The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke above the 50,000 level for the first time, as investors bid up the blue-chip gauge amid optimism over the US economy and corporate earnings.

BNP Paribas SA told a US judge that it’s appealing a nearly $21 million verdict against the bank for funding a regime in Sudan that committed widespread human rights abuses.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it put the director of its diversity office on administrative leave last month because she caused the agency to mistakenly post an unapproved draft version of its annual diversity report that didn’t match one it sent to Congress.

The government didn’t pay for it — and it’s not planning to sell.

Lenders to bankrupt restaurant operator FAT Brands Inc. want the chief executive officer suspended without pay over a recent stock sale for its Twin Peaks dining chain, deepening a battle for control of the company as it attempts to restructure.

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Tim Leissner reported to federal prison to begin serving a two-year sentence for one of the largest financial frauds in history.