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To Wall Street worrywarts, a large options position owned by a JPMorgan Chase & Co. equity fund has the potential to add fuel to this sweeping US stock selloff.

President Vladimir Putin urged his government and Russian oil producers to jointly resolve fuel-supply and oil-tax issues less then a week after the cabinet unexpectedly imposed a ban on gasoline and diesel exports.

(Bloomberg) — The US Federal Trade Commission is continuing its challenge of Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard Inc., in yet another attempt to fight the deal even after it closes.

A key measure of how much bond investors are compensated for holding long-term debt turned positive for the first time since June 2021, underscoring the potential for interest rates to stay higher for longer.

Direct-lending funds are working to provide as much as £1.25 billion ($1.5 billion) for the potential buyout of the UK’s Iris Software.

A looming shift in the way US equity trades are settled is sending unintended shock waves through the $7.5 trillion-a-day global market for foreign exchange.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto are about to have their first face-to—face meeting since the leftist leader, seeking to boost Latin America’s largest economy, started a campaign to pressure the monetary authority into lowering interest rates.

European authorities are investigating whether popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs including Novo Nordisk A/S’s Wegovy may be linked to complications during anesthesia.