A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. America’s relentless spending has kept the economy motoring. But it’s starting to worry…

Gold price holds above $2,300 after weak preliminary US Q1 GDP data. The Fed may reassess the “higher for longer” interest rates argument. The easing of tensions in the Middle East has improved the demand for risky assets. Gold price (XAU/USD) remains well-supported above the crucial support of $2,300 in Thursday’s early New…

Recent data from CryptoQuant indicates a steep decline in daily revenue for Bitcoin miners, falling to $63.6 million on Tuesday after excitement for the Runes protocol diminished. This downturn aligns with the effects of the recent Bitcoin halving event, which took place last Friday night. The event halved the issuance…

U.S. economic growth was much weaker than expected to start the year and prices rose at a faster pace, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.Gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services produced in the January-through-March period, increased at a 1.6% annualized pace when adjusted for seasonality and inflation,…

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Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night downplayed the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which led to a woman’s death, as a “peanut” compared to the demonstrations happening across the US against Israel’s actions in Gaza. In August 2017, White nationalists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing groups descended on Charlottesville to protest the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, with some gathered chanting, “Jews will not replace us.” One of the attendees rammed his car into a crowd, killing a 32-yeard-old paralegal and injuring several others. There have been no reports of any…

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Clear is a service that lets people skip the security line at airports with nothing but a biometric scan and $189. Some California lawmakers want to make changes to it in the state, saying it separates travelers into haves and have-nots. California lawmakers voted 8-4 to move a bill out…