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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Novo Nordisk, New York Community Bancorp, Victoria’s Secret, Nvidia and more

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Novo Nordisk — Shares jumped 6.6% after the Danish pharmaceutical company reported positive Phase 1 trial data for its new experimental obesity drug, amycretin. Eli Lilly, the company’s American rival, dipped 0.7% on the news. Nvidia — Semiconductor companies rose broadly as a group, with the…

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Why private equity has been involved in every recent bank deal

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fist-bumps former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after a House Financial Services Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Treasury Department’s and Federal Reserve’s Pandemic Response” in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2020. Greg Nash | Reuters The $1 billion-plus injection that New York Community Bank…

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China’s top securities regulator vows to ‘strictly’ crack down on market manipulators

A securities business hall in Fuyang, China, in December 2023. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s top securities regulator vowed to “strictly” crack down on market manipulators, while stating that protecting small investors was a “core task.” The question of fairness, especially in a market dominated by smaller investors, is our core…

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China’s central bank governor says there’s room to cut banks’ reserve requirements

China’s central bank governor said there was room to further cut banks’ reserve requirements, and pledged to utilize monetary policy to prop up consumer prices. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s central bank governor said there was room to further cut banks’ reserve requirements, and pledged to utilize monetary policy to “mildly”…