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D-Wave stock fell more than 18%, despite Huang’s goodwill effort.

Expectations of sticky inflation and tariff uncertainty have prompted investors to rotate into the energy sector.

Two Federal Reserve officials shed light Friday on how the central bank is navigating the fog of uncertainty about what President Donald Trump will do next when it comes to imposing tariffs, and how the import taxes will affect inflation and unemployment.

When asked if the US government could sell some gold stored in Fort Knox to buy Bitcoin, President Trump’s crypto director Bo Hines gave an interesting answer.

The founder of a cryptocurrency financial services firm pleaded guilty on Friday to U.S. charges that he participated in a wide-ranging scheme to manipulate the market for digital tokens on behalf of client companies. Aleksei Andriunin, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency "market maker" Gotbit, and his company entered guilty pleas in federal court in Boston to charges that they conspired to commit market manipulation and committed wire fraud. They were among 15 people and three firms charged following a novel investigation dubbed "Operation Token Mirrors," in which the FBI for the first time directed the creation of its own digital token to help catch fraudsters in the crypto market.

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U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in three weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose by one to 593 in the week to March 21. Despite this week's rig increase, Baker Hughes said the total count was still down 31 rigs, or 5% below this time last year.