UncategorizedExclusive: Mastercard poised to acquire crypto startup Zerohash for nearly $2 billion, sources say fwadmin / October 30, 2025 The move to acquire the crypto company comes after Mastercard was in talks to acquire another stablecoin startup BVNK for around $2 billion.
Uncategorized‘The world is watching’: What Trump and Xi want from trade summit fwadmin / October 30, 2025 US and Chinese leaders expected to unveil deal to extend tariff truce amid tensions over rare earths and tech controls
UncategorizedTrump calls China’s Xi ‘great leader’ as summit begins fwadmin / October 30, 2025 US and Chinese leaders are holding two hours of negotiations as tariff deadline looms
UncategorizedPowell warns not to count on a December rate cut just yet—the Fed is extremely divided, and a further cut is ‘not a foregone conclusion. Far from it’ fwadmin / October 30, 2025 The Fed will stop shrinking its $7 trillion balance sheet in December, but Powell stressed it’s a pause in quantitative tightening, rather than a new phase of easing.
UncategorizedFed trims US rates by quarter point but casts doubt on December cut fwadmin / October 30, 2025 Central bank says it will halt quantitative tightening programme amid signs of stress in money markets
UncategorizedCharacter.AI bans teens from talking to its chatbots amid mounting lawsuits and regulatory pressure fwadmin / October 30, 2025 The move follows lawsuits alleging Character.AI’s chatbots encouraged self-harm and ongoing investigations into child safety.
UncategorizedPowell says that, unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn’t a bubble: ‘I won’t go into particular names, but they actually have earnings’ fwadmin / October 30, 2025 However, the Fed chair noted that the growth is unevenly distributed and concentrated among only a few companies.
UncategorizedEurope and the curse of geography fwadmin / October 30, 2025 A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent
UncategorizedBig Tech tests investors’ patience with $80bn AI investment spree fwadmin / October 30, 2025 Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft divide the market over whether they can translate huge capital expenditure into income