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A truck-bed coating company, a UFC birthday party, and an algae bloom: Inside Trump's $14 million Reflecting Pool fiasco
47+ min ago (455+ words) A truck-bed coating company and an algae bloom: Inside Trump's $14 million Reflecting Pool fiasco Fortune A truck-bed coating company, a UFC birthday party, and an algae bloom: Inside Trump's $14 million Reflecting Pool fiasco President Trump's high-profile renovation of the Lincoln…...
Former Iran director at NSC: Crypto legislation is a ticket to sanctions evasionv
33+ min ago (401+ words) Richard'Nephew is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and Bernstein Adjunct Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He previously served as the inaugural Coordinator for Global Anticorruption at the…...
Current price of Bitcoin for July 2, 2026
11+ hour, 55+ min ago (858+ words) At 10 a. m. Eastern Time today, the going rate for one Bitcoin (BTC) is $61, 865. 24. That's $3, 587. 01 higher than yesterday morning's level and about $47, 000 below where it stood a year ago. Bitcoin holds the distinction of being the original cryptocurrency and remains the most…...
Trump stopped talking about these media stocks, but his portfolio didn't stop trading them
37+ min ago (411+ words) Of the seven Fortune 500 companies in President Trump's disclosed investment portfolio that also turn up somewhere in his public statements this year, five drew a clear 2026 comment from him: Apple, Nvidia, Boeing, Meta, and Disney " the last of which extends…...
Current price of Ethereum for July 2, 2026
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (1074+ words) At 10 a. m. Eastern Time today, the current price of Ethereum (1 ETH) is $1, 708. 06. That's a $144. 30 increase from yesterday and roughly an $860 loss over the past year. In terms of market cap, Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency'currently valued at around $233 billion. That's well…...
Why CFOs should pay attention to Open USD'the new stablecoin backed by more than 140 companies
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (759+ words) Good morning. For CFOs across banks, payments companies, and nonbank lenders, Open Standard's upcoming launch of Open USD, a new stablecoin for global money movement, deserves more than a cursory glance at yet another stablecoin brand. With more than 140 financial…...
Current price of oil as of July 2, 2026
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (608+ words) By 9: 40 a. m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $71. 53 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That's $1. 15 less than it cost yesterday morning and about $1. 29 above its price a year earlier. Oil prices are inherently unpredictable. While many variables come into play,…...
'A witches' brew': Washington's ethics establishment reacts to Trump's $2. 2 billion windfall'they're shocked but not surprised
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (174+ words) The disclosure of President Trump's 2025 income " $2. 2 billion, more than $1 billion of it from crypto " is shocking to the old DC establishment. But it's not surprising. The numbers are categorically different from anything American public life has seen before, and the…...
Economy disappoints with half as many jobs created in June, and May and April gains revised downward
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (496+ words) U. S. employers pulled back on hiring last month and added only 57, 000 jobs, less than half the'previous month's total'and a sign companies still have a cautious economic outlook. The Labor Department'said Thursday'that the unemployment rate declined to a low 4. 2% from 4. 3% in May,…...
Why build AI data centers in a cornfield when Saudi Arabia has cheap oil and cheaper power?
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (498+ words) Douglas's sharpest critique wasn't about Meta's strategy'it was about the economics of building AI infrastructure in the U. S. at all, a dynamic he thinks investors are underpricing. "I think data center capacity in the United States is not going to age…...