Category: Business

  • Ex-NYSE President Tom Farley’s SPAC is merging with Bullish to make the deliberate crypto alternate public

    Ex-NYSE President Tom Farley’s SPAC is merging with Bullish to make the deliberate crypto alternate public

    Crypto start-up Bullish plans to go public for special purposes as part of a reverse merger with an acquisition company backed by Tom Farley, the former president of the New York Stock Exchange. Farley’s Far Peak Acquisition Corp. SPAC rose more than 2% in late morning trading on the news. The deal announced on Friday…

  • What the upcoming rubber ‘apocalypse’ means for the U.S. economic system

    What the upcoming rubber ‘apocalypse’ means for the U.S. economic system

    Rubber is a critical raw material needed for car tires, personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves, and many more everyday products. Anytime you’re going anywhere, you’re using rubber. Now, supply chain disruptions have thrown the rubber industry into a tailspin. “We could be on the cusp of a rubber apocalypse,” Ohio State University…

  • Bezos’ Blue Origin vs. Branson’s Virgin Galactic

    Bezos’ Blue Origin vs. Branson’s Virgin Galactic

    Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson (L) and Blue Origin’s founder Jeff Bezos. Getty Images Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are set to launch themselves just weeks apart, but the exact boundary and experience of their spaceflights has become a point of contention. Branson’s Virgin Galactic flies above 80 kilometers (or about 262,00 feet), which is…

  • FDA requires federal investigation into approval

    FDA requires federal investigation into approval

    Biogen shares fell Friday after the chief of the Food and Drug Administration called for an investigation into the company’s recent approval of the company’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm. Acting FDA commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock asked the Office of the Inspector General to investigate interactions between the US agency and Biogen officials prior to the drug’s…

  • McDonald’s Minimal Wage Rise and the Way forward for the Quick Meals Franchise

    McDonald’s Minimal Wage Rise and the Way forward for the Quick Meals Franchise

    Employees work at the counter of a McDonald’s restaurant in the company’s new corporate headquarters on June 4, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images For Tom Locke, his turning point in employee wages came back in March during a conversation with a tired store manager, Heidi, in Coventry…

  • Trevor Bauer Prolonged Trip on Dodger Pitcherger Intercourse Crime Investigation

    Trevor Bauer Prolonged Trip on Dodger Pitcherger Intercourse Crime Investigation

    Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Trevor Bauer (27) reacts in the sixth inning of the MLB game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 28, 2021 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California. Kiyoshi Mio | Sportswire icon | Getty Images Major League Baseball extended the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher…

  • No proof a booster shot is required, says Dr. Ashish Jha

    No proof a booster shot is required, says Dr. Ashish Jha

    There’s no need for Covid booster doses right now, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health said Friday, as highly transmissible, new variants test the protections of the available vaccines. “Let me tell you where we are: the data is very clear, if you’ve gotten your two shots of Moderna  or Pfizer  or…

  • The ultimate NHL Stanley Cup sport on NBC drew 3.6 million viewers

    The ultimate NHL Stanley Cup sport on NBC drew 3.6 million viewers

    Steven Stamkos # 91 of the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrates in the locker room with the Stanley Cup after the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens in game five to win the best of seven series 4-1 in the 2021 Stanley Cup Final Cup Playoffs at Amalie Arena on July 7, 2021 in Tampa,…

  • Subsequent week units the tone for the whole profitable season

    Subsequent week units the tone for the whole profitable season

    CNBC’s Jim Cramer looked ahead to the start of the reporting season on Friday, focusing on quarterly reports from major banks and other companies in the food and travel industries. The Mad Money host’s outlook came after Wall Street stocks rallied sharply to rebound from Thursday’s big sell-off, which helped big averages end the week…

  • “Black Widow” grossed $ 13.2 million in field workplace on Thursday

    “Black Widow” grossed $ 13.2 million in field workplace on Thursday

    Scarlett Johansson plays Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow, in Marvel’s “Black Widow”. Disney | wonder “Black Widow” sold $ 13.2 million in preview tickets Thursday, raising the box office bar of the pandemic era. The Marvel movie is expected to gross between $ 80 million and $ 110 million in box office revenue this weekend.…