A Delaware judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News said in a pretrial hearing on Tuesday that he was still weighing whether to issue a summary judgment for either side
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A Big Question for the Fed: What Went Wrong With Bank Oversight?
WASHINGTON — Jerome H. Powell is likely to face more than the typical questions about the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision on Wednesday. The central bank chair will almost certainly be grilled about how
Read moreDesigning Their Own Studios to Meet Demand for Content
Ann Duskus and Vicky Vuong, sneaker artists in San Francisco, met on Instagram early in the pandemic, a time when Ms. Duskus was giving Zoom classes on topics like how to take apart a Nike
Read moreFate of First Republic Uncertain as Shares Continue to Slide
The fate of First Republic Bank remained uncertain heading into Monday as last week’s $30 billion cash infusion by some of the nation’s biggest banks and a frantic effort to sell a stake in the
Read moreUBS Nears Deal to Buy Credit Suisse
The Swiss government is close to announcing a deal that would involve UBS buying Credit Suisse, its smaller, beleaguered rival, for about $1 billion, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday. The
Read moreWhere Did All Your Zoom Friends Go?
One day last year, Julie Gauthier went on Twitter with a confession to make. “Unpopular opinion: I don’t have zoom fatigue and I miss zoom happy hours and game nights,” she wrote. “I feel more
Read moreA Question About Your Money: Has Anything Truly Changed This Week?
Banks failed. Rich men became publicly agitated, demanding protection. Regulators stepped in to try to stop the panic. Markets wobbled anyway. And now we everyday actors in the economy are supposed to do what, exactly?
Read moreA New Federal Student Loan Program Will Move Millions Toward Forgiveness
It’s unclear whether President Biden’s student loan cancellation plan will survive a legal challenge now before the Supreme Court, but a different federal program may still offer relief to many borrowers. Some are already seeing
Read moreParent Company of Silicon Valley Bank Files for Bankruptcy
SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, the lender that was seized by regulators last week after a devastating run on deposits, filed for bankruptcy on Friday. The move would place
Read moreAdams County looks to attract solar panel manufacturing plant
Just weeks after beating out the competition for a manufacturing plant making a cutting-edge electric vehicle battery, Adams County is in the running to host a solar panel manufacturing facility that could employ nearly 1,000
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