Business / Finance
Costliest U.S. bond sale since 2001 is investor warning to Bessent
Interest on the public debt continues to be a key driver of the budget deficit. For the fiscal year to date, the tally is $1.17 trillion — a 15% increase.
Solana’s fee overhaul increases burn and makes resource hogs pay
Solana’s proposed fee overhaul would make resource-heavy transactions more expensive while cutting costs for simpler activity, and it increases the amount of SOL burned.
Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
Possible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwavesAndy Burnham’s government has said it will look at cutti…
Hunt for AI-proof trades turns convenience shops into hot stocks
Casey's is up more than 54% this year as investors pile into businesses built around everyday demand for fuel, food and staples.
‘Call Her Daddy’ host Alex Cooper’s Unwell beverage business is shutting down
On Wednesday, Unwell raised money from Hollywood super agent Patrick Whitesell that valued the entire business at $500 million. It will go somewhere else.
Phone data: Mother on trial for killing her kids searched about psychosis, hallucinations, suicide weeks before stranglings
The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that can alter a woman’s sense of reality.
Social Security is celebrating its 91st birthday. It won’t live to 100, watchdog warns
"Social Security won’t make it past age 97 as things currently stand," said the CRFB's Maya Macguineas. "At least not in its current form."
As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ growsBumble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if you mat…
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ economy pitch fizzles with midterm voters
Just 39% approve of Trump's job performance and only 30% back his handling of inflation as Republicans grow anxious about affordability messaging
Selena Gomez accused of fraud by mental-health startup investors
Five investors accuse Gomez and Wondermind co-founders of concealing the startup's financial distress for three years before its 2025 collapse
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ with Jared Kushner, Tony Blair heads to Middle East to salvage Gaza peace deal
Kushner and Blair arrive in Israel Sunday, then Cairo, after Netanyahu rejected Hamas disarmament terms Trump brokered
Ireland’s New AML Strategy Brings ‘Enhanced Checks’ on Private Crypto Wallets
The country's first strategy of its kind also brings stricter due diligence for firms dealing with overseas crypto companies.
ServiceNow CFO: Trillions are being spent on AI initiatives. Are companies asking these 3 key questions?
Businesses are under pressure to move fast and stay agile as they decide where to focus investments. Urgent decisions have to be made under uncertainty.
No, AI is not your employee
A strange language has crept into how we talk about artificial intelligence at work.
Gemini posts $108M Q2 net loss despite 37% revenue growth
Credit card and staking revenue drove Gemini’s services growth in Q2 as exchange revenue fell 38% and trading volume dropped by two-thirds.
Morning Minute: Tether Finally Gets An Audit
It seems Tether passed, putting an end to the longest-running open criticism of the leading stablecoin company.
Fear is fading across markets, be it bitcoin, stocks, gold or bonds
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 14, 2026
Selena Gomez sued for alleged fraud over mental health company
Investors say the actor and singer did not take an "active role" in the company as promised.
Shinhan Asset Management partners with Plume on tokenized fund pilot
Shinhan Asset Management and Plume will test a tokenized fund using a Korean won-denominated ultra-short-term bond fund as its underlying asset.
Trump family's World Liberty Financial delay plans to sell Maldives resort token
The token’s sale has been pushed back due to the Iran war disrupting travel in the region.
Bitcoin slips as U.S. inflation fails to spark gains, ETFs see August's first two-day drawdown
Spot bitcoin ETFs saw back-to-back outflows for the first time since late July as the largest cryptocurrency wiped out last week's gains and altcoins struggled to find direction.
US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’tConservative backlash was supposed to put an end to t…
A proposed clean-energy rule could shake up corporate America—and your portfolio
A proposed emissions-accounting overhaul could scramble corporate net-zero plans and the renewable-energy market.
Randall Lane probably didn’t break the law by accepting $6 million while working at Forbes, but he may still pay a price under a 140-year-old doctrine
A New York legal doctrine requiring employee loyalty could pose more risk to the fired Forbes editor than any criminal exposure.