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Fed Pauses Interest Rate Increases but Suggests More Are Ahead

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Fed Pauses Interest Rate Increases But Suggests More in Future

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‘Do You Even Want Us to Exist?’ A Bank Chief Fights to Survive.

Mr. Vecchione, a Queens native, looks as if he could play a banker in a movie. He sports Hermès ties and collects high-end watches (not including Rolexes, which he says are too common). His pay over the past three years was worth nearly $22 [...]

E.U. Takes Major Step Toward Regulating A.I.

Policymakers everywhere from Washington to Beijing are now racing to control an evolving technology that is alarming even some of its earliest creators. In the United States, the White House has released policy ideas that include rules for [...]

Westfield Gives Up San Francisco Mall, Signaling More Pain Ahead

Mr. Yasukochi said that was partly because of what was sometimes described in the industry as “extend and pretend.” Banks are reluctant to seize nonperforming properties because of the commitment required to finding tenants and because [...]

Google’s Ads Violate Antitrust Laws, E.U. Says

“Google is present at almost all levels of the so-called adtech supply chain,” Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the European Commission, said in a statement. “Our preliminary concern is that Google may have used its [...]

UK Braces for Higher Interest Rates as Risk of Inflation Grows

Yields on British government bonds are higher than when Ms. Truss was prime minister in September and October. Her tax-cutting, free markets agenda spooked markets and caused bond yields to surge, roiling the mortgage market and pensions industry. [...]

U.S. Food Prices Rose 0.2% in May

Hanna Hensley, 29, an assistant high school teacher in Arlington, Va., is glad to see some food prices come down recently, because it has helped ease her grocery bill. When egg prices shot up to around $5 a carton a few months ago, she stopped [...]

U.S. Inflation Cools as Fed Plots Next Interest Rate Move

Investors have been betting that Fed officials will leave rates unchanged at their meeting this week — and their conviction that policymakers will skip a move this meeting deepened after Tuesday’s report, helping to extend the recent rally [...]

JPMorgan Reaches $290 Million Settlement With Epstein’s Victims

Two of Mr. Epstein’s businesses received lucrative tax breaks from the U.S. territory worth tens of millions of dollars. Shortly after JPMorgan ended its relationship with Mr. Epstein, the Virgin Islands approved a first-of-its-kind boutique [...]