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Institutional investors are increasing volatility in the corporate bond market by aggressively trading exchange traded funds, according to analysis from the IMF.This heightened volatility is particularly stark at times of market stress, when instability is most likely to bleed into real-world effects for corporate borrowers and the investors in their debt.The research feeds into a mounting debate among academics and researchers on the impact of ETFs on financial markets. The debate has become ever more urgent especially as ETFs have ballooned to $15tn in assets, a fivefold increase in a decade and far ahead of the $4.5tn held in hedge…

A special unit that began as a cold case task force recently helped secure a murder indictment against an active-duty airman accused of killing a missing Native American woman.Quinterius Chappelle, 24, an aircraft inspection journeyman stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for the alleged murder of 21-year-old Sahela “Shy” Toka Win Sangrait, who friends and family told Fox News Digital was his girlfriend of about one year.The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Missing and Murdered Unit (MMU) became involved in the case March 10, when a state lab confirmed…

When Marissa Alexander met her best friend in Grade 3, little did she know she she would one day marry him. The 26-year-old and her husband, Ryan Alexander, got married in 2020 and have been trying to have a baby ever since.“Our dreams would come true. We want more than anything to have a child,” Marissa said.In 2023, they tried in vitro fertilization (IVF). Although Marissa is young and doesn’t have any known health problems, the treatment was unsuccessful.“It was pretty hard, and it kind of came out of nowhere,” Ryan said. By day five, Marissa and Ryan said none of…

Former West Coast coach Adam Simpson has given candid insight into some of the early steps he took after identifying the Eagles needed to rebuild.

HANOI: Vietnam will cut its tariffs on several US products including LNG and cars, and moved to approve Starlink services, as the country tries to avoid being hit with U.S. tariffs because of its large bilateral trade surplus. The Southeast Asian industrial hub announced in past weeks a series of measures, including boosting imports, to reduce its trade surplus with Washington, which exceeded US$123 billion last year, after US President Donald Trump flagged wide-ranging tariffs on trading partners. Under the new plans revealed late on Tuesday, the tariff on American liquefied natural gas will be cut to 2 per cent…

Wildfires in South Korea have resulted in deaths, turned an ancient Buddhist temple into ashes and forced the evacuation of residents of a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The nation’s top two spy chiefs who participated in a Signal chat discussing U.S. strikes in Yemen rejected assertions that detailed military information on planned and completed strikes was classified intelligence under questioning from Democratic senators on Tuesday.But even as the two officials, C.I.A. Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, acknowledged the sensitivity of information about strike targets, they sought to evade specifics on the content of the chat, offered carefully parsed answers on responsibility for the leaks and declined to release the details of the exchanges.Ms. Gabbard initially declined to confirm that she was even…

J. Bennett Johnston Jr., a Louisiana Democrat and four-term United States senator who helped shape America’s energy and science policies in an era of rising concerns over the perils of nuclear power and the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, died on Tuesday in Arlington, Va. He was 92.His death was confirmed by his son J. Bennett Johnston III.One of a new breed of polished Southern Democrats that included Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Mr. Johnston served in the Senate from 1972 to 1997, a tenure that included Middle East conflicts that threatened American oil imports, and nuclear licensing and…

The memories, joyful and painful, will endure.In Game 1 of last year’s World Series, Freddie Freeman hit the first walk-off grand slam in the 120-year history of the Fall Classic. The shot at Dodger Stadium immediately joined the list of indelible Series walk-offs — Joe Carter in 1993, Kirk Gibson in 1988, Bill Mazeroski in 1960. And it was all the more improbable considering Freeman was playing with broken rib cartilage and a right ankle injury that would require surgery.Five months later, the recollections of the participants remain vivid.“Hands-down the best sports moment I’ve ever witnessed,” Los Angeles Dodgers manager…

A search is under way for a 79-year old kayaker who is missing after he fell from his raft into the Drysdale River in Western Australia’s northwest.