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FASB Eyes Standardizing Key Performance Indicators

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As part of its process to narrow priorities for 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board in November invited stakeholders to weigh in on whether certain financial key performance indicators – better known as KPIs – should be standardi...

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Trump Paves Way for Quick SEC Action on Crypto

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In his first week on the job, President Donald Trump and new decisionmakers at the Securities and Exchange Commission appear poised to act quickly to deliver some regulatory clarity on cryptocurrency. Despite crypto’s popularity with some i...

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What’s Real – and What’s Not – About Trump’s Tariff Plan?

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President Donald Trump has never kept secret his love for tariffs. Touting plans for a robust tariff regime as a staple of his 2024 campaign, he went so far as to call tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” Of course, Trump has...

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Blocked U.S. Steel-Nippon Acquisition Roils Dealmakers, Baffles Analysts

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President Biden’s decision in early January to block Japan-based Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel sparked a slew of unusual twists and turns more akin to a Hollywood political thriller than a typical corporate deal. Accusations of c...

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Court OKs Tesla Board’s Deal to Repay Nearly $1 Billion

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Ending one skirmish amid the legal battles at Tesla over excessive compensation, a Delaware Chancery Court on January 8 approved a deal that Tesla’s board of directors struck 18 months ago to return roughly $919 million to the company. The...

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