Legal AI Startup Legora Raises $550 Million for US Expansion

Swedish legal artificial intelligence startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series D funding round led by Accel, tripling its valuation from an October round to $5.55 billion as it seeks to expand in the US. Existing investors Benchmark, Bessemer Venture...

Aluminum Slips From Multiyear High as Market Turmoil Hits Metals

Aluminum fell amid a broad selloff across financial markets, after earlier touching the highest in almost four years as escalating hostilities in the Middle East hit supplies from the region. The metal rose as much as 2.8% to $3,544 a ton, before turning lower as...

Citadel Securities Sees Markets Mispricing Fed, ECB Rate Paths

Investors are wrong to bet the European Central Bank will raise interest rates this year while the Federal Reserve cuts, Citadel Securities said, arguing that the oil-price surge makes such policy divergence unlikely. With the conflict in the Middle East lifting crude...

Abu Dhabi’s Judan Buys Stake in SpaceX Investor Alpha Wave

Abu Dhabi’s new $237 billion financial-services holding company Judan is buying a majority stake in Alpha Wave Global, an alternative asset manager that holds stakes in leading artificial intelligence firms including SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. Judan will take a...

Crop Prices Jump as War Snarls Trade and Risks Tightening Supply

Palm and soybean oil prices surged and wheat hovered near the highest in almost two years as the war in the Middle East drove up energy and fertilizer costs and threatened to tighten supplies across agricultural markets. Disruptions to crude oil supplies wrought by...