Supreme Court Ruling Forces Trump to Scale Back New Global Tariffs to 10%
Supreme Court Sets Limits on Trump’s Trade Agenda President Donald Trump’s latest round of global tariffs came into force on Monday at a reduced rate of 10%, following a Supreme Court decision that blocked the administration’s effort to implement a...
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Bitcoin Slides Below $63,000 as Crypto Market Sells Off in ‘Extreme Fear’
Bitcoin fell to a low of $62,700 late Monday before recovering to $63,220 as of 1:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, according to The Block’s bitcoin price page. Over the past 24 hours, the asset declined 3.36%. The overall crypto market dropped...
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Step Finance to Shut Down After $40 Million Security Incident
Step Finance Closure and Impact on Subsidiaries Step Finance said on Monday it will wind down all operations after failing to recover from a January 31 exploit that removed $40 million from its treasury and fee wallets. In a post...
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Panama Annuls CK Hutchison Canal Terminal Contracts, Grants Interim Control to Maersk and MSC
Panama Restructures Control of Strategic Canal Terminals Panama has officially terminated existing contracts with CK Hutchison Holdings, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate with ties to China, for operating key terminals along the Panama Canal. The decision directly affects the governance of...
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IBM Shares Suffer Sharp Decline After Anthropic AI COBOL Announcement
Market Reaction to Anthropic’s COBOL Modernization Claim IBM experienced a severe single-day stock sell-off, described as its steepest daily decline since 2000. This move followed Anthropic’s announcement that its AI technology is capable of modernizing COBOL, a programming language deeply...
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