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Zimbabwe requires crypto businesses to register with the FIU and pay $500 a year or face criminal charges. The move ends a de facto ban on the sector.
Colombia hosts 2.8M Venezuelans; Haiti's IDP count jumps 38% to 1.4M. The displacement wave alters labor supply across five economies. Watch regularization renewal rates.
Dapple closes $30M seed round from Raptor Group and Ion Pacific for its single-tenant AI infrastructure OS, with enterprise customers already live.
QVC sells the Sharper Image Portable Cold Plunge Ice Bath for $49.98. New customers save $20 with code WELCOME20, making it $37.48 shipped today only.
Meta's $10B Louisiana data center drives a sales-tax surge that funds teacher bonuses of up to $50,935 in Richland Parish. The payouts can exceed some teachers' annual salaries and have become a flashpoint in the national debate over AI infrastructure.
Flux, a code-first engineering intelligence platform, raised $5M led by Calibrate Ventures. The funding will accelerate product development and go-to-market as AI reshapes software.
Tim Ferriss's five bestsellers sold 57% fewer print copies in Q1 2026. He blames LLMs. The same pressure is hitting the NYT and every prescriptive nonfiction publisher.
BTIG initiated ONE Gas as a Buy, betting on large load demand from data centers and industrial plants for baseload and backup natural gas power. The regulated utility’s pipeline of projects may drive a re-rating.
Former CFTC chair Gary Gensler says sports-betting contracts on prediction markets are not swaps. He filed an amicus brief in the Kalshi case, arguing the agency overstepped. The appeals court will decide who regulates these contracts.
Lennar cut its fiscal 2026 delivery forecast to 82K-83K homes while Q2 gross margins widened and incentives eased. Q3 EPS guidance of $1.20-$1.40 trails year-ago $1.92.
Kevin O'Leary wants to build a $30-40 billion data center in the U.S., calling compute power a national security issue. He says China is building faster.
JD Vance and Usha Vance have moved into the vice president's official residence at Number One Observatory Circle. The 9,000-square-foot home on the US Naval Observatory grounds includes a tennis court, pool, and bowling alley.
SpaceX began trading under ticker SPCX at $150, hitting $176 a share by Friday afternoon. The IPO gives Elon Musk two top-10 companies by market value.
Blockchain fixes ESG's verification gap by creating tamper-resistant, traceable records for supply chains, emissions, and labor standards without the crypto hype.
Zimbabwe mandates annual crypto registration with the FIU at $500 per year, making unlicensed operation a criminal offense. The rules apply to exchanges, custodians, and wallet providers.
Blockworks paid just over $10M for Messari, a 97% discount from its $300M peak. The deal combines two major crypto data platforms.
At CHF BC's Spring Forum, co-op members discussed rising costs, expiring operating agreements, and the push for federal capital grants ahead of the 2026 National Housing Strategy.
Blockworks acquired crypto analytics rival Messari for more than $10 million, a fraction of the $300 million valuation the firm commanded in 2022.
MBX's once-weekly canvuparatide normalized bone turnover at one year in a Phase II extension. The data support a Phase III start in H2 2026. Alpha Score 54.
Regeneron's June 12 slide deck shows Dupixent growth slowing and Eylea HD under pressure. With an Alpha Score of 49, the pipeline timeline is the key variable.
John Hancock's 529 portfolio beat its benchmark in Q1 as real assets outperformed. The T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund lagged on sector underweights. The real-asset overweight signals conviction on inflation risk near the 2027 target date.
Citi finalized the sale of its Polish consumer banking franchise to Velobank, transferring 1,600 employees. The exit is the 10th of 14 as CEO Fraser simplifies. A Banamex IPO is the next catalyst.
Epiroc's investor day slides target high single-digit growth through 2028, with aftermarket services and automation as the core earnings drivers. The deck shows a pipeline of copper and gold mine orders, plus a gradual shift to battery-electric underground vehicles.
KuCoin faces contempt proceedings after ignoring a Seychelles Supreme Court order to return $2M in USDT to a Swiss investor who said the exchange froze his account.
Federal prosecutors allege Misam Abidi ran Star Credit Holdings as a Ponzi scheme, using new investor money to pay earlier participants and personal expenses.
Equinor's record 2025 production and buyback plans clash with falling ROACE and transition spending. The 13.8x forward P/E reflects the tension.
Cosan trades at a steep NAV discount as deleveraging and a Brazil rate cycle shift create rerating potential. The bull case hinges on infrastructure assets priced for distress.
SpaceX could triple revenue by 2027 on Starlink growth, Starship launches, and AI infrastructure demand, Renaissance Capital's Matt Kennedy said.
Canada and France signed a classified data-sharing deal covering defense, space, AI and aerospace. The agreement puts Lockheed's F-35 order and Canadian LNG exports in play as Carney deepens European ties.
AstroKick folded after burning $4.2M on astrology-based football analytics. Investors say the failure won't stop sports-tech bets, but due diligence is tightening.