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Indian stock market is expected to open higher on Thursday following positive global cues. Gains in Asian markets after the US stock indices closed mixed overnight, may support domestic equities. On Wednesday, the domestic equity indices ended higher due to upbeat macroeconomic data amid global signals being subdued.

Arriving at a decision was difficult in the backdrop of a year which has been fraught with challenges for the venture capital industry as valuations and fundraising saw a major hit. Exits became scarce and the IPO market dried up.

ZopSmart emerged as the hands-down winners of the Comeback Kid category at ETSA 2023. Hailing the team of Mukesh Singh, Raj Pandey and Vikash Kumar as role models for their sheer hard work, grit and perseverance, the star-studded jury unanimously voted for ZopSmart’s founders in the secret ballot on Tuesday.

The new leader of state securities regulators said states have an important role to play in protecting investors from the potential dangers of digital assets.

In a recent filing, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX modified its proposed guidelines for liquidating its substantial crypto holdings, addressing concerns raised by the U.S. trustee.

NBC series 'Found,' created by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, is set to debut at the Boston Film Festival. The show features Shanola Hampton and Mark-Paul Gosselaar and will be showcased at the festival on September 23, with its official premiere scheduled for October 3. NBC recently unveiled the first trailer for the drama. Originally intended for a midseason release, the series was rescheduled for the fall line-up.

Olivia Rodrigo will launch her 'Guts' World Tour in North America and Europe in February 2024 and it will come to an end in August. The tour will go across North America for six weeks before moving to Europe. It will return to North America in May before concluding in Rodrigo’s hometown of Los Angeles. The tour will feature opening acts, performed by young women. British dance-pop singer PinkPantheress, Los Angeles-based pop singer Chappell Roan, and California pop-rock singer Remi Wolf will produce the opening acts. Ex-Pixies singer Kim Deal will lead the Breeders band which will produce a string of radio and video hits. The American singer made her VMA debut in 2021 as she performed her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit 'Good 4 U.'

The U.S. Department of Labor released new data today showing a 0.6% increase in the consumer price index (CPI) for August. This is the largest monthly rise in U.S. inflation so far this year. The report showed that prices have gone up by 3.7% compared to August of last year, slightly higher than what economic analysts had predicted.

Alibaba announced that its proprietary large language model, an artificial intelligence system called Tongyi Qianwen, will be available for public and enterprise access throughout China starting Sept. 13. 

Google parent company Alphabet announced Wednesday that it is laying off employees from its global recruiting team as the tech giant continues to slow hiring, the Reuters reported. The decision to let go of a few hundred of positions is not part of a wide-scale layoff and will retain a significant majority of the team for hiring critical roles, the report said.

Biden administration «won't hesitate» to impose more sanctions on Russia and North Korea if they conclude any new arms deals, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller issued the warning at a briefing in response to questions about the meeting in Russia between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. «We have taken a number of actions already to sanction entities that brokered arms sales between North Korea and Russia and we won't hesitate to impose additional actions if appropriate,» Miller said. It was troubling that Russia and North Korea are discussing increased cooperation that could violate U.N.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday said food security, reform of the multilateral trade watchdog, development agenda, moratorium on ecommerce transactions, and fisheries subsidies agreements are the deliverables for the ministerial conference (MC) next year. She also said that work is on to introduce «deliberative sessions» at the MC13 for ministers to discuss issues related to carbon taxes, climate, MSMES, women, industrial subsidies and trade. «For MC13, we're trying to get a breakthrough in food security and agriculture but the issues are tough. Some members want to look at trade distorting subsidies and others want to work on stockholding (issues) like India,» she said. Public stockholding is a policy tool used by governments to purchase, stockpile and distribute food when needed.

Joe Biden. The charges relate to business dealings by the latter’s son, Hunter Biden, and include lying about knowledge of these, misuse of high office and his “family members" having got money from shady foreign entities. So far, no hard evidence of wrongdoing has emerged.

hedge fund. Glas Trust Co., the trustee representing lenders who had extended a loan of $1.2 billion to the world’s most valuable education technology startup in November 2021, told a Florida court on 7 September that Byju’s transferred $533 million to Camshaft Capital Fund, a Miami-based hedge fund, allegedly established by a 23-year-old with no training or experience in investing. The lenders also told the court that the official address of the hedge fund in its regulatory filings is a US restaurant chain, IHOP.

Amidst the release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for August, the Bitcoin price prediction landscape is under scrutiny, prompting a critical question: Is it opportune to consider buying the dip? 

Major cryptocurrency prices are trading with a modest positive bias on Wednesday.

The takeover of Fortress Trust by financial technology company Ripple on Sept. 8 involved more than just an acquisition deal. The transaction was accelerated by a security incident hours earlier involving a Fortress third-party analytics vendor, Ripple confirmed to Cointelegraph. 

In this week’s newsletter, read about how Google will start allowing games featuring nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to advertise and promote themselves using its platform and how a developer stole $1 million in assets from the Milady NFT collection. Check out how an insurance company excluded NFTs from a $20-million policy and how the metaverse is “hot” in Asian markets like Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. And don’t forget this week’s Nifty News featuring Binance ending its support for Polygon-based NFTs. 

The New Zealand Breakers – a privately owned National Basketball League team – are close to finalising their advisory bench as they prepare to test the appetite of potential buyers, with four bankers from Los Angeles to Sydney set to play key roles.

One of the world’s largest law firms is launching a dedicated space law practice, as the clamour to counsel the booming exploration industry intensifies.

Liontown Resources boss Tony Ottaviano says the company is about nine months away from having its flagship lithium mine built and in production despite Gina Rinehart fuelling concerns about the project.