A divided US Supreme Court carved out a First Amendment exception to laws barring businesses from discriminating, ruling that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to create wedding pages only for opposite-sex couples.
US consumer spending — the economy’s main engine — has lost steam for most of this year, portending weaker growth ahead while also helping to cool inflation.
The latest batch of economic data has opened the door to the US economy possibly avoiding a recession, according to Lloyd Blankfein, the former chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Inc.
A UK chain of Italian restaurants backed by owners of Chelsea Football Club is in a legal battle with the taxman to restructure its debts.
Hive, an artificial intelligence company, is subleasing three floors of a downtown San Francisco office, a sign of life in a market beleaguered by soaring vacancies after some major technology companies pulled back.
US regional banks and finance companies are increasingly selling off their consumer loans as funding them gets harder and more expensive, flooding private credit firms and hedge funds with requests to buy the debt at a discount.
Inflection AI, a startup that makes a “kind and supportive” chatbot called Pi, has raised $1.3 billion in one of the largest funding rounds of Silicon Valley’s current artificial intelligence frenzy.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing back against a wave of filings by asset managers to launch the first US exchange-traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin, saying the applications lack clarity and further information is needed before they’re considered for approval.
Shipping’s global regulator is closing in on a new target of net zero emissions by 2050, inching the industry closer to alignment with the Paris Agreement on climate.
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is seeking to kick off talks with lenders on debt for a downtown Brooklyn office tower ahead of the loan’s maturity.
