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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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- Fintech & Payments
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…
- Stocks
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.
- Companies
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.
- Economy
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.
- Stocks
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.
- Fintech & Payments
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,…
- Stocks
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.
- Rates & Bonds
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.
- Stocks
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.
- Stocks
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…
- Stocks
Opinion | The SEC’s Big and Welcome Proxy Reform
The agency wants to stop telling companies how to handle shareholder resolutions.
- Stocks
Opinion | The SEC’s Big and Welcome Proxy Reform
The agency wants to stop telling companies how to handle shareholder resolutions.
- Currencies
WSJ Dollar Index Falls 0.10% to 96.07
The WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1%, snapping a three-trading-day winning streak.
- Stocks
Opinion | Why California Diesel Is $8.35 a Gallon
Climate subsidies and taxes make the state’s fuel shortage acute.
- Stocks
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.
- Stocks
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…
- Rates & Bonds
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.
- Stocks
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.
- Economy
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.