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Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval Widely Expected Today

Bitcoin – Symbol – Investors The Securities and Exchange Commision is widely expected to approve the creation and trading of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund, a decision that may unleash billions of dollars into a new investment vehicle and expose a new cohort of investors to the gyrations of crypto investing. “Happy ETF Approval Day […]

Trump Ballot Challenges Advance, Varying Widely in Strategy and Sophistication

CONCORD, N.H. — John Anthony Castro, a 40-year-old Texan, long-shot Republican presidential candidate and the most prolific challenger of Donald Trump’s eligibility to be president, has gone to court in at least 27 states trying to remove the former president from the ballot. On Wednesday, Castro found himself in a mostly empty courthouse in New […]

Why the most widely anticipated recession in history never came

In the final Federal Reserve press conference of 2023, Fed chair Jerome Powell took a victory lap of sorts. Economists — including those on the Fed’s own staff — had widely expected a recession this year as the central bank raised interest rates to bring down persistently high inflation. The economic downturn never came, though. […]