Precious metals prices today 1/5/2026: Global gold, palladium, platinum and silver rebound strongly after recent weakness

Oobit launches USDT-funded corporate expense cards for AI agents with Visa support

Oobit has launched Agent Cards, a Visa-supported virtual corporate card product that allows businesses to assign USDT-funded spending capacity to autonomous AI agents. Instead of requiring human approval for every purchase, companies can set rules for each agent’s spending, including finance-controlled limits, merchant categories, transaction caps, and real-time explanations for…

Ripple expands in the UAE with Dubai DIFC headquarters, CEO Brad Garlinghouse says

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he is “proud to be expanding in the UAE,” citing the company’s growth in the Middle East. The announcement follows Ripple’s decision to open a new headquarters at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a move tied to rising demand for regulated digital asset services,…

Agora seeks U.S. bank charter to scale digital dollars.

Stablecoin issuer Agora Finance has filed for a national trust bank charter as it seeks to expand its business in the United States. The company said the move is intended to give it access to the U.S. market under a unified federal regulatory framework, noting that its stablecoin issuance business…

Apple reports record March quarter revenue on strong iPhone sales

Apple Inc reported fiscal second quarter 2026 results that topped Wall Street expectations for both revenue and earnings. The iPhone maker posted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.01 on revenue of $111.2 billion for the quarter ended March 28, ahead of analyst estimates of $1.96 per share and $109.66 billion…

LG&E and KU collaborate with X-energy to explore deploying the Xe-100 small modular reactor in Kentucky

Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities (KU), subsidiaries of PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), are collaborating with X-energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: XE) to explore deploying X-energy’s Xe-100 small modular reactor (SMR) in Kentucky. The companies say they have begun early project feasibility activities to assess opportunities for SMR deployments…

Smithfield Foods Declares Quarterly Dividend

SMITHFIELD, Va., April 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smithfield Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFD), an American food company and an industry leader in value-added packaged meats and fresh pork, today announced its Board of Directors approved a quarterly dividend payment of $0.3125 per share of common stock to be paid on…

Powell to stay on Fed board after central bank holds rates steady in defiance of Trump

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he will remain on the central bank’s rate-setting board after his term as chair ends in May, following the Fed’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged for the third time this year despite calls from Donald Trump for rate cuts. Powell said he had…

At around 5:30 PM on May 5, about a day after facing significant criticism over its recruitment campaign, Oatside Vietnam issued an official reply on its Facebook page, which has about 14K followers. The company said it acknowledged discussions surrounding the recent CMO recruitment and admitted that the campaign deployment…