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As the financial landscape has changed, you’ve probably heard of cryptocurrency — namely Bitcoin. But what exactly is Bitcoin, and why has it captured the attention of investors, technologists, and regulators alike?

Bitcoin was founded in 2009 by a person known by the alias “Satoshi Nakomoto” in a time period where mistrust of banks and financial institutions was running high after the Great Recession.

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During my adult life, I have never experienced what it’s like to live in a “good” economy. Starting with the global financial crash in 2008, which hit just as I began studying economics, the world seems to have lurched from crisis to crisis and the UK economy even more so.

Some of those crises,

 » Read more about: Four reasons why many of us feel the global economy is not on our side  »

Govt pins hopes on trade negotiations with the Trump administration later this week

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TOKYO :Sentiment in Japan’s service sector improved slightly in June, a government survey showed on Tuesday, as solid demand for summer clothing and leisure offset the gloom from U.S. tariffs.

But corporate bankruptcy cases in the first half of this year rose 2.4 per cent from a year earlier to hit a 12-year high of 5,003,

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It’s 1988, and somewhere in New York, a young financial analyst named Larry Fink is nursing a bruised ego and a $100 million loss. That catastrophic trade at First Boston would haunt him,

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In this article, we are going to discuss the 5 energy stocks billionaires are quietly piling into.

While the wider market is thriving and touching record highs at the moment, the overall energy sector seems to be lagging behind. As of the writing of this piece, the energy sector has declined by around 1% since the beginning of 2025,

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Wall Street was mixed in quiet trading early Tuesday as markets appeared to shrug off new tariff deadlines for U.S. trading partners.

Futures for the S&P 500 added 0.1% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.1%. Nasdaq futures rose 0.2%.

Markets tumbled Monday after President Donald Trump set a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea and new tariff rates on a dozen other nations scheduled to go into effect on Aug.

 » Read more about: Wall Street mixed early as markets shrug off Trump’s new tariff deadlines  »

Tesla (TSLA) bulls are hopping mad at CEO Elon Musk.

In their eyes, if he just devoted more time to the business and less to politics, Tesla would be back on track.

“We believe this is a tipping point in the Tesla story and ultimately the Tesla Board needs to act now and set the ground rules for Musk going forward around his political ambitions and actions,”

 » Read more about: Why Tesla is in trouble — aside from CEO Elon Musk's behavior  »

 » Read more about: Why This Fast-Growing Stock Is the One Nuclear Energy Stock to Buy  »