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HADERA, Israel AP  —  Israeli police on Tuesday scoured the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark in an area that has long seen close encounters between marine predators and beachgoers who sometimes seek them out. A shiver of endangered dusky and sandbar sharks has been swimming close to the area for years, attracting onlookers who approach the sharks, drawing pleas from conservation groups for authorities to separate people from the wild animal. Nature groups say those warnings went unheeded. Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that…

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Twenty One Capital, a new Bitcoin treasury company led by Strike founder Jack Mallers with the support of Tether, SoftBank and Cantor Fitzgerald, is looking to supplant Michael Saylor’s Strategy to become the “superior vehicle for investors seeking capital-efficient Bitcoin exposure.”Twenty One revealed it plans to launch with 42,000 Bitcoin (BTC) (worth $3.9 billion) with roughly 23,950 BTC coming from Tether, 10,500 BTC from Softbank and 7,000 BTC from Bitfinex, which will be converted into equity at $10 per share, according to an April 23 statement.The firm is seeking a public listing via a blank-check merger with Cantor Equity Partners…

With affiliate tracking facing an increasing number of challenges, Awin CEO Adam Ross shares a new approach that aims to address these issues.PI Live Europe is one of the biggest affiliate marketing events in the industry calendar. So, it was good timing for Awin to unveil its brand new approach to tracking, the Conversion Protection Initiative.  Designed to encourage wide adoption of the very best tracking methods from Awin’s customer base, the CPI was warmly received by the industry. In his keynote session Adam explains more about the reasons for taking this approach, the mechanics of how it will work…

WILLEMSTAD – The idea of a waste-to-energy plant on Curaçao that burns waste to generate electricity remains out of reach, at least for the foreseeable future. According to John Amarica from the waste management company Selikor, studies have shown that such an installation near the Malpais landfill would be financially unviable.  In a presentation as part of a new awareness campaign, Amarica explained that the costs to make such a plant operational are disproportionate to what Aqualectra, the island’s energy provider, currently pays for electricity production. He highlighted that Aqualectra would have to pay nearly 0.80 cents per kilowatt-hour for…

CNN  —  A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran concluded on Saturday, with both sides indicating progress. Delegations from both countries met in Rome for negotiations following an initial round in Oman last weekend. The Gulf Arab nation has mediated both rounds of the indirect talks, including an upcoming third high-level round expected in Oman on Saturday. The Trump administration expressed optimism following the latest talks, pointing to “very good progress” and saying the parties had “agreed to meet again” next week. “Today, in Rome, over four hours in our second round of talks, we…

Sovereign wealth funds and other institutions were accumulating Bitcoin (BTC) during April 2025, while retail traders were exiting the markets via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and spot markets, according to John D’Agostino, the head of strategy at Coinbase Institutional.During a recent appearance on CNBC, the Coinbase executive likened Bitcoin to gold and said that many institutional buyers bought BTC as a hedge against currency inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty. The Coinbase executive said:”Bitcoin is trading on its core characteristics, which again are similar to gold. You’ve got scarcity, immutability, and non-sovereign asset portability. So it’s trading the way people who believe in…

Stock Chart IconStock chart iconUber’s year-to-date stock performance.Uber: “I lie Uber very much. I think it goes higher. hold it for multiple years.”Stock Chart IconStock chart iconVestis’s year-to-date stock performance.Vestis: “We like Centas here. Not Vestis people, we’re Centas people.”Stock Chart IconStock chart iconPaycom’s year-to-date stock performance.Paycom: “That’s a good space.”Stock Chart IconStock chart iconInteractive Brokers Group’s year-to-date stock performance.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconArista Networks’ year-to-date stock performance.Arista Networks: “Arista Networks is down way too much…I want to buy it right here at $70.”Stock Chart IconStock chart iconCRH’s year-to-date stock performance.CRH: “Building materials right now is not the place to…

In a Wednesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik said the growth of the U.S.’s electric load is the largest since the industrial boom that followed the end of the second world war.”You’ve got to go back to 1945 and the end of World War II, that’s the infrastructure buildout that we’re going to have,” he said. “The economic growth, but also for national security, we needed to build the electric power system. For both reasons, we need to do it again now, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.”Strazik claimed that over the last…

Traders are embracing diametrically opposed exchange-traded fund (ETF) strategies in a bid to navigate one of the most unpredictable financial markets in recent history, according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence. The year-to-date has seen record inflows to ETFs providing leveraged long exposure to volatile assets such as stocks and cryptocurrencies, as well as funds holding risk-off assets such as cash and gold, the data shows. “[T]here’s basically record flows going into leveraged long ETFs but also cash and gold ETFs as people buy the dip and hedge the dip at the same time. May the best degen win!,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric…