Current price of Bitcoin for August 26, 2026
At 7:15 a.m. Eastern Time, one Bitcoin (BTC) is priced at $78,745.95. That’s down $365.69 from where it stood yesterday morning and roughly $33,000 lower than it was at this…
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Current price of silver as of Wednesday, August 26, 2026
As of 7:15 a.m. Eastern Time, silver traded at $68.55 per ounce. That’s up 38 cents from yesterday at this hour—and represents a gain of more than $29 over the…
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New York metro area touts $3.5 billion impact from World Cup, silent on full costs from transit overruns and hosting FIFA
On July 19, 80,663 packed MetLife Stadium to watch Argentina and Spain fight for the World Cup. And they weren’t alone: tens of thousands more filled bars and watch parties…
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Intuit hits a record milestone of $20 billion in revenue—and sets the stage for a strategic pullback
Good morning. Intuit closed fiscal 2026 with numbers that would make most software companies celebrate. But the company is entering fiscal 2027 with a different priority: rebuilding customer acquisition, even…
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Trump’s own trade chief downplays the Canada tariffs he’s escalating: ‘We don’t actually expect a huge impact’
President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada is escalating as the midterm elections approach, threatening Republican efforts to address voters’ economic concerns in a year when control of the U.S.…
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Polarized America united around one issue: the data centers powering the stock market and the biggest tech boom in decades
In rural eastern Nebraska, a technology revolution could rise from fields of corn and soybean in the form of new data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom. Recommended Video…
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Current price of gold as of August 26, 2026
At 8:55 a.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 26, gold was valued at $4,615 per ounce. That’s a $15 downtick from the same time yesterday and a $1,243 gain over the…
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Bill Gates wants to tax robots to deter businesses from replacing humans with machines
Workers are concerned that they’ll lose their jobs to AI—and Bill Gates thinks they are right to worry. He has identified a loophole which may be incentivizing businesses to shift…
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Saudi brothers mint billion-dollar fortune from AI boom
Two Saudi brothers have amassed a fortune of about $1.4 billion as the technology company they control rides the kingdom’s multibillion-dollar push to build artificial intelligence infrastructure. Recommended Video Al…
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Scott Bessent, Stanley Druckenmiller and a hedge-fund legend hoist on his own petard
A Shakespearean saga is playing out between the White House, Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street—and Scott Bessent, to paraphrase Shakespeare, is being hoist on his own hedge-fund…
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