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Toronto-Dominion Bank is working through a U.S. Department of Justice probe related to its compliance with anti-money-laundering rules, the head of the lender’s U.S. retail division said Wednesday.

By David Rosenberg and Marius Jongstra

Vedanta Resources has appointed South African mining veteran Chris Griffith to run its base metals unit, including its recently regained Zambian copper mines. Griffith stepped down as chief executive of Gold Fields in December, after a short stint at the Johannesburg-based gold producer, following an unsuccessful bid to buy Canadian Yamana Gold. Much of Griffith's career has been at Anglo American where he ran Kumba Iron Ore and was instrumental in restructuring and turning around Anglo American Platinum . Griffith will head Vedanta's base metals unit, including zinc mines in Namibia and South Africa, an iron ore business in Liberia and will have oversight over processing businesses in the Middle East and India. A mining engineer, Griffith will probably be more focused on restoring Konkola Copper Mines to profitable operation after the Indian company was given back control of the assets by Zambian authorities after years of protracted battle over the ownership. «I look forward to driving innovation, operational efficiency and sustainable growth across Vedanta's base metals businesses, creating KCM as a cornerstone asset for the company and growing the group internationally,» he said in a statement. Vedanta has pledged to invest about $1 billion in the Zambian operation, where some of its underground mines «need immediate recapitalisation», Mines Minister Paul Kabuswe said on Sept.

Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president turned climate crusader, says Big Oil and the banks backing it still have huge financial incentives to stick with fossil fuels, even though their decision to do so is the leading cause of the climate crisis.

Stocks, bonds and the dollar saw small moves, with a mixed inflation report reinforcing speculation the Federal Reserve will pause its rate hikes — but refrain from calling the end of its tightening cycle.

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. 

Bridgewater Associates LP founder Ray Dalio said he doesn’t want to own bonds and prefers cash, highlighting difficulties investors face as global central banks try to manage inflation.

The strategy will aim to outperform the MSCI World Health Care index by at least 2% per annum over the course of a market cycle.

Sheridan Admans (pictured) is the head of fund selection at TILLIT.

Narendra Modi attacked the Opposition alliance – INDIA bloc – calling it “ghamandia [arrogant]", the Congress hit back at him accusing him of using a government function to abuse the opposition. “The PM is back to doing what he does best—insult. He repeated his abuse of INDIA parties as so-called Ghamandia parties," Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said on X (formerly Twitter).

NASA is set to release on Thursday the findings of a long-awaited study on unexplained flying objects in Earth's skies. The US space agency announced last year it was reviewing evidence regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs — which has replaced the term "UFO" in official parlance. The subject has long fascinated the public but was shunned by mainstream science. An independent team of 16 researchers shared their preliminary observations in May, finding that existing data and eyewitness reports are insufficient to draw firm conclusions, while calling for more systematic collection of high-quality data. It's unlikely Thursday's report will change that bottom line — but it could eventually usher in the start of a new mission for the agency. While NASA's probes and rovers scour the solar system for any fossils of ancient microbes, and its astronomers look for signs of intelligent civilizations on distant planets, its historic posture has been to «debunk» sightings on our home planet. There have been more than 800 «events» collected over 27 years, of which two to five per cent are thought to be possibly anomalous, the report's authors said during the May meeting. These are defined as «anything that is not readily understandable by the operator or the sensor,» or «something that is doing something weird,» said team member Nadia Drake. The US government has begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years, in part due to concerns that they are related to foreign surveillance. NASA's work, which relies on unclassified material, is separate from a Pentagon investigation, though the two are coordinating on matters of how to apply scientific tools and methods. In July, a former US intelligence officer made

Pakistan appears to be intensifying its efforts to bolster its nuclear arsenal, according to a recent research report by the Federation of American Scientists. The nation's economy has been in turmoil, marked by widespread protests against skyrocketing fuel prices and exorbitant power bills.

Editor’s note (September 14th 2023): this story was updated on September 14th to take in Arm’s valuation and the date of its IPO. No matter how wild the party, it is a rare hangover that lingers into its second year. Yet after a record-smashing rave in 2021, investors in initial public offerings (IPOs) are still nursing sore heads. Over the course of a year-long binge, they ploughed some $600bn into stockmarket listings around the world in 2021, according to Dealogic, a data firm.

₹400 crore in May via multiple funds of Convergent Finance LLP, an investment management company led by Harsha Raghavan, besides ₹30 crore from individual investors, Agilitas said. Its founding team comprises Ganguly, who quit Puma India in August, Atul Bajaj, Puma India’s former executive director for sales and operations, and Amit Prabhu, former chief financial officer, Puma India.

foreign exchange and fiscal revenues. Perhaps no company in the world is as closely linked to its country’s collapse as Venezuela’s state oil firm, PDVSA. At its peak in 1998, it provided 5% of global supply.

Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both of which caused disruption in energy markets. There have been speculations as who will be new boss.

Congress on Thursday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he dubbed the INDIA bloc parties as «ghamandia», accusing him of using a government function to abuse the opposition. «The PM is back to doing what he does best-insult.

Approximately 30 minutes prior to the briefing, NASA will make the team's complete report available online. The primary objective of this report is to provide insights to NASA regarding potential data collection strategies in the future, with the aim of shedding light on the nature and origin of UAP. In 2022, NASA assembled a panel of experts to scrutinize data related to UAP, a term for UFOs. UAP includes abnormal objects or occurrences in the sky, underwater, or in space that cannot be immediately identified. Now, the team is preparing to release its inaugural report on Thursday, offering recommendations to NASA on how to enhance the collection and analysis of data that could contribute to understanding the nature and origin of UAP. It's crucial to emphasize that, as stated in NASA's announcement of the briefing, the report does not assess or review previous unidentified observations.

White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients on Thursday to discuss refugee resettlement and sponsorship programs, a White House official said. The CEOs will include Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Walmart's Doug McMillon, Pfizer's Albert Bourla, HP's Enrique Lores and others. They are part of a council of leaders affiliated with Welcome.US, a group dedicated to helping support refugees in the United States.

Bitcoin (BTC) hit new September highs after the Sep. 14 daily close as markets digested macroeconomic and crypto industry news.

G20 summit, India, the US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). The G20 Leaders' two-day summit, held under India's presidency, wrapped up on Sunday.