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US stock futures rose on Wednesday amid hopes for interest-rate cuts, with more Wall Street banks set to lead out the next wave of reports in a promising start to earnings season. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) moved up roughly 0.4%, following a rocky session on Tuesday for markets. Meanwhile, contracts on the S&P 500 (ES=F) and tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) added 0.6% and 0.8% respectively Comments from Jerome Powell are buoying market spirits in the face of US-China trade friction and a US government shutdown with no end in sight. The Federal Reserve Chair said Wednesday that “downside…

The veteran Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who ran five times for the presidency and had a profound influence on the country’s politics, has died aged 80 in India.An Indian police source told Agence France-Presse he was walking with his sister, daughter, a personal doctor and two security officers “when he suddenly collapsed” and was taken to hospital where he was declared dead.Devamatha hospital in Kerala state confirmed his death to the Associated Press, saying he had had a cardiac arrest and failed to respond to resuscitation attempts. Odinga was in India for treatment in the southern city of Kochi.An…

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WHEN HE FIRES his trade weapons at China, President Donald Trump often appears to shoot from the hip. Officials in Beijing, by contrast, are said to deliberate much more, convening high-level meetings among ministries and regulators to determine their country’s next steps. PREMIUM File photo of US President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019.(Reuters) This process may have been at work on October 10th when the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China’s antitrust watchdog, said it was investigating Qualcomm, an American semiconductor-maker, and the transport ministry levied…

[co-authors: Finn Howie, Alexandra Woodcock, Alastair Lagrange]* With the growth of fund finance we have all observed cross-over between areas such as securitization, structured finance, and the insurance sector, blurring the lines between historically separate areas. The next frontier is rapidly coming into focus: crypto. It would be unwise to try to forecast exactly how the relationship between crypto and fund finance will evolve but in the Cayman Islands, which is somewhat of a ‘sandbox’ for virtual asset experimentation and innovation, we are already thinking about virtual assets in the fund finance context. While crypto presents some challenges to fund…

HighlightsNew Orleans ranks third nationally for the most expensive auto insurance, with average premiums of $6,674 per yearLouisiana dominates the national list: 11 of the 15 most expensive cities in America are New Orleans metro communitiesAuto insurance costs in New Orleans have surged 126% since 2023, adding more than $3,700 annually to driver costsThe average New Orleans driver pays nearly five times more than residents in the nation’s cheapest citiesHurricane risk, lawsuit culture, and one of the nation’s highest uninsured driver rates all push Louisiana premiums higherHurricane risk, rampant lawsuits, and uninsured drivers push Louisiana’s largest city into the top…

President Trump said Tuesday that Boston could lose its 2026 FIFA World Cup matches if he feels there are “unsafe conditions” in the area.A reporter asked the president at the White House if the matches could be moved after a recent “street takeover” in the city, in which police said more than 100 people blocked traffic and torched a Boston police cruiser.”We could. We could take them away,” Mr. Trump said. “I love the people of Boston. I know the games are sold out, but your mayor is, is not good.”Boston World Cup matchesSeven World Cup matches are scheduled to be…

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Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.Fox signed on to a statement with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN saying they would no agree to Hegseth’s new rules, saying “the policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections.” So far, only the conservative One America News Network has said its reporters would follow the new regulations.Hegseth has said that outlets who don’t agree to the new rules by the end of Tuesday, which restrict reporting on news not specifically approved…

Mark Craig to step into new role of Chief Investment Officer LONDON, October 14, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Howden, the global insurance intermediary group, today announces the appointment of Susan Panuccio as Group Chief Financial Officer, effective 6 January 2026. She will bring more than 30 years of global financial leadership experience to the Howden Group board as the company pursues its ambitious plans for the future. Susan will join Howden after more than two decades with News Corp, having spent the last eight years as Chief Financial Officer and as a core part of the leadership team that helmed the company through…