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With the Bitcoin halving just months away, MicroStrategy co-founder and Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor thinks that demand for BTC could grow by as much as 10X by the end of 2024.

World Cup 2023 match at Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium, Kolkata. England vs Pakistan Kolkata ODI is a day-night match and will start at 2 p.m. It would be the 9th match of both the teams in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023.

Australia vs Bangladesh Live Score Updates: AUS vs BAN Australia have already qualified for the semi-finals against Temba Bavuma's South Africa with 12 points from 8 matches and a net run rate of +0.861. They have won 6 and lost 2 in the tournament and are third on the points table behind India and the Proteas. On the contrary, Bangladesh are in the eighth position with 4 points and (-)1.142 NRR, winning 2 of their 8 matches and losing 6.

Australia vs Bangladesh Live Score Updates: AUS vs BAN Bangladesh, currently sticking to the 8th position on the points table, will not be qualified for the Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan if they are not among the Top 8 in this tournament. They’d like to get 2 more points to finish the disappointing tournament, where they could win just 2 matches. Australia, on the other hand, would like to continue their winning momentum before facing South Africa in the semi-final.

Australia vs Bangladesh Live Score Updates: AUS vs BAN, Five times world champions Australia take on Bangladesh at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune from 10:30 am onwards today. The two teams have had drastically different World Cup campaigns so far with the Bangladeshi Tigers losing all of their matches after the first encounter against Afghanistan with the exception of victory in the last game against Sri Lanka.

Captain America: New World Order, which previously occupied the July date, has been rescheduled and will now premiere on February 14, 2025, shifting by nine months. Deadpool 3, initially slated for May 3, 2024, will now hit theaters on July 26, 2024, marking a slight delay in its arrival. Additionally, Thunderbolts, a movie centering around Marvel's anti-heroes and featuring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan, has been pushed to July 25, 2025, moving back from its initial date of December 20, 2024. Blade, starring Mahershala Ali, is experiencing a nine-month delay, now set for release on November 7, 2025, instead of its earlier date of February 14, 2025. Both Blade and Thunderbolts had plans for summer production; however, they faced delays due to the writers' strike in May, as the scripts were not yet ready. The revised schedule sets the stage for an exciting lineup of Marvel films, albeit with some adjustments to the release calendar. The SAG-AFTRA actors’ union reached a tentative deal with the major studios and streamers Wednesday, opening the flood gates to Hollywood production and returning the entertainment industry to work after dual writers' and actors' strikes stopped most filming. Writers reached a deal in late September after going on strike in May. Major film projects, such as Ridley Scott’s historical epic “Gladiator 2,” are expected to return to production by the end of the year or early next year, according to one source familiar with the project. For the Scott film, schedules are being matched, flights to Malta and accommodations are being booked, and other preparations are under way. Martial arts film “Mortal Kombat 2” will resume shooting on the Gold Coast of Australia.

Flying between Sydney and Melbourne is generating more revenue than any other route in the world – almost double the level before the COVID-19 pandemic – despite a fall in the number of passengers travelling.

Work safety authorities are investigating the death of a 26-year-old tradesman at Liontown Resources’ flagship lithium project in Western Australia.

Ramsay Health Care and Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby have agreed to sell their hospital unit to Columbia Asia Healthcare for 5.7 billion ringgit ($1.9 billion), according to a stock exchange filing.

Ports operator DP World Australia has shut down its ports around the country as it works to contain a “cybersecurity incident”.

A consortium of 47 countries, including the US, the UK, and Australia, have adopted a new framework for the automatic exchange of information between tax authorities.

PwC Australia has told the Senate inquiry into consultants that it paid $12,000 to fly Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn of the Tax Office to Paris to address its international tax conference in November 2019, at the height of a dispute between the big four firm and the Tax Office.

Australian Community Media executive chairman Antony Catalano has proposed selling some of his company’s most storied publications, including The Newcastle Herald, Illawarra Mercury and The Canberra Times, to Southern Cross Media in exchange for a major stake in the ASX-listed group.

The proposed $20 billion takeover of Origin Energy by a private North American duo has now won support from all major proxy advisers, paving the way for a nail-biting lead-up to a decisive shareholder vote on a deal that is opposed by the electricity supplier’s biggest investor.

Mineral Resources has made another lithiumacquisition less than a week out from the company’s annual general meeting, where billionaire founder Chris Ellison is expected to shed some light on the strategy behind a spate of recent deals.

Westpac boss Peter King called it “one competitor”. National Australia Bank’s Ross McEwan referred to “a couple of players looking to grow market share”. ANZ has become the bogeyman of banking – say his name three times, and its chief executive, Shayne Elliott, appears to shrink your margins.

South Africa vs Afghanistan Live Score Updates: The SA vs AFG match is most likely to have little bearing on the ICC World Cup 2023 hopes. The Proteas are ranked second on the points table after winning six of their last eight games. They will drop to third place and forfeit their second place if they lose today and Australia win their subsequent game.

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies moved in a flat-to-low range on Friday, while the dollar held on to recent gains as comments from Federal Reserve officials saw traders reassess expectations of no more interest rate hikes.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will join Blinken in talks with India's foreign minister S Jaishankar and defence minister Rajnath Singh. The annual dialogue is expected to focus on "defence and security cooperation", the report added. Overall, the discussions are expected to cover a range of issues, including the ongoing border dispute with China, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the challenge posed by the conflict in Gaza to key trade and transport routes linking Europe, the Middle East, and India.

markets remained range-bound for the third day in a row and ended marginally lower on Thursday. «Overall we expect the ongoing recovery to continue and any dips can be used as buying opportunity,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Here's breaking down the pre-market actions: STATE OF THE MARKETS GIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a negative start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded higher by 41.5 points, or 0.21 per cent, at 19,380.5, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for negative start on Friday.

global markets after hawkish comments from the US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Asian markets traded lower, while the US stocks ended in the red overnight as treasury yields rose after the Fed Chair signaled that the central bank may need more interest rate hike to bring down inflation. On Thursday, the domestic equity benchmark indices ended lower amid mixed global cues.