Meta follows Chevron with a massive buyback that very likely signals extra are to come
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With Trump pressure and a ‘new Lebanon,’ can Hezbollah’s shadow economy be dismantled?
Key Points “Hezbollah finds itself in its greatest predicament since its foundation,” one regional expert told CNBC. Hezbollah makes money from industries like banking and construction, but also runs international drug trafficking and smuggling operations as far afield as Bulgaria and Argentina. Its revenues are estimated in the billions of dollars annually. Following Israel’s aggressive […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Cadence Design Systems, Whirlpool, Nucor and more
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Cadence Design Systems – Shares of the computer software company jumped more than 6% after its latest quarterly results beat on the top and bottom lines. For the second quarter, Cadence reported adjusted earnings of $1.65 per share on revenue of $1.28 billion, above the $1.55 […]
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JPMorgan says fintech middlemen like Plaid are ‘massively taxing’ its systems with unnecessary pings
Key Points JPMorgan Chase said that the fintech middlemen that have helped a new generation of financial apps connect with traditional checking accounts are flooding the bank’s systems with unnecessary data requests. Of 1.89 billion data requests from middlemen hitting its systems in June, only 13% were initiated by a customer for transactions, according to […]
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