Trump says he spoke with Venezuela’s Rodriguez about elections

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has signed an executive order to prevent data centers from seeking state-level approvals without local support. Healey’s new order prevents data centers over 25 megawatts from seeking state permits unless they have local approvals. She also directed the state’s agencies to enforce a framework she announced this summer requiring the developments…

The underlying individual measures reflect the same split. On personal finances, 13.96% of respondents said they were better off than a year ago, up from 11.63% four weeks earlier and above the 2026 average of 13.62%, though still below the long-run benchmark of 17.34% since 2008, according to Nanos. Views on the Canadian economy were more…

The property industry lacks independent data on the proportion of enquiries arriving outside office hours, with widely cited figures stemming from suppliers’ own datasets rather than independent research, according to analysis by Clevaa founder James Mulholland. Figures circulating in the sector range from 26% to 91%, depending on the source. Moneypenny reports 26% based on…

Cantor Fitzgerald said Wednesday that it has launched institutional trading for prediction markets.  As a result, the firm becomes one of the first full-service investment banks to give institutional clients access to block trading in event contracts on a CFTC-regulated exchange. Cantor will act as an introducing broker, arranging and facilitating institutional-size block trades in…

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, which the regulator announced Tuesday (Aug. 18), could facilitate token-based fundraising in the United States, Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl said in an article published Wednesday (Aug. 19). Token-based fundraising, in turn, could bring more U.S. issuers on-chain and drive value to underlying networks…

“Many potential buyers remain on the sidelines as they wait for lower mortgage rates, more certainty on inflation and a clearer economic outlook,” said NAHB Chairman Bill Owens. Permits point to cautious optimism ahead There was a qualified forward signal. Overall residential building permits climbed 5.0% from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of…