Author: Charlotte

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) finds itself at the heart of America’s domestic semiconductor strategy after the U.S. government converted a portion of its CHIPS Act support into a direct equity stake in the company. The move creates a new public shareholder in Intel with policy interests explicitly tied to the revival of domestic chip production and advanced manufacturing capacity. Intel has simultaneously announced a new AI partnership with Google focused on long-term AI workloads, adding one of the world’s most influential cloud computing firms to its growing roster of clients. A separate deal with Tesla’s TeraFab unit targets semiconductor foundry improvements,…

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Online Scalping Runs Rampant: Tickets Sold for Multiple Times Face Value on Platforms Stricter Club Enforcement Leads to Penalties for Well-Meaning Fans Anti-Scalping Act to Take Effect in August: Need for Clear Criteria to Distinguish Scalpers “I have never sold scalped tickets, but my account was suspended for two years.”A devoted fan of the Samsung Lions professional baseball team, Mr. Jeong (age 27), was recently hit with a two-year account suspension and the revocation of his Silver membership status by the club. This happened after a ticket he had transferred to another fan at face value ended up being resold…

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iCapital, the alternative investment fintech, is integrating its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform with UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), one of the largest US fund administrators. UMBFS is a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation. The DLT platform standardizes data and automates workflows across the alternatives ecosystem, creating a shared record of transactions that reduces the need for reconciliations between participants. Rather than tokenization, the focus is on streamlining the operational processes that underpin the fund lifecycle. iCapital has previously onboarded two high profile wealth managers to the network: UBS Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. “As a transfer agent serving…

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An individual thought they were exposing United Airlines after they were looking at the price of a ticket, and due to dynamic pricing, the cost of the fare increased once the age was entered. The booking was being made for a domestic flight from Portland International Airport (PDX) to Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR), which initially it cost $752.20 but increased to $1,156.20. However, after closer investigation, the reason the ticket price jumped was that it went from economy to first class. The tracker noted that the age was entered and stated, “Based on traveler information provided, the price of…

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Demond Martin had “extraordinary breaks in life” that have helped him to become a leader in the health and wellness space. In 2024, the Harvard Business School alumnus spoke to an intimate audience at an event held in New Orleans during the week of the Essence Festival of Culture and reflected on his journey thus far. Already, he had served as an assistant to the White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration and spent just over two decades as a managing partner at Adage Capital Management, which he described as one of “the largest hedge funds in the…

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Bitcoin is trading around $64,000, per CoinDesk pricing data, still searching for a catalyst strong enough to break the range it has held for weeks. Selling from spot bitcoin ETFs has eased from earlier this month, but fresh institutional demand has yet to return.U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have now posted a sixth straight week of net outflows, data shows, with only a sparse few days of green. The scale has narrowed, but the absence of any sustained inflow shows institutions remain defensive as markets reassess the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate path.A bigger weight is the rebounding dollar. After the June meeting,…

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Houston-based Lonestar Electric Supply announced June 22 that its Industrial Supply business unit has launched Lonestar CORE — a new division focused on complex power infrastructure projects and capital investments. CORE stands for CapEx, Optimization, Reliability and Execution. Lonestar said the division is designed to support mission-critical projects across industrial, energy, technology, manufacturing and infrastructure markets in the U.S. and internationally. The new division will focus on power infrastructure projects where grid interconnection, generation and mission-critical systems require coordinated materials management. Lonestar said CORE will support customers in data centers, utility interconnection, combined-cycle generation, renewable energy and oil and gas…

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Food prices in the United States are rising at a historic pace, and have been since mid-2021. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the year ending in August 2022, the price of food paid by urban Americans increased by 11.4% (BLS, 2022). As shown in Figure 1, that annual increase is the highest on record since April 1979. In fact, each of the year-over-year food price inflation observations from May 2022–December 2022 exceeded 10%. Figure 1 shows that, when grouped by decade, average food price inflation in the 2020s more closely resembles the steep food price increases of the 1970s…

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