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Treasury auctions $22 billion of 30-year bonds on October 8
Treasury offers $22 billion of 30-year bonds on Thursday, October 8, the second reopening of a bond first sold in August at a 5.216 percent...
The CFTC asked for public comment on future rules for retail crypto trading
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked the public what rules should govern retail crypto trading in the United States, but the question cannot be...
Three-year Treasury notes sold October 6 at a 4.932 percent yield
Treasury sold $58 billion of three-year notes on Tuesday, October 6, at a high yield of 4.932 percent, the highest of the ten monthly three-year...
Most Fed officials expect another interest rate increase by year end, minutes of the September meeting released October 7 show, with the next decision due October 28
Most Fed policymakers do not see September’s rate increase as the last one of 2026. Minutes of the September 15-16 meeting, released October 7, say...
Former WWE shareholders would be paid automatically from a $147.5 million settlement with Vince McMahon and others if a Delaware judge approves it November 30
Former WWE shareholders would receive money automatically, with no claim form, from a $147.5 million cash settlement with Vince McMahon and four other defendants, but...
New York Harbor wholesale gasoline traded at $3.329 a gallon September 29, EIA says
New York Harbor wholesale gasoline traded at $3.329 a gallon on September 29, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That was the lowest of...
Brent crude spot prices hit $113.96 a barrel on September 29, EIA data show
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s daily spot table shows Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, at $113.96 a barrel on September 29. That is one...
The SEC ordered $2,221,516.35 from the ShipChain fair fund disbursed to harmed investors
Investors who lost money in ShipChain’s 2017 token sale moved a step closer to a payout on September 23, when the Securities and Exchange Commission...
An SEC order on September 28 sends $8,133,170.61 from the Miller Energy Resources fair fund toward harmed investors
Investors harmed by the overstated Alaska oil-and-gas assets on Miller Energy’s books are next in line for $8,133,170.61, after a Securities and Exchange Commission order...
The SEC ordered a second Petrobras fair fund distribution of $6,414,906.46 to harmed investors on September 23
A second payout from the Petrobras Fair Fund, the pot of money collected after the Brazilian oil company misled investors, was ordered by the Securities...
Texas Instruments said it will raise its quarterly dividend to $1.52 a share, contingent on an October board vote
Texas Instruments has not yet raised its quarterly dividend to $1.52 a share; the company has said it will. Its September 17 announcement describes a...
Campbell’s pays its reduced 25-cent dividend on November 2, down from 39 cents
Campbell’s will pay the first of its reduced quarterly dividends on November 2: 25 cents a share, against the 39 cents the soup and snacks...
A 52-week Treasury bill carried a coupon equivalent of 4.46 percent on October 5
Treasury’s daily bill table put the 52-week bill at a coupon equivalent of 4.46 percent on October 5, 2026, the highest rate in a seven-maturity...
Federally insured credit unions held $2.50 trillion in assets at the end of June
Federally insured credit unions ended the second quarter of 2026 with $2.50 trillion in total assets, a gain of $120 billion, or 5.0 percent, from...
Treasury’s 10-year yield reached 5.31 percent on October 5 and the 30-year 5.66 percent, repricing what new retirement savings earn
Treasury’s own tables put the 10-year yield at 5.31 percent and the 30-year yield at 5.66 percent at the close of October 5, 2026, the...
The Supreme Court hears the Intel 401(k) case on October 6
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear argument on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, in Anderson v. Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, No. 25-498, a retirement-plan...
Treasury’s stablecoin rule takes comments until October 19, and the GENIUS Act bars providers from selling non-permitted coins from July 2028
Treasury’s proposed rule on payment stablecoins is open for public comment until October 19, 2026, and it arrives with a statutory clock already running: the...
A 52-week Treasury bill yielded 4.46 percent on October 2, above Bankrate’s 2.12 percent national average for one-year bank certificates
A 52-week Treasury bill yielded 4.46 percent on October 2, 2026, on the coupon-equivalent basis Treasury publishes for comparison with interest-bearing deposits. Bankrate’s national average...
The SEC fined an adviser-matching service $450,000 for not disclosing a conflict of interest in the advisers its salespeople recommended
A $450,000 civil money penalty has been imposed on Zoe Financial, an adviser-matching service, in a settled administrative order the Securities and Exchange Commission announced...
The SEC would add an exam as another path to accredited investor status beside the $1 million net-worth test
Passing a FINRA-developed exam could qualify an individual as an accredited investor without any showing of wealth or income, under a proposal the Securities and...