Private-Credit Growth Fueled by Banks May Pose Risks

A Boston Fed report examines potential risks of rapidly expanding nonbank lending, which is often financed by banks

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Chinese Firms' Plan to Avoid Stock Delisting: Buy Trump's Memecoin

More companies are announcing plans to buy cryptocurrencies to help lift their share prices.

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Bloomberg Outage Hits Traders, Disrupts Government-Bond Auctions

The terminal, an essential tool for professional investors, suffered an outage that disrupted trading and some offerings of government bonds.

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Mary Daly and Other Fed Presidents Warn Don't Expect Recession or Rate Cuts

The three presidents all emphasized the limits of backward-looking data and the growing importance of anecdotal intelligence.

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Indonesia's Central Bank Resumes Rate Cuts to Support Growth

Bank Indonesia has resumed its rate-cutting cycle as cooling inflation, slower growth and a steadier rupiah offer room to loosen policy settings.

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The IPO Market Is Stirring, but at ‘Down-Round' Valuations

Venture-backed tech companies are testing the market, but have made peace with the idea that the lush private valuations of years ago are a thing of the past.

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JPMorgan Wants to Be Go-To Banker for Carbon Markets as It Forges a New Deal

The bank and CO280, a Vancouver-based company that funds technology to keep carbon dioxide from being emitted into the atmosphere, signed an offtake agreement.

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Fed President Musalem Warns Against 'Looking Through' Tariff Inflation

"A look-through policy has risks and costs," Musalem said in remarks prepared for delivery at the Economic Club of Minnesota.

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Julius Baer Books Loan Loss Charge

The bank's new leadership is reviewing credit portfolios to move past a scandal that led to a major writedown and cost the former CEO his job.

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Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on UBS Group, JPMorgan Chase, Allianz and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.

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Radical Market Swings Leave Some in the Pension Crowd on Edge

Corporate pension funds are feeling the heat after the fits and starts of the Trump administration's tariff policies sparked radical market swings, including some of the biggest one-day moves of the past decade.

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Why Wells Fargo expects the emerging-markets outperformance to reverse

This year, emerging-market equities have outperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin and investors have debated whether the relative strength can be sustained. A new report by Wells Fargo analyst Austin Pickle expects the trend to reverse.

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Growth Investor Invictus Banks $574 Million

The firm collected the fresh capital across its second flagship fund and co-investment vehicles to back software businesses.

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