President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday shrugged off a news report that suggested the government actively sought to weaken an independent body designed to improve official transparency.
Rishi Sunak is considering cutting the UK’s unpopular inheritance tax ahead of the next general election, people familiar with the matter said, a move senior Conservatives think will give his ruling party a major boost as it tries to overcome a double-digit deficit in opinion polls.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt was not just attending the International Monetary Fund’s spring meetings in Washington for the usual finance minister roundtables and global economic security discussions. He had another agenda –- to restore Britain’s reputation.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX received US government approval to launch its next-generation Starship rocket, a key milestone in the company’s quest to send humans to the moon and eventually Mars.
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has hired Joey Krug, the former co-chief investment officer of crypto venture firm Pantera Capital, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The European Union is determined to scrap the draconian fiscal rules of the past blamed for choking economies in the aftermath of the previous financial crisis despite Germany’s call for strict limits to reduce public expenditure.
Terraform Labs Pte co-founder Do Kwon sent 9 billion won ($7 million) to a top South Korean law firm just before the collapse of the firm’s stablecoin terra and cryptocurrency luna, according to South Korean prosecutors, KBS News reported.
Bud Light’s partnership with a transgender influencer has sparked calls for a boycott of the beer maker’s products
Suriname’s creditors are nearing a deal with the South American nation’s government to restructure $675 million of bonds, according to people familiar with the matter.
A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site before his cache hit $3.35 billion in value was ordered to serve a year and a day in prison.
