Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller has no doubt about how competitive today’s housing market is. “Trust me, I know it is red hot because I am trying to buy a house here in Washington and the market is crazy,” Waller said in a speech at a housing conference. But even as home and rental prices […]
Credit Suisse CS 0.19% Group AG is expected to pay around $500 million after losing a lawsuit brought by a Georgian billionaire who claimed the bank mismanaged his money. Credit Suisse has spent years fending off claims from Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister of Georgia. He sued the bank in Bermuda and Singapore for […]
Text size JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Michel Euler/Pool/AFP/Getty Images JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told President Biden at a Monday meeting that the United States needs a “Marshall Plan” for energy. The two spoke at a meeting attended by executives from large US energy companies like Exxon Mobil (ticker: XOM) and financial firms. The […]
President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, and the wave of Western sanctions in response, is starting to hit Russia’s economic engine: Its prodigious oil-and-gas industry. The US and Canada have barred the little Russian oil they import, while the European Union is considering a ban. But for the most part, Western sanctions have so far […]
Text size Shares of Nvidia have risen roughly 14% in the past month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia is doubling down on artificial-intelligence technology that CEO Jensen Huang predicts will revolutionize every industry. In the keynote speech for the annual Nvidia (ticker: NVDA) GTC conference—the acronym once stood for GPU Technology Conference, a reference to the […]
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was not in charge at Theranos Inc., and the blood-testing company was neither his idea nor his creation, his attorney told a jury Tuesday as the second criminal-fraud trial involving the defunct Silicon Valley startup got under way. The responsibility for the rise and fall of Theranos rests on founder […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken the global market for uranium, a critical fuel for nuclear-power plants, prompting some in the US to propose reviving domestic production. Russia enriches more uranium for use in nuclear plants than any other country in the world. Its increasing economic isolation following its attack on Ukraine—and talk of potential […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, DC Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News Russia’s assault on Ukraine is changing the world—except Washington, DC, where the Biden Administration is continuing its war on fossil fuels as if energy security doesn’t matter. The latest strike came Monday when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-1 to […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, DC Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News Russia’s assault on Ukraine is changing the world—except Washington, DC, where the Biden Administration is continuing its war on fossil fuels as if energy security doesn’t matter. The latest strike came Monday when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-1 to […]
Text size The S&P 500 saw its best week since November 2020 last week. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images The stock market slide Monday as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the central bank could be more aggressive in lifting interest rates. Tea Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 202 points, or 0.6%, while the […]
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