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Candidates for the Republican nomination for the 2024 United States presidential election who have publicly expressed their support or disdain for certain crypto-related policies will be meeting for a debate for the first time.

EDX Markets, a prominent institutional crypto exchange company, announced on Tuesday a collaboration with Anchorage Digital, a regulated crypto platform renowned for its comprehensive financial services and infrastructure solutions.

Blue chip cryptocurrencies are falling once again this Tuesday, with Bitcoin (BTC) down around 1% on the day in the $25,800s and Ether (ETH) down 2% and back below $1,650.

Toto Cutugno, a prominent personality of Italian music, has passed away today at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. The renowned singer-songwriter, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday in July, had been under hospital care for several months at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. Cutugno's international presence was significant, cementing his status as one of Italy's most beloved performers.

Activision Blizzard proposes to sell its streaming rights to Ubisoft Entertainment in a fresh attempt to win approval from UK Competition and Markets Authority for its $69 billion sale to Microsoft. The shares of Activision were trading 1.1% higher, while Microsoft was up 0.7% before noon in New York. Shares of Ubisoft listed in Paris closed 8.8% higher.

Steel Authority of India (SAIL), BHEL, Escorts Kubota, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd, Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers And Chemicals Limited, Delta Corp, Hindustan Copper, India Cements, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Punjab National Bank, Manappuram Finance, and Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd are the 12 stocks that are a part of the F&O ban list by the stock exchange for Wednesday. The NSE updates the list of securities in F&O ban for trade everyday. The derivative contracts in the mentioned securities have crossed 95 per cent of the market-wide position limit and have been currently put in the ban period by the stock exchange, said NSE.

In a crowded Web3 gaming market vying for adoption, a fresh approach suggests that industry players must surpass mere tokenization of Web2 elements.

Charles Schwab Corp. is looking to raise fresh debt in the U.S. investment-grade bond market after revealing plans Monday to cut jobs and close or downsize offices to curb costs. 

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Infosys Foundation USA will provide USD 200,000 (about Rs 1.6 crore) to support tech careers in Indiana, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

Indian rupee today staged a strong rebound, posting its biggest single-day gain in nearly a month and a half. A pullback of the greenback from recent peaks while dollar inflows also aided the Indian currency. Pakistan’s rupee declined to a new low amid the country's deteriorating external finances. The spot Indian rupee today closed at 82.9350 against the US dollar, up 17 paise from its previous close of 83.1075 on Monday.

Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that have dogged the Russian space industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Those include the loss of key technologies in the post-Soviet industrial meltdown, the bruising impact of recent Western sanctions, a huge brain drain and widespread corruption.Yuri Borisov, the head of the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos, attributed the failure to the lack of expertise due to the long break in lunar research that followed the last Soviet mission to the moon in 1976. «The priceless experience that our predecessors earned in the 1960-70s was effectively lost,» Borisov said.

Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The new legislation goes beyond the goal of price control stated in its name. The Inflation Reduction Act works in tandem with other new legislative proposals such as the American Rescue Plan and the CHIPS and Science Act to pivot the US towards active government intervention in industry, through direct investments, tax credits, subsidies and some import tariffs.

For many Americans, homeownership may be attainable only if they give up a dining room. Home prices are near record highs, frustrating millions of potential buyers who feel priced out of the housing market. Home builders are having to find ways to make their product more affordable to increase their pool of customers.

₹1,200 crore of the leading holistic creative products player in the Indian stationery and art products market comprises a fresh issue aggregating up to ₹350 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) aggregating up to ₹850 crore. The offer for sale comprises of equity shares aggregating up to ₹800 crore million by corporate promoter, F.I.L.A.

real estate sector as expected to put lenders' creditworthiness to the test, reported Reuters. Banks have been forced to pay out higher interest rates in order to prevent depositors from running away to other high-yielding options due to the US Federal Reserve's unrelenting campaign of rate hikes.

Losses in the financial sector helped lead Canada’s main stock index lower in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets were mixed.

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(Reuters) — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday that it has appointed Henry Liu to serve as director of the commission's Bureau of Competition.

NEW YORK — FTX Trading Ltd. founder Sam Bankman-Fried can’t adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter, his lawyers told a magistrate judge Aug. 22.