Author: James Martin

Federal banking regulators have disclosed they have terminated a 2016 consent order that was placed on Wells Fargo after its fake accounts scandal. The disclosure sent the bank’s stock up more than 7 percent in afternoon trading.The consent order had required Wells Fargo to revamp how it offers and sells products and services.In a new order, dated Jan. 30, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it believes “the safety and soundness of [Wells Fargo] and its compliance with laws and regulations” allowed it to scrap the 2016 order.Wells Fargo chief executive Charles Scharf said the OCC decision…

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1Issues for Klopp and FrankKicking off at their outgoing manager’s least-favourite time slot, this time handy with Luton to face in midweek, Liverpool top the division at the cost of a considerable injury list. Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dominik Szoboszlai are the headline absences, both players likely to miss next week’s Carabao Cup final. A recent flu outbreak was similarly unhelpful to Jürgen Klopp, who comes up against a manager in Thomas Frank who is one of the outsiders to succeed him, even if Xabi Alonso’s coronation seems a fait accompli after Bayer Leverkusen’s feats last week against Bayern Munich. Frank,…

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The winds of change have blown through Super League in the winter with the arrival of IMG’s vision for a brighter future but it appears in this part of the world at least, things remain the same as they have for the last few years.Hull’s two rugby league clubs have gone on different trajectories in recent times. Rovers have been transformed from perennial relegation candidates to a side who reached last year’s Challenge Cup final and finished fourth, while FC have laboured at the wrong end of the table, albeit always clear of any real jeopardy when it came to…

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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature GOAL! Galatasaray 2-1 Sparta Prague (Mertens, 61) Dries Mertens restores the lead! And it’s a second assist of the night for Mauro Icardi. 61 mins: Shakhtar and Marseille continue to cancel out each other. The goalless draw benefits Marseille, you’d say, though they have enough quality to be a little more adventurous than this … 59 mins: Feyenoord haven’t offered a great deal since the resumption, but they’ve not been seriously threatened either. Calvin Stengs looks a cut above for them. He’s…

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Way back in the depths of day one, when the temperature in Rajkot was cool, when Sarfaraz Khan was just a kid with the highest first-class average of any current player, England had India completely on the rack. It was a magical three quarters of an hour, the pale faces in the crowd, in their football shirts and sunhats, buying sweetmeats from the hawkers, watching in some amazement as Rohit Sharma won the toss for the second time in a row, chose to bat, and India folded to 33 for three. Mark Wood, who hadn’t taken a wicket with the…

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A poll from The Washington Post finds widespread agreement among Americans on what it means to be middle class. But just over a third of U.S. adults have the financial security to meet that definition, according to a Post analysis of data from the Federal Reserve. Americans also underestimate the income required for that lifestyle, suggesting that the popular image of middle-class security is more of an aspiration than a reality for most Americans. About 9 in 10 U.S. adults said that six individual indicators of financial security and stability were necessary parts of being middle class in the Post…

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Detroit Pistons center Isaiah Stewart was arrested for assault on Wednesday for punching Phoenix Suns center Drew Eubanks at the arena hours before the teams played.Phoenix police said Stewart was issued a citation and released. Stewart was already listed as out for the game because of a sprained left ankle. Eubanks had six points and eight rebounds in 18 minutes in the Suns’ 116-100 victory.Eubanks said before the game that the altercation happened as he was coming into the arena. He said an argument started and the players were chest to chest before Stewart threw the punch. Security intervened, and…

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Reader 1: A few of my business clients and co-workers with whom I have a collegial relationship have friended me on Facebook. Anyone who scrolls through my feed sees pictures of my dogs and other mundane details of my life. I’m not posting about politics or other sensitive issues, and I tend not to “friend” clients who do. I would never post anything about my boss, my work situation or any personal stuff that I wouldn’t want the world to know.My husband, however, constantly points out that I should not have any friends on social media who are my clients.Here’s…

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Crystal Palace are set to sack Roy Hodgson and have lined up Oliver Glasner to replace him, with the Austrian understood to be close to agreeing a deal to take over after advanced talks on Thursday.Hodgson was due at a press conference on Thursday before Palace’s trip to Everton on Monday but that was cancelled at just over half an hour’s notice. “Unfortunately, today’s press conference will no longer take place as scheduled as Roy Hodgson was taken ill during this morning’s training session,” Palace said.Hodgson’s position is understood to have come under intense ­scrutiny after the defeat by ­Chelsea…

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