Blackstone Group has agreed to sell a slate of warehouse and logistics assets in Australia to the Hong Kong-based ESR Cayman Ltd. for $2.9 billion, a source familiar with the deal confirmed.
Why it matters: It's Australia's biggest real estate deal in five years, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Saturday urged people with kids and pets to "immediately" stop using a treadmill made by Peloton after a child died and dozens of others were injured.
Driving the news: CPSC said in its "urgent warning" that it was aware of 39 incidents, including one death. The agency warned that the Peloton Tread+ machine "poses serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death." Peloton called the warning "inaccurate and misleading."
While exchanges like Coinbase and FTX are amassing huge success, another crypto industry phenomenon that’s flourishing is “DeFi,” short for “decentralized finance.”
What's happening: A crop of protocols that let participants execute various transactions directly with each other through the networks instead of using intermediaries has been exploding in popularity.
The Federal Reserve's "overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male" problem goes beyond its top ranks to the boards that run its 12 regional banks, according to a new report by the Brookings Institution.
Why it matters: There's long been a lack of diversity among those that help pick the policymakers that make crucial decisions about economic policy that's only recently started to improve.
Coinbase got the headlines this week for going public, but another crypto category is also booming: derivatives exchanges.
Why it matters: These exchanges are taking crypto investor appetite for speculation to the next level, enabling bets on a range of events and assets — even Coinbase’s own IPO, months before the actual float.
