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Hightower Advisors is facing another legal challenge as a leading advisor in its network files a complaint against the firm in Washington.

Amid the volatility in crypto markets, Bitcoin spent the week testing key support levels and reacting to macroeconomic data.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 7.31 points, or 0.02%, at the open to 39,774.06.

Avatar: The Last Airbender' has proved itself commercially successful as well. With about 2.6 billion minutes of viewing in the first four days of its OTT release in the US, Netflix‘s live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon is credited for the second biggest week for any streaming title in 2024, reports 'The Hollywood Reporter'. It is just behind 'Fool Me Once', which received 3.04 billion minutes of viewing in January.

Uno Minda on Friday said it has tied up with Starcharge Energy to manufacture and sell electric vehicle supply equipment in the country. The company has entered into a technical license agreement with Starcharge Energy Pte for wall-mounted AC chargers designed for home charging. «This collaboration further strengthens our dedication to 'Make in India' and for accelerating the nation's transition to a sustainable and electrified future,» Uno Minda Group CMD Nirmal K Minda said in a statement. StarCharge, a global leader in electric vehicle charging infrastructure and microgrid solutions, operates in 67 countries and regions with manufacturing facilities in the US, Vietnam, and China.

Gold and silver prices Today on 22-03-2024 : Check latest rates in your city Back home, gold prices plummeted by ₹875 to reach ₹66,575 per 10 grams in the national capital on Friday, influenced by subdued trends in global markets. In the preceding trade, the valuable metal had reached a settlement price of ₹67,450 per 10 grams. The rise in the dollar pushed it to its highest level in a month, thereby increasing the cost of gold for holders of other currencies.

ICRA said in a recent report. The report added that the sustenance of domestic leisure and business travel, and demand from meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) are likely to drive demand in FY25 despite a lull during the Lok Sabha elections. As things stand, India remains the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

Since the beginning of March, the S&P 500 has been undergoing a nice consolidation, which passed between the day before yesterday and yesterday.

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has reportedly scaled back its electric vehicle (EV) production in China as it faces slower growth in the sales of new-energy vehicles and increased competition in the world's largest car market.

Cryptocurrencies are no longer on the fringe of finance, and some parents are exploring them as an investment to build their children’s future nest egg.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have been leading the charge to get employees into the office more often, but it’s their smaller industry peers who are more likely to demand full-time on-site work.

₹678, indicating an upside potential of 40 percent from its current market price of ₹484.20. "Hindustan Foods Limited (HFL), the largest consumer contract manufacturer in India, has built durable moats by scaling up its manufacturing base, building strong clientele, constructing the widest array of product portfolio and creating operational efficiencies. Over the last four years (FY19-23), HFL has scaled up its sales and EBITDA five-fold, while profitability six-fold.

cryptocurrency, also saw a jump of 13%, rising to $3,468. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that recent hot inflation readings had not changed the underlying story of slowly easing price pressures and reiterated the central bank's earlier forecast of soft landing for the world's largest economy.

Russian crude carried on PJSC Sovcomflot tankers due to US sanctions, further complicating the trade that has flourished since the invasion of Ukraine two years ago. Private and state-run processors including the biggest — Indian Oil Corp. — have stopped taking cargoes if they’re on Sovcomflot tankers, said people familiar with the matter. Refiners are scrutinizing the ownership of each ship to make sure they’re not affiliated with the company, or other sanctioned groups, they added, asking not to be named because the information is private. The broader pushback follows a similar move by India’s biggest private refiner, Reliance Industries Ltd., reported earlier this week. The heightened scrutiny on the tanker giant appears to have also swept up other oil ships carrying Russian oil, with two vessels waiting several weeks off the South Asian coast without any indication of when they will unload.

Fashion Week in 2017, US technology company XO launched sub-brand TwentyFour15 — a line of app connected, fibre-optic, colour-changing apparel. Using an app connected via bluetooth, users can change the colours of the LED lights embedded into the clothes or sync the movements of the lights to music. As fashion and tech continue to intertwine, a roundup of some iconic collaborations.

Australia and Britain said in a joint statement on Friday there were potentially devastating consequences of an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in Gaza. «Given the large number of displaced persons taking refuge in the area and lack of safe spaces in Gaza, ministers shared deep concern at the potentially devastating consequences for the civilian population of an expanded Israeli military operation in Rafah,» the statement said. Israel says a ground invasion of Rafah is necessary to eliminate Hamas, despite countries including the United States warning of dire consequences for the more than a million Palestinians who have sheltered there since being displaced elsewhere in the Gaza Strip during the five-month-old war.

According to a stock exchange notice on Thursday (22 March), the firm bought close to 0.5% of the trust's shares, as well as an additional 4.57% in equity swaps, crossing the 5% threshold on 19 March. Based on Scottish Mortgage's closing price, Peel Hunt has estimated this represents a substantial exposure to SMT of around £607m.  The Delaware-based investment firm, which is known for its activist shareholder campaigns at companies including GSK and Germany's Fresenius, is led by Paul Singer, recognised for his high-profile, and often combative dealmaking. Trust analysts: Alliance ...

ITC's weight will go up in the S&P BSE Sensex, resulting in likely inflows of $50 million, according to estimates by Nuvama. Today, Sensex will adjust ITC's free float factor as a result of British American Tobacco's (BAT) 3.5% stake sale in the company. Meanwhile, the adjustment on Nifty will be done during the rejig exercise on March 27. Nuvama anticipates a $70 million inflow.

The market has been climbing since October 2023 due to initial rumors that the SEC might list a Bitcoin spot ETF. That speculation came true in January 2024 after the SEC approved not just one but twelve Bitcoin spot ETFs to be traded on US financial markets. With institutional flows incoming and a Bitcoin block halving on the way, experts suggest a supply shock will hit the market, which could lead to much higher prices throughout 2024.

surveying candidates for Congress on their views around the digital asset, as the political arm of the movement gains tens of thousands more followers and adds to its war chest. The survey from the Stand With Crypto Alliance, an advocacy group that aims to organize voters who own crypto and influence public opinion, is a way for a young industry like crypto to engage in political activity in lieu of trade organizations, said Olivia Buckley of OpenSecrets, a research group that tracks money in U.S. politics.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon’s recent ruling mandating his extradition to South Korea is now being challenged by Montenegro’s top prosecutor.