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Meanwhile, the global cryptocurrency market cap surged 0.7% to around $1.27 trillion in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin was up 0.66% at $34,304 as of 12:30 p.m., while its largest peer, Ethereum, surged 0.54% to above the $1,750 level. Broader markets, including crypto, reflected positive gains as investors prepare for the Fed meeting scheduled for Wednesday, and the release of the U.S. jobs report. The crypto fear and greed index also continues to stay in the greed zone despite a four-point drop; currently at 68/100, said Parth Chaturvedi, Investments Lead at CoinSwitch Ventures.

all-party meet, called by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the wake of the multiple blasts at a religious gathering in the state that claimed three lives, on Monday resolved to resist attempts to create mistrust and intolerance in society. The meet, held at the conference hall in the Secretariat complex, also unanimously resolved to urge people not to indulge in baseless accusations, speculative campaigns and rumour-mongering in the wake of the blasts, a statement issued by the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said.

Infibeam Avenues, has launched a mobile-based QR code payment solution in the United Arab Emirates. The company, which runs the payment gateway brand named CCAvenue.ae (the UAE web domain) intends to tap the growing offline payments landscape in the Emirate with the product. It is the company’s first such offline payments solution for the international market.

Some of Australia’s largest nickel producers are increasingly concerned that the Biden administration will allow their big Indonesian rivals access to incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act – a huge subsidy to encourage the transition to clean energy – as early as next month.

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Katrina Brown (pictured) has joined Evelyn Partners after more than 20 years in the consulting business.

Embattled Brisbane fast-charging company Tritium has asked the Queensland government for an equity injection of up more than $50 million as it tries to deal with its dire liquidity issues.

An Australian regenerative medicine company is preparing for a major expansion in the US with a unique “collagen Velcro” sourced from high-quality pigs that repairs severed nerves.

collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, parried with a federal prosecutor on Thursday in high-stakes legal jousting at his criminal fraud trial that seemed to frustrate the judge. Bankman-Fried was scheduled to take the witness stand after three weeks of devastating testimony for the 31-year-old crypto wunderkind, accused of stealing billions of dollars from clients. But federal Judge Lewis Kaplan took the unusual step of sending the jury home Thursday and listening to Bankman-Fried, his defense lawyers and a prosecutor go over technical aspects of his upcoming testimony. The move pushed Bankman-Fried's appearance before the jury back until at least Friday.

The US remains the world’s preeminent power by several orders of magnitude. So when its National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expounds on American foreign policy, the rest of the world should take note. The NSA is a political appointee.

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New York-based asset management firm VanEck has taken a significant step towards launching a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by submitting an amended application to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

SEAS), Deborah Lipstadt has condemned the violent protests that have been reported in Russia threatening Israelis and Jews and called on Russian authorities to ensure their safety. In a post shared on X, Lipstadt stated that the US stands with Israel and the entire Jewish community. She emphasised that there is no excuse for targeting Jews or engaging in anti-semitic incitement.

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rupee settled at 83.25 against the US dollar. Sustained foreign fund outflows and strength of the American currency in the overseas market weighed on investor sentiments, forex traders said. Also Read: As optimism turns to caution in stock markets, what should retail investors do now? “Asian currencies are slightly lower while European currencies continue to remain on the lower side as the dollar index is near 106.57.

Qualcomm Inc, the world’s biggest maker of smartphone chips, is in talks with top satellite companies, including Elon Musk’s Starlink, on changes required in smartphone chipsets and software elements to enable mobile satellite services on future Android devices. The San Diego-based chipmaker is exploring the feasibility of potential technology solutions like narrow-band non-terrestrial networks (NTN) which could make it possible for mobile devices to talk to satellite systems and, in turn, offer fast wireless broadband connectivity to people outside the coverage area of terrestrial networks. “A lot of activity is underway at Qualcomm on ways to reach people who are out of the terrestrial coverage area… we’re collaborating with companies like Starlink on potential solutions like narrow-band NTN, which is almost like doing 4G, but having it come from a satellite system instead of a 4G base station,” Chris Patrick, general manager of mobile handsets, Qualcomm Technologies Inc, told ET. Qualcomm Technologies is the research and development arm of the US-based smartphone chipmaker. Patrick, though, said ringing in mobile satellite services via solutions like narrow-band NTN would require changes in a mobile phone’s chipset and software elements, even as the intent is to use satellite constellations and bind them closely with existing cellular infrastructure. “That’s where developments are underway at Qualcomm to build in the wireless satellite service functionality into the next wave of Android devices… but there’s a lot of work that has to be done on the device, and the jury’s still out on how these systems will function in real life,” he said. The comments come at a time when India is considering a recent proposal of

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The BSE Sensex was trading 168 points or 0.26% lower at 63,614. Nifty50 was trading at 19,003, down 43 points or 0.23% at around 9.18 a.m.

Brokerage firm Macquarie upgraded RIL to neutral post Q2 results while Jefferies downgraded Cipla to hold. Also, Nomura maintained a neutral rating on Maruti Suzuki and Jefferies had a buy rating on Indian Hotels. We have collated a list of recommendations from top brokerage firms from ETNow and other sources: Macquarie on RIL: Neutral| Target Rs 2200 Macquarie upgraded RIL to Neutral from Underperform earlier and hiked the target price to Rs 2200 from Rs 2100. The September quarter results were in line with estimates.

debt that the US government is generating. The country has added nearly $600 billion debt in the last month. It adds $1 trillion debt every 45-60 days.

Adam Johnson, who appeared in 13 NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins, has died after a “freak accident” during a game in England on Saturday, his club said.The 29-year-old Minnesota native was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in a Challenge Cup game against the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered a slashed neck during the second period of the game at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena.“The Nottingham Panthers are truly devastated to announce that Adam Johnson has tragically passed away following a freak accident at the game in Sheffield last night,” the team said Sunday morning.“The Panthers would like to send our thoughts and condolences to Adam’s family, his partner, and all his friends at this extremely difficult time. Everyone at the club including players, staff, management and ownership are heartbroken at the news of Adam’s passing.”Johnson spent 13 games over parts of the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League before spending the 2020-21 season in Sweden with the Malmo Redhawks.