Rishi Sunak’s popularity rating sank to its lowest level since he became UK prime minister in October, highlighting the growing challenge he faces in leading his party to victory at the next general election.
An asset management titan is waiting for a pullback in Japanese stocks before stepping in to buy.
Opposition frontrunner María Corina Machado said she would seek to roll Venezuela’s massive debt pile into a single bond as part of her plan to overhaul the country’s economy.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it is “not in a position to file” a brief giving its view on whether leveraged loans are securities, sidestepping a request to weigh in on a long-running lawsuit that may have major implications for the $1.4 trillion market for risky debt.
Destructive wildfires are now an almost routine part of summer in the American West, and electrical utilities have likewise become used to having their power lines and equipment blamed for igniting the blazes.
Hundreds of regular investors who together put up $63 million to buy pieces of Atlanta and Miami commercial real estate have allegedly seen their funds disappear.
When Japanese convenience store operator Lawson Inc. unveiled a 10% price hike on its popular chicken nuggets last year, investors weren’t convinced it would go down well. After all, the product had been sold at 200 yen ($1.45) pre-tax for 36 years since it first hit the shelves in 1986.
Singapore and Hong Kong dominated the Asia’s 50 Best Bars list of 2023, but Japan, which fully reopened last year after the pandemic, came in strong.
The best argument in favor of approving new Bitcoin exchange-traded funds is that they already exist, tracking futures. Sadly for the crypto crowd, that’s also the best argument for why nobody needs a new one.
A federal judge in Florida didn’t immediately set a trial date in the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, but expressed skepticism about arguments from both the government and the former president’s lawyers.
