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Trump mocking the former US President's latest arrest in an alleged racketeering case to overturn the outcome of Georgia's vote count in the 2020 presidential election, has landed a No. 2 spot on the iTunes chart. 'First Day Out' by artist Hi-Rez, who masquerades as «Trump the Don», has skyrocketed to the top of the iTunes Hip-Hop charts since it was released last week as the former President was taking his infamous mug shot inside a Georgia jail, reports The New York Post.

China for computer chips, solar panels and various consumer imports amid growing concern over Beijing's security threats, human rights record and dominance of critical industries. But even as policymakers and corporate executives look for ways to cut ties with China, a growing body of evidence suggests that the world's largest economies remain deeply intertwined as Chinese products make their way to America through other countries. New and forthcoming economic papers call into question whether the United States has actually lessened its reliance on China — and what a recent reshuffling of trade relationships means for the global economy and American consumers. Changes to global manufacturing and supply chains are still unfolding, as both punishing tariffs imposed by the administration of former President Donald Trump and tougher restrictions on the sale of technology to China imposed by the Biden administration play out. The key architect of the latest restrictions — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — is meeting with top Chinese officials in Beijing and Shanghai this week, a visit that underscores the challenge facing the United States as it seeks to reduce how much it depends on China at a moment when the countries' economies share so many ties. These reworked trade rules, along with other economic changes, have caused China's share of imports into the United States to fall as the share of imports into the U.S.

G20 Summit in India is all set to commence on September 9 in the national capital. The summit will be held for two days and will be joined by representatives of member nations as well as guest nations who will engage in discussions about diverse economic reforms. The summit will be concluded on September 10 with the adoption of a G20 Leaders' Declaration.

US jobs data reduced the chances of further Federal Reserve rate hikes. The US dollar index - which measures the currency against six developed-market peers including the yen and euro - was little changed at 103.57 after pulling back from as high as 104.36 overnight. On Tuesday, the rupee ended 8 paise lower at 82.71 a dollar.

Joe Biden is a mental catastrophe and he will lead the US to World War III. As reported by Forbes, Trump said, "Joe Biden has gone mad a stark raving lunatic with horrible and country threatening environmental open borders and DOJ, FBI. Trump further slammed the US president Joe Biden over his weaponisation policies and termed him as "a mental catastrophe," that is leading his country to World War III.

“FIIs also who have missed the rally in Indian markets also are looking at mid-cap companies with better earnings visibility and for better growth opportunities,” says Dr Poonam Tandon, Chief Investment Officer at IndiaFirst Life. In an interview with ETMarkets, Tandon said: “We do believe renewable energy is one of the emerging sectors of the next decade. Nearly 80% of energy requirements are met by coal, oil, and biomass” Edited excerpts:Will another rate hike by the US disrupt equity markets?The minutes of the US Fed’s last policy meeting indicated that interest rates may have to remain higher for longer given the uncertainty around the inflation outlook in the US.

Meanwhile, the global cryptocurrency market cap was trading higher, around $1.05 trillion, rising 0.40% in the last 24 hours. «The crypto market remained stable over the weekend, with the total market capitalization hovering around $1.05 trillion. The upcoming week is anticipated to bring heightened market volatility due to various significant macroeconomic events,» said CoinDCX Research Team. «These events, including US Job Openings, Non-Farm Employment Change, and the Unemployment Rate, are expected to have ripple effects on various assets such as Gold, the Dollar Index, US Equity Markets, and the crypto market,» it added.

Chalice Mining boss Alex Dorsch has defended the use of high commodity price assumptions in a scoping study that sparked a 27 per cent crash in the company’s share price during morning trade on Wednesday.

Transport and logistics group Brambles expects profit growth to slow in 2023-24 as cost-of-living pressures on households mean lower volumes of goods are being transported on pallets to the group’s retailer customers, which are cutting back inventory levels.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is facing its first deadlines to decide on seven new Bitcoin (BTC) spot exchange-traded fund applications with the latest being Sept. 4 amid its defeat to Grayscale Investments in a U.S. federal appeals court.

COVID-19 has been detected for the first time in Canada, British Columbia health officials said on Tuesday.The variant, dubbed BA.2.86, was confirmed in the Fraser Health region, and involves a person who had not travelled outside the province, according to a joint statement from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix.“So far, there does not seem to be increased severity with this strain of COVID and the individual is not hospitalized,” the statement reads.The new variant was first detected in Denmark in July, and has since been confirmed in several countries including the United States.The World Health Organization has classified BA.2.86 as a “variant under monitoring” due to the presence of a large number of mutations.The agency described variants under monitoring as those that show early signs of a “growth advantage” compared to more dominant circulating variants, and which require further evidence of their possible impact.“It was not unexpected for BA.2.86 to show up in Canada and the province.

crisis hotline for the first time sent a message between the world's superpowers. Communicated by Washington to Moscow, the message dated August 30, 1963 was more about testing every letter of the English keyboard than about addressing immediate conflict: «THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890.» But since then, the famed hotline has worked to manage tensions — or to send warnings — between Washington and Moscow, whose relations have plunged to new lows over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The hotline became reality in the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with president John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreeing that the world came too close to nuclear war. Never a literal telephone as depicted in movies, the hotline was originally a clunky telegraph machine with cables under the Atlantic and Europe that each side would test every hour. The Pentagon, which managed US communications, would often send trivia such as baseball scores while the Kremlin preferred excerpts from classic Russian literature, Howard Patrick, a linguist who helped operate the first machine, said in a 2014 interview with the Pioneer Press in Minnesota. He said there was shock when the hotline was first put to actual use — a message from the United States to officially inform the Soviets that Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. The tool's first use to avert conflict took place in 1967 during the Six-Day War in the Middle East.

Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person in British Columbia who had not traveled outside the Pacific province, health officials said on Tuesday. The individual is not hospitalized, and the detection of BA.2.86 virus has not changed the risk to people in British Columbia, the province's top doctor, Bonnie Henry, and Health Minister Adrian Dix said in a joint statement. «It was not unexpected for BA.2.86 to show up in Canada and the province,» they said. "COVID-19 continues to spread globally, and the virus continues to adapt." The BA.2.86 lineage, first detected in Denmark last month, carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant variant through most of 2023.

American consumers are feeling less confident as summer comes to a close as high prices and interest rates weigh on their willingness to spend

Raimondo said U.S. firms had told her that China had become «uninvestible.» Asked to respond to the comments Raimondo made in China, embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said that most of the 70,000 U.S.

Nvidia and other megacap growth stocks after a drop in monthly job openings cemented expectations of a pause in interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 logged its strongest one-day gain since June 2, while the Nasdaq notched its strongest session since July 28, and both indexes closed at more than two-week highs. The sharp gains came after the Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) showed the number of job openings stood at 8.827 million in July, falling for the third straight month and signaling easing labor market pressures. Investors also parsed a report from the Conference Board showing consumer confidence in the United States fell to 106.1 in August, compared with expectations of 116. Interest rate futures signaled an 87% chance the Fed will keep rates steady at its September meeting and a 54% chance it will keep rates on hold through November, according the CME Group's FedWatch tool. «Investors are of the mindset that 'You know what, maybe interest rate hikes are indeed behind us.

Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced Tuesday by Mayor Eric Adams, which he said should foster a spirit of inclusivity. Under the new rules, Adams said, mosques will not need a special permit to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, on Fridays and at sundown during the holy month of Ramadan. Friday is the traditional Islamic holy day, and Muslims break their fast at sunset during Ramadan. The police department's community affairs bureau will work with mosques to communicate the new guidelines and ensure that devices used to broadcast the adhan are set to appropriate decibel levels, Adams said. «For too long, there has been a feeling that our communities were not allowed to amplify their calls to prayer,» Adams said.

"Market is moving in a range and we expect this trend to continue given the data-packed week and monthly derivatives expiry. Further, consistent selling by FIIs and poor monsoon in the month of August raised concern among investors, thus keeping the upside limited," said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions:STATE OF THE MARKETSGIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a positive startGIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded 18 points, or 0.09 per cent, higher at 19,529, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for positive start on Wednesday.

Rhode Island’s regulators have granted X (Twitter) a currency transmitter license marking a step forward for the company’s foray into the financial services sector. 

Flight Centre expects a return to “more favourable dynamics for travellers” after reporting record performance in corporate travel, taking its total sales to their second-highest level ever.

Nirmala Sitharaman said, while exuding confidence that India will be able to manage the spillovers of high US interest rates. In a freewheeling interview with ET, Sitharaman said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will return to power in 2024 with «good numbers» as the government had delivered on its promises. She said that while some items may be experiencing inflation, «broad-basket inflation» was steady, and RBI was looking at the country's needs rather than syncing its activities with other central banks. Some individual commodities may be seeing a price surge and «all the perishables, and also vegetables, because they are all short-duration, and because of the way the monsoon (has progressed)...it (inflation) can see recurrence,» the finance minister said. «But overall, I think the basket itself is steady,» she said, adding that most central banks are becoming more considerate of growth-related concerns. Responding to a question on private sector investment, the finance minister said the buzz at last week's B20 summit couldn't have happened if Indian companies were still hesitating. «No, they now want to actively be in the game, also become big players — big, meaningful and impactful players, each according to their size.» «I think the Indian private sector has come into the game...investors are coming forward, industry is coming forward,» she said, emphatically asserting that private sector capex had taken off.