A suit by Intel Corp. shareholders over statements about the company’s progress toward achieving a smaller microchip was properly dismissed, the Ninth Circuit affirmed Friday.

The chief executive officer of the world’s main verifier of corporate emissions plans says he “deeply regrets” the confusion that followed a recent update that was widely interpreted as permission to ratchet up the use of carbon credits.

The world’s two biggest metals traders are moving to withdraw large volumes of aluminum from the <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/LME","_id":"0000018e-f7a7-d583-afbf-f7ffd7540000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">London Metal Exchange in a complex trade made possible by new UK sanctions on Russian metal, raising questions about unintended consequences from the new rules.

The US soon will unveil tougher standards meant to drive greater integrity for carbon markets — a bid to ensure the trading regimes drive real emission reductions and not just greenwashing.

Now that a large swath of Americans have paid their tax bills, milestones have been set as cash sloshed through the financial system with broader implications ahead potentially for the Federal Reserve unwinding its balance sheet.