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Oracle founder Larry Ellison has dropped to ninth on the Bloomberg wealth rankings after losing roughly one hundred fifty nine billion dollars over the past year, nearly half his peak net worth. The slide tracks directly to Oracle shares, which fell sharply Monday on investor concerns about the company's aggressive artificial intelligence spending commitments.
Shifting to pharma, Pfizer is raising its full-year guidance and installing a new chief financial officer. Cecile Guegan, a twenty-year company veteran, steps into the role immediately. The upgraded outlook signals management confidence in the pipeline recovery, even as the post-pandemic revenue reset continues to weigh on the stock's longer-term narrative.
And in crypto, Tether moved fast after a Binance hack, freezing one point five billion dollars in USDT within thirty minutes of the breach. But roughly seven hundred twenty nine million dollars escaped before the immobilization could take effect. The episode raises pointed questions about response time windows and the practical limits of centralized stablecoin controls in a decentralized ecosystem.
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