August 29, 2026

“I specifically rejected Contractor A because of his reputation.”

Investors’ intense focus on AI is at times adding to the might of a small club of Big Tech stocks with mega market values to potentially make or break a single trading session for the S&P 500.

“His argument is essentially that, since my parents provided the money for the Roth, they have a say in how I invest it.”

Turkey’s markets regulator announced new rules limiting hedge funds’ exposure to related parties and capping concentrated investments, in a bid to address concerns about abnormal returns and repeated warnings from global index providers.

Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang, looking to reinvigorate months-long negotiations over a final tariff deal with the Trump administration, reiterated to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer the Southeast Asian country’s readiness for “open, constructive” trade talks.

In a decade-and-a-half at the helm of Volksbank Brawo, Juergen Brinkmann turned the local German lender into a finance, real estate and investment group spanning hundreds of businesses, including a stake in a gym chain, restaurants and a now-insolvent brewery.

Australia’s Energy Minister Chris Bowen has rejected suggestions the government is softening requirements that future data center developments be powered by renewable energy.

A White House teleprompter operator will pay more than $172,000 to end a federal regulator’s probe into alleged well-timed prediction market bets about President Donald Trump’s speeches.

Shares of some Indian banks closed at sharply different prices on the country’s two largest exchanges on Thursday, the latest sign of dislocation under the new closing auction system.