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Beijing's Stock Rescue Turns More Desperate: Regulators Reportedly Halt IPOs China's version of the "Plunge Protection Team" was back in action on Tuesday.The Financial Times reports that the securities regulator has instructed investment banks to pause initial public offerings, curbing new equity supply. The reported intervention follows a series of measures aimed at reversing the bear market, suggesting Beijing is increasingly uncomfortable with the stock downturn that began over the summer.The report says that the China Securities Regulatory Commission delivered informal "window guidance" in meetings with major investment banks over...

The Nuke Question: Wall Street's Top Defense Analyst Says US Nuclear Use In Iran "Cannot Be 100% Ruled Out" For eight months, every Iran headline has come with the same two-way trade: peace deal on Monday, "locked and loaded" by Friday.This week was no exception: Monday, November 9 was the date that a handful of media reports had penciled in for the resumption of major US strikes (a new moon, three carriers on station, the midterms safely in the rearview mirror). Instead, President Trump walked out of a meeting with...

DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into E. Jean Carroll Over Alleged Perjury In Trump Lawsuits The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the veteran advice columnist and author who won two major civil lawsuits against President Donald Trump, CBS News reports. Carroll accused Trump of sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and then defaming her when he denied the encounter ever happened. The probe focuses on Carroll's 2022 deposition. She stated under oath that no outside parties were helping fund her...