Once in bitcoin's shadow, ether has seen parabolic gains recently as investors look to other cryptocurrencies for returns.

MYbank, an online bank in which Ant has a 30% stake, is now allowing some users to link accounts with China's digital currency app, state-backed media said.

Gemini Earn will now let clients move their holdings in dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies into interest-bearing accounts.

"I love this setup," she said Friday on CNBC's "Closing Bell."

Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 266,000 in April, far less than the 1 million total economists were expecting, according to Dow Jones.

The move follows the departures announced last year of technology giants including Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

About 7.3 million tax returns processed by early March appear to qualify for a new unemployment tax break, according to a report.

Goldman Sachs formally kicked off the cryptocurrency trading era on Wall Street.

Montana and South Carolina are ending participation in federal unemployment programs in June. More states may follow.

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About 29% of unemployed Americans have been out of work at least a year, a period of joblessness stretching to the early days of the Covid pandemic.

When asked about the rising value of cryptocurrencies, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said: "They have no intrinsic value."

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Beyond Meat, Peloton, Roku, and more.

Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Carlo Messina said: "I think that in the next year, so within 12 months, there will be some M&A deal in the country."