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This morning a “Potential Dividend Run Alert” went out for Escalade, Inc. (NASD: ESCA), at our DividendChannel.com Dividend Alerts service (a free email alerts feature). Let’s look at the situation in greater detail, shall we? First of all, what is a “Dividend Run” anyway? This is an interesting concept which we first learned about at a past ValueForum conference. And to best explain the concept, we need to start with the expected behavior of a stock on its ex-dividend date.For anyone unfamiliar with the term, the ex-dividend date marks the trading day when any buyer of the stock is no…

Corn futures are back down 5 to 6 ½ cents in most front months on Thursday. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price is down 5 1/2 cents at $3.84 1/2. The market will round out the week today, with Friday off in observance of Juneteenth. USDA reported a daily private export sale of 285,775 MT of corn to Mexico this morning for new crop shipment. Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   The weekly USDA Export Sales report indicated 1.157 2025/26 corn sold in the week of June 11, in…

John Marshall has joined Carrick Lane as a senior partner. Marshall will focus on strategy and product development to expand the firm’s investment capabilities. Prior to joining Carrick Lane, Marshall spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as head of Derivatives Research.  Ex-Merrill Lynch SVP John Durham has launched Paoli, PA-based Valen Private Capital with his son Benjamin Durham. Valen Private Capital offers investment management, tax solutions, risk management, tax and estate planning, family office services, and philanthropic planning. Durham, who brings over two decades of industry experience, oversaw $477M in total client assets at Merrill. The new firm,…

Vavada is a global gaming platform that has been operating since 2017 under a Curacao license and brings together more than 2 million registered users from over 50 countries. The club offers access to over 5,000 slots from leading providers, live dealers, a sportsbook, and esports betting. Over the course of nine years, the company has paid out over $500 million and has established itself as a reliable operator with fair terms and prompt payouts. The Popularity of Cryptocurrencies In today’s market, the club positions itself as a technologically advanced online crypto casino that actively implements innovative payment solutions. The…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Thursday closed up +1.08%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +2.48%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) rose +1.15%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) rose +2.44%. Stock indexes settled sharply higher on Thursday as the US-Iran peace deal stoked optimism that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will ease inflation risks.  President Trump on Wednesday night signed a preliminary deal to end the US-Iran war, which sent crude oil prices to a 3.5-month low, eased inflation expectations, and sparked risk-on sentiment in asset markets. …

Stockholm, Sweden, June 19th, 2026, Chainwire PremiumBlock brings leveraged prediction markets, liquid 24/7 FX perpetuals and Web3 poker together in one wallet-native platform via premiumblock.org PremiumBlock today announced the launch of its non-custodial risk hub for decentralized prediction markets, perpetual futures and Web3 poker, giving crypto users one wallet-native destination to create markets, trade outcomes, access perps and participate in on-chain poker without relying on a centralized custodian. PremiumBlock is built around a simple idea: the next generation of crypto speculation will not be limited to order books or one-directional prediction markets. Users want to price real-world events, express conviction…

Brent crude oil daily chart. Source: TradingView Asia-Pac stocks rallied strongly overnight on news of the deal signing, with US equity index futures currently green across the board. Unsurprisingly, Brent crude has continued to trade lower, dipping a toe below the widely watched 200-day SMA at US$78, with the USD broadly steady this morning after rallying in the wake of yesterday’s Fed meeting. Fed’s Warsh Came in Hawkish It was all about the Fed decision yesterday evening (for me), which left the federal funds target rate (FFR) unchanged at 3.50-3.75% for a fourth straight meeting. This was also Kevin Warsh’s…

NORWALK, Conn., June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company“) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.1056 on the Company’s 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock“), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “BMNP”. The dividend will be payable in cash in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designations governing the Series A Preferred Stock. The dividend will be paid on July 10, 2026 to holders of record of the Series A…

New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation. Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun,…

Eightco treasury composition as of June 18, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $472 million OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update…