What’s new is how quickly the beverage industry is treating it as a category of its own, and how many consumers are buying in.
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Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Aug. 2026
Stock futures are off their low of the morning after my CNBC colleague Steve Liesman reported that the Treasury Department could use its massive General Account to help fund its bond-buying plans.
In the second case, as a part of its QE strategy, the FOMC decided in September 2011 to extend the average maturity of the Fed’s portfolio by selling short-term and purchasing longer-term Treasury securities.
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Steve H. Hanke,
Fortune,
24 Aug. 2026
York became the principal owner of the 49ers in 2024 after purchasing equity shares from his family.
Elite researchers are swapping between rival labs at dizzying speed.
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Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
28 Aug. 2026
The researchers believe that pigment manufacturing could benefit from swapping out artificial—and frequently toxic—materials for varying sizes and densities of pterin crystals.
Land exchanges are common elsewhere in the federal government, but exchanging National Park Service land for private development access is unusual, NOTUS reported, citing a former park service official.
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Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2026
First, the Huskies mixed it up with some marching band members on the practice field outside of Huskie Stadium, jumping in on a routine and exchanging fight songs, with the players chanting, clapping and pumping their fists during their version.
In fact, the team’s estimate for the film’s end budget, after merchandising costs and fees, is essentially the same as one first-season episode of a half-hour comedy on a streaming network.
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Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
18 Aug. 2026
The president has also profited from merchandising deals and high-dollar political and official events at his properties, significantly increasing his net worth since returning to power.
An agent who has paid for exclusive rights to a ZIP code has a direct financial interest in the homeowners in that territory transacting.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Aug. 2026
Kalshi Trading—and any other principal trading firm transacting on an affiliated exchange—would be forced to only engage with markets by quoting both sides.
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