TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rivalry Corp. (the Company or Rivalry) (TSXV: RVLY) (OTCQX: RVLCF) (FSE: 9VK), the leading sportsbook and iGaming operator for digital-first players, today announced it has added U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s official cryptocurrency ˜$TRUMP’ as an accepted payment method. Ahead of the U.S. Presidential Inauguration on January 20th, Rivalry users are now able to deposit and wager using $TRUMP, a cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain which currently has a fully diluted value of over USD $30 billion. The addition of $TRUMP as a payment method on Rivalry comes less than 24 hours after the…
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By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – A ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is set to come into effect on Sunday morning with a hostage release to follow hours later, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East. The agreement followed months of on-off negotiations brokered by Egypt, Qatar and the United States, and came just ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The three-stage ceasefire will come into effect at 0630 GMT on Sunday. Its first stage will last six weeks, during…
New York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – January 18, 2025) – WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of common stock of Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:) between September 28, 2023 and December 18, 2024, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 10, 2025. SO WHAT: If you purchased Micron common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without…
Rebecca Noble / Stringer / Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump launched a cryptocurrency called $TRUMP on Friday night, taking the crypto world by storm and making some investors big money overnight. The token’s price surged to more than $33 at one point on Saturday afternoon, with a market capitalization surpassing $6 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. As of this writing, $TRUMP is trading for about $25, a nearly 293 percent price increase since its launch. About $TRUMP coin The $TRUMP crypto was built and operates on the Solana network and has a supply cap of 1 billion tokens, according to the…
The path to financial independence is a journey, not a destination. There are lessons to learn along the way. Last year was one for the record books as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite each hit new record highs at multiple points throughout the year. Furthermore, the bull market continued to gain ground, passing its second anniversary in October, though it’s taking a well-deserved breather as we head into 2025. Closing the door on the old and ringing in the new year is a great time for reflection, and as an avid investor, my first stop…
By Jose Luis Gonzalez CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (Reuters) – Migrants trying to avoid arrest set fire to blankets and mattresses at a camp in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua during a raid by government forces to clear the site in the early hours of Saturday. The enforcement action near the U.S. border come just ahead of the inauguration on Monday of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has accused Mexico’s government of not doing enough to curb migration to the U.S. and threatened sweeping tariffs. About 250 Mexican officials, including National Guard military police in anti-riot gear, surrounded the encampment at…
What are the keys to a successful finance career? Eric Sim, CFA, has thought about that question a lot. As a university lecturer and author, he had to give his students and readers a logical framework to follow, and 20-odd unconnected tips were not going to do it. So he looked back on his professional life: How had he gone from a teenager in Singapore washing bowls at his father’s prawn noodle stand to serving as a managing director at UBS Investment Bank and achieving financial independence? What were the common threads that tied the seemingly random twists and turns,…
Between the implementation of not one but two massive new infrastructure laws, the darkest years of the pandemic, and the rise and (slight) fall of America’s roadway death epidemic, the last four years have been nothing short of momentous for U.S. transportation. And as Deputy Secretary at the federal DOT, Polly Trottenberg was second-in-command for all it — as well as being the driving force behind some of the most significant policies aimed at tackling them.We sat down with Trottenberg for something of an exit interview about the Biden administration’s legacy, and why she’s staying optimistic even as America enters an…
In order to justify the effort of selecting individual stocks, it’s worth striving to beat the returns from a market index fund. But in any portfolio, there are likely to be some stocks that fall short of that benchmark. Unfortunately, that’s been the case for longer term Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ:SFNC) shareholders, since the share price is down 22% in the last three years, falling well short of the market return of around 38%. On the other hand the share price has bounced 8.4% over the last week. Although the past week has been more reassuring for shareholders, they’re…
Preparations are underway as a cold snap bears down on much of the U.S., bringing below freezing temperatures and snow.An arctic cold airmass is expected to hit the Atlanta area, which would see temperatures plummet Sunday evening. The National Weather Service in Atlanta said some locations will stay below freezing “for a few days.””Please begin to take precautions this weekend,” the agency said in a post on X.In Connecticut, most of the state will receive about four to ten inches of snow beginning late Sunday afternoon into Monday morning. A fleet of more than 600 snowplows and specialized snow removal equipment…