New York Financial News

Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has started restoring complimentary blue checks to some of its users

When you're doing your taxes, it can sometimes be hard to know whether to itemize or take the standard deduction

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Thursday: Levi Strauss, Conagra Brands rise; Lamb Weston, RPM International fall

About 2 million Black & Decker-branded clothing steamers are now under recall after consumers reported dozens of burn injuries that resulted from hot water spewing out of the devices

New York City retirement plans reached an agreement with Royal Bank of Canada for the lender to disclose how much financing it provides for clean-energy projects relative to fossil fuels.

In a wide-ranging interview on Cavuto: Coast to Coast, The Corcoran Group founder and Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran addresses market trends and challenges in real estate.

Irina Dilkinska, former atty of the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency scam, was sentenced to 4 years in jail on Wednesday. Dilkinska pled guilty last year for her role in helping launder $4 billion crypto fraud scheme in 2019.

HDFC Bank rallied 7% on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, buoyed by the encouraging numbers for the March quarter. HDFC Bank ADRs were trading at $60.2, up nearly 7% from the previous close. Back home, shares of the private sector lender ended 3% higher on the National Stock Exchange at Rs 1,529.

Buckingham Palace will open its revered balcony room to the public for the first time. Enthusiasts of the royal family can now embark on guided tours of the palace's illustrious east wing, offering a rare opportunity to explore the iconic balcony room where generations of royals have made historic appearances, as per a report by New York Times.

Solar Eclipse is on its way this April and will be visible across the United States but there's some bad news as well. According to New York Post, traffic congestion is expected which will have a significant impact across almost 30 interstates. Travelers who will be planning on visits to these regions need to plan due to the traffic congestion scheduled to happen when the solar eclipse arrives. Leave early if you want to reach your destination within the stipulated time.

A New York RIA has been charged for “widespread and longstanding failures” relating to electronic communications – and fined $6.5 million.

Bitcoin dropped the most in almost two weeks, weighed down by cooling demand for dedicated US exchange-traded funds and ebbing bets on looser Federal Reserve monetary policy. The digital asset fell as much as 7.4%, the biggest intraday decline since March 19, and traded around $65,400 at 10:09 am in New York. Tokens earlier favored by the meme crowd such as Pepe and dogwifhat also slumped, sending a gauge of smaller digital assets sharply lower. The crypto declines came as equities markets in Europe and the US also dropped.

Donald Trump has had a recent conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to the New York Times, citing information from two individuals briefed on the matter. Reuters reported that the newspaper reported that it was unclear what Trump and the prince, known as MBS, discussed and whether this was their first conversation since Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021, left office.

Paramount Global has entered exclusive talks with Skydance on a potential merger instead of a proposed $26 billion takeover offer from Apollo, US media reported Wednesday night. The negotiations mean entertainment giant Paramount will not speak with Apollo or other prospective acquirers for 30 days, while it aims for a transaction to be bought by Skydance, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources.

Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Wednesday: Signet Jewelers, Cal-Maine Foods rise; Intel Paramount Global fall

Two Florida brothers have pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, admitting they made over $22 million illegally before the 2021 public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump's media company public

private equity major Blackstone Group is confident of investing USD 2 billion annually in India, a top official said on Wednesday. Its chief operating officer Jonathan D Gray pitched for a slew of measures to improve the ease of doing business for firms like it in India, including quicker approvals on mergers and acquisitions, easier privatisation of listed companies, and improvements in dispute resolution in commercial matters. The New York-based group, which has been operational in India for nearly two decades, said Indian PE investments have delivered the highest return for it worldwide, and the investment in realty, which made it the largest landlord in the country, has also delivered well. «We plan to invest around USD 2 billion every year in India,» its senior managing director Amit Dixit told reporters here.

Supreme Court has awarded a compensation of $35 million (approximately ₹292 crore) to a former Morgan employee after a glass door of a building in New York City—in which she was having a physical therapy appointment— suddenly shattered on her in 2015, leaving her with permanent brain damage, the New York Post reported. The report said the ruling in favour of Meghan Brown, 36, followed a three weeks trial and the court was shown the shocking CCTV footage of the incident—now viral on social media—in which the 7.5-foot-tall lobby door almost exploded on the JP Morgan employee while walking through it after a physical therapy appointment in the building.

Deepfakes have long raised concern in social media, elections and the public sector. But now with technology advances making artificial intelligence-enabled voice and images more lifelike than ever, bad actors armed with deepfakes are coming for the enterprise. “There were always fraudulent calls coming in.

«It was always a long row,» said Piet De Staercke of the line to go through passport screening. He, his wife and two sons were visiting Washington and Chicago. «We were a bit scared. But now with the app, it's amazing.» As travel continues to boom following pandemic-related slumps, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding the use of technology like the Mobile Passport Control app the De Staercke family used in an effort to process the ever-growing number of passengers traveling internationally. And with events like a rare solar eclipse, the Olympics in Paris, and summer holidays still driving international travel, those numbers don't look set to drop any time soon.