Crisis after a noon sunday deadline passed for submitting final bids to take over the struggling lender. The fdic had asked several banks including jp morgan and others to submit offers. We are told bank of america decided against bidding. Regulators can seize First Republic and take ownership. Indias top Capital Markets regulator is seeking six more months for the hindenburg allegations against adani enterprises. They are filing a status report on tuesday and want more time for verifying information from listed adani companies. Adani says it welcomes the investigation and is fully cooperating. The alibaba founder jack ma will lecture at Tokyo University in may of this year. His research will be in the field of Sustainable Agriculture and food production. He began his career as a schoolteacher and all but disappeared of from public life after critiquing chinese regulators in his 2022 speech in shanghai. Chinese Consumer Spending rose on saturday with the Holiday Travel rising. The rail