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Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and the best and worst performers in the government & technical consulting industry.

The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) and the rest of the general industrial machinery stocks fared in Q4.

BlackRock has launched its first bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, in a bid to tap growing demand for cryptocurrency exposure in new markets after attracting more than $50 billion into similar products in the United States. The world's largest asset manager has launched its 'iShares Bitcoin ETP', according to a BlackRock product page online, which is domiciled in Switzerland and listed in Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. BlackRock declined to comment.

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Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) was founded in 2013 by two friends who thought the cryptocurrency industry was taking itself too seriously. Inspired by the "Doge" meme that was spreading across the internet at the time, they created Dogecoin as a joke (in their own words). Unfortunately, Dogecoin has almost no real-world utility, and speculative frenzies never last.

Japan's largest credit card company, Rakuten Card, is aiming to almost double its annual operating profit to 100 billion yen ($663.7 million) in the medium term and sees opportunity in expanding into the largely untapped business-to-business payments market, its new chief executive officer said. Although Japan's shrinking population is hitting demand in much of the domestic economy, the credit card and payments markets are a rare growth area as digitalisation of financial services booms in what was once a cash-dominated economy. Rakuten Card, which can only be applied for online and is part of Rakuten Group - an e-commerce and financial services conglomerate - has ridden this wave to issue more than 30 million credit cards to date and booked an operating profit of 62.1 billion yen in 2024, up more than 20% on 2023.

The Dogecoin Foundation agreed in February to a five-year partnership with House of Doge, which will be its official commercialization partner.