This story was originally published on Construction Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter. After a year marked largely by uncertainty, more large-scale projects are now moving closer to execution in 2026, according to Fluor. On the company’s second-quarter earnings call last year, CEO Jim Breuer said clients were taking a “wait-and-see approach due to a variety of reasons,” such as trade policy discussions and overall cost escalation. That ultima ...

Billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has fully divested from ETHZilla, a digital asset treasury firm that holds Ethereum (ETH). The development comes as digital asset treasury firms face mounting pressure amid the broader crypto market downturn. Peter Thiel Cuts Ties With ETHZilla During Crypto Market Slump The digital asset treasury wave gained momentum last year, with several companies adopting Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrateg ...

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin is flashing a severe warning regarding dollar liquidity that stock markets have yet to acknowledge. While the Nasdaq remains flat, Bitcoin has tumbled from its highs, signaling what Hayes describes as an impending AI-driven credit crisis. This divergence suggests traditional equities are mispricing systemic risk. Key Takeaways Market Signal: Bitcoin’s decoupling from a stable Nasdaq indicates a sharp withdrawal of dollar liquidity. Macro Thesis: Hayes predi ...

One of the biggest developments in recent memory has been the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). The potential of these game-changing algorithms to increase productivity and streamline time-consuming tasks has fueled growing adoption. This, in turn, has sparked a mad dash by big tech companies to capitalize on the unprecedented opportunity. Capital expenditures (capex), particularly for the servers and data centers needed to support the growing demand for AI, have risen to record levels and are only ...

A critical oracle pricing glitch has left decentralized lending platform Moonwell grappling with nearly $1.8 million in bad debt. A misconfigured oracle briefly valued Coinbase Wrapped ETH (cbETH) at just $1 Sunday morning, triggering a sudden cascade of liquidations, in a sobering reminder of the fragility lurking in DeFi infrastructure. Key Takeaways Oracle Failure: A configuration error in Chainlink OEV wrapper contracts caused the system to price $2,200 cbETH at a 99.9% discount. Bad Debt Event: Li ...

On 17 February 2025, Michael Saylor’s Strategy acquired an additional 2,486 Bitcoin for $168.4 million at an average price of $67,710 per BTC. With the latest purchase, the company’s total Bitcoin Holdings total 717,131 BTC. Currently, Strategy has $54.52 billion in Bitcoin, making it the largest institutional crypto holder. However, Bitcoin continues to decline, hovering between $67k to $69k mark and thus sending Saylor’s corporate treasury into the red. Bitcoin has declined nearly 23% since the start o ...

Israel-based social trading platform, eToro announced its strongest quarter on record with $227 million in net revenues for Q4 2025, up 6% from $215 million in Q3, and a whopping $69 million net profit. Furthermore, the company’s full-year revenues reached $868 million, a 10% increase from $788 million in 2024, while net profit climbed 12% to $216 million. On 18 February 2026, commenting on eToro’s Q4 performance, CFO Meron Shani said, “Our fourth quarter results reflect the strength and resilience of ou ...

XRP (XRP) price extended its slide on Wednesday, adding to a downtrend that has erased 44% of its value over the past year. Amid this, a market analyst has highlighted unusual trading activity emerging from South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, raising questions about its potential impact on XRP’s price dynamics. Study of 82 Million Trades Flags Structural Selling in XRP/KRW Market on Upbit Crypto analyst Dom claims to have uncovered what he describes as a nearly year-long, multi-billion-dollar XRP sel ...

“We remain confident in our ability to continue delivering like-for-like revenue outperformance versus the premium beauty market,” he said.“We exceeded those goals, more than doubling our revenue by 2022 and more than tripling it by 2025,” Puig said. “Looking ahead to 2026, our guidance framework has been updated to reflect the evolving dynamics of the beauty market, while remaining anchored in the strength and desirability of our brands.The company in 2025 completed its former five-year strategic plan anno ...

Pan African Resources confirms record first-half as its ops performance met soaring gold prices Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Pan African Resources PLC (LSE:PAF, OTCQX:PAFRY, JSE:PAN) delivered a record first-half profit of US$147.8 million as a sharp rise in output and a higher realised gold price pushed revenue up 157.3% to US$487.1 million for the six months to December 2025. Chief executive Cobus Loots told investors that Pan African's operational and financial performance, together ...