Wall Street rallies to kick off August on Iran talks optimism Reuters

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s assurance to senators about the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and President Trump’s immunity with the Internal Revenue Service is nothing more than a hollow gesture.

Bloomberg's Yiqin Shen joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Leveraged ETFs that offer the tantalizing prospect of doubling or tripling the daily returns of an individual stock are famously risky for investors who buy them. The result has been a quiet surge of activity in an exo

How Iran is widening its pressure campaign to force US concessions Reuters

Players like Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham are Europe’s rare earths

Why has New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani become nationally prominent so quickly? Part of it has to do with his bold and controversial policy proposals, his undeniable political skills and his wholehearted embrace of social media. But it can’t hurt that there are so many journalists in New York to

OPEC+ oil output hike is irrelevant for now, not for later Reuters

Pascal Soriot has an awkward relationship with the UK. Now, the boss of AstraZeneca Plc is contemplating a megadeal with US peer Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that could shift the British drugmaker’s center of gravity further westwards. It’s a potentially tricky tie-up. But Soriot’s counterintuitive bets

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a key holdout on confirming Todd Blanche for attorney general, struck a deal to end the controversial "anti-weaponization fund."

Oil is falling as U.S.-Iran peace talks are back on. Plus, a potential massive merger in the pharmaceutical industry.