A Louisiana man lost an appeal seeking to undo his fraud convictions after Fifth Circuit said there was no problem with the district court’s decision to allow him to represent himself at trial.

The Texas Supreme Court said two out-of-state attorneys are permitted to defend age discrimination claims against AutoZone Inc., overturning a finding from two lower state courts that the lawyers engaged in unauthorized practice of law.

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/6152Z%20LN%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1ad5-d583-afbf-daddbe6d0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">UK’s financial watchdog pushed back against criticism of its plan to name firms it’s investigating at an early stage, which it thinks will boost transparency and deterrence.

The top US auto-safety regulator is again investigating <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/TSLA%20US%20Equity/BICO","_id":"0000018f-1ad5-d583-afbf-daddc3ef0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot, this time over whether a fix deployed months ago did enough to stop people from misusing the system.

Companies are increasingly piling into a re-energized market for initial public offerings, and if the Federal Reserve finally stops <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"SC5G7RDWX2PS","_id":"0000018f-1ac8-d583-afbf-dadccada0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">punting on interest rate cuts, the trend may have room to run.

Funds managed by affiliates of <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/9990822D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1a2c-d583-afbf-dafc60850000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Apollo Global Management Inc. will buy frack-sand provider <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/SLCA%20US%20Equity/FA","_id":"0000018f-1a2c-d583-afbf-dafc60850001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">US Silica Holdings Inc. for $1.21 billion, the latest in a wave of acquisitions in the shale industry.

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/SNB","_id":"0000018f-1ab2-d583-afbf-dafe1fed0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Swiss National Bank isn’t inclined to invest its reserves in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, President <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1ab2-d583-afbf-dafe1fed0001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Thomas Jordan said.

A metric providing a window into the profitability of Bitcoin mining is approaching the all-time low it reached after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, signaling hard times ahead for miners.

Paul Weiss has been stymied in its effort to open a Houston office, as top equity partners at rival firms spurned recruitment efforts.

Investors pulled a net $218 million from US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, one of their worst daily <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/W%20%23SPEC%20290","_id":"0000018f-19ad-d583-afbf-dbfd33ba0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">outflows as demand for risky investments takes a knock from fading hopes for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.

Crypto software firm <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1994287D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-174b-d583-afbf-d7df5f850000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Consensys sued the <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/13165Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-174b-d583-afbf-d7df5f850001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">US Securities and Exchange Commission in an effort to fend off regulation of the Ethereum blockchain and push back against what it called the agency’s “campaign to seize control over the future of cryptocurrency.”

Co-founded by Sam Altman, the crypto and AI project has faced scrutiny around the world for its eyeball scans.

Indicted investment fund founder Greg Lindberg is facing civil litigation over claims he illegally converted a wholly owned corporation into a limited liability company to evade a $580 million court judgment.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/TEAM%20US%20Equity/BQ","_id":"0000018f-1af1-d583-afbf-dafd35e50000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Atlassian Corp. Co-Chief Executive Officer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1af1-d583-afbf-dafd35e50001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Scott Farquhar is stepping down from the Australian software company he helped start more than two decades ago, a surprise move that rattled investors.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1802835D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1af1-d583-afbf-dafd35e90000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Elliott Investment Management has built a roughly $1 billion stake in Anglo American Plc while betting against the stock of BHP Group Ltd., the Australian miner that’s made an unsolicited takeover approach to Anglo American.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/LMCADS03%20LME%20Comdty/GP","_id":"0000018f-1ae8-d583-afbf-dafc0fa50000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Copper hit $10,000 a ton for the first time in two years as speculation builds that the world’s mines will struggle to meet a coming wave of demand from green industries.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://screens/nsc%20us%20%3Cequity%3E%20des1","_id":"0000018f-1afa-d583-afbf-dafe5c440000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Norfolk Southern Corp.’s chief executive officer was <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"RQFYU0T1UM0X","_id":"0000018f-1afa-d583-afbf-dafe5c440001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">lambasted by politicians as the epitome of everything wrong with the profit-obsessed railroad industry when a derailment caused a toxic disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, last year.

A cause celebre is ringing out across Harvard Yard, Columbia’s South Lawn, Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: Disclose and divest.

A Colorado law requiring ballot measures affecting state or local tax revenues have a title reflecting their impact is government speech and doesn’t violate the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

A Louisiana man lost an appeal seeking to undo his fraud convictions after Fifth Circuit said there was no problem with the district court’s decision to allow him to represent himself at trial.

The New York City Department of Education, Buffalo Public School District, and other school districts defeated a whistleblower’s bid to revive allegations that remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic was inadequate for special needs students, the Second Circuit said Friday.

A New Jersey gymnastics coach sued the United States Center for SafeSport Inc., the organization that investigates claims of abuse in Olympic sports, challenging his three-month suspension for alleged emotional misconduct.

The Texas Supreme Court said two out-of-state attorneys are permitted to defend age discrimination claims against AutoZone Inc., overturning a finding from two lower state courts that the lawyers engaged in unauthorized practice of law.

Conservation groups told a federal appeals court that they have standing to challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of more than 4,000 drilling permits in New Mexico and Wyoming.