The Federal Reserve is widely expected to halt its interest-rate-cutting cycle this week, as a steadier jobs market restores a degree of consensus at the central bank after months of growing division.

Apollo Global Management Inc. took a loss on a portion of a $170 million asset-backed financing for Amazon brand aggregator Perch that was written off to zero, a rare stumble for a strategy touted as one of private credit’s safest and most promising.

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. has brought in Jon Connor, Thibaud de Maria and Richard Robinson as part of a hiring wave of senior investment bankers, said people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because it wasn’t public yet.

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s general counsel is joining Dentons as global chief legal officer, extending a string of exits from New York’s oldest law firm ahead of a planned merger.

Many copied the Ivy League school’s bets on private equity and other illiquid investments. Now plain old stocks and bonds are outperforming.

Tin retreated from a record after the Shanghai Futures Exchange announced restrictions on positions for some clients suspected of not properly disclosing their ultimate ownership.