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AstraZeneca shares were slumping while Bristol-Myers Squibb was jumping on Monday on reported deal talks. But the big question is why these two pharmaceutical giants would want to come together in the first place.

The flaw allowing the exploit traces to a March 2021 firmware build that routed seed generation to a predictable software randomizer instead of the chip’s hardware one, leaving the resulting keys reproducible offline by anyone who works out the range. Coldcard manufacturer Coinkite released emergency firmware for every affected model and told users who had generated a seed on the flawed software to move funds to a wallet address made with a fresh one.Thorn said he had no direct victim report and published his findings on pattern matching alone, choosing speed over confirmation to warn people while the transactions were…

According to rates from the Zillow lender marketplace, mortgage rates are a bit lower compared to last week. The current 30-year fixed rate fell by 10 basis points to 6.65%, the 15-year fixed rate declined by 3 basis points to 6.01%, and the 5/1 ARM rose by a single basis point to 6.65%. Read more: Weekly survey of mortgage lenders with the lowest rates: Pushing higher Today’s mortgage rates Here are the current mortgage rates today, Sunday, August 2, 2026, according to the latest Zillow data: 30-year fixed: 6.65% 20-year fixed: 6.33% 15-year fixed: 6.01% 5/1 ARM: 6.65% 7/1 ARM:…

“Delaying Social Security until 70 results in an increased monthly payment — and that comes with proportionally higher cost-of-living adjustments.”

Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August.Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares.STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime the stock traded sizably below its par value ($100) for the month.As recently as July 1, Strategy had lifted the dividend 50 basis points following June’s plunge in STRC to as low as $71. While that hike — along with Strategy’s sale of some bitcoin to fund…

1inch, a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, just announced the launch of it’s new shared liquidity protocol, Aqua. It promises to improve efficiency and unlock liquidity for users across networks. Sergej Kunz, co-founder and CEO at 1inch, joined TheStreet Roundtable to talk about the launch and describe where those efficiency gains are actually being made. Related: American crypto exchange owner warns of ‘Chinese walls’ after $19B market crash RWAs need liquidity Kunz frames Aqua’s efficiency as a new model of liquidity provisioning built for the tokenized-asset wave. “RWAs are coming into DeFi, and RWAs need our infrastructure to be able…

Since then, average daily liquidations have remained well below this year’s typical $400 million-$500 million range, suggesting there has been little forced selling despite the macro shock, according to Bitfinex.”Crypto fell less than levered equity themes because the forced-selling fuel was already spent,” the analysts wrote.Security concerns lingerSeparately, the market is also digesting the fallout from a major exploit involving Coldcard, which resulted in at least $38 million worth of bitcoin being stolen.The incident hasn’t materially affected price action, but it marked another blowback as digital asset-related exploits have surged and reignited debate around risks of self-custody, one of crypto’s…

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Some stock drops look like bad news on the surface. Some are, yes, but some also tell a completely different story underneath. And I think American Express (AXP) investors have been handed the latter. The payments giant beat earnings expectations, raised its full-year revenue guidance, and reported its strongest card member spending growth in three years. The stock fell anyway. This kind of reaction can frustrate shareholders and even confuse casual observers. But for “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, it’s a pattern he’s seen before, and one he thinks is creating a clear opening. I think it’s a terrific opportunity…

Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate bitcoin BTC$64,704.82 holder, reported Thursday an $8.2 billion second-quarter net loss after the cryptocurrency’s price decline erased billions of dollars from the value of its digital asset holdings.The quarterly loss was driven almost entirely by an $8.32 billion unrealized markdown on its bitcoin holdings under fair-value accounting.The company held 843,775 bitcoin as of July 26, up 25% from the start of the year. At current prices, the stash is worth roughly $54.8 billion, compared with an acquisition cost of $63.7 billion.The report came after a period of growing investor scrutiny on the firm over…