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Billionaire who sold two companies to Coca-Cola says he tries to convince people not to become entrepreneurs: ‘Every single day, you can go bankrupt’

Mike Repole, the billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded and sold beverage giants Glaceau and BodyArmor to Coca-Cola for a combined $9.7 billion, has an unexpected message for aspiring business owners: Don’t do it.
In an interview with The School of Hard Knocks, a popular social-media channel known for interviewing wealthy entrepreneurs, Repole shared his contrarian view on entrepreneurship, emphasizing the brutal realities that most success

Earlier this week, Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management backed all five of Metaplanet’s bitcoin-focused capital restructuring proposals ahead of the December 22 Extraordinary General Meeting, including plans for share buybacks, dividends, and new preferred share issuance to raise US$150 million from institutional investors.
This support from one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds highlights growing institutional interest in Metaplanet’s bitcoin accumulation model and its unconventional balance sheet plans.
Next, we’ll examine how Norges Bank’s endorsement and Metaplanet’s pu

Mohit Verma's laboratory at Purdue University has developed a faster and more affordable paper-based biosensor for identifying genetically modified corn and soybeans, providing farmers with more accessible molecular diagnostic tools.
This new GM crop biosensor, which has a patent pending, uses a method called loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) to achieve more cost-effective and efficient testing than more expensive tools already on the market, according to a Purdue report shared by Phys.org.
The research team used their previous work in rapidly detecting highly pathogenic avian in

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In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years later in a commentary, "is running out of time."
The male-determining **** chromosome has lost 97 percent of its ancestral genes in the last 300 million years. If that rate continues, Graves calculated, it could vanish in several million more.
The doomed fate of the Y chromosome quickly took the media by storm, in many cases without the nuance Graves had intended.
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Her evolutionary m

Carnival has bounced back from COVID-era challenges.
Shares are more expensive than they look on the surface.
10 stocks we like better than Carnival Corp. ›
Long-term investing is the key to sustainable returns in the stock market, but sometimes it can backfire spectacularly. For example, if you purchased $1,000 of Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) stock 10 years ago, you would have just over $500 today -- a loss of around 50%. That means more than a decade of growth and billions in stock buybacks essentially evaporated during the coronavirus pandemic.
The good news is that Carnival's

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BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) is seeing persistent withdrawals from its iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ:IBIT) as investors pulled more than $2.7 billion over five consecutive weeks.
IBIT is facing its longest run of withdrawals since it began trading in January 2024, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
Bloomberg data shows more than $2.7 billion left the fund over the five weeks through Nov. 28, with another $113 million exiting on Thursday.
The steady pullback follows Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) deeper co

American approval ratings of President Donald Trump, which have held relatively steady through deployments of the National Guard, unprecedented tariffs and the delayed release of the Epstein files, have fallen slightly, according to a new ****** ysis of public polling compiled by The New York Times.
The reason? A greater share of poll respondents blamed the president’s handling of the economy. At the same time, the share of respondents who disapprove of the president rose to new heights. A New York Times ****** ysis of polls found the president’s approval rating had fallen to 42%; his disappr

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Even though the Carolina Panthers are winning more games now and are in the playoff conversation, the talk surrounding the team is, understandably, all about Bryce Young's future. Has he played his way into a long-term contract extension?
The answer is probably not yet. He's still had his fair share of ups and downs, but he's won them some games, and he seems to have ultimately improved on his success from the end of last season.
The Panthers are expected to pick up his fifth-year option. Beyond that? It's anyone's guess, but two former NFL players want to see him stay in Car

Wall Street is preparing to welcome a major player to the New York Stock Exchange as Twenty One Capital moves toward its public debut.
This Bitcoin price prediction examines what the landmark listing could mean for BTC’s trajectory amid ongoing market volatility.
Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, Inc., has received shareholder approval for its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP).
The transaction is expected to close around December 8, with the merged entity’s Class A common stock anticipated to begin trading on December 9 under the ticker symbol XXI.

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Bitcoin slipped under $90,000 this week as liquidation pressure, weak ETF demand, and macro uncertainty converged.
The fall erased gains from earlier attempts to reclaim the $94,000–$95,000 zone, marking the second major breakdown this month.
The catalyst was a cascade of forced long liquidations. Nearly $500 million was wiped out across exchanges, including around $420 million in long positions, and over 140,000 traders were liquidated in a 24-hour window.
ETF flows failed to absorb the selling. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust recorded six straight weeks of outflows totaling more than $2

In recent remarks at the “Revitalizing America’s Markets” event, SEC Chair Paul Atkins laid out a plan that would fundamentally redefine what it means to be a public company in the United States. He framed it as a plan to “make IPOs great again,” but beneath the rhetoric lies something far more consequential: a shift toward a marketplace where public companies behave like private ones — shielded from disclosure, insulated from shareholder input, and increasingly detached from the long-term health of the broader economy. In essence, it is a move toward absolute control by CEOs and their boards

BlackRock’s flagship Bitcoin ETF is seeing its heaviest redemption cycle since launch, with more than $2.7 billion pulled over the past five weeks as institutional flows continue to unwind into year-end.
The iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which ballooned into a $71 billion vehicle during Bitcoin’s run to record highs, has now logged five straight weeks of outflows through Nov. 28, Bloomberg data shows.
Another $113 million exited on Thursday, putting the fund on track for a sixth week in the red, its longest streak since debuting in early 2024.
The withdrawals mirror the broader shift in cry

Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers amid a ‌global supply shortage of the essential semiconductors.
Shares of the company were down 2.6% in afternoon ‌trading.
Micron's move to dissolve its consumer business comes against a backdrop of worldwide strain in memory supply chains, with tight availability of semiconductors ranging from flash chips used in smartphones to

(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc.’s iShares Bitcoin Trust recorded its longest streak of weekly withdrawals since debuting in January 2024, in a sign that institutional appetite for the world’s largest cryptocurrency remains subdued even as prices stabilize.
Investors yanked more than $2.7 billion from the exchange-traded fund over the five weeks to Nov. 28, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. With an additional $113 million of redemptions on Thursday, the ETF is now on pace for a sixth straight week of net outflows.
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Bitcoin unlikely to replicate January’s surge to new high: 21Shares founder

Bitcoin’s downturn has barely anything to do with “anything crypto specific,” but it’s unlikely to surge early next year, says 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder.
Current market conditions will make it difficult for Bitcoin to replicate its early 2025 price gains going into 2026, says 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder.
“It’s unlikely that the factors driving the current volatility will fully resolve in the short term,” Snyder told Cointelegraph.
“A repeat performance next January will depend heavily on broader m

Strategy won’t be forced to sell Bitcoin if stock drops, Bitwise CIO says

Strategy has $1.4 billion in cash, no debt due until 2027, and Bitcoin's price is above the company’s cost basis, making a sale unlikely, argues Matt Hougan.
Strategy (MSTR) won’t be forced to sell Bitcoin to stay afloat if its share price drops, and those who say otherwise are “just flat wrong,” says Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan.
“There is nothing about MSTR’s price dropping below NAV [net ******* et value] that will force it to sell,” Hougan argued in a note on Tuesday, pointing to chairman Michael

Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, Inc. has received shareholder approval for its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP), with CEP shareholders voting in favor of the proposed merger and all related proposals.
The transaction is expected to close around December 8, pending completion of closing conditions outlined in regulatory filings with the SEC. Upon completion of the business combination and ***** ociated PIPE financing, the merged entity will operate under the Twenty One Capital name.
The company's Class A common stock is anticipated to begin trading on the New Y

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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been actively buying up shares of a Bitcoin ETF in 2025. A new disclosure shows another purchase, which came during a dip in the price of the leading cryptocurrency.
The congresswoman bought $1,000 to $15,000 in shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ:IBIT) on Nov. 21, according to the Benzinga Government Trades page.
The purchase adds to other purchases of the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ETF in 2025, which include the following:
Jan 8: $1,000

'The cross I've carried': Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors share experiences in New Mexico

Dec. 3—On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family's Nagasaki, ***** an, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was preparing lunch when they heard a lightning-like crack.
"Bachiiiiing!" Motomura, now 86, said through a translated PowerPoint presentation at the University of New Mexico's Zimmerman Library on Wednesday. "A bright flash of light exploded in front of my eyes ... and with a loud thud my small body wa

In recent days, American Bitcoin Corp. saw heavy selling as pre-merger private placement shares came off lock-up, triggering trading halts and erasing a large chunk of its market value amid a weak backdrop for crypto-linked equities.
Although most insiders remain barred from selling until 2026, the sharp reaction to early investors cashing out underlines how sensitive American Bitcoin’s stock has become to supply shifts and sentiment around Trump-associated digital ****** ets.
We’ll now examine how this pre-merger share unlock and resulting volatility shape American Bitcoin’s investment narr

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares began the week mixed, with Tokyo’s benchmark falling nearly 2% on Monday after the release of data showing weak factory activity, while U.S. futures fell.
Oil prices surged more than $1 a barrel.
In ***** an, the Nikkei 225 declined 1.9% to 49,285.66 after the government reported weaker than expected corporate investment data.
Regional reports on manufacturing activity are being closely watched for signs of how U.S. President Donald Trump's higher tariffs are affecting Asian economies.
A survey of ***** anese factory managers showed activity slowing in November.

'Vampire Squid From ***** ' Reveals The Ancient Origins of Octopuses

The elusive 'vampire squid from ***** ' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.
Hidden in its mix of A, T, G, and C was a deep evolutionary story. Despite not being an actual squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis has preserved a surprisingly squid-like chromosomal architecture – a layout shared long ago with the ancestor of modern octopuses and squids.
The vampire squid is a fascinating twig

Echoing a familiar fate shared by many farmers globally this year, grape farmers in India have projected at least a 50% decline in grape production due to adverse weather, the Times of India reported.
The Maharashtra region, one of India's largest grape-producing states, experienced a wetter-than-average monsoon season this year. Since June, Maharashtra has received 996.7 millimeters, or about 39 inches, of rain this monsoon season, which is 104% above average, according to a Humanitarian Aid International fact sheet.
The excessive rainfall has submerged 94 villages across 7 blocks, impacted

Over the past week, the Bitcoin price had its best performance since the infamous October 10 downturn, which led to...
The Bitcoin market experienced a moderate price rebound over the past week, following a prolonged period of price correction that...
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A new study published in the Journal of Lipid Research suggests that soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the United States, may play a direct role in promoting obesity, and the effect appears tied to how the body processes one of its main components.
Researchers fed mice a diet rich in soybean oil and tracked how they metabolized linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid that makes up a large share of soybean oil.
Linoleic acid is broken down in the body into molecules called oxylipins, and eating a lot of linoleic acid can raise the amount of these oxylipins. The study shows tha

A mild uptick in bitcoin mining in China has prompted calls for Beijing to loosen its restrictions and let the power-hungry industry tap into the country's oversupply of energy, but experts said the likelihood of China ending its mining ban was low.
China's bitcoin mining market share by hash rate rose from 13.75 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 to 14.06 per cent in the current quarter, making it the third largest bitcoin mining country behind the US and Russia, according to Hashrate Index, a data platform operated by US bitcoin mining firm Luxor Technology.
The Hashrate Index did not d

US stocks moved higher on Wednesday, notching their best four-day streak since May heading into the Thanksgiving holiday as Wall Street optimism grew over the odds of an interest-rate cut next month.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.7%, over 300 points, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) also moved up 0.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) added nearly 0.8%, following Tuesday's sharp gains.
Tech names have again helped to buoy the market. Alphabet (GOOG) shares slipped from record highs while Nvidia (NVDA) popped more than 1%, with both tech names reversing course from the previo

US stocks moved higher on Wednesday, notching their best four-day streak since May heading into the Thanksgiving holiday as Wall Street optimism grew over the odds of an interest-rate cut next month.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.7%, over 300 points, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) also moved up 0.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) added nearly 0.8%, following Tuesday's sharp gains.
Tech names have again helped to buoy the market. Alphabet (GOOG) shares slipped from record highs while Nvidia (NVDA) popped more than 1%, with both tech names reversing course from the previo

JPMorgan's (JPM) top stock market strategists think 2026 will be another good year for US investors.
The firm's equity strategy team, led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, set a year-end price target of 7,500 for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) in 2026.
Should the Federal Reserve continue cutting interest rates, however, the bank thinks the S&P 500 could surpass 8,000 in the year ahead.
"Despite AI bubble and valuation concerns, we see current elevated multiples correctly anticipating above-trend earnings growth, an AI capex boom, rising shareholder payouts, and easier fiscal policy (i.e. [One Big Beautiful Bil