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[ad_1] Snowflake Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, US, on Jan. 2, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSnowflake shares jumped 12% on Thursday, climbing to their highest level since early last year after the data analytics company reported better-than-expected quarterly results.Revenue in the fiscal first quarter of 2026 jumped 26% to $1.04 billion from $828.7 million a year earlier, and topped the $1.01 billion average LSEG estimate. It’s the first time the company, which went public in 2020, has recorded more than $1 billion in sales in a quarter.Adjusted earnings per…

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[ad_1] The entrance portal to the Epic Universe theme park in Orlando, Florida, US, on Saturday, April 5, 2025.Thomas Simonetti | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesORLANDO, Florida — With the grand opening of Epic Universe on Thursday, Comcast is positioning its Universal Studios Orlando Resort as a destination, not a pit stop.For years, Universal’s Florida-based resort has played second fiddle to rival Disney. While it boasted three theme parks — Universal Studios Florida, Universal Islands of Adventure and water park Volcano Bay — and a handful of hotels, it wasn’t viewed as a destination.”This fourth gate changes everything,” said Karen Irwin,…

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[ad_1] One-cent U.S. coins known as the penny are shown in this illustration picture, after U.S. President Trump informed on his Truth Social media account that he instructed the Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies, Feb. 11, 2025. Mike Blake | ReutersThe beleaguered U.S. penny is living on borrowed time.With the cost of making the cent coin rising and President Donald Trump looking for ways to reduce unnecessary spending, the U.S. Treasury has ordered its last batch of “blanks” that it uses to form pennies, a department spokesman said Thursday.The last of the new pennies will enter…

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[ad_1] Kraken is one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges.Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKraken, a crypto exchange that has spent years in court battling charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its digital asset offerings, is preparing to offer tokenized securities, including shares of Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia, to customers outside the U.S, according to a release Thursday.The exchange is partnering with Backed—a firm specializing in blockchain-based financial assets — to offer more than 50 U.S. stocks and ETFs as tokens on the Solana blockchain, the release said.The product, called xStocks, will be available only…

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