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Why Visa and Plaid called off their $5.3 billion fintech deal

One year after Visa announced its agreement to buy fintech startup Plaid, the companies on Tuesday walked away from the deal amid regulatory opposition that threatened to hold up the merger for years. The proposed $5.3 billion deal was one of the fintech industry’s largest in history, and preceded a flurry of other mergers by […]

Stocks and crypto rebound following Tuesday’s bruising sell-off

U.S. futures have been gaining all morning, following Europe higher. Read More

The COVID recession may kill more Americans than COVID-19 does

The economic effects of COVID-19 could prove deadlier than the disease itself.  So says just-released research, which concludes that the total lives lost to the virus in the U.S.  may “far exceed those immediately related to the acute COVID-19 critical illness…. [T]he recession caused by the pandemic can jeopardize population health for the next two decades.” The […]