Current price of oil as of August 7, 2026
At 5:20 a.m. Eastern Time, oil was priced at $86.04 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a gain of…
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Current price of Ethereum for August 7, 2026
At 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the price of Ethereum (1 ETH) is $1,908.76. That represents a $8.39 jump from yesterday and roughly a $2,000 fall compared with one year ago.…
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Current price of Bitcoin for August 7, 2026
At 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the market price for a single Bitcoin (BTC) is $64,744.92. That’s a $235.07 jump from where it was trading yesterday morning and about $52,750 lower…
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ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance steps down after 14 years and will be replaced by the CFO, a company lifer
Longtime ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance will step down in September, remaining in the executive chairman role and opening the door for chief financial officer Andy O’Brien to take over as…
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Trump’s blockade of Cuba has created an upside-down world with 20-minute spurts of electricity access
A 20-minute burst of electricity is a small miracle in Havana nowadays — a miracle that sometimes comes at 3 a.m. Recommended Video That’s when 72-year-old Leidis Rodríguez frantically cooked beans after…
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I built Canada’s largest crypto company. But the business climate here made selling to Robinhood inevitable
When Robinhood agreed to buy WonderFi, the company I founded, some of Canada’s loudest voices argued that federal regulators should block the deal. WonderFi, they said, had become a strategic…
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‘You can say ‘nasty.’ But this is a question of Canadian jobs’: Carney stands up to Trump with tough talk
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that trade negotiations with the United States had turned “nasty” after President Donald Trump derided America’s neighbor and its leadership while threatening to…
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The economy has been weaker than we thought as jobs report reveals 23,000 deficit in July
U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last month, and Labor Department revisions shaved 103,000 jobs off payrolls in May and June. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% only because Americans…
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Top economists on ‘unexpected turbulence’ in the U.S. jobs market—the plane is coming in low and hitting a rough patch
Nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, badly missing consensus estimates that had called for a gain of roughly 80,000 to 90,000 jobs.…
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DOGE seems to have hallucinated government savings, like $1.7 billion from a contract it never canceled
Some of the savings touted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are incorrect or lack supporting evidence, according to federal auditors. Recommended Video DOGE began posting its estimated savings on a…
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