A U.S. banking regulator advised banks to pause direct involvement in crypto during 2022 and 2023 but did not mandate them to stop serving crypto companies, according to documents released on Friday.
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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, including 11 individuals in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, according to medics. The fatalities included women and children in the
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman anticipates that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will remove Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from conservatorship, potentially converting them back into private companies. Ackman shared this prediction on social
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U.S. stocks ended Christmas week with retracements of strong double-digit gains, driven by profit-taking in thinly traded markets heading into the final weekend of 2024. Despite a slight decline on Friday, the
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Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), which was formerly part of the Al Qaeda franchise, has instructed its fighters to stop posting videos of them persecuting Alawites, Christians, Druze and
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U.S. tech investor Cathie Wood is urging Donald Trump’s incoming administration to enhance economic growth and provide policy certainty by backdating promised corporate and personal tax cuts to Jan. 1, 2025, she
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Leading AI platform ChatGPT is currently down, with millions of users across the world unable to log into the service and input prompts. ChatGPT users began facing issues on 26 December, and
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued a stark warning on Wednesday, stating that Kurdish militants in Syria must either disarm or face annihilation. This comes amid ongoing clashes between Turkey-backed Syrian fighters and
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Wall Street’s main indexes closed higher on Tuesday, driven by gains in megacap and growth stocks during a shortened Christmas Eve session. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) and the Nasdaq
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The cryptocurrency industry is urging President-elect Donald Trump to jumpstart his promised crypto policy overhaul as soon as he takes office next month. Industry officials are pushing for executive orders that could
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