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A Buenos Aires-headquartered oil company, Tecpetrol, has decided to convert excessive gas into energy for cryptocurrency mining. 

The United States House Financial Services Committee will hear how the Securities and Exchange Commission is changing its oversight and rules to keep pace with technological advancements, including cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.

The historic Merge upgrade from Sept. 2022 — which marked Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) — resulted in the overall decline in compliance with standards laid down by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). 

cryptocurrency market cap was trading at around $1.05 trillion, rising 0.76% in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin was up 0.56% at $26,291 as of 11:58 a.m., while Ethereum rose 0.78% to $1,590. The crypto market has traded sideways with slight buying pressure. Continuing its oscillation between the neutral and fear zones, the crypto fear and greed index is back in the fear zone with a score of 46/100 after shedding off a point since yesterday. Markets at large, including crypto and even global equities, are currently dealing with the rate hike concerns and rising treasury yields, said Shubham Hudda, Senior Manager, CoinSwitch Markets Desk. Barring Solana, Toncoin, and Shiba Inu, all major crypto tokens were trading higher on Tuesday. BNB, XRP and Polygon gained up to 2%.

US government shutdown looming: What is it? Check which services will likely be suspended The US shutdown will impact several departments of the US government, including education, healthcare and law and order even though some highly essential government entities will continue to function. Some of the key economic data, including monthly unemployment figures and price reports, would be temporarily suspended in case of a shutdown, affecting market sentiment and possibly leading to investor uncertainty. Also Read: US economy shows resilience, but is soft landing a strong possibility? The impact of a US shutdown could be significant on its economy but is unlikely to trigger a knee-jerk reaction in the domestic market, experts say.

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. The ruling by America’s Supreme Court in June that in effect banned universities from using racial preferences in admissions sparked two lively debates.

The UK economy shrank by 0.5% in July, worse than analysts had predicted and continuing a trend of weak economic growth in the UK.

NSE) said it has sought Sebi's approval to add another evening session from 6-9 pm. While longer trading hours mean more revenue for exchanges due to increase in volumes, derivative traders fear that their work-life balance may go for a toss. «Prima facie an average F&O trader, is less likely to warm up to the idea of the evening session as it eats into one’s personal time and space, which is essential for research and planning or more importantly time off the market for recharge and introspection,» said Anand James, Chief Market Strategist at Geojit Financial Services. NSE wants to extend trading hours in a gradual manner, depending on the feedback from market participants, including FIIs and brokers. As of now, there are no plans to tweak the timings of the cash segment as the second session would be meant only for index future and options. The exchange's rationale is that the extension will give traders a chance to react to global events.

Also read: Nijjar killing row: ‘Canada has seen a lot of organized crime’, says Jaishankar She added, "We are also requesting a briefing on whether there are similar operations in the United States". Following Omar's remark MP Chaturvedi urged India's foreign ministry to start an enquiry into how an elected representative in the USA is interfering in the peace of Jammu & Kashmir via a Pakistan-funded PoK visit. Omar reportedly visited to Pakistan-occupied part of the disputed region of Kashmir or PoK in 2022.

dirigiste industrial policy. So far Congress has authorised at least $80bn in place-based spending (according to the Brookings Institution, a think-tank), disbursed through a range of competitive grants. The biggest-ticket items include funding authorised in the CHIPS Act, passed last year to spur American semiconductor manufacturing.

Bitcoin, the world's most valuable cryptocurrency, was trading below $27,000 early on Wednesday, showing a nearly 0.50% decrease in price to $26,220. 

Prominent media outlets, including Bloomberg, Dow Jones & Company, The New York Times, and The Financial Times, have raised objections to a joint motion by the debtors and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors asking for further data redactions in FTX bankruptcy case. 

Space Administration (NASA) has shared pictures of a space object that looks like a dumpling. «Ravioli, pierogi, empanada? No, that… What do you see? No wrong answers,» NASA asked in an Instagram post. The space agency then clarified that the object is actually the innermost moon of Saturn. NASA revealed that its Cassini spacecraft took the images from 15,300 miles (24,600 km) which happens to be its closest encounter with the moon, which is called Pan. «Pan, the innermost of Saturn’s known moons, orbits the planet from inside a gap in one of Saturn's rings. It completes an orbit every 13.8 hours at an altitude of 83,000 miles (134,000 km).

McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $230 million in its latest settlement to resolve lawsuits alleging it fueled a US opioid epidemic through its role advising drug manufacturers, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Thousands of lawsuits, brought by US local governments, schools, Native American communities, and parents on behalf of children born with withdrawal symptoms, accused McKinsey of strategizing with drug manufacturers to aggressively market prescription opioids «to maximize opioid revenues», the filings showed. McKinsey will pay $207 million to resolve claims by counties and municipalities, and $23 million to resolve claims by public school districts. Opioids are the main cause of drug overdose deaths in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with more than 75 percent of all drug overdose deaths in 2021 linked to them. McKinsey had already paid more than $640 million in 2021 to resolve lawsuits raised by 50 state attorneys-general over its work for bankrupt OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and others. Tuesday's court filing said McKinsey had created and implemented marketing strategies for Purdue «before and after» the manufacturer's first guilty plea in 2007 relating to misbranding of OxyContin. The settlement still requires a judge's approval. McKinsey has consistently maintained its past work was lawful, but firm has said it ceased to advise clients on opioid-related business in 2019. «We did not adequately acknowledge the epidemic unfolding in our communities or the terrible impact of opioid misuse and addiction on millions of families across the country,» it said in a statement released in in 2020. «That is why last year (2019) we stopped doing any work

CBRE. Bangalore, Delhi-NCR and Mumbai are among the top 3 cities spearheading green-compliant office spaces with a cumulative share of 68% of the total, green-certified office stock in India.

A Bitcoin proponent’s recent attempt to crypto trade his way from New York to Alaska has come to a sudden and bitter end — some 900 miles from his final destination. 

An investigation by law firm Linklaters has cleared overseas PwC partners of using confidential information related to the tax leaks scandal “for commercial gain”, but disciplined six of the firm’s international operatives for not inquiring about the nature of the data.

₹58,245 per 10 grams around 10:45 am. (Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) Experts expect gold prices to remain weak and see some volatility today due to rising dollar, and bond yields amid the prospects of interest rates going further higher.

India-Russia relations have held «very, very steady» and «we take great care» to make sure that the relationship is working, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. During a conversation at the Council on Foreign Relations here on Tuesday, Jaishankar said that Russia's relationship with Europe and the West has been «so severely disrupted» in the wake of the February 2022 Ukraine war that Moscow is actually turning to Asia and other parts of the world.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again announced a delay in its decision regarding the proposed ARK 21Shares spot Bitcoin ETF, pushing the deadline into the next year with a new date set for January 10th. 

Popular NFT collection Pudgy Penguins has launched its Pudgy Toys collection in 2,000 Walmart stores across the United States.