By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Chinese stocks surged on Wednesday, lifting regional markets and helping extend a stimulus-fueled global rally that also underpinned risk-sensitive currencies, while Brent crude hovered near a three-week high. The dollar drooped after weak U.S. macroeconomic data overnight boosted the case for a second super-sized …

Storm Boris dumped record amounts of rain over Central and Eastern Europe this month. A new study found climate change made the deluge more likely. Source link

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX affiliate Alameda Research, was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday. Ellison pled guilty to conspiring with FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to steal $8 billion worth of customers’ funds, but she was an exceedingly cooperative witness, helping law enforcement to investigate the massive …