• Aug 08, 2024

Crypto exchange FTX ordered to pay $12.7 billion to customers, US CFTC says

FTX drew customers in with "an illusion that it was a safe and secure place to access crypto markets," then misappropriated their customer deposits to make its own risky investments, CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam said in a statement. The repayment order implements a settlement between the CFTC and the bankrupt crypto exchange, which has committed to a bankruptcy liquidation that will repay customers whose deposits were locked during its late 2022 collapse.

  • Aug 08, 2024

The Fed has cut rates amid stock swoons before. Not this time

A sharp slowdown in the U.S. job market that touched off days of global stock-market turmoil also fueled speculation the Federal Reserve may not wait until its next scheduled meeting, in September, to cut interest rates. Indeed, an interest rate futures contract expiring later this month that tracks Fed policy expectations shot to a two-month high earlier in the week in a bet that rates would be lower by the end of August. An increasing number of analysts are now penciling in a half-a-percentage-point rate cut for the Fed's September meeting.

  • Aug 08, 2024

Lack of Fed ‘Urgency’ Puts Stock Market At Risk, JPMorgan Says

(Bloomberg) -- While the recent stock-market rout flushed out some froth, US stocks remain at risk of more severe declines if growth continues to decelerate and the Federal Reserve “does not show urgency” in easing monetary policy, Dubravko Lakos-Bujas writes in his inaugural note leading market strategy at JPMorgan Chase & Co.Most Read from BloombergAfrica’s Richest City Needs $12 Billion to Fix InfrastructureHow a Tiny Midwestern Town Became a Mecca for Modern ArchitectureNYC Subway Riders See