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Chicago Bulls legend and six-time NBA champion Scottie Pippen has hired Sotheby's auction house to sell a selection of his personal memorabilia, including the jersey he wore during the championship-clinching game of the 1998 NBA Finals....

Gemini Space Station Inc. said it plans to close all customer accounts in the UK, European Union and Australia....

South Korea is offering $3 billion of dollar bonds, in an effort to bolster its foreign exchange reserves amid global uncertainties and massive investments pledged under a US trade deal....

Vanguard Group Chief Executive Officer Salim Ramji is putting his imprint on the world's second-largest asset manager by siphoning talent from Wall Street firms to fill key roles....

OpenAI is introducing a new platform that's designed to help companies deploy AI agents more easily, part of a broader push to cement itself as a leader in automating valuable work tasks.The new product, called Frontier, allows organizations to build and manage these AI tools so that each agent has appropriate guardrails and data access. The goal is to simplify the process of rolling out AI agents — or “AI coworkers,” as OpenAI calls them — and pave the way for broader adoption of the technology...

Treasuries rose after data showed a surge in job-cut announcements by US companies and a jump in claims for unemployment benefits, bolstering wagers that the Federal Reserve will resume cutting interest rates this year....

Novo Nordisk A/S's shares fell after a report that Hims & Hers Health Inc. will begin offering a version of its new weight loss pill at a lower price....

Ralph Lauren Corp. dropped after sales growth decelerated in the most recent quarter, a sign that the company's accessible luxury apparel is losing momentum with cautious shoppers....

Applications for US unemployment benefits increased by 22,000 to 231,000 in the final week of January, rising by more than forecast. Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)...

New York's pension funds are questioning Palantir Technologies Inc., a software company, over its business dealings with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security....

Nigeria is tightening scrutiny of its fast-growing fintech industry while easing licensing and improving access to capital as it tries to balance innovation with financial stability....

"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops. Today's guests: Iain Stealey, JPMorgan Asset Management, Fixed Income International CIO; Bruna Skarica, Morgan Stanley, Chief UK Economist; Ellie Geranmayeh, European Council on Foreign Relations, Middle East and North Africa Program Deputy Director; Jackie Ineke, Spring Investments, CIO; Richard Harpin, HomeServe, Founder (Source: Bloomberg)...

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at 2% as officials assess the economic toll of a rally in the euro and renewed trade unpredictability. Bloomberg's Lizzy Burden reports from Frankfurt. (Source: Bloomberg)...

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said he was “shocked” by Peter Mandelson's ties with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, adding that society must do some soul searching over the revelations....

Applications for US unemployment benefits rose by more than forecast last week, when severe winter weather curtailed business activity....

Microsoft Corp. was hit with a rare analyst downgrade, in the latest sign of how caution toward software companies is even spreading to some of the biggest and most influential names....

Denmark's largest pension fund sees no buy-the-dip opportunity in Novo Nordisk A/S's shares after the drugmaker warned that sales will fall in 2026, underscoring how investors on its home turf have little confidence in the stock....

A growing cadre of multibillion-dollar startups are racing to create the best artificial intelligence models, able to absorb tasks from software engineers, musicians and paralegals. Eric Ho, the chief executive officer of a startup called Goodfire, thinks we're moving too fast....

A data center boom, driven by increased AI usage, is emerging as a key growth driver for cooling, helping offset Carrier Global Corp.'s soft sales to residential customers and lifting Johnson Controls International Plc's profit outlook to a decade high....

The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged as officials assess the economic toll of a rally in the euro and renewed trade unpredictability....