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Manhattan US Attorney to scale back crypto cases, prosecutor says

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan will devote fewer resources to policing cryptocurrency crimes after securing several major convictions, including that of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, a senior prosecutor said on Friday. Scott Hartman, co-chief of the securities and commodities task force at the Southern District of New York, gave his assessment one day after President-elect Donald Trump's former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair Jay Clayton to become the U.S. attorney there. Hartman said the office would not ignore crypto cases, but has fewer prosecutors working on them than when digital asset prices collapsed in 2022, a period known as "crypto winter."

Lawsuit claiming Elon Musk rigged dogecoin ends

A lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of rigging dogecoin is ending. Investors in the cryptocurrency who said the world's richest person and his electric car company Tesla committed fraud and insider trading are withdrawing their appeal from an Aug. 29 dismissal of their case. They are also withdrawing a bid to sanction Musk's lawyers for allegedly interfering with the appeal, including by demanding payment of their hefty legal fees.

EM stocks see largest foreign monthly outflow since 2020, bonds hang on

Foreign investors sold out of emerging market stocks in October by the most since the COVID-19 market sell-off in early 2020, but inflows to EM bonds and debt more than offset the outflow, data from a banking trade group showed on Friday. The October monthly net total inflow of $1.9 billion compares with a $56.4 billion inflow in September and an $8.1 billion outflow in October 2023, data from the Institute of International Finance showed. Stock portfolios saw a $25.5 billion outflow, the largest since March 2020, while bonds attracted $27.4 billion.