Finance

Christine Lagarde Helped Block Binance’s Foothold in Europe

The ECB chief intervened to keep crypto’s biggest player, which pleaded guilty to financial-crime violations in the U.S., from operating in the EU.

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Fed Deadline Passes as Payment Access Debate Continues

For payments firms, direct access to the Federal Reserve can remove an intermediary from the chain between a transaction and settlement. For banks, expanding that access raises another question: Which firms should be allowed to connect directly to central bank infrastructure, and under…

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Toxic-Fume Complaints Ground Planes From Airbus Venture

French airline Air Corsica pulled some turboprops from service after pilots reported fumes leaking into the cockpit, causing them migraines.

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Jana Partners Pushes Contact-Lens Maker Cooper to Replace Its CEO

The medical-device manufacturer requires an urgent overhaul to address its “chronic underperformance,” the activist hedge fund’s letter says.

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Jim Cramer says history offers a playbook for navigating a Fed rate-hiking cycle

CNBC's Jim Cramer said investors shouldn’t assume stocks will struggle for the entire period.

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House heads home to campaign amid calls for urgent AI action

The urgency with which Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI have sought to be regulated has not translated into action on Capitol Hill.

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CFOs Spent Years Adding to the Payments Stack. Now They May Need to Tear It Apart.

CFOs have typically solved payments problems by buying more payments technology. A new rail for faster settlement, another provider for cross-border payments. Fraud software, treasury platforms, AP automation, virtual card capabilities, and countless APIs connecting everything. Of course,…

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Anthropic shares 3 metrics to help AI companies monitor pace of development

Anthropic said it measured AI-led research and development, oversight of AI agents and compute allocation within the company.

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S&P 500 Wavers as Treasury Yields Resume Advance: Markets Wrap

The last stretch of a busy week for markets saw stocks churning as bond yields rose, with traders also facing the expiration of a pile of options that threatens to trigger sudden price swings.

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The Three Dreaded Words No One Wants to Hear: What’s for Dinner?

Americans spend more time cooking than they have in two decades, but hectic schedules and rising costs make it a key pain point.

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CFTC Makes It Easier for Software Developers to Have Prediction Markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division issued a staff letter declaring a no-action position for the benefit of providers of passive software, the agency said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) press release. “The letter states that, subject to certain specified…

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Opinion | The SEC’s Big and Welcome Proxy Reform

The agency wants to stop telling companies how to handle shareholder resolutions.

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Opinion | The SEC’s Big and Welcome Proxy Reform

The agency wants to stop telling companies how to handle shareholder resolutions.

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WSJ Dollar Index Falls 0.10% to 96.07

The WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1%, snapping a three-trading-day winning streak.

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Opinion | Why California Diesel Is $8.35 a Gallon

Climate subsidies and taxes make the state’s fuel shortage acute.

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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Post Biggest Gains in Six Weeks

Traders turned their attention away from inflation and interest rates toward tech stocks. And record donations are flowing into state attorneys general races.

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Cloudflare Blocks AI Agents From Ad-Supported Pages

Cloudflare has started blocking artificial intelligence agents by default on pages that carry ads, putting the tools consumers use to compare products in direct conflict with the sites those tools need to read. The new preset for ad-supported domains allows search crawlers, refuses AI training…

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The 10-year Treasury is having its worst run in over 100 years. Why investors are buying bonds anyway.

“The higher that yields go — for at least new money — it becomes more enticing to think about putting money into bonds,” one strategist notes.

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Micron, Intel and other chip stocks are furthering their strong comebacks

Investor fears about an AI spending slowdown and the impact of interest-rate hikes are subsiding.

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Investors Come Back to AI Stocks, Snapping Market Out of Inflation Gloom

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite posted their biggest one-day gains in six weeks.

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US to allow Iranian leaders to attend UN General Assembly

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U.S. Treasury yields drop as oil prices ease

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Trading Day: Lower oil, yields boost stocks

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Disney names insider Adam Smith as chairman of streaming business

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