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Kalshi hit $13.5 million in a single day of World Cup trading fees on June 24, the latest data point in a regulatory contest that the CFTC's July 27 comment deadline has
Spot gold settled near $3,972 an ounce on Friday, its first close below $4,000 since November 2025. The breach came as the May PCE report pushed Fed rate-hike odds higher and Trump's Iran ceasefire framework drained gold's three-year war premium.
Inaugural Entertainment has set Nimrods, the Mason Thames and McKenna Grace road-trip comedy structured around a Green Day New Year's Eve gig hoax, for August 14, 2026 theatrical release with a new
Frank Bisignano touts record-low Social Security wait times, but the agency lost 7,000+ workers, the backlog grew, and a proposed rule would cut SSI benefits.
Drake's Iceman holds the Billboard 200's top spot for a third consecutive week with 171,000 equivalent album units, putting his fifth multi-week No. 1 within striking distance of a million units total
Baz Luhrmann's archival concert documentary EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is now streaming exclusively on Paramount+ in the United States, capping a $23 million theatrical run that began with a 2025 Toronto
Matt Damon confirmed in a Parade interview that he's always looking to revive Jason Bourne, saying the team is actively writing new story ideas and inviting pitches from anyone with a good
Elon Musk's SpaceX has set a $75 billion Nasdaq listing for September, the largest IPO in market history, and the immediate consequence for Hong Kong's $7 trillion equity market is a Q3
Awkwafina has joined the cast of Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, Disney's Alice-in-Wonderland-flavored sequel to The Rise of Red, with Kylie Cantrall returning as Red and a July 2026 Disney Channel and Disney+ premiere
Patrick Drahi's Altice France has signed a memorandum of understanding to sell SFR, the country's number-three mobile carrier, to a consortium of Bouygues Telecom, Orange and Iliad's Free for 20.4 billion euros,
Saturday Night Live cast member Ashley Padilla has been cast opposite Emma Stone and Chris Pine in The Catch, a Universal Pictures romantic comedy directed by Dave McCary and set for theatrical
Gold sits at $4,199 an ounce on Friday's close, down more than 20 percent from the January peak above $5,000, but State Street Investment Management's base case for end-2026 prints $4,750 to
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