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  • Aug 08, 2024

Mexico Inflation Overshoots Forecast Ahead of Rate Decision

(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s headline inflation accelerated slightly more than expected in July, boosting the chances that the central bank keeps its key rate unchanged for a third straight meeting later Thursday.Most Read from BloombergAfrica’s Richest City Needs $12 Billion to Fix InfrastructureNew York City’s Outdoor Dining Sheds Will Start DisappearingNYC Subway Riders See ‘Exceptionally High’ Air PollutionNew York City Paid $2 Million for Empty Hotel Rooms Meant for MigrantsThe 5 Coastal States

  • 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.

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