Bitcoin (BTC) attempted a rebound past $90,000 at Wednesday’s Wall Street open as markets awaited US macro cues. Key points: Bitcoin struggles to hold a $90,000 uptick as gold surges and US dollar strength crumbles. The Federal Reserve interest-rate decision sees flat moves on stocks. Bitcoin traders sit and wait for an inevitable range breakout. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britons, we are frequently told, just don’t have it in us to risk our hard-earned cash on spicy endeavours such as speculating on stock markets. Unlike our American cousins, we are supposedly too timid, too … Read more
If stylist Andrew Mukamal helped set in motion the phenomenon of method dressing–a form of dress that directly nods to themes and motifs drawn from a performer’s role—while styling Margot Robbie for the Barbie red carpets in 2023, his treatment of Wuthering Heights is a little less literal and a little more, well, literary. Rather … Read more
Fox We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Jerry Seinfeld’s name may be on the title of “Seinfeld,” but he alone did not turn the show into an era-defining pillar of comedy. The true engine of the series was the remarkable chemistry between the … Read more
Fidelity Investments plans to launch a new stablecoin next month, marking a logical next step for the asset manager as it expands its digital-asset infrastructure following conditional approval for a national trust bank from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the Fidelity Digital Dollar, or FIDD, will be issued … Read more
This polished fall collection was the first one fully designed by the new team working with Emilie Martinsen-Kønigsfeldt. The creative director has said she wants to focus on what customers are responding to, and she’s interested in rethinking some of the tenets set by the house’s namesake founder. One of the Malene Birger’s signatures was … Read more
BlackRock is moving deeper into the “Bitcoin as a portfolio sleeve” trade, this time by packaging the flagship digital asset’s inherent volatility into distributable income. On Jan. 23, the $14 trillion asset management firm filed a registration statement for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. This is a fund designed to track BTC’s price (via … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US currency rebounded on Wednesday morning after US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration was still pursuing a “strong dollar policy” and was not seeking to intervene to boost the … Read more
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. If you hadn’t noticed, content owners are starting to … Read more
13,700 years ago was roughly when humans first started populating South America and rapidly spread around the continent. And, based on this discovery, the bacteria of the Treponema pallidum lineage were already diverse and capable of infecting people by then. This Late Pleistocene divergence, the authors note in their study, hints at the ancient pan-human … Read more