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Crypto investment firm CoinShares said it will begin trading on Nasdaq Wednesday through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.The company is merging with Vine Hill Capital to form the holding company CoinShares PLC. The deal closed late Tuesday, CNBC has learned. It was first announced in September, and it values the business at about $1.2 billion, including a $50 million investment from institutional investors. Shares will trade under the ticker CSHR.CoinShares is a 12-year-old European asset manager with a focus on crypto assets, serving both institutional and retail investors. It offers structured investment products and funds…
Europe’s airline industry is at risk of a “systemic” jet fuel shortage in the next few weeks if the Strait of Hormuz blockade continues, with the potential of hundreds of flight cuts, according to experts.Claudio Galimberti, chief economist at Rystad Energy, told CNBC’s Ritika Gupta on “Europe Early Edition,” on Tuesday that the situation facing airlines “pretty much depends on how many barrels will be flowing through the Strait.” “The situation within the next three, four weeks can become systemic, so you can have severe cuts of flights in Europe already starting in May and June,” he added.Traffic through the…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks edged lower from record highs after oil jumped 5% into the high $80s, driven by uncertainty over commercial ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. While the action in the oil market was notable, the market’s decline was not as bad as feared because Treasury yields were little changed. Honeywell announced another step in its ongoing portfolio transformation . The company is selling its Productivity Solutions and Services (PSS) business…
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The greater harvesting limit also applies during the races, and there are new rules on how much power the electric motor (better known in the sport as an MGU-K, or motor-generator unit-kinetic) can send to the rear wheels. In “key acceleration zones (from corner exit to braking point, including overtaking zones)” the MGU-K will be able to deploy its full 350 kW (469 hp) to complement the V6’s 400 kW (536 hp). Outside of those zones, the MGU-K is limited to just 250 kW (335 hp) around the lap, which means smaller speed differentials. And the boost—which drivers can engage…
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Monday again threatened Iran with overwhelming military force, saying “lots of bombs [will] start going off” if no deal is reached before a shaky ceasefire with Tehran expires Tuesday evening.The latest threat, made in a phone call with a PBS News reporter, came as the status of additional U.S.-Iran peace talks, and other key details on the current relationship between the warring powers, have grown…
Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesMutual fund giant Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy a small crypto investment firm, 250 Digital, which will join its newly established Franklin Crypto unit, as the firm deepens its digital assets push.By bringing 250 in-house, Franklin Templeton hopes to be able to increase its actively managed crypto investment offerings for its institutional clients beyond basic exposure through products like its bitcoin ETFs. The firm manages $1.8 billion in global assets.”Institutions are becoming much more intentional in how they engage with digital assets,” Sandy Kaul, head of innovation at Franklin Templeton, told CNBC. “This deal…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is editorial director and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign RelationsWith Viktor Orbán’s downfall, a linchpin of the relationship between Maga and the European right has fallen. His authoritarian model was an inspiration for the second Trump term and Budapest had become a hub for the transatlantic rightwing ecosystem. Hungarians knew exactly what they were voting out when they backed the conservative Péter Magyar’s opposition Tisza party: even though their main concerns were living standards and public…
Christmas is still eight months away, but artificial tree maker Lou Liping is already worried about a bad holiday season due to the Iran war.Lou’s company, Kitty Christmas Factory, has been making artificial trees for the U.S. and European markets for nearly three decades. Her facility is based in the city of Yiwu, known as China’s Christmas capital.”Many customers … are holding off on orders,” she told CNBC last Friday at her showroom in the city’s international expo center. The center houses hundreds of manufacturers that contribute to the country’s vast production of the world’s artificial trees, tinsel, ornaments and other…
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