President Donald Trump suggested that some savings from his federal cost-cutting effort, overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, could be sent back to US taxpayers, with another portion being used to reduce the national deficit.

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A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, the euphoria is fading around many of the trades that investors piled into after his November victory, from stocks to the dollar to Bitcoin.

We asked experts eight questions on personal finance for 2025.

The exodus of European and Asian companies to US stock markets is picking up steam.

Good morning. Donald Trump floats another idea on trade, this time with China. Apple finally debuts its new low-end cellphone. And Argentina’s president is dealing with a crypto crisis of his own making. Listen to the day’s top stories.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy raised $2 billion from an issue of convertible debt after the Bitcoin treasury firm sweetened the terms for investors. It plans to use the proceeds for purposes including acquiring more of the digital token.

The European Central Bank wants to establish a blockchain-based payment system that allows financial institutions to settle transactions in central-bank money, a potential step toward introducing a wholesale central bank digital currency, or CBDC.

For the first time since he stormed to power in 2023, Argentina’s Javier Milei is on the political defensive after plunging his government into a massive cryptocurrency scandal. A trip to Washington gives him a chance to get back on his front foot.

What he’s signed—and what it means.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is replacing its enforcement unit devoted to misconduct in the cryptocurrency markets, the latest sign of the regulator’s more friendly approach to digital assets.

Yield-bearing stablecoins have long been on the wish list of many crypto market participants who use the tokens to facilitate billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Hi, it’s Bailey Lipschultz in New York with a look at how SPACs are back. Again. Also today, Europe’s IPO market has an uneven start to 2025 and GTCR’s latest fund is a bet on small and midsize buyouts.

Private equity firms Carlyle Group Inc. and Thoma Bravo are among the suitors shortlisted in the bidding for French software firm smartTrade Technologies, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Emily Nicolle dishes the dirt on how crypto exchanges are plotting to cash in on the rise of stablecoins.

Stocks had their worst session so far in 2025 after weaker-than-expected economic data and a surge in consumers’ long-run inflation views to the highest since 1995.

Argentina’s senate voted on Thursday to suspend primary elections for this year’s midterm vote, handing President Javier Milei a welcome political victory as he navigates a cryptocurrency scandal engulfing his administration.

Altvest Capital Ltd. said it will become the first listed company in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset, emulating a strategy that propelled a more than 2,400% surge in Michael Saylor’s Strategy.com since it started buying the token.

They might come from unconventional backgrounds, but financial advice has never been hotter online.

India’s central bank plans to inject $10 billion through a foreign-exchange swap as it ramps up efforts to tackle a cash crunch in the banking system.