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A shareholder for Circle Internet Financial, the company behind the USDC (USDC) stablecoin, filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump, his family’s crypto company World Liberty Financial, affiliate entities, and US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff over a $2 billion deal between a foreign government entity and Binance. In a Thursday filing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Circle shareholder J. Benjamin Greenberg alleged that Trump, Witkoff and World Liberty caused harm to Circle by creating a pathway for foreign governments to funnel money using the Trump family crypto company’s USD1 stablecoin. This “brazen corruption,” according to Greenberg, leaves Circle “unable to compete” in the stablecoin market with its USDC. Central to the Circle shareholder’s allegations is an Abu Dhabi entity, MGX, tied to the United Arab Emirates royalty, which invested $2 billion into cryptocurrency exchange Binance using the USD1 stablecoin in 2025. The Wall Street Journal reported in February that another investment vehicle backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan agreed to purchase a 49% stake in World Liberty for $500 million.

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Open this photo in gallery:Liquid gold is poured to form gold dore bars at Newmont Mining's Carlin gold mine operation in Nevada in May, 2014. Rick Wilking/ReutersNewmont beat analysts’ third-quarter profit estimates on Thursday, as the world’s biggest gold miner benefited from higher prices of the metal. Gold prices have stayed high despite a stronger dollar and inflation concerns tied to higher oil prices during the U. S. war on Iran. Prices of the yellow metal averaged US$4,204.59 per ounce in the third quarter of 2026, up about 17.6 per cent from a year earlier. Quarterly average realized price for gold was at US$4.317 per ounce, compared with US$3,539 per ounce a year ago. But Newmont’s quarterly gold production fell to 1.30 million ounces from 1.42 million ounces a year earlier. On an adjusted basis, the company earned US$2.20 per share for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with analysts’ average estimate of US$2.05 per share, according to data compiled by LSEG.

Open this photo in gallery:Janice Charette, Canada's chief trade negotiator with the United States, speaks at the Toronto Global Forum conference on Thursday. Sammy Kogan/The Globe and MailCanada’s chief trade negotiator with the United States said she’s still communicating with her U. S. counterparts but there’s no timeline for returning to formal trade talks. Janice Charette pointed to a call that Prime Minister Mark Carney had with U. S. President Donald Trump this week, and said that Canada-U. S. trade minister Dominic LeBlanc “has regular and frequent conversations with some of his counterparts in the United States.”“We’re having conversations to see whether or not we can come back to the table for a set of detailed negotiations. We don’t know exactly when that’s going to happen,” Ms. Charette said at the Toronto Global Forum conference on Thursday. “We’re trying to stabilize the relationship because we are not in a position where it is stable right now. It’s certainly not predictable,” she said. Ms. Charette had been in intense negotiations with the Trump administration over the summer in a bid to reach a deal that would have lowered U. S.