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Key takeaway: Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce will leave the agency Oct. 2, months after her second five-year term expired in June 2025. Expert quote: “I leave this position confident that under the excellent leadership of Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda, the talented men and women of the Securities and Exchange…

iFOREX Financial Trading (LSE:IFRX), the fintech company behind a proprietary online and mobile CFD trading platform, has issued a trading update warning that performance has deteriorated sharply since its half-year update in July. The company said trading in August has been “unusually subdued,” with low trading income amid generally weak market volatility. This follows an…

The push comes as Beijing also moves to tighten oversight of outbound capital flows. Credit: Toa55/Shutterstock.com China has expanded efforts to recover unpaid taxes from wealthy individuals, widening scrutiny of overseas investment gains and other income as pressure on public finances grows. The campaign is reaching far back. In some cases, authorities are reviewing tax…

The on/off Middle East crisis is on again this week, sending up oil prices in response. Dated Brent – a key benchmark based on North Sea oil – is above $100 for the first time since July at the time of writing. Every time oil moves in a significant way, it raises the question of…

TAIPEI — Phone in hand, the middle-aged woman gestured to the Taipei intersection, where an infantry platoon unloaded sandbags on the pedestrian crossings. “My Uber is waiting for me just there,” she said in Mandarin, pointing behind them. The bespectacled military policeman blocking her path with a T112 assault rifle apologized: She’d have to find…

Alphabet (GOOG -1.24%)(GOOGL -1.43%) will pay its next dividend on Sept. 14 — $0.22 per share, a rate the company raised 5% in April. The payout works out to about $10.8 billion a year across about 12.2 billion shares. In June, the same tech company sold about $50 billion of new stock in a single…