The yen rose the most in almost two weeks after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expected Japan to raise interest rates to tame inflation.

When Iran launched a missile barrage at an American air base in Qatar this summer, it was one of the most direct attacks on US assets in the Middle East in years. Yet just hours after the projectiles were shot down in the night sky over Doha, it was business as usual in the country’s capital and financial hub. In neighboring Abu Dhabi, investments proceeded on track, and bankers in Dubai expressed confidence that the United Arab Emirates would sidestep any major fallout. In the weeks after the attack, Bloomberg News reported that American companies including BlackRock Inc. and Elon Musk’s xAI were discussing deals in Saudi Arabia.

Tokio Marine Asset Management Co. will increase staff to bolster its position in alternative assets and other investments as rising interest rates stoke investors’ risk appetite, according to its chief executive officer.

Meta’s new location sharing map feature “threatens the safety & security of our nation’s children,” Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal says in a post on X.

Miami International Holdings Inc. raised $345 million in an initial public offering, pricing its shares above a marketed range.

Argentina’s local debt auction Wednesday fell short of market expectations as President Javier Milei’s administration rolled over just 61% of maturities in a key auction that analysts said may prompt a drop in the peso.

Volvo Car AB is reshaping its senior leadership, as the automaker’s new chief executive officer seeks to boost flagging electric-vehicle sales.

Swiss Re AG’s half year profit beat estimates, with the reinsurer’s property and casualty division providing a boost to the results.

This year’s United Nations climate summit, scheduled for November in Brazil, has been designed to make history by bringing world leaders, diplomats and some 50,000 other participants into the heart of the Amazon rain forest. Now the event increasingly risks being defined by a looming logistical fiasco.

FirstEnergy Corp. on Wednesday won a Sixth Circuit ruling rejecting class certification in a securities lawsuit it faces after being implicated in an Ohio political scandal.

Japanese companies are employing more in-house lawyers to handle rising legal workloads as governance and compliance requirements grow.

More than a year after China Evergrande Group’s liquidators began pursuing the wealth of seven key defendants, the high-profile case is now entering a critical phase.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has joined a bipartisan group of 36 other attorneys general in sending a letter to Instagram’s parent company Meta, he says in a post on X.

A federal appeals court delivered a victory to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday by upholding new and controversial data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications companies targeted in cyberattacks.

Japanese companies are employing more in-house lawyers to handle rising legal workloads as governance and compliance requirements grow.

President Donald Trump revoked an executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that targeted consolidation in the agriculture, technology, and drug sectors, which the former administration argued had fed inflation by reducing competition.

The Federal Trade Commissiongot a skeptical reception from a judge over its targeting of a nonprofit in an investigation into alleged advertising boycotts of conservative websites.

A foreign adversary’s breach of the federal judiciary’s case management system risks exposing sensitive law enforcement probes, in the latest cyberattack targeting the US government’s investigative tactics.

A federal appeals court delivered a victory to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday by upholding new and controversial data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications companies targeted in cyberattacks.

Investors of specialty insurer AmTrust Financial Services Inc. are urging the US Supreme Court to let stand a lower court decision finding auditors liable when they fail to protect shareholders.

A Florida law restricting public school educators’ use of their “preferred title or pronouns” in the classroom violates a federal anti-discrimination law’s prohibition on sex discrimination, a district judge ruled.

FirstEnergy Corp. on Wednesday won a Sixth Circuit ruling rejecting class certification in a securities lawsuit it faces after being implicated in an Ohio political scandal.

Garmin Intl. no longer has to face patent infringement claims from an Israeli biotech company over its smart watch devices measuring training activity.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit won’t examine a Texas agency’s decision to grant an air pollution permit for a liquefied natural gas facility, according to Tuesday decision.