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TD And BMO Among 9 Banks Accused Of Discriminating Against Conservative Customers, US Regulator Says Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, A U.S. banking regulator's report has flagged the Bank of Montreal and TD Bank alongside seven other financial institutions accused of restricting financial services to certain American customers because of their conservative political or religious beliefs. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has published a report based on its findings during a supervisory review of debanking practices across nine major banks under its jurisdiction, based...

Yen Jumps On Report Of BOJ "Rate Check" But It's "Too Little Too Late" Update: (12:40pm ET) The Bank of Japan, not to mentioned Scott "the House" Bessent, have been most displeased with the yen plunge following today's BOJ rate hike, and so they once again do what they do pretty much every other week now: intervene in the market.  As we said earlier (see below) when we predicted that some sort of central bank intervention was inevitable, the yen pared declines on Friday after Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported that the Bank of Japan...

Saudi Delegation Makes Unexpected Appearance In Tehran For Start Of Ayatollah's Funeral Friday and Saturday kick off what will be up to a week of solemn funeral observances for slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - a major historic event which is expected to draw some 15 to 20 million mourners in Tehran and across Iranian cities. Iran on Thursday issued a warning to the United States and Israel, Reuters reported: "We warn the enemies of Iran, especially the U.S. and the Zionist regime (Israel), to avoid any miscalculation and to think about the...