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JetBlue's balance sheet is front and center after the Wall Street Journal reported senior creditors hired restructuring adviser PJT Partners, sending shares to a fresh low. The stock recovered sharply after CEO Robin Hayes pushed back, calling the creditors' read of the situation flat wrong. Bond markets remain skeptical.
Shifting to a courtroom battle with real money on the line, a federal jury is now hearing claims that Keurig used its market dominance to squeeze out Rogers Family Company, a family-owned coffee business that has been fighting this case for twelve years. The damages figure in play is one point two billion dollars, and the outcome could reshape how courts view exclusionary conduct in the single-serve coffee market.
And on the infrastructure side of digital markets, DTCC's post-trade unit launched tokenization services today, describing the move as a practical path toward mainstream adoption of tokenized securities. For an institution that clears trillions in transactions annually, that's not a casual announcement — it signals the traditional financial plumbing is getting serious about blockchain settlement.
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