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Amir Orad, chief executive of Kraken, said becoming an independent company would give the business ‘the focus and freedom to scale’ © Kraken Octopus Energy has reached a deal to sell a minority stake in its Kraken Technologies unit, a transaction that would value the software business at $8.65bn and pave the way for its…
I love a good deal — it’s literally my job — but even I feel deal fatigue. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I’ll ever tire of saving money, but whenever this time of year rolls around, it seems like we’re bombarded with sale messaging 24/7 — and Black Friday is still two weeks…
Freezing dormant bitcoin BTC$76,721.06 would trigger an immediate repricing and mark one of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency’s worst trading days since its 2009 launch, advocates told CoinDesk. Bitcoin developers and crypto industry participants have debated for weeks whether they should freeze dormant tokens to protect them against the risk of theft through quantum computing, whenever…
WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell by 13,000 last week, remaining in the same historically healthy range of the past few years even as concerns grow about the health of the labor market. The number of Americans applying for jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 13 declined by 13,000 to 224,000 from…
A federal judge late Friday put a hold on the $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar Media Group and Tegna, a deal that would create the largest operator of local television stations in the country. U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley in California granted a request from DirecTV, which argued in a lawsuit that the pending…
The 6-month Treasury yield sees Fed on hold in December. Cutting rates as inflation accelerates is a delicate operation that the bond market isn’t fond of. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The 10-year Treasury yield closed on Friday at 4.11%, essentially where it had been for seven trading days, up by 12 basis points from October 28,…