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SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded in the space on Thursday, just minutes after it lifted off from Texas. The FAA halted air traffic in some parts of Florida. This is the second failure in a row for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket project this year.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is to be taken private for $10 billion by Sycamore partners, the companies announced on Thursday. This will end nearly a century worth of trading in the public markets.

Insignia Financial granted access to their books to two major suitors, after Bain Capital (Australia) and CC Capital ($2.11 billion) raised their bids for a takeover to A$3.34billion.

The U.S. president Donald Trump signed a directive on Thursday to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve and a cryptocurrency stockpile, just a day after meeting with representatives of the cryptocurrency industry in the White House.

Rodolphe Saade, a French shipping magnate, met with President Trump on Thursday at the White House and promised to invest $20 billion over the next four-years in the U.S. as the administration tries to revive the American maritime industry.

After the markets plummeted and after companies lobbyed U.S. president Donald Trump about his erratic trade policy, which had strained relations with its allies and raised fears of recession, the U.S. reduced tariffs on certain goods imported from Mexico and Canada.

(source: Reuters)