Politics And The Markets 08/18/26

The federal government spent years building toward a centralized answer to one of banking’s oldest compliance questions: Who actually owns the company moving the money? Now, much of that answer is disappearing. The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Tuesday (Aug. 11) that its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is permanently removing U.S. companies and U.S….

Actress Aubrey Plaza has trimmed the price of her Spanish-style California compound by nearly a half-million dollars—less than two months after she relisted the property at a drastically reduced ask. Plaza, 41, initially put her picturesque Los Feliz dwelling on the market for $6.5 million in September, eight months after her husband, film director Jeff Baena, died by suicide…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Thursday closed up +1.66%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up +1.19%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +3.36%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) rose +1.65%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) rose +3.28%. Stock indexes settled sharply higher on Thursday after strong growth at Microsoft reassured…

Sellers conceding more ground on price Average sale prices in Nova Scotia eased for a second straight month. Prices are easing back from the spring peak, and list-price ratios are softening further in buyers’ favour, the report found. Sale-to-list price ratios and sale-to-original-list ratios both declined from a year earlier, widening the gap between what…

But with the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index running at 4.1% for the 12 months through May and consumer prices still up 3.5% year-over-year in June, Logan said the central bank has unfinished business. “One month of relief is not enough,” she said. “It is time to finish the job of restoring price stability.”…

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