‘I have a $2,000 deductible’: I reported a cracked windshield on my Hertz rental car. Can they charge me?

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026] ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional…

Tom Holland walks into a room for an interview to promote “The Odyssey.” Waiting for him is his interviewer, Tom Holland. Last week, Holland, the actor who plays Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of the Greek epic, joined Holland, the British classicist and podcaster who shares his name, to discuss the much-hyped and highly divisive movie….

Good morning. Proven public-company CFOs are scarce enough that companies increasingly offer pre-paid packages when recruiting them away from other organizations, especially at companies that need a boost to their turnaround strategy. That’s what Shawn Cole, president and co-founder of Cowen Partners, an executive search firm, told me he’s seeing. The most recent example is…

Higher rates hurt bitcoin and risk assets as when the Fed raises rates, cash and Treasury bonds start paying a decent, guaranteed return, so investors have less reason to hold something that pays no yield and swings 5% in a session. On the other hand, cooler inflation means the Fed has less reason to raise,…

With 2026 a bit more than half over, Berkshire Hathaway’s B shares are down 1.8% year-to-date and 12.4 percentage points behind the S&P 500’s 10.7% gain.

SK Hynix rose 13% in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, closing at $168.01, as U.S. investors jumped at the opportunity to get a stake in South Korea’s second-most valuable company. The stock is trading under the ticker symbol SKHYV, and will switch to SKHY as of Tuesday. The stock opened at $170 and…