As value grows in private markets, fund managers, brokerage houses, and savvy start-ups are building products that aim to expand access to them.

If Donald Trump's defamation suit doesn't settle, the discovery process could raise more questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Global central bankers have ducked a chance to push for tight borrowing constraints on the biggest hedge funds, whose importance to core government bond and other financial markets has grown enormously in the past decade.

Dow Jones Newswires launches an AI-powered French language service, following the rollout of Korean and Japanese last year.

Broken cash machines, halted payments and a crippled crypto exchange were all the result of pro-Israeli efforts that came on top of this month’s bombing campaign.

Some bonds tied to GoodLeap, a financial-technology firm that lends money for solar installations, have stopped paying interest, people familiar with the matter said. The payments stopped because far more homeowners are defaulting on the loans than initially forecast, they said.

Major mainstream news media outlets published just a handful of articles on Bitcoin in Q2, which market intelligence firm Perception says is creating information gaps.

Economists, investors and politicians have often warned that the U.S.’s growing debt burden would punish future generations. The market has been willing to tolerate spikes in borrowing during crises such as a war or Covid, seeing it as a logical, and temporary, response to a sharp growth slowdown.

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BP’s stock rallied on Wednesday, and shares of Shell fell, after the Wall Street Journal reported the two companies were holding merger talks.