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L’été n’aura pas été de tout repos pour les équipes de lutte contre la fraude au sein des banques. Avec la fuite de données révélée par la DGFIP mi-août, les établissements ont même relevé d’un cran leur niveau d’alerte. D’autant que cette fuite survient quelques mois après celle qui a touché le fichier national des comptes bancaires et assimilés (Ficoba) et qui avait déjà fortement mis les banques sous pression.« On est passé en mode ‘rien ne va’ à la DGFIP », lâche un ponte de la fraude au sein d’une grande banque française, un sujet sur lequel les établissements cherchent à…

C. K. E.Those aren’t initials or Greek life letters. They’re some of the terms that economists, corporate leaders and politicians are using as they attempt to define the U.S. current economic moment.Since the recovery from the pandemic, economists have largely viewed the economy as acting in a “K”-shape, displaying an unequal expansion across groups and the arms of the “K” heading in opposite directions. Now there’s a debate over whether the K-shaped recovery still exists, or if the economy instead resembles the letter “C” or “E.””This is some of the alphabet soup,” said Joel Mokyr, a Nobel Prize-winning economic historian…

Targa Resources owns and operates natural gas pipelines, gas plants, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) export facilities and crude oil terminals across the US. In mid-August, its shares rose 10% after it announced a 20-year midstream deal with ExxonMobil to build and operate a portfolio of energy infrastructure assets for the oil and gas giant.Targa’s deal is the latest in a series of multibillion-dollar projects recently commissioned by oil giants and governments to help move oil and gas around the world.Targa Resources (NYSE:TRGP) is a midstream energy group, playing a vital role in the energy sector. These businesses link upstream companies,…

Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contain 880 tons of debris. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)MASATOSHI IDAAugust 30, 2026 06:07 JSTTOKYO — AI robots and drones will assist in the removal of radioactive debris from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings expected to launch a consortium addressing those plans as soon as this fiscal year.

The iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (NYSEMKT:IEFA) provides massive liquidity and a slightly higher yield, while the State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF (NYSEMKT:SPDW) offers a lower expense ratio and stronger one-year performance. Both IEFA and SPDW offer broad exposure to developed markets outside the United States. While the iShares fund is an industry titan with nearly $200 billion in assets, the State Street offering competes as an ultra-low-cost alternative for investors seeking efficient international diversification. Snapshot (cost & size) Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from monthly returns over the available…

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which featured Kevin Warsh’s first speech as chairman, is winding down Saturday.  Here are some of the key takeaways from the conference: Warsh Emerging Warsh used a keynote speech to hammer home a message that curbing inflation is the central bank’s top priority. While parts of the speech served to double down on his stated determination to avoid offering guidance to financial markets on the direction of interest rates, Warsh did finally provide some insight into how he views the economy. That helped relieve some frustration…

Fresh Insights Solid foundations Foundations: building out their PE portfolios. Source: Getty Ed’s note: Monday is a public holiday in the UK, so we’ll return to your inbox on Tuesday. North American foundations remain committed to private markets despite the industry’s liquidity challenges. That’s according to a Council on Foundations-Commonfund study of 285 US foundations managing a total of $126.9

This week’s impressive earnings results showed that the AI buildout is not a zero-sum game: both hardware and software stocks can win. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S & P 500 gained 0.9% and 0.5%, respectively, while the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.5%, marking its first winning week in three. Much of the gains came Thursday, when the ripple effects of Nvidia’s stellar earnings and forward guidance helped lift all three averages to their best days since Aug. 4. Stocks were little changed on Friday following Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, in which he said…

When I interviewed Dolly Parton in 2015, the woman famous for her relentless optimism surprised me by talking candidly about a period when she had struggled with depression.”I was having some personal problems and beginning to feel a little guilty about my success,” the trailblazing singer-songwriter told me during a conversation at her beloved Dollywood Theme Park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.Parton, who died Aug. 25 at age 80, also reflected on the difficult decisions that shaped her career. I had asked the Country music icon about the period in her life in the 1980’s when she was experiencing personal health…

Many people are writing to me, upset that I am interviewing Ziyang Zhuge, a well-known Chinese internet intellectual, who recently was accused of plagiarism.  I am keen to proceed with the interview, and am happy to explain why.  A few points: 1. The relevant facts here still are being disputed, and furthermore it all happened in Chinese.  If I cannot personally adjudicate the matter, I remain inclined to proceed.  I am also well aware that standards in China, including for plagiarism, are very different than in the United States.  If someone tells me “A person in China did [fill in…