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Markets Tank Again As Recession Fears Join Inflation Worries

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As expected, traders’ initial exuberance at the Fed’s big rate hike was short-lived, and markets resumed their recent dismal performance on Thursday, as recession fears joined inflation concerns to make for a rough day on...more

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Sandberg Stepping Down as Meta COO After 14 Years

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Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down after 14 years of steering the ship at Zuck’s side. Sandberg will stay on the Board of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Javier Olivan will take over...more

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Feds Charge Hwang with Securities Fraud Over Massive Archegos Collapse

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On Wednesday, federal authorities arrested Archegos Capital Management’s Bill Hwang and the company’s former CFO Patrick Halligan over an alleged “stock manipulation scheme they called staggering in size and brazen in its...more

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Fed Forecasts Rate Hikes Beginning Next Month to Counter Inflation

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The Fed delivered on its well-telegraphed plan to raise interest rates as soon as next month in an effort to combat inflation. The central bank has been easing its bond-buying program and appears ready to reduce its balance...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.8.2021 - Embattled OCC Nominee Omarova Withdraws From Consideration

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Saule Omarova, the White House’s pick to helm the OCC, has withdrawing from consideration for the post, saying it was “no longer tenable” for her to seek the position following withering attacks from the banking industry and...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.15.2021 | Top Story LinkedIn Shuts Down Site Access in China

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Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is shuttering its grand experiment in the Chinese marketplace, citing “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirement.” The pull out “completes the fracture...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.2.2021 | Top Story: NY Judge Provisionally Approves Purdue Pharma Dissolution, Sackler Liability Shield

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A New York federal bankruptcy judge provisionally approved an opioid settlement plan on Wednesday that will dissolve Purdue Pharma and require members of the Sackler family (which owns Purdue) to “turn over billions of their...more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.13.2021 | Top Story: Stocks Continue Slide as CPI Shows Price Jump in U.S.

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Stocks fell again on Wednesday, the third day of losses in a row, and bond yields rose, spurred on by a 4.2% CPI increase as compared to a year ago. Though analysts were expecting that surge ...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

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Alarm bells from large investment institutions; Amazon’s facial recognition technology

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 21 (November 7, 2019) - The use of artificial intelligence and automation represents an “existential threat to human civilization,” said Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.[1] He...more

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New York’s Department of Financial Services has reached an agreement with Deutsche Bank that will see the German firm pay $205 million as part of a settlement to resolve state banking law violations over its Forex operations....more

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