Alex Richardson

4 days ago | dailyhodl.com | Alex Richardson

The US government says a 56-year-old Georgia man used friends, family and an insider to steal over $3 million from a local bank. Ronnie Atkinson of Macon, Georgia, who owns his own logging company, is accused of conspiring with a high-ranking executive at a community bank through “materially false and fraudulently pretenses, representations, and promises,” local CBS-affiliate 13WMAZ reports.

4 days ago | dailyhodl.com | Alex Richardson

The biggest bank in the US reportedly says that a recent strategy to bet against emerging market (EM) currencies hasn’t worked out. Following President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2nd, JPMorgan Chase provided clients with a trade idea that involved flipping bearish on emerging market currencies, Bloomberg reports.

5 days ago | dailyhodl.com | Alex Richardson

A telecom giant is offering 25 million people free SIM cards after a massive hack left its customers’ sensitive personal information at risk. SK Telecom, the largest mobile provider in South Korea, acknowledged in a security notice that its customers’ personal data was exposed during a malware attack on the company.

1 week ago | dailyhodl.com | Alex Richardson

Shares in Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) are dipping sharply amid comments from tech giant Apple suggesting that artificial intelligence (AI) will threaten the dominance of the top search engine. Apple’s services chief Eddie Cue says he believes AI-run search engines will eventually replace the classic search engines like Google, Bloomberg reports.

1 week ago | dailyhodl.com | Alex Richardson

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US needs to reverse the “scary” fiscal path that it’s on before it’s too late. In an appearance before a House committee Tuesday morning focused on the White House’s 2026 budget requests, Bessent was asked by Congressman Chuck Edwards what it would look like if the US government’s debt levels became “unsustainable.”Says Bessent,“It would look like a sudden stop in the economy as the credit would disappear as markets would lose confidence.