Current price of Bitcoin for August 6, 2026
At 7:15 a.m. Eastern Time, the going rate for one Bitcoin (BTC) is $64,509.85. That’s $372.59 higher than yesterday morning’s level and about $50,500 below where it stood a year…
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Current price of Ethereum for August 6, 2026
At 7:15 a.m. Eastern Time, the current price of Ethereum (1 ETH) is $1,900.37. That’s a $28.16 increase from the prior day and roughly a $1,782 loss over the past…
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Weight-loss drug Wegovy made Novo Nordisk Europe’s most valuable company. Finding its next blockbuster drug is proving difficult
In 2023, Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk briefly surpassed the luxury conglomerate LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable company by market capitalization. Its share price was propelled upward by soaring sales of…
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Elizabeth Warren demands answers on the National Guard deployment, and finds the cost: $1.4 billion
The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress. Recommended Video The figure offers…
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Pentagon war game exposed a critical U.S. aluminum risk months before Iran attacks
Last summer, about 80 government officials and industry executives gathered in Washington to answer a key question: How would the US aluminum supply chain hold up in the event of…
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AI’s volatile power demand is damaging its own data centers
Rapid swings in AI data centers’ power demands are straining vital equipment, causing batteries, generators and cooling systems to malfunction or wear out far sooner than expected. Recommended Video As…
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SoftBank profits drop 18%, stock falls 4% in Tokyo
Technology investor SoftBank Group Corp. reported Thursday an 18% drop in fiscal first quarter profit, as higher costs offset its investment gains. Recommended Video SoftBank Group, which invests aggressively in artificial…
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Over a third of employers handed out ‘peanut butter raises’ this year—now, a quarter of bosses admit they’re losing top talent because of bad pay
Employees have long been sold the idea that working hard and outperforming their peers would lead to sizable pay hikes and title upgrades. But now, some companies are ditching merit-based…
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Are you committing tax fraud? New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s about to find out, all thanks to the pied-à-terre tax rollout
One of the unintended consequences—or benefits, depending on who you ask—of the pied-à-terre tax is it’s acting like an unofficial state auditor. Recommended Video The tax is meant to target…
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RWE’s $1.22B exit marks the latest in Trump’s billion-dollar offshore wind buyouts—now topping $3B to redirect developers to fossil fuels
The Trump administration’s trend of paying off offshore wind developers to cancel their projects continued Aug. 6 with the $1.22 billion agreement for RWE to nix its wind leases off…
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