinho block from Equinor, securing pre-salt exposure in the Campos Basin. The deal fits a $11 billion exploration budget.
The joint venture targets 3,000 metric tons of annual capacity by 2028, aiming to counter China's 90% grip on permanent magnet production.
Baker Hughes won a 13-year contract from Nigeria LNG to service turbomachinery at the Bonny Island facility. The deal supports Train 7 expansion and underlines the company's gas services strength.
Saudi FDI inflows fell 2.4% YoY to SAR 23.1B in Q1 2026. At the current run rate, annualized inflows would reach roughly SAR 92.4B, far short of the Vision 2030 target of SAR 388B.
Wedbush says Apple's push to import Chinese memory chips faces supply constraints and political headwinds, offering only narrow relief to production shortages.