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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is indicating an openness to work with Wall Street on emerging exchange-traded fund products tied to cryptocurrencies and tokenization.”We want to work with people on new products,” Peirce said during an exclusive interview this week with “ETF Edge” host Dominic Chu. “It really is a come in and talk to us about what you’re trying to do. We want to work with you toward being able to experiment to see whether the market wants your products.”Peirce joined CNBC from the VettaFi’s Exchange 2026 conference in Las Vegas. “I’m here because this is such an important segment…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! HR executive Kristin Cabot took a swipe at Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds over the Coldplay Kiss Cam scandal.Cabot insisted Hollywood should have stayed out of the drama instead of releasing an ad for the company she used to work for.”That was really disappointing to me,” Cabot explained during a sit-down interview for “The Oprah Podcast.” “I felt like Gwyneth, someone whose company [Goop] is founded on or framed around uplifting women and women’s well-being… I don’t know why she felt she needed to throw gas on the fire and get involved…

For the close to half-a-million workers at FedEx, a major AI journey is underway. The logistics giant is in the midst of a widespread AI literacy initiative that it says will make employees more knowledgeable, efficient and promotion-ready. Launched in early December in partnership with tech consulting firm Accenture, the enterprise-wide education program is also meant to spark innovation from employees at all levels.FedEx and its competitors in the shipping sector face many business constraints, from tariffs and other policy changes to cost-cutting initiatives that resulted in recent FedEx plant closures and layoffs in places from Kansas to France. Rival UPS recently announced 30,000 layoffs…

The US president called on immigration agents to place ‘heavy emphasis’ on the arrests of Somali immigrants, a frequent target of his ire.United States President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy federal immigration agents to the country’s airports to “do Security like no one has ever seen”.Trump’s warning on Saturday arrived on the five-week mark of a partial government shutdown that affects the Department of Homeland Security.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listCongress missed a February 14 deadline to fund the sprawling department, which includes agencies dedicated to border security, anti-terrorism operations, immigration services and emergency management.As a result,…

President Trump signaled that the U.S. may be “winding down” its operation in Iran as more than 2,000 Marines head to the Middle East. Meanwhile, oil prices continue to soar amid tension in the region.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FBI agents raided a Hollywood mansion early Thursday, arresting a suspect in pajamas in a raid tied to an alleged $17.4 million mortgage fraud scheme targeting elderly homeowners.Prosecutors said the scheme resulted in about $6 million in actual losses, with 11 suspects — including an Iranian and Azerbaijani national — accused of stealing victims’ identities, taking out mortgages on their homes and pocketing the cash.During the raid, part of Operation Hard Money, agents surrounded the home and took the suspect into custody after he walked out with his hands up before being…

MPs will return to the House of Commons Monday after a March break week back in their ridings and, once back in Ottawa, will take up consideration of the Carney government’s 2026-2027 spending plan, new details of which were tabled in the House of Commons on the Friday before that break. Those details, outlined over hundreds of pages in more than 80 departmental plans, confirm a shift in the Carney government’s budget priorities, with an emphasis on heightened defence spending and capital investment at the expense of some spending on, for example, science and foreign aid.“We say we’re going to…

The great Tadej Pogacar has finally won the Milan-San Remo ‘monument’ classic by just half-a-wheel after a crash which left him bloodied and battered.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! UCLA center Skyy Clark has a new smile he’s showing off after the Bruins’ 75-71 victory over UCF on Friday night. The California native and senior lost his front tooth during UCLA’s first round game in the men’s NCAA tournament after he caught a stray elbow from UCF’s Themus Fulks when the pair dove for a loose ball late in the second half.  UCLA’s Skyy Clark (55), right, has a tooth chipped by UCF’s Themus Fulks (12) during the second half of a first-round game of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament in…

It’s only March, and investors have already absorbed a hot war in the Middle East, a credit system showing cracks, a brutal tech repricing, and two of the world’s most trusted safe-haven assets selling off in the middle of a crisis. The market feels chaotic because it genuinely is, and what makes this moment unusual is that the five risks feeding that chaos are not independent. They are connected, amplifying each other in ways that make the standard playbook harder to trust.Is the Iran war already priced in?This is the hardest question for investors today. The US-Israel strikes on Iran…