The beloved fish-and-chips chain saw more than two dozen closures in 18 states last year, but as its numbers decline, it says it’s doing more with less.
France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed the final stage of Tour de France to redeploy security personnel to the blazes that forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. The latest wildfires in southern Europe this week have displaced more than…
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, plans to build cryptocurrency trading infrastructure and launch a digital depository by Dec. 1 as Russia moves to bring crypto trading, custody and settlement into its regulated financial system. The depository, according to Interfax, will record clients’ ownership of cryptocurrency and process most transactions outside the underlying blockchain. Sberbank will operate…
Key Points If you’re committed to owning stocks for the long haul, simpler is usually better. Index funds also don’t create the temptation to buy low and sell high — a strategy that often does more harm than good. Even if you can’t save $500 per month, saving something sooner is better than tucking away…
It adds new capabilities to Plutus, the platform developers use to write Cardano’s smart contracts, unifying the built-in functions available across the platform’s three versions so older applications gain newer features. The upgrade also tightens several of the ledger’s validation rules, including one guaranteeing that no two stake pools can reuse the same cryptographic identity…
PayPal’s board believes the $53 billion takeover offer from Stripe and Advent International offered on July 15 undervalues the company. According to a report from Reuters, the development could potentially open negotiations over price, deal structure and regulatory risk. PayPal has not formally responded to the $60.50-per-share proposal, but the board’s preliminary assessment, according to…
Democratic lawmakers want to hold colleges accountable for unmanageable student-loan burdens. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin are reintroducing the Accreditation Reform and Enhanced Accountability Act. It’s aimed at strengthening accountability in the system that determines whether schools can receive federal aid for students. The bill would require the Department of Education to establish guidelines…