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Burger King's Whopper Overhaul Drives 8.5% Same-Store Sales Gain, Widens Gap on McDonald's

A new bun, reformulated mayo and a president willing to eat on camera helped Burger King post its best quarter against McDonald's in over a decade.

● Top storyBy The Markets Desk4 min readUpdated 16m ago
Burger King's Whopper Overhaul Drives 8.5% Same-Store Sales Gain, Widens Gap on McDonald's
Politics & PolicyJeffries Drops Medicare for All Support, Rejects DSA Agenda in Midterm PushThe House Minority Leader broke from his prior Medicare for All co-sponsorship on Meet the Press, distancing himself from the Democratic Socialists of America as primaries reshape the caucus.TechnologyRobinhood Lists $225.5M Venture Fund II on NYSE, Targeting YC and Crypto StartupsRobinhood Ventures Fund II debuted on the NYSE on Aug. 13 under ticker RVII, opening at $22.50 and giving retail investors exposure to early-stage private companies.Sports BusinessCardinals Rookie Jeremiyah Love Out for Preseason With High Ankle SprainLove, the No. 3 overall pick, was hurt Thursday against Las Vegas; Arizona hopes he returns for the Sept. 13 opener against the Chargers.Research & AnalysisCboe Files for First U.S. 3x Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, Seeking SEC Rule ChangeVolatility Shares LLC would sponsor the funds under VS Trust, using CME futures to deliver triple daily exposure — a structure requiring a specific SEC rule-change process.
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Tesla's Roadster: Nine Years of Delays, Two Rejected Designs, One Possible August Unveiling
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KPMG Gives Tether Its First Clean Audit—Erasing the Market's Last Structural Objection
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6h ago · 3 min
02EM Debt's $886 Billion Rally Meets Selective Buyers as Spreads Tighten03India Orders LPG Output Surge as Hormuz Risk Exposes Structural Import Dependence04SEC Cancels Crypto Rulemaking Vote With No Reschedule Date05KPMG's Clean Tether Audit Closes a Decade-Long Trust Deficit—and Pressures Circle

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Lido Is the Plumbing Beneath Institutional ETH Yield — Here Is How It Works

SharpLink just bet $200 million on wstETH. Before you follow anyone into that trade, understand exactly what Lido is and what it isn't.

By Gokhshtein MediaAugust 15, 20264 min read
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Digital Assets

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2 Trillion-Dollar Firms Approved Crypto Products This Summer as TradFi Lines Blur

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says two institutions each managing over $1 trillion greenlighted crypto access during a bear market—a move absent in the 2022 downturn.

By Gokhshtein MediaAugust 16, 20263 min read
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Wallet Loses $110.7K in Two Hours Chasing CZ's $MARSCOIN BurnDeFi & On-Chain
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Wallet Loses $110.7K in Two Hours Chasing CZ's $MARSCOIN Burn

On-chain data shows wallet 0xacbf bought 6.15M $MARSCOIN for 133K USDT after CZ's token burn, then sold for 22.4K USDT after CZ abandoned his public address.

By Gokhshtein MediaAugust 17, 20264 min read
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Nvidia commits up to $3 billion to Lancium, buying a 20 percent equity stake in the Texas developer that runs the first Stargate campus—electricity, not chips, is now the constraint.

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The Treasury is set to sell $16 billion in 20-year debt Wednesday with when-issued yields at 5.27 percent — the highest for that tenor since its 2020 reintroduction.

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Editor’s ReadAugust 15, 2026

Humana's Medicare Advantage Exit Will Displace 600,000 Members as Insurer Losses Mount

Humana confirmed targeted plan exits for 2027 during its Q2 earnings call; industry-wide retreats from unprofitable markets put hundreds of thousands of seniors at risk of losing coverage.

“Humana will exit selected Medicare Advantage markets for the 2027 benefit year, the company's chief financial officer confirmed during its second-quarter earnings call. The exits are projected to affe”

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