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Estée Lauder's Q4 sales fell 6% and EPS slumped 69% as China weakness persisted. The company sees another year of decline, forecasting flat to 2% lower sales in fiscal 2027.
Natural gas futures surged to a one-month high as Texas heat, a production dip, and near-record LNG exports tightened the balance. The 50-day moving average at $2.945 is the next resistance. Thursday's EIA storage report will test the rally's strength.
A misconfigured server exposed a fraud operation with 885K phone numbers, fake Trezor and Ledger apps, and a 13.6% hit rate on Crypto.com accounts. Rapid7 details the attack chain and implications for exchanges.
Navi Finserv's plan to enter LAP and merchant finance after raising $100M from Prosus tests its credit model as personal loans dominate 90% of its book.
A Seeking Alpha contributor says Carl Zeiss Meditec's recovery is underway. Fundamentals are improving. Risks from competition and currency remain.
Opening statements in Oakland as 29 states accuse Meta of hooking kids. Stock down 30% from highs. The jade lizard options trade sells both sides to collect premium with limited risk.
Starting construction before selling the old house does not automatically block Section 54 tax exemption, but courts focus on completion timing, not the start date.
X suspended a network of accounts accused of stealing creators' content and extracting $250K from revenue sharing. Nikita Bier forwarded the case to law enforcement.
Slotkin demands written assurances from Hegseth and Caine that no troops will be sent to polls, citing Trump's refusal to rule out nationalizing the midterm elections.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan made the case to White House officials and Wall Street leaders that moving $150 trillion in traditional assets on-chain is crypto's next growth phase. The Aug. 19 meeting also covered the CLARITY Act and CFTC innovation efforts.
Target CEO Michael Fiddelke said digital traffic from AI platforms is growing 3.5 times the industry rate. Food sales rose on a center-store overhaul. The retailer named its first chief AI officer.
Gold’s 3% surge boosted Kinross Gold 10.7% as dollar weakness and a Treasury bond-buyback acceleration drove inflows into the metal. The stock holds a Strong Alpha Score.
Stephanie Kelton challenged Per Bylund to find a hole in MMT's core theory. He published a peer-reviewed critique. Four years later, no one has seriously defended it.
Trump hosts Coinbase, Kraken, and Blockchain.com execs Wednesday as the long-awaited Clarity Act stalls until September. The SEC proposed its own crypto framework Tuesday.
SEBI bars Copthall Mauritius and Mansi Share and Stock Broking after finding they manipulated the Sensex closing auction for options profits on August 13.
HMRC sent 81,000 warning letters to crypto holders in the last year, a 25% jump. Token swaps are a blind spot. A new wave is due in July 2026.
Trump pauses 50% tariffs on $20B of Canadian goods for three days after a tentative deal. Canada's Carney cites progress, unresolved work. Final documents due Friday.
OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould said the agency will finalize GENIUS Act stablecoin rules by November, adjusting them based on industry feedback. The move comes as the OCC processes 40 de novo bank applications and 13 pending digital asset charters.
Eight months after launch, Pocket's hardware notetaker reaches $100M run rate. CEO Narisetti says 200K devices sold, eyes $1B run rate in two years.
A crypto token called $CYBERLEEK surged 5,800% in an hour, touching a $3.46 million cap, after a GTA VI gameplay leak. The cap later settled to $1.5 million.
The CFTC imposed multi-year trading and registration bans on Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, citing their cooperation in the FTX investigation. No financial penalties were ordered.
Standard Chartered and HSBC completed the first live cross-border transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger, connecting tokenized deposit systems across the two banks. Seventeen banks in the pilot group include Citi, BNP Paribas, BNY and MUFG.
The OCC targets November for a final stablecoin rule under the GENIUS Act after missing a July 2026 deadline. FDIC and NCUA have parallel proposals on the table.
Fintechs SoFi, Affirm, and Upstart rallied after the Treasury said it would double long-dated bond buybacks. The move ties to falling yields, not company news.
Switching from a regular mutual fund plan to a direct plan triggers a tax event. Capital gains are due in the year of the switch, advisors warn.
Swapiz's Telegram bot swaps 50-plus coins without KYC, clearing in 2-15 minutes. Unibot and Maestro hacks are the benchmark for chat-based trading risk.
Peso's P61.995 record intraday low raised inflation worries, drove P865.09 million of foreign outflows from Philippine stocks; Fed minutes due Aug. 19.
Digital bank borrowing intent jumped 11 points to 22%, the biggest gain among credit sources, even as financial outlook fell to 2023 lows.
Unitree shares jumped 600% on debut as China's humanoid sector races toward commercial reality. But the gap between viral demos and real-world work remains vast.
Gold futures climbed to $4,479.90. The dollar weakened ahead of the Fed's July minutes. Traders see a 67% chance of no rate hike in September.