Topline The two Americans who survived a kidnapping and assault by armed men in Mexico are being treated in a hospital in Brownsville, Texas, officials said Tuesday, as the mystery continues about wha...
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MakerDAO proposes additional $750M in U.S Treasury Bond investments
MakerDAO has proposed allocating an additional $750M to invest in U.S Treasury bonds As of January 2023, this investment strategy had generated $2.1 million in lifetime fees MakerDAO, the decentralize...
U.S. Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear
HOUSTON—The boom in oil production that over the last decade made the U.S. the world’s largest producer is waning, suggesting the era of shale growth is nearing its peak. Frackers are hitting fewer bi...
U.S. agency moves over 9k BTC to Coinbase: Glassnode
Ad According to on-chain data, the US law enforcement agency moved 49,000 Bitcoin (BTC) — over $1 billion — during the early hours of March 8. On-chain data provider Glassnode reported that the US age...
U.S. stock futures unable to rebound from latest sell-off as more Powell talk looms
U.S. stock futures were struggling to recover from the latest sell-off as worries about a more hawkish Federal Reserve continued to push up bond yields. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500...
Court Approves Binance U.S to Purchase Assets of Insolvent Voyager
6 seconds ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Voyager will sell Binance the assets worth $1 billion under the supervision of a US court. The judge voiced his displeasure with the SEC’s decision to halt th...
Advocacy Group is Campaigning to Encourage U.S. Congress to Prioritize User Privacy
The initiative was taken to encourage new members of Congress to protect privacy rights. While championing end-to-end encryption and safeguarding personal data. On Tuesday, January 10th, Fight for the...
DeSantis Urges Biden To Let Unvaccinated Djokovic Enter U.S. For Miami Open
Topline Gov. Ron DeSantis is the latest Florida politician to urge the Biden Administration to allow unvaccinated Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic to enter the United States so he can play in the Mi...
U.S. Thinks Pro-Ukrainian Group Blew Up Nord Stream Pipelines, Report Says
Topline New U.S. intelligence indicates a pro-Ukrainian group was responsible for exploding the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines last year, U.S. officials told the New York Times, the first results o...
Hyping the China Threat Harms U.S. Security
No one who hasn’t been sleeping in a cave can have missed that U.S.-China relations are at a moment of dangerously high tensions. Just yesterday, Chinese President Xi Jin Ping stated that “Western cou...
Siemens Is Boosting U.S. Passenger Train Production With A $220 Million North Carolina Plant
A newly built Brightline passenger train awaits shipment from Siemens Mobility’s rail factory in Sacramento, California. Brightline, Siemens Mobility Siemens, which says it’s already the biggest...
Domestic Transparency Can Slow Resurgent Trade Protectionism
[The following article is a synopsis of a Hinrich Foundation Report published today, March 7, 2023.] For six decades following World War II, governments reduced tariffs progressively and agreed to rul...
Biden Leaves Oil And Gas Companies In The Lurch With Expiration Of 5-Year Lease Program
An offshore oil rig in twilight. getty A program intended to enable oil and gas development on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS) has expired, leaving domestic energy producers at a loss as to whe...
Fed Chair Testifies At U.S. Hearing, Says “Can Speed Up Rate Hikes If Needed”
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attended Capitol Hill today for the first day of his semiannual testimony on monetary policy. Addressing a panel of Congressional senate lawmakers, he assured that ...
U.S. stock futures inch higher ahead of Powell testimony
U.S. stock futures were a touch firmer on Tuesday, though trading was muted ahead of testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, ...
European companies showing ‘surprise resilience’ — and better value than the U.S.
A trader works as a screen displays the trading information for BlackRock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, October 14, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters LONDON — Eur...
How The U.S. And U.K. Are About To Kick Their Economies In The Stomach
This week President Biden will release his proposed budget for the next fiscal year. Next week Britain will do the same. The Conservative Party rules in London and the far-left Democratic Party holds ...
FTX episode illustrates need for ‘Home’ regulator: Top U.S Banking official
FTX illustrates need for a “unified home country supervisor,” according to acting comptroller Michael Hsu Hsu shared “important lessons for crypto” in his address on preserving public trust in traditi...
Voyager Bankruptcy Judge Expresses Skepticism Over U.S. SEC Objection to Binance US Deal
SEC Senior Trial Attorney William Uptegrove said Friday that SEC staff believed Binance US may be operating an unregistered securities exchange in the U.S., an assertion that Binance US objected to. O...
Atlassian And SiriusXM Conduct Major Layoffs
Satellite radio company SiriusXM announced Thursday it’s laying off 475 employees, while software giant Atlassian said it will cut 500 positions, following major layoffs at major tech companies, banks...
U.N. Chief Says World Is ‘300 Years Away’ From Gender Equity And Women’s Rights Are ‘Vanishing Before Our Eyes’
Topline Decades of global progress on women’s rights are “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned in an emotional speech at a U.N. Security Council meeting...
Over 100 Mass Shootings Have Hit U.S. So Far This Year—In Worst Start To Year In Decade
Topline Four separate shootings in four states on Sunday brought the number of mass shootings so far this year to 102, marking the earliest point in the year in at least a decade that mass shootings h...
U.S. SEC Alleges BKCoin Founder Of Misusing Funds On Vacations, Properties
In its most recent round of enforcement actions, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken emergency action against a cryptocurrency hedge fund and one of its co-founders concerning ...
Best And Worst S&P Sectors Over The Last 12 Months
A refinery in Los Angeles, California. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images. Getty Images The earth has seven continents, or so conventional geography says. Our solar system has nine planets (if you coun...
FTX Bankruptcy Examiner Denial Appealed by U.S. Government
The U.S. Trustee, a branch of the Department of Justice (DOJ), had previously argued that bankruptcy law requires an independent probe for any case of such magnitude, despite warnings that it could co...
U.S. stock futures retain Wall Street’s rally ahead of Powell testimony and jobs data
U.S. stock futures were steady early Monday, holding their latest rally ahead of testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and crucial jobs data later in the week. How are stock-index futures...
U.S. race for digital dollar fuels case for Bitcoin, says deVere Group CEO
With the U.S. government’s work on a potential digital dollar accelerating, meaning a digital greenback could soon be a reality in the U.S., the case for Bitcoin becomes “significantly stronger.” This...
Bybit U.S. Dollar Deposits ‘No Longer Available,’ Withdrawals Up To March 10 Only
Bybit has suspended U.S. dollar deposits using bank transfer owing to a partner-triggered service outage, the Dubai-headquartered crypto exchange announced. Bybit announced on its website that U.S. do...
Crypto Banking Firm BCB Readies U.S. Dollar Payments to Plug Silvergate Gap
The key differences between BLINC and SEN is that the former is multicurrency and isn’t tied to a single credit institution, such as a Silvergate or Signature Bank, Landsberg-Sadie said. It was not de...