NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., a leading specialist investment bank to the financial services and fintech sectors, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), announces the upcoming index rebalancing for the fourth quarter of 2025. This quarter, there are constituent changes within six of our indexes: KBW Nasdaq Insurance Index (Index Ticker: KIX), KBW Nasdaq Regional Banking Index (Index Ticker: KRX, ETF Ticker: KBWR), KBW Nasdaq Financial ...

Reference is made to the stock exchange announcement dated 21 January 2025. As described in the stock exchange announcement, DNB Bank ASA, Swedbank AB (publ) and Danske Bank A/S NUF claim that the Company has breached the restructuring agreement for the group entered into on 19 June 2020. The three banks finance the vessels Havila Foresight and Havila Harmony. The Company disputes that there is any breach of the restructuring agreement. It is the Company' postion that the three banks are obliged to convert ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave the green light on Friday for five crypto companies to have national trust bank charters under certain conditions, bringing some of the industry's biggest players ever closer to the traditional banking sector. Under conditions, the OCC approved applications submitted earlier this year by stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group (CRCL) and crypto firm Ripple (RIPL.PVT) to establish their national trust banks, First National Digital Currency Bank and R ...

>> FROM NEW YORK CITY, I AM MATT MILLER AND BLOOMBERG REAL YIELD STARTS RIGHT NOW. COMING UP, THE FEDERAL RESERVE CUTS RATES FOR ITS THIRD CONSECUTIVE TIME THIS YEAR DESPITE GROWING DISSENT, WHILE COMMITTING TO PURCHASE $40 BILLION OF TREASURY BILLS FORM -- PER MONTH IN A SHORT-TERM FUNDING COST AND THE CREDIT RISK SURGES TO A FRESH 16 YEAR HIGH AS AI SPENDING FATIGUE HITS THE MARKETS. WE BEGIN WITH THE BIG ISSUE, THE NEXT STEPS FOR A DIVIDED FED. >> I WAS HOPING FOR A FED THAT WAS MORE DIVIDED.>> THERE COU ...

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Key delayed U.S. data on jobs and inflation will be closely watched as investors gauge how much further the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates. ...

Right now, we want to get over to Steve Leeman. He is at the Chicago Fed Economic Outlook Symposium this week with bank president Austin Goulsby. Steve, take it away.>> Hey, good morning, Becky, and thank you. Just before I go, um I start here. Um Jeff Schmidt, the Kansas City Fed president, another dissenter out with a statement at this hour saying the reason he desented, inflation is too high, the economy showed continuing momentum, and the labor market he says is largely imbalanced.But we could talk abou ...

The major U.S. index futures are currently pointing to a mixed open on Friday, with the major averages likely to once again move in opposite directions. While the Nasdaq 100 futures are down by 0.5 percent, the Dow futures are up by 0.2 percent.A slump by shares of Broadcom (AVGO) may weigh on the Nasdaq, as the chipmaker is tumbling by 5.4 percent in pre-market trading.Broadcom is under pressure despite reporting better than expected fiscal fourth quarter results and providing upbeat guidance for the curr ...

Shoppers purchase groceries at the upscale LuLu Hypermarket located in the Lulu International Shopping Mall in Kerala, India, on May 25, 2022.India's consumer inflation rose to 0.71% in November, accelerating from an all-time low of 0.25% in the prior month.The headline inflation number was in line with estimates of a 0.70% rise in the consumer price index, according to a Reuters poll of economists' median estimates.The rise in consumer inflation was due to rises in the price of vegetables, eggs, meat and f ...

Climate change supercharged devastating floods that killed more than 1,600 people across parts of South and Southeast Asia, according to new research.A trio of tropical cyclones battered the region from Sri Lanka to Indonesia in November, causing at least $20 billion of losses. The storms led to torrential rainfall and destructive floodwaters that swept through homes, businesses and tourist spots, damaged roads and rail lines, obliterated crops and smothered factory output. Warmer Indian Ocean waters — abou ...