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A peaceful start gave way to a hawkish Fed surprise midweek, sending the dollar surging while gold, stocks, and crypto tumbled across a packed trading week.

What Is Customer Onboarding? Customer onboarding is a step-by-step process that guides customers from their initial purchase to fully using and benefiting from a product or service. Simply put, it’s how organizations help new users understand, set up, and start using what they’ve bought so they can see results quickly. Customer onboarding is more than just setup; it’s about making sure customers reach their first “value moment” as soon as possible. At its core, customer onboarding involves: Activating new customers Ensuring product adoption Driving early value realization A good onboarding process makes things easier for customers, helps them feel confident,…

Bunnie Xo Vows to “Never Speak” to Jelly Roll AgainBut all that free will came with a caveat: “Don’t f–king lie to me,” stressed Bunnie, “or ever let me be the last to know something.”  And she was certain there was something going on with Jelly Roll and his former paramour. “For a year, this girl tormented me online,” she detailed. “She would quote his song lyrics, she would post pictures wearing his merch, she would take cheap shots at me in her captions because she knew I was onto her. I just couldn’t prove it.” When she brought the…

In a storied career that spans six decades, the incomparable Alfre Woodard has been a formidable onscreen presence, delivering finely etched performances across a variety of film and television projects. Whether the Oscar nominee (for 1983’s “Cross Creek”) and four-time Emmy winner is playing a legal secretary in 1990s-era Los Angeles who is being romanced by a smitten tow truck driver (Danny Glover, doing career-best work) that she meets on a blind date in writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s “Grand Canyon”; or a nurse in the Jim Crow-era South who quietly devotes her life to care for hundreds of Black men unknowingly…

The Federal Reserve held its target range for the federal funds rate at 3.5 to 3.75 percent on Wednesday, at the first meeting of Kevin Warsh’s tenure as Fed chair. The decision itself drew less notice than what came with it: a shorter policy statement, the end of forward guidance, five task forces to review the Fed’s core practices, and a chairman who declined to submit his own interest-rate projection.  Warsh used his debut not to move policy but to signal how much of the Fed’s machinery he means to remake, even as the Federal Open Market Committee raised its…

The second fixture of Major League Cricket (MLC) 2026 will see Los Angeles Knight Riders take on San Francisco Unicorns at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Texas. Both teams enter the tournament with contrasting expectations after very different campaigns in the previous edition.The Knight Riders endured a disappointing 2025 season, finishing at the bottom of the standings with only two victories. Despite boasting experienced T20 stars such as Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Alex Hales and Colin Munro, consistency remained a major concern throughout the tournament. The franchise will be eager to make a strong start this year and prove that…

Mexico became the first team in Group A to secure a place in the World Cup 2026 knockout stage after Luis Romo’s second-half goal sealed a 1-0 win over South Korea. El Tri now have six points from two matches and can approach their final group game against Czech Republic with confidence. Korea Republic Strong Favorite to Follow Mexico Despite the defeat, Korea Republic remain in a strong position to qualify. Hong Myung-bo’s side sit second with three points and know that a victory over South Africa in their final group match would guarantee their place in the next round.…

Connor Hellebuyck would be a fit in Florida, but they don’t want to move Anton Lundell NHL Watcher: Darren Dreger on TSN OverDrive on the Florida Panthers being a potential fit for Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck: “At the very least (Anton) Lundell would have to come back in that deal, that would satisfy Winnipeg’s need at centre ice. Florida doesn’t want to trade Lundell, they have no interest in doing that” Are the Senators and Canadiens among the teams eyeing Rasmus Ristolainen? NHL Rumour Report: Elliotte Friedman on the FAN Hockey Show on Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen: “I’ve…

“I am pleased to report that this process, which included extensive engagement with Ryanair’s largest shareholders, has successfully concluded with Michael agreeing to extend his leadership of the Ryanair Group for the next six years to April 2032, for the benefit of all shareholders,” he added.

Bitcoin has traded below the estimated cost to mine it for five straight months, according to JPMorgan analysts, leaving roughly one in five miners unprofitable and pushing publicly listed operators to sell a record volume of coins. In a client note circulated this week, analysts led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said bitcoin mining economics have “worsened” in 2026. JPMorgan places the current all-in production cost of bitcoin at about $78,000, a figure derived from electricity, hardware depreciation, and overhead expenses across public miners.  With bitcoin trading near $63,000, the gap between spot price and breakeven has created a sustained…