Regulation
Illinois Commission Backs Proposed American Water–Essential Merger
American Water and Essential Utilities announced on November 6, 2026 that the Illinois Commerce Commission had issued an order approving their proposed all-stock merger. The decision marks the fourth favorable state regulatory action for a transaction that would make Essential…
Halozyme Projects Zero to Minimal Royalty Impact From Medicare Rule
Halozyme Therapeutics announced on November 6, 2026 that it projects zero to minimal impact on royalty revenue through at least 2035 after analyzing the final Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program rule issued by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
TikTok Recommendation Design Draws Preliminary DSA Breach Findings
The European Commission announced on November 6, 2026 that it had preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) over the “rabbit hole effect” of its For You recommender system. The findings cover both risk assessment and…
Bank of Canada and Federal Government Renew 2% Inflation Target
The Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada announced the renewal of Canada’s monetary policy framework on November 5, 2026, retaining the 2% inflation target under a five-year agreement ending December 31, 2031. The decision preserves the central bank’s…
CFTC Sets 30-Day Deadline to Address Geographic Access Curbs
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced on November 5, 2026 that designated contract markets must stop domestic geographic access restrictions that violate its impartial-access requirements or explain why compliance is not feasible. The compliance demand reaches beyond an exchange’s own…
CFTC Staff Grants Relief for Clearinghouses Using Trust Companies
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk announced on November 5, 2026 that it would not recommend enforcement action against a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) for using a trust company to conduct daily settlements with clearing members.…
Meta Sees a Harder Path for New Data Centers After Elections
Meta Platforms expects post-election opposition to data centers to make new U.S. projects harder to build, President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick said in a WSJ Events interview on November 4, 2026, even as the company’s recent equity and…
Greece Approves 10% Crypto Capital Gains Tax With €500 Exemption
Greece’s parliament approved a 10% tax on individuals’ capital gains from crypto-asset transfers on November 5, 2026, as part of an omnibus bill from the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, according to the Hellenic Parliament’s legislative record. The measure…
FERC Clears MARA Holdings’ $1.5 Billion Long Ridge Acquisition
MARA Holdings announced on November 5, 2026 that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had authorized its approximately $1.5 billion acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power from FTAI Infrastructure , finding the transaction consistent with the public interest and satisfying…
SEC Raises Small-Entity Asset Thresholds for Funds and Advisers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on November 4, 2026 that it had adopted amendments sharply raising the asset thresholds used to identify small investment companies and advisers. The fund net-asset threshold rises from $50 million to $10 billion,…
Ohio Voters Back Data Center Limits and Reject EdgeConneX Agreement
Voters in Defiance backed a proposed city charter amendment titled “Prohibition of a Data Center” in unofficial results released by the Defiance County Board of Elections on November 3, 2026. Four other Ohio communities also approved data-center-related measures, while Ashville…
Polymarket’s PM Derivatives Wins NFA Approval as US Broker
Polymarket announced on November 3, 2026 that PM Derivatives had received National Futures Association approval to operate as a futures commission merchant, or FCM, on a fully collateralized basis. The registration adds a regulated broker to the group’s US prediction-market…
FDA Clears Cepheid’s Multiplex Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Panel
Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, announced on November 3, 2026 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had cleared its Xpert Hemorrhagic Fever Panel, a multiplex PCR test designed to deliver results in approximately 61 minutes on GeneXpert Dx systems.…
Cboe Seeks Injunction Against CFTC Approval of Equity Perpetuals
Cboe Global Markets announced on November 3, 2026 that it had joined a Capital Markets Alliance legal action challenging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s approval of perpetual derivatives on U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds. The action includes a request for…
Florida Regulators Approve Duke Energy’s 2027 Rate Reduction
Duke Energy Florida announced on November 3, 2026 that the Florida Public Service Commission had approved its request to lower customer rates in 2027. For a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month, the December 2026-to-January 2027 decrease will…
