Trump’s trade war with Canada could lead the U.S. back to quantitative easing

Marc Benioff is going on the offensive about the so-called SaaSpocalypse. “This nonsense of this SaaSpocalypse, I think it’s time for it to stop,” the Salesforce CEO said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Benioff used the call to push back on fears that AI threatens traditional software companies. “Our seats were supposed…

(RTTNews) – Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced a definitive agreement to acquire MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (MKTX), an electronic trading platform for global institutional fixed income markets. ICE will acquire all outstanding shares of MarketAxess for $167 per share in cash, representing an equity value of approximately $6.0 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $5.7…

House prices fell slightly in August by 0.2%, following a 0.1% decrease in July, the Lloyds house price index reveals. The average property price is now £298,468, down from £299,153 in July. On an annual basis prices have fallen by 0.4%, the first year-on-year decrease since November 2023. Northern Ireland continues to record the strongest…

The chances of an interest rate hike — the first of this cycle — in the next monetary policy review scheduled for October 5-7 have increased, with the Reserve Bank of India announcing a 30-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction for a notified amount of Rs 7 trillion on Monday, the reversal of which…