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Dow ends higher after UnitedHealth gains, other indexes slip on rate cut uncertainty

By Saeed Azhar, Johann M Cherian and Sanchayaita Roy NEW YORK (Reuters) -The blue-chip Dow Jones ended higher after hitting an intraday record high on Friday, as UnitedHealth’s shares jumped after Berkshire Hathaway raised its stake, but other Wall Street indexes slipped as mixed data clouded the Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy move. A meeting …

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Winklevoss twins’ Gemini reveals lower revenue and wider loss in US IPO filing

By Pritam Biswas (Reuters) -Gemini’s revenue fell and losses widened in the first half of 2025, the cryptocurrency exchange said in a U.S. IPO filing, joining a wave of digital-asset firms seeking to tap public markets. Terms of the offering were not disclosed in the filing, made public on Friday. The company reported a net …

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Fitch cuts Spirit Airlines’ rating further into junk territory

(Reuters) -Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded Spirit Airlines long-term credit rating to ‘CCC-‘ from ‘CCC+’, citing a high likelihood of near-term default. “The downgrade reflects the heightened possibility that Spirit may be unable to avoid a default given its ongoing operating losses and declining liquidity,” Fitch said in its report. The move follows Spirit’s warning …

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Fed to scrap program devoted to policing banks on crypto, fintech activities

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve announced on Friday it was scrapping a so-called “novel activities” supervision program it created to specifically police banks on their crypto and fintech activities, and instead will integrate that work into its regular bank oversight. The Fed launched the new program in 2023 as a way to focus on how …

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Foreign holdings of US Treasuries climb to record $9.13 trillion in June

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries rose to record levels in June, topping $9 trillion for a fourth straight month, data from the Treasury Department showed on Friday. Holdings of U.S. Treasuries climbed to $9.13 trillion in June, up from $9.05 trillion in May. Compared with a year earlier, Treasuries …

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Russia decree opens door for Exxon return to Sakhalin-1 project

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree that could allow foreign investors, including top U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil, to regain shares in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project. The signing of the decree comes on the day Russian president Vladimir Putin meets Donald Trump in Alaska for a summit where …

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Trump administration unveils stricter subsidy rules for wind, solar projects

(Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday unveiled stricter rules for how solar and wind projects can qualify for federal tax subsidies that President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law is phasing out over the next two years. The revisions change longstanding definitions for what it means for a project to be considered under …

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Blackstone-backed Legence reveals revenue rise but wider loss in US IPO filing

By Arasu Kannagi Basil and Pritam Biswas (Reuters) -Blackstone-backed engineering and maintenance service provider Legence revealed that losses nearly tripled in the first six months of 2025 in its paperwork for an initial public offering in the U.S. The terms of the proposed public offering were not disclosed in the filing made public on Friday. …

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