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US Weekly Jobless Claims Fall, Goods-Trade Deficit Widens

US initial jobless claims fell to a lower-than-expected 203,000 in the week ending August 22, while the goods-trade deficit grew to the widest since March 2025. Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

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UK Wants Central Bank to Support Stablecoin Innovation

England wants its central bank to support innovation in stablecoins and other digital money. The U.K. Treasury announced Thursday (Aug. 27) that it had set a new objective for the Bank of England to make sure its regulatory framework fosters the appropriate conditions for things like tokenization and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to…

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