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You don’t have to be a sports fan to understand the investing opportunities arising from the World Cup. After more than three decades, the FIFA World Cup has finally returned to North America, with the U.S., Canada and Mexico jointly hosting the 2026 tournament. The World Cup brings together 48 nations across 16 cities, which also means higher fan participation, travel flows and global media engagement. “This is likely to be the largest single-sport event in history,” JPMorgan strategists led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas and Bhupinder Singh wrote in a Thursday report. The tournament is set to generate about $14 billion…

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June 14 (Reuters) – Investment bank   is making a late bid to dislodge Centerview Partners as ’s financial adviser to oversee one of the largest-ever sovereign debt restructurings at a lower fee, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.  Lazard has proposed a fee of $25 million, a fraction of the at least $150 million Centerview was negotiating with the government as recently as last month, Bloomberg reported, citing a letter sent on Friday to interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez.  Reuters could not verify the report. Lazard, Centerview and Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication and Information did not immediately respond to a request…

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Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in the small English town of Malmesbury, wearing a pair of crude wings he’d fashioned from willow wood and cloth. Eilmer managed to glide a good 600 feet, passing over the city wall before crash-landing in a small valley near the river Avon. The fall broke both his legs, crippling him. Malmesbury Abbey still boasts a stained-glass window in honor of Brother Eilmer. This legendary experiment in medieval aviation comes to us via 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury in an account…

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What do you do when you need a moment to focus? For thousands of people around the U.S., the answer might be reaching for a technicolor piece of plastic that, when pressed, emits a soft and satisfying “click.”A lot of those people have Victoria Baumann and Charlie Moreton to thank, the father-daughter duo behind Victoria Essie Studio that produces fidget toys and other knickknacks out of their homes in North Carolina.It’s only been about a year since the pair stumbled into the niche of 3D printing fidget clickers, and they’ve already captured the attention of millions (including the adoration of…

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US President Donald Trump speaks before signing a proclamation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2026.Kent Nishimura | AFP | Getty ImagesAn anticipated deal to stop the war with Iran and open the Strait of Hormuz hangs in the balance as Israel and Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon traded strikes Sunday. The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday said in a social media post that they had struck a “Hezbollah command center” in Beirut after Hezbollah launched aerial attacks “against Israeli civilians & IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon.” The IDF said it is…

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Yat Siu, the founder and executive chairman of metaverse upstart Animoca Brands, has led over 200 investments and says of the battle for Web3, “We’re in a bit of a hurry.”Animoca BrandsArtificial intelligence will disrupt the labor market but should ultimately create more jobs and make creativity much more sought after, according to Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu.”We’re born creative, and we’re losing our creativity to fit into a system because we’re trying to be turned into machines and do actions that are sort of regular,” Siu said in an interview on the sidelines of the SuperAI conference in Singapore.…

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