Ben Weiss
Crypto Reporter at Fortune
crypto reporter for @fortunemagazine | prior work in @wired @verge @guardian @slate @newshour @gizmodo etc. | [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
fortune.com | Ben Weiss
The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday amid a positive jobs report and a rebound in Tesla’s stock after a disastrous Thursday in which Elon Musk and President Donald Trump battled on social media. The markets have their mojo back. After the Bureau of Labor Statistics published a strong jobs report on Friday, the S&P 500 posted a daily gain of 1% and weekly rise of 1.8%. The Nasdaq jumped 1.2%, and the Dow Jones rose 1%.
Apple, X, and Airbnb among growing number of companies exploring crypto as Big Tech eyes stablecoins
3 weeks ago |
fortune.com | Ben Weiss |Leo Schwartz
Stablecoins have become a buzzy topic in Silicon Valley over the past year. Illustration by Fortune; Images—Aleksandra Malysheva/Getty Images, Violeta Stoimenova/Getty Images, kasezo/Getty Images
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3 weeks ago |
fortune.com | Ben Weiss
President Donald Trump's family has launched a flood of crypto products since he took office. Kayla Bartkowski—Getty Images
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4 weeks ago |
fortune.com | Ben Weiss
On Friday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social, his own social media platform, that his administration struck a “FAST DEAL” more than two weeks ago to ratchet down a trade war between the People’s Republic and the U.S. He was referring to an agreement hashed out between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese in Switzerland to institute a 90-day pause on U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports and reciprocal tariffs from China.
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1 month ago |
fortune.com | Ben Weiss
Richard Teng, CEO of Binance. Pascal Mora—Bloomberg/Getty Images
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RT @leomschwartz: Scoop: Meta is looking to get back into the stablecoin game three years after the failure of Libra/Diem. Sources told @…