“Louisiana wins again,” was the headline as Gov. Jeff Landry and Louisiana Economic Development trumpeted the official announcement of the $5.8 billion Hyundai steel plant planned for the Donaldsonville area of Ascension Parish. President Donald Trump hosted Landry and several elected officials in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to deliver the monumental news
Shares of Trump Media jumped in after-hours trading on Monday after the president’s social media company announced an agreement with Crypto.com to launch ETFs and related products. The arrangement mirrors Trump’s licensing deals, in which other companies roll out products using the Trump brand. The stock was down 38% for the year as of Monday’s
Crypto asset manager and research firm CoinShares says institutional investors poured millions of dollars into digital asset investment vehicles last week. In its latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report, CoinShares says crypto products finally snapped their worst run of investor outflows in 10 years. “Digital asset investment products saw a reversal last week, breaking a
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is predicting crypto adoption will soar this year as US President Donald Trump embraces the industry. In a new interview with Fox Business, Garlinghouse says that since the United States is no longer stifling the crypto industry with unnecessary lawsuits and regulation by enforcement, the growth of the digital assets sector
Venture capitalist Chris Burniske says that it would only take one day of positive action for the crypto market to suddenly reverse course. The investor tells his 324,300 followers on the social media platform X that he’s starting to see signs of life within longtail cryptocurrencies – or altcoins further out the risk curve –
The US government is asking victims of a recently busted crypto fraud scheme to come forward to collect their lost money. In a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, officials say they have recovered and cleared the title to $7 million of investment fraud proceeds using civil asset
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is ready to reset its relationship with the crypto industry, according to Commissioner Hester Peirce. The SEC’s new “Crypto Task Force” held its inaugural roundtable event on Friday, which brought together regulators, private-sector lawyers and digital asset firm executives. At the event, Peirce, a longtime crypto advocate, spoke
Benzinga | Detroit Free Press Wall Street remained on edge as investors adopted a cautious stance amid an increasingly uncertain economic outlook this past week. At its March meeting, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at 4.25%-4.50%, signaling “no rush” to adjust its monetary policy. Yet, the central bank’s latest economic projections painted a
A day after White House officials said the Education Department would administer the student loan program, President Donald Trump announced that the Small Business Administration would be taking over the $1.7 trillion portfolio. He told White House reporters that the move would happen “immediately,” though he didn’t say how that process would work. Currently, federal law
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was in Rockford on Friday to celebrate the $32 million expansion of the Rockford Mass Transit District downtown bus station and garage. The 18-month project that broke ground in November is being paid for from the Rebuild Illinois Capital Plan, a $45 billion capital improvement program. The program is also paying