Asia stocks fall as oil, Samsung drag weighs; Japan chip rally limits broader loss

Kolkata: India’s microfinance sector contracted in the first quarter of this financial year after a rebound in the previous three months as uneven monsoon progress weighed on rural demand amid a traditionally weak period. The sector’s portfolio shrank 4% to ₹3.26 lakh crore at the end of June from ₹3.39 lakh crore three months earlier,…

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Launch broadens the firm’s diverse suite of leveraged strategies covering highly watched technology stocks NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tradr ETFs, a provider of ETFs designed for sophisticated investors and professional traders, today launched four first-to-market single-stock leveraged ETFs listed on Cboe. The new funds provide investors with 2X long or inverse exposure…

An Atlanta-area woman alleges that she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent an unneeded hysterectomy because of a labeling error. Cassandra Barksdale and her attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kaiser Permanente alleging the mix-up led to the surgery and months of physical and emotional pain. According to the lawsuit, another patient’s tissue sample…

Aggregation has become one of the defining trends in financial services, giving users a single interface to manage accounts spread across multiple institutions. With the launch of Link, BitGo is applying that model to institutional digital asset management. The platform connects corporate treasurers to accounts at leading crypto exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, and Crypto.com, allowing…

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