The Australian lender reported a 4% fall in interim profit, but boosted its dividend by almost 2.5% and announced a share buyback as its capital position remained strong.

The S&P 500 rose 1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.5%. Walt Disney, Uber and Airbnb are among the companies reporting results this week.

Jim Langston is leaving Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to join Paul Weiss’s mergers-and-acquisitions practice.

The agency could seek an order that would prevent the popular brokerage firm from trading certain crypto assets.

AI-enabled smartphones and PCs should help the maker of wireless chips, which remains among the cheapest in semiconductor stocks.

To become an economic powerhouse like China, India urgently needs to address rising income inequality.