Brazil’s top court orders Elon Musk’s X platform to pay fine
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the social media platform X owned by billionaire Elon Musk to pay a fine of 8.1 million reais ($1.42…
Exclusive-Barrick Gold signs agreement with Mali to end mining dispute
By Divya Rajagopal, Portia Crowe and Giulia Paravicini (Reuters) -Canadian miner Barrick Gold has signed a new agreement with the Malian government to end an almost two-year-old dispute over its…
FAA says Musk DOGE team will help engineer solutions on airspace reforms
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Personnel from Elon Musk’s government downsizing team DOGE will make additional visits to Federal Aviation Administration facilities as they assist in efforts to modernize U.S.…
China ETFs draw bullish options bets on AI play and eased tariff fears
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds focused on China have drawn bullish options flows as the emergence of artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek brightens the outlook…
Amazon to stop support for communications service Chime next year
(Reuters) – Amazon said it would stop support for its unified communications service, Chime, next year and will not accept new customers beginning Wednesday. Amazon employees have long used Chime,…
BlackRock pauses corporate meetings in wake of new ESG rules
(Reuters) – BlackRock has temporarily paused meetings with some portfolio companies while studying the impact of new reporting rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar…
Analysis-Trump’s SEC leader shifts power from investors to boardrooms
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – New policies from the top U.S. securities regulator hand corporate boards more power over investors in ways that could curtail investor-initiated reform efforts on everything…
Vanguard ETF poised to overtake State Street’s fund as world’s biggest
By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) – Vanguard Group’s Standard & Poor’s 500 ETF is on the edge of finally seizing the title of the world’s largest exchange-traded fund from rival State…
US judge blocks Trump from removing Democrat from government workplace board
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a Democrat who served as the chair of a U.S. agency that hears appeals by federal government employees when they are fired…
Baidu share slide wipes $2.4 billion off market value amid speculation over Xi meeting
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Hong Kong shares of Baidu plunged on Monday, wiping $2.4 billion off its market value, after the founder of the Chinese search engine giant was…