County Bureau Financial News

By Howard Schneider

 FOX Business host Charles Payne wishes viewers a happy Thanksgiving on 'Making Money.'

world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The bureau estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept.

Dhanteras and Diwali are around the corner and many people in India often like to purchase gold not just an investment but also to celebrate these festivals. Buying gold on the Dhanteras day is believed to bring good luck. Therefore, buying gold jewellery or coins during this period can be an auspicious investment.

Car thefts are on the rise in the US, with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data revealing the latest trends in crime. In the United States last year, almost a million vehicles, valued at over $20 billion, were stolen.

Industry commentators have said the Federal Reserve's job is not done yet, given the stubbornly high inflation rate.

Fujiwhara Effect is a most common phenomenon with tropical cyclones such as typhoons or hurricanes, but it also occurs in other cases.

North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group holds a whopping $47 million in cryptocurrency, most of which is in Bitcoin (BTC), new data shows.

AstraZeneca Plc has been sued in South Carolina by a former senior director who claimed that the company refused to pay her over $125,000 in bonuses because she worked from home in 2022. In the lawsuit, Elmarie Bodes, who was AstraZeneca’s senior director of business transformation until January, said that the drugmaker owed her a $124,443 performance bonus and stock options worth $65,000. Bodes claimed that the company told her because she worked entirely from home last year and did not come to the office at least three days a week, her performance bonus would be cut in half and she would also not get the stock options.

A Mediterranean city dotted with historic mosques and the ruins of a nearby Byzantine church, Derna was once a haven for artists and intellectuals in Libya. Now, it is a wasteland after a deadly storm caused floods that broke dams, swept entire buildings out to sea and killed thousands of people. The natural disaster was decades in the making—a result of years of official neglect of two nearby dams during the authoritarian regime of Moammar Gadhafi and the political crisis and war since his ouster in a 2011 revolution.

Household incomes fell in a third of all states nationwide last year, while just five saw median income levels improve, according US Census Bureau data. 

Gemini Earn users may be able to recover almost all their cryptocurrency holdings as part of a new agreement between Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Genesis.

The attack on crypto exchange CoinEx which drained at least $55 million was carried out by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus, according to blockchain security firm SlowMist and on-chain investigator ZachXBT. The hacker group was identified after they mistakenly connected their address to the recent Stake and Optimism hacks. 

The hackers behind cryptocurrency casino Stake’s $41 million hack have shifted another $328,000 million worth of Polygon (MATIC) and Binance Coin (BNB) tokens — its latest moves following the Sept. 4 exploit, according to blockchain security firm CertiK.

A coalition of environmental groups is suing Utah's government, saying the state has failed to stop the Great Salt Lake from shrinking at an alarming pace

Great Wall of China was destroyed with an excavator.A release from the Youyu County Public Security Bureau states a 55-year-old man and 38-year-old woman were working at a construction site nearby and wanted to reduce the distance they had to travel with the excavator to get to the work site.They allegedly used the machine to enlarge a gap in the Great Wall that already existed so it was large enough for the excavator to pass through.In doing so, the pair caused “irreversible damage” to that section of the Great Wall, which dates back to the Ming Dynasty, local police said. The Ming Dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644 but some portions of the Great Wall are more than 2,000 years old.Police learned of the damage to the Great Wall on Aug.

Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a look-out circular (LOC) against three Chinese citizens involved in a mega online Ponzi scam. The LOC was issued at the request of the Inspector General of the Odisha Economic Offence Wing (EOW), JN Pankaj in the Bureau of Immigration. The three Chinese citizens (two men and one woman) were the main accused and close associates of Guanhua Wang who was one of the main accused in the mega online Ponzi scam. The three Chinese nationals have been identified as Liu Huan, Wenhui Zheng and Xu Xiaolu. The case pertains to EOW Case No.19/2023 under sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the IPC, sections 66-C and 66-D of the IT Act and section 6 of the Odisha Protection of Interests of Depositors Act. The case related to a pan-India online Ponzi scam involving fraud and siphoning off hundreds of crores of rupees out of India using a complex network of mule bank accounts, shell companies/ firms and crypto-traders. Earlier in July, a LOC was issued against Guanhua Wang (40), the mastermind of the Ponzi scam who is a resident of Hangzhou in China. Wang along with the Chinese nationals came to India in 2019 and stayed in Bangalore for a few months. They created at least 14 shell companies to run various cyber-financial frauds.

Average hourly wages rose 0.2% from July and 4.3% on an annual basis, decreasing slightly but remaining above the levels needed to hit the Fed’s 2% inflation target.

An increasing share of low-income Americans are behind on rent and struggling to afford food, adding to signs of growing financial distress in the economy. 

The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) alerted crypto firms on Tuesday, that North Korean hackers may soon attempt to cash out stolen Bitcoin worth over $40 million.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has flagged six Bitcoin (BTC) wallets linked to North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus. The six wallets contain 1,580 BTC worth $40 million believed to be hoarded from various cryptocurrency hacks over the past year.