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Oprah Winfrey talked about her recent weight loss while looking lovely on the red carpet for the opening of The Color Purple. In an interview, the former talk show presenter was asked what she's been doing to accomplish her latest goals. She acknowledged that she has been working hard and that she intends to continue! Oprah acknowledged that she hasn't achieved the kind of results she has with a single, easy adjustment. She also disclosed that before going to the premiere event, she had spent a little time on the treadmill.

A federal judge in Seattle has ruled that Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, must remain in the United States while awaiting sentencing on money laundering charges.

Vivek Ramaswamy sat down for an interview with Lawrence Jones on Fox & Friends at a Tuscaloosa diner. Earlier in the show, co-host Steve Doocy had openly criticized Ramaswamy's debate performance, using the word «embarrassing.» However, the real fireworks ignited when Brian Kilmeade took a strong stance against Ramaswamy's foreign policy during the interview. Kilmeade didn't mince words, immediately blasting Ramaswamy with, «You sound SO naive!» The discussion quickly escalated as Ramaswamy labeled Kilmeade's defended foreign policy as a «bonehead» move.

For sure, key U.S. jobs data will test the exuberance, while Australia's central bank could reinforce a view that rates have peaked. Here's your week ahead in financial markets from Ira Iosebashvili in New York, Kevin Buckland in Tokyo, Naomi Rovnick and Marc Jones in London and Yoruk Bahceli in Amsterdam. SANTA'S BEEN Christmas has come early with global stocks posting their best monthly performance in three years in November and global investment-grade bonds returning almost 4% — the best month on record going back to 1997. Now, the early Santa rally risks running into a central bank Grinch. Markets price rate cuts as early as the first half of 2024.

LONDON (Reuters) — Festive cheer has come early to world markets (bar those dollar bulls) on growing certainty that central banks will start slashing interest rates next year.

By Nate Raymond

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao are urging a US judge to reject the Justice Department's request to bar him from returning to his home in the United Arab Emirates until he is sentenced for violating anti-money laundering requirements. Zhao's lawyers in a Thursday filing asked US District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle not to reverse bail conditions set by a magistrate judge on Tuesday that would allow him to leave the US while awaiting sentencing.

The Ramova has been closed for nearly four decades. Now it has new co-owners.

By Herbert Lash and Marc Jones

President Xi Jinping mulls over rare policy changes like increasing the budget deficit which was increased to its most substantial scale in three decades. The country introduced a sovereign debt package that signaled a departure from its conventional fiscal support framework. 1.

By Steven Scheer and Marc Jones

Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners bested a crowd of offshore sponsors and strategics at the eleventh hour to secure Energy Exemplar, the tearaway energy analytics business owned by The Riverside Company.

Rugby Australia will investigate whether it spent too much money on the World Cup amid concerns that hundreds of thousands of dollars were used for executive accommodation and sponsorship events.

A stockholder in Avantax Inc., which is being acquired by the giant broker-dealer network Cetera Holdings Inc., last week sued Avantax, claiming that its board of directors had approved the filing of a proxy statement that had incorrect information about the merger and potentially could harm investors.

Indian stocks plummeted Monday late afternoon after a circumspect start to the week, with yields on 10-year US treasuries breaching the 5% threshold for the first time since the Global Financial Crisis and stoking concerns that the persistent rise in global risk-free rates will further elevate the risk premium on emerging market assets. Mid- and small-cap shares, falling in the higher risk-reward matrix, were hammered with more than 80% of the BSE-listed universe ending deep in the red. «The markets were awaiting a correction and the US bond yields touching 5% brought about that trigger,» said Nischal Maheshwari, CEO-Institutional Equities, Centrum Broking. US risk-free rates were last at this level in July 2007, before Lehman Brothers had collapsed and the subprime sinkhole had swallowed a loan market anchored in complex derivatives to trigger a prolonged phase of quantitative easing by global central banks. BSE's Sensex fell 825.74 points, or 1.26%, to close at 64,571.88.

New York | Activist investor Starboard Value, which has built a position in News Corp, wants the Murdoch-family controlled media giant to separate its Australian real estate business.

By Dietrich Knauth and Nate Raymond

By Dietrich Knauth

Wallabies coach Eddie Jones privately reassured Rugby Australia officials as late as Tuesday that he was committed to leading the country’s struggling national team, despite international reports of an imminent appointment as Japan’s next head coach.

Eddie Jones is expected to be named as Japan’s next head coach after his Australia side failed to progress from the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup for the first time.

By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones