Brazil bans foie gras production and sales citing animal cruelty

As August ends, several money-related deadlines and monthly price reviews are coming into focus.   For taxpayers, August 31 is particularly important, as it is the last date for certain income tax return filings and LPG e-KYC.   At the same time, consumers should watch for possible changes in LPG cylinder and aviation fuel prices…

The Building Societies Association (BSA) has become the latest signatory of the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC), endorsing its work to encourage positive mental health and wellbeing in the mortgage sector. The MIMHC was established in 2021 and brings firms from the mortgage and property finance industry together to support those dealing with…

MP Materials (MP -6.08%) was America’s favorite rare earth mining stock last year — or, at least, one of the Trump administration’s favorite rare earth miners. Indeed, MP stock tripled in 2025, with much of those gains occurring after the Pentagon’s public-private partnership with MP was announced last July. At one point last year, MP…

Billionaire Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Thiel Macro, disclosed its latest portfolio in a regulatory filing last month, and the fund’s largest reported position (a stake worth about $118 million as of June 30) is e-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon (AMZN -0.15%). But I’d argue the filing itself is less notable than the track record…

Financial advisors could play a leading role in unlocking trillions of dollars in wealth by helping society cast off a damaging “zero-sum” mentality, according to the author of a new book. Processing Content The “censorship of everything we think of today as stakeholder capitalism” from the works of free-market acolytes such as Adam Smith and…

Worthy, an AI-native tax-planning platform for financial advisors launched earlier this year, has analyzed more than $1 billion in taxable client income. The milestone demonstrates the growing use of Worthy’s tax-planning tools among financial advisors, according to the company. “Tax planning is a doorway,” Worthy co-founder and CEO Jonathan Hudacko said in a statement. “When…