2023 has seen a cultural shift with icons the likes of Taylor Swift, Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie, and Beyoncé inspiring female empowerment in modern media and a renewed sense of urgency for consumer spending. Marcus Collins, University of Michigan Ross School of Business Marketing Professor, sits down with Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the sociopolitical themes being represented in these media milestones. "The most powerful thing of all this is people aren't consuming because of what these things are, they're consuming because of who they are," Collins explains. "Because of their cultural subscription, how they see the world, and it's being manifested or made material through their consumption." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live.

A timeline of FTX's demise showing how the situation at Alameda Research developed and ended up ripping the exchange apart.

Payments firm Mastercard completed a CBDC project with the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre. 

In Europe, the stock market's rally was bolstered by data from the UK. Reports showed economic growth in August, although some sectors still lagged behind.

ChargePoint stock comes under severe selling pressure as the company liquidates equity for another major fundraise.

Huijin has increased its stake in China's top four banks, including the Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China.

Initia, a Layer 1 blockchain designed for modular rollups, has received a pre-seed investment from Binance Labs.

Taurus' new offices in the UK and France, will be led by ex-Bank of America Jürgen Hofbauer and SAP veteran Arnaud Fleischer, respectively.

The orders to pass the pending motion come just a day before the key hearing between Binance and SEC on Oct. 12.

The decision left lender Mr. Ming with no recourse on his 80,000 Tether loan.

Ellison said their accounts were frozen in a money laundering investigation and claims Alameda paid a bride to Chinese government officials to unfreeze them.

Parsec Finance, an analytics platform focused on DeFi and NFT markets, announced a successful closure of a strategic funding round with $4M.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been gradually disrupting many industries, including the hiring/recruitment space.

'They leaked a balance sheet; blogged about it; fed it to Coindesk,' Bankman-Fried wrote in an internal memo presented as an exhibit at court.

Hardware crypto wallet provider Trezor has released the new Trezor Safe 3 wallet, in addition to its own metal seed phrase backup and a Bitcoin-only limited edition wallet.

BlackRock has filed a legal complaint against 44 internet domain names that have taken its name or trademarks to register something very similar.

Binance offloads Russian business, teams up with SticPay for crypto transactions

An amended spot Bitcoin ETF filing from ARK Invest and 21Shares could show progress on approvals is happening, according to ETF analysts, as the updates seem to address earlier concerns flagged by the SEC.

Former Alameda Research engineer Aditya Baradwaj claims that Alameda lost more than $190 million from a series of mistakes and exploits, as then FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried heavily prioritized speed over safety.

Nearly 4 crore INR ($480,000) crypto stolen from a businessman in Delhi, India has been traced back to crypto accounts linked to Hamas by Indian police.

Details of how Sam Bankman-Fried tried to unlock funds frozen on Asian crypto exchanges Huobi and FTX emerged today in court.

Ellison has already pleaded guilty to corruption. Now, with the help of the prosecution, she's arguing that Bankman-Fried corrupted her.

Crypto exchange WOO said is has reached a deal to repurchase all of its tokens and equity originally acquired by the collapsed hedge fund Three Arrows Capital in November 2021.

Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison provided a human perspective on the events and months leading up to FTX's dramatic collapse in November 2022.

A former Alameda Research engineer posted fresh details about how poorly the trading firm started by Sam Bankman-Fried was run.

Oil and gas giant ExxonMobil has inked a $59.9 billion acquisition deal with Pioneer Natural Resources in a bid to boost growth

The IFEC study featured 1,000 respondents.

Bankman-Friend apparently chose the balance sheet that did not disclose Alamada's $9.9 billion owed to FTX customers.

Tradecurve Markets could become the leading platform for online traders while Litecoin reaches a milestone and Ethereum could experience a bull run.

Fuul completed a16z's Crypto Startup School this year and gained support from DCG Expeditions, the venture arm of DCG.

While Wall Street is keeping a close eye on stocks of EV makers like Tesla (TSLA), there are several other names for investors to consider in the EV space. Craig Irwin, ROTH Capital Partners Senior Research Analyst, and Ronald Jewsikow, Guggenheim Securities Vice President – Automotive Equity Research, join Yahoo Finance Live to discuss their top EV stocks to watch as part of the weekly series "EVs: The Road Ahead." One company to keep an eye on is EVgo (EVGO, EVGOW). According to Irwin, EVgo is "seeing actually charging rates on their networks become 10 percent of miles driven versus what they were at about 5 percent just a couple years ago." Irwin added, "I think the investment in infrastructure is the right thing to do because it drives jobs in America." Among the EV tier 1 suppliers, Jewsikow sees Aptiv (APTV) as one to watch. Jewsikow explained, "They make electrical architecture, so you think of connectors and wiring, kind of the guts of the vehicle." He added, "They have business with almost every electric vehicle manufacturer in the world, that includes Tesla among others." Watch all of Yahoo Finance's special coverage "EVs: The Road Ahead."

Immutable has partnered with Amazon Web Service to gain access to a vast pipeline of game studio leads and support for successful deal closures.

Samsung, released its preliminary earnings guidance for Q3 2023, indicating a 77.9% drop in operating profit compared to last year.

Horse racing enthusiasts can buy NFTs linked to an actual thoroughbred and then earn rewards based on its performance.

USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has partnered with Coins.ph, a major crypto exchange in the Philippines, to help Filipinos pay less for cross-border transfers and make faster transactions.

This guide reviews the 5 best Telegram sports betting bots in the market. We compare Telegram betting sites for safety, bonuses, odds, payments, and more.

iFinex said that the buyback program is a reflection of the company's "positive performance" over the previous few years. By buying back their shares, investors would get rid of an investment that had been somewhat illiquid.

The Block Editor Zack Abrams shares insights from what he witnessed during the first week of SBF's criminal trial.

The first internal test of TCN was conducted by JPMorgan in May 2022 and has a pipeline of other clients and transactions now that TCN is live.

Lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried argue that by allowing Anthropic-related evidence, would be a response to having evidence of positive investment outcomes as opposed to the “risky” ones argued by the government.

Binance crypto exchange will fully roll out the self-transaction prevention function for all users of spot and margin trading on Oct. 26.

WOO said today that it will repurchase the shares and tokens acquired in 2021 by the failed crypto hedge fund.

Caroline Ellison said that SBF had strong intentions to make an impact in business and political world, including becoming the US President.

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has filed an amicus brief in support of the SEC in its case against crypto exchange Coinbase.

Chimpzee presale is rapidly gaining attention as investors unload their saturated crypto deposits for the new cryptocurrency that is predicted to go on a bull run later this year.