ROME (Reuters) – Italians were voting on Sunday in an election that is forecast to return the country’s most right-wing government since World War Two and pave the way for Giorgia Meloni to become its first woman prime minister.FILE PHOTO: Leader of Italy’s nationalist Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) party and frontrunner to become prime minister Giorgia Meloni, holds a […]

UK distributed computing startup Hadean secured $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Molten Ventures. The funding was backed by several other prominent names including the video gaming giant Epic Games and the CIA-backed In-Q-Tel. Hadean Receives Epic Games’ Support to Develop Metaverse Infrastructure Technology Hadean, a London-based startup that develops an infrastructure technology for the metaverse, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats, accused by Republicans of being soft on crime, hope to burnish their crime-fighting credentials before the Nov. 8 midterm elections with a vote on Thursday on a major policing bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol Building is lit at sunset in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File PhotoThe “Invest to […]

Senior business bankers at the Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank say the economy can pull off a soft landing despite rising interest rates crimping household spending, amid a boom in lending to small and medium firms. While steep interest rate rises have put the brakes on mortgage lending, lending to businesses remains a bright spot for banks, with business […]

video FOX Business Flash top headlines for September 22 Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com An activist investor wants Kohl's to remove longtime chair Peter Boneparth and veteran chief executive officer Michelle Gass.  In a letter sent Thursday to the department store chain's board, Ancora Holdings claims Boneparth and Gass failed to reverse Kohl's "sustained underperformance" and unlock shareholder value.  […]

Hong Kong (CNN Business)People around the world are searching for ways to shield themselves from the impact of stubbornly high inflation, and the rich are no exception. Nuno Matos, HSBC’s CEO of wealth and personal banking, told CNN Business that global investors were “not being as active as they used to be,” with many looking to sell off what they […]

Developers create governance tokens to enable token holders to take part in shaping the future of a protocol. Basically, these tokens give holders certain rights to influence a protocol’s direction, such as proposing new features, deciding on new feature proposals, changing the governance system, how to spend a budget, and more. Let’s take a look at the 10 biggest governance […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday denied the Justice Department’s bid to stop UnitedHealth Group from buying Change Healthcare, a court filing showed, in a blow to the U.S. administration’s tougher enforcement of antitrust issues.FILE PHOTO: The corporate logo of the UnitedHealth Group appears on the side of one of their office buildings in Santa Ana, California, U.S., April […]

Friday’s dreadful close completed four losing weeks in a row. With the S&P 500 breaking through the 3,900 resistance level, there may not be any stopping the venerable index until it retests the June lows at 3,636. That is over 200 points below where we closed Friday. The question for many investors is what to do now. With a host […]

The futures were crushed as shell-shocked investors return to the scene of the crime after the markets closed down big-time across the board Friday, completing the fourth straight week of stock market losses. All the major indexes were pounded, and with investors anticipating a minimum of a 75-basis-point increase in the federal funds rate on Wednesday, we could be in […]