(Reuters) – Robinhood Markets is considering offering cryptocurrency futures in the U.S. and Europe in the coming months, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The commission-free trading app is hoping to use the licenses of crypto exchange Bitstamp, which it agreed to buy last month in a $200 million deal,…
(Reuters) – Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Tuesday said he sees some “warning signs” of weakening in the economy, adding that the U.S. central bank’s goal is to get inflation down without stressing the labor market. “I see some warning signs the real economy is weakening,” Goolsbee told CNBC in an interview on…
(Reuters) – General Motors on Tuesday posted a slower rise in second-quarter U.S. sales, hurt by lower fleet sales to daily rental companies and a cyber incident at CDK that impacted dealers across the country. Overall sales rose about 0.6% to 696,086 units, compared with an increase of about 19% in the same period last…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The former senior Apple lawyer who avoided prison time after pleading guilty to insider trading must pay a $1.15 million fine in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil case, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, said that while Gene…
