Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, the company dismantled a probe and suspended the investigators. Binance denied that the inquiry ended or that staff were fired for the concerns.
U.S. natural gas futures settled lower as the market looked beyond the wind and snow hitting the Northeast to warmer-than-normal weather forecasts moving into March.
Oil futures settled lower in choppy trade after reaching a new 6-month intraday high, with U.S.-Iran nuclear talks due later this week holding back expectations of immediate U.S. military action.