The unexpected demise of Signature Bank over the weekend, on the heels of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, ignited a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later reaction among regional-bank investors as cu...
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Investors rush into bonds, gold in flight to safety after SVB rescue
A trader works on the floor during morning trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 10, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Investors flocked to safe-haven assets such a...
Swift’s phase two CBDC pilot program takes flight
Swift’s phase two CBDC pilot program is set to revolutionize cross-border payments by exploring the potential benefits and challenges of integrating digital currencies with Swift’s platform. Swift, th...
Passenger Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Stab Flight Attendant And Open Door On Boston-Bound Flight
Topline A 33-year-old man was arrested Sunday evening at Boston Logan International Airport after authorities said he tried to open an emergency exit door during a United Airlines flight from Los Ange...
Silvergate faces bankruptcy concerns amid capital flight
Crypto bank Silvergate may halt operations after it issued a warning last week stating it could be short of capital. Silvergate deposits drop by 42% Silvergate Capital Corp on Jan. 17 announced a stee...
Lufthansa—One Of Europe’s Biggest Airlines—Suffers Tech Outage Causing Flight Delays, Cancellations
Topline German flag carrier Lufthansa suffered a major computer outage on Wednesday, the company announced, triggering a global wave of travel disruption as flights are delayed and canceled while the ...
Putin Likely Supplied Missile System That Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight, Investigators Say
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin likely supplied the anti-aircraft missile system that was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, killing nearly 300 people, according to fin...
As Charlotte Airport Traffic Hits 48 Million, Its Flight Attendants Decry ‘Life In A Flow Chart.’
American Airlines flight attendants Laura Bibler and Jhett Parsons demonstrated in Charlotte on … [+] Tuesday. The airline had offered free chili at the airport. Ted Reed On the day that Charlot...
Tezos Takes Flight: Nomadic Labs “Mumbai” Proposal Set to Soar
The Mumbai proposal disables Transaction Optimistic Rollups (TORUs) on Mainnet. Tezos is a free and open-source blockchain platform that makes it easier to develop and maintain decentralized software ...
Elizabeth Holmes Booked A One-Way Flight To Mexico After Fraud Conviction, Prosecutors Say
Topline Shortly after disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud last year, she purchased a one-way trip to Mexico, prosecutors alleged Thursday in court documents opposing her...
Netflix is hiring a flight attendant for as much as $385,000 a year after cutting hundreds of jobs just 7 months ago
Despite cutting hundreds of jobs just last year, Netflix is looking to hire a flight attendant to work on the company’s private jet with a potential annual salary of over a quarter of a million dollar...
Flight disruptions ease after FAA outage, officials to investigate
Travelers as flights are cancelled at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Air travel disruptions ease...
All Domestic Flight Departures Paused Amid FAA System Outage—Here’s What We Know
Topline Flights across the United States have been massively disrupted Wednesday morning following a Federal Aviation Administration system outage, with airlines ordered to pause domestic departures a...
Flight Shaming Will Return In 2023
This young woman is shamed for taking a flight and contributing to global climate change. getty Flight shaming, the idea of of making people uncomfortable to continue flying, took off in Europe at the...
US Court orders detention of Mango Markets exploiter over flight risk
A U.S. district court has ordered the detention of Mango Markets’ exploiter Avraham Eisenberg over concerns that he may flee before the trial is finished. Avraham Eisenberg was arrested on Dec. 27 fo...
These two stocks could benefit from Southwest Airlines flight cancellations
Hotel stocks stand to benefit this quarter from the recent flight cancellations at Southwest Airlines Co, says Patrick Scholes. He’s an Equity Research Analyst at Truist Securities. Vail Resorts Inc c...
Flight Cancellations Top 10,000 As Feds ‘Examine’ Airline’s Historic Winter Storm Woes
Topline Following a chaotic holiday travel weekend, shares of Southwest Airlines plunged Tuesday morning as the carrier faced backlash over thousands of flight cancellations spurred by one of the wors...
Coinbase Predicts Investors Will Flock to Two Crypto Assets in 2023 As Flight to Quality Catches On
Coinbase crypto exchange is singling out two digital assets that will become a favorite with investors looking for quality. The US crypto exchange says in its 2023 Crypto Market Outlook report that on...
Twitter Suspends Multiple Accounts Tracking Billionaires’ Private Jets, Bans Sharing Of Publicly Available Flight Data
Topline Twitter on Wednesday banned several accounts which shared publicly available data on the locations of private jets belong to multiple billionaires, including Twitter CEO Elon Musk who said he ...
Bitcoin realized cap vs. market cap reveals shift in safety flight dynamics
An analysis of market cap and realized cap Bitcoin dominance (BTC.D) data performed by CryptoSlate suggests that users are increasingly using stablecoins, instead of BTC, as a safety flight. Most are ...
Coinbase Advises Clients to Convert Tether (USDT) Into Circle’s USDC, Cites ‘Flight to Safety’
Top US-based crypto exchange platform Coinbase is issuing a warning to its customers, advising them to convert their Tether (USDT) stablecoin holdings into USD Coin (USDC). In a new company blog post,...
Ripple price analysis: XRP/USD continues bullish flight as price touches $0.3923
Recent Ripple price analysis shows that the bulls have taken control of the market as prices surged past the $0.3900 level. The market is expected to continue this uptrend as long as the support at $0...
Why One Airline Is Banning Gray Hair (And More) For Flight Attendants
One airline is catching heat for forcing its flight attendants to spiff up. Air India has issued strict grooming requirements for cabin crew in an exhaustive 39-page handbook. The new rules include a ...
Odell Beckham Jr. Removed From Plane By Police After Flight Crew Raise Health Concern
Topline NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. was removed from an American Airlines flight by police on Sunday morning after he allegedly failed to follow instructions from the flight crew members who claimed th...
Rare Scotch whisky prices surge on investor flight to safety
Rare whiskies have emerged among the biggest beneficiaries as volatility in financial markets sparked a flight to safety and younger investors fuelled demand for tangible assets. Strong investor deman...
Envoy Air says pilot who was reported incapacitated during flight has died
An American Eagle Embraer 175 aircraft is seen on the tarmac through a plane window at LAX in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 10, 2018. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters An Envoy Air flight returned to ...
Flight Radar Report Shows FTX Co-Founder’s Private Jet Flew to Argentina, SBF Says He’s Still in the Bahamas – Bitcoin News
According to Flightradar24’s official Twitter account, the most tracked flight at 3:33 a.m. on Nov. 12, 2022, was Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) private jet flying from the Bahamas to Argentina. While the ...
Thanksgiving flight bookings down from 2019, but higher fares lift revenue
Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Nov. 9, 2022 Leslie Josephs | CNBC Consumers have booked fewer flights for Thanksgiving week than they did three years ago, before the Covid pandemic, accor...
Brian Amstrong Sees Bitcoin as a Flight to Safety Asset in 5 -10 Yrs
Besides the positive enthusiasm that has been recorded thus far over the past week, the digital currency ecosystem has lost some of its lusters in the year-to-date period with prices crashing more tha...
Want to book a flight but pay for it next year? Here’s how it works
Travel demand is still picking up, and so are the prices of flight tickets. Surging prices are causing some to cut back on spending, but others are finding new ways to pay for their holiday plans. Mo...