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A federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump from restricting birthright citizenship. 

As debate time ended for Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”, the president’s tax-cutting package moved to a special session known as vote-a-rama. 

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said that Iran could start producing enriched uranium again “in a matter of months”. 

U.S. Stocks end the day higher with shares of First Republic Bank rising after 11 of the nation’s biggest banks deposit $30 billion. U.S. regional banks rally, and tech stocks look like a safe haven, for now. Charlotte Gartenberg reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m ... Show More

The largest US banks have banded together to deposit $30bn into First Republic Bank in an attempt to bolster its finances, the European Central Bank has raised interest rates by half a percentage point, Emmanuel Macron failed a critical parliamentary test and chose to override la ... Show More

Eleven US major private banks have confirmed they have launched a thirty-billion-dollar rescue package for First Republic Bank. And what about those who never use banks at all? We hear about the challenges for the billions of unbanked people and businesses around the world. Prote ... Show More

Federal regulators dissected Silicon Valley and Signature banks today, delivering post-mortems on last month’s banking crisis. But on Wall Street, the crisis is far from over, with shares of First Republic Bank plummeting amid fears it could go into receivership. CNN Political Di ... Show More

The latest from Cyprus and how it affects UK savers. What is to become of the UK's state-run banks. And the mounting warnings about bonds and bond funds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

A bid by China’s Anbang Insurance to buy Novo Banco has collapsed, leaving the future of Portugal's biggest retail bank up in the air. Patrick Jenkins, the FT's financial editor, discusses the implications with Martin Arnold, FT banking editor, and Laura Noonan, investment bankin ... Show More

Presenter Sam Fenwick will take a look at First Republic Bank as it has been sold to investment banking giant JP Morgan. First Republic has become the third US bank to collapse this year. Globally there'll be fewer jobs around in the coming five years. Research suggests there cou ... Show More

Peter Spiegel, Brussels bureau chief, joins the podcast to discuss the potential fallout from the bailout in Cyprus, which sees bank deposits tapped for the first time. Also under discussion are the results of the second leg of US stress tests, as the Fed orders JPMorgan and Gold ... Show More

Thirty years ago, rich-world central banks started winning the fight against inflation. More recently, they have begun to fight new battles, including against climate change or inequality. As the old enemy of inflation returns, in this two-part series, host Soumaya Keynes asks if ... Show More