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Jeremy Koven, the president of Canada-based crypto exchange CoinSmart and president at WonderFi, pointed to areas of concern for crypto firms in the United States looking for regulatory clarity and favorable tax policy. 

Wall Street’s weak August worsened Wednesday, as the major stock indexes racked up more losses

By Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis

By Jarrett Renshaw

A federal judge overseeing the civil case between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Binance.US and Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has ordered a motion for a protective order to go to a magistrate judge.

In this week’s newsletter, read about CBS Studios’ receiving approval for Star Trek NFT trademarks, check out how FC Barcelona acquired investment for its nonfungible token (NFT) initiative, and find out why NFT project y00ts is bridging to another network just months after its previous transfer. In other news, Canadian authorities are trying to create a repository for seized crypto and NFT assets, and don’t forget this week’s Nifty News, featuring Coca-Cola releasing an NFT collection on Coinbase layer 2, Base. 

Josey High School in Richmond County, where the student’s finger was hit by a bullet. He was given medical treatment and he is stable now.

MUMBAI : Promoters of the Adani group have generated ₹39,400 crore through stake dilutions in group companies since a damning report by US short-seller Hindenburg Research in January drove flagship Adani Enterprises Ltd to withdraw its ₹20,000 crore follow-on public offering. The group has denied the allegations. Market veterans believe this liquidity could be used as growth spending and to repay any near-term debt obligations of group companies if needed.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized digital assets worth $1.7 million from March to May in the United States.

Insacog (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium), the pan-India network of laboratories set up to monitor genomic variations of the coronavirus, will hold a review meeting this Friday, amid an upsurge in Covid-19 infection in other countries, people in the know told ET. In India, cases have been reported from Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra, but there has been no significant upsurge, one of the people said. «There has not been any clustering or unusual increase in the number of cases,» he added.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three entities it accused of being tied to arms deals between North Korea and Russia as Washington cracked down on those seeking to support Russia's war in Ukraine.

NEW DELHI : A record number of World Trade Organization (WTO) members have raised concerns about rising protectionist moves in global trade, propelling the issue to centre stage at the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) in Abu Dhabi in February, an official aware of the development said. Many developing nations, including India, are set to oppose the European Union’s (EU’s) carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) that aims to tax imports of carbon-intensive products such as steel, aluminium, cement, and electricity. The EU is also expected to file a complaint against the US’s Inflation Reduction Act because the $430 billion subsidy to manufacturers of green technology will distort international prices and is against WTO norms.

Coinbase, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange, has recently received the green light from the National Futures Association (NFA) to extend its services to include investment opportunities in cryptocurrency futures for eligible clients within the United States.

Hyundai Motors North America has issued a safety recall of 63,128 cars in Canada and the United States.Of those recalled vehicles, 11,120 are in Canada, Jennifer McCarthy, a spokesperson for the company, told Global News Wednesday.The vehicles are being recalled as a safety measure due to an issue with the transmission electric oil pump for the Idle Stop & Go System (ISG), which poses a potential fire risk.The model year 2023-24 Hyundai Palisade vehicles and model year 2023 Tucson, Sonata, Elantra and Kona vehicles produced for sale in the U.S. and Canada have been affected by the recall.McCarthy said owners can continue to drive the affected vehicles, but they are being advised to park these cars outside and away from structures until the recall remedy is completed.She added that owners of the recalled vehicles will be notified by mail with instructions to bring their vehicles to a Hyundai dealer to inspect and replace the electric oil pump controller if required.“The transmission electric oil pump for the Idle Stop & Go System (‘ISG’) in the subject vehicles might have been assembled with printed circuit boards (‘PCB’) that were damaged during manufacturing by the oil pump controller supplier,” McCarthy said.“A damaged capacitor on the pump controller PCB could impact electrical operation leading to heat damage to the electric oil pump circuit board, connector, and wiring harness.

Around two months after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed lawsuits against major exchanges Binance.US and Coinbase, targeting 19 cryptocurrencies that were designated as unregistered securities, the same tokens are showing signs of recovery.

US Federal Reserve on Wednesday released minutes from its July 25-26 monetary policy meeting. The minutes showed that the Fed has likely not finished raising interest rates.

Barbie has beaten from Day 1 at the US box office (with both films having released on July 21, 2023). The satire on the Barbie doll and patriarchy has now surpassed another Nolan film, The Dark Knight (2008), at the domestic box office in the US to become the No.1 Warner Bros. production. Barbie has collected over $537.5 million at the domestic box office by its fourth week, with The Dark Knight’s figures standing at $536 million. As it crosses into its fifth week, the Barbie movie would have surpassed Universal Pictures’ 2023 release, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The animation film based on the video game crossed $574 million to be the biggest domestic release of 2023 in the US. Barbie has already crossed a whopping $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office, and at this rate, will beat Mario – with its $1.35 billion – worldwide, too, as the highest-grosser of 2023. Barbie has broken several records. In its first 17 days in theaters, it took the title of the fastest Warner Bros. film and the eighth film in Warner Bros. 100-year existence as an entrant to the $1 billion club. In fact, Barbie could even go on to beat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which made Warner Bros. a neat $1.34 billion back then 2011, and stands as the film studio’s highest-grossing worldwide release of all time. Barbie had the biggest opening of 2023, with $162 million, where it beat The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which got a $146 million opening. Barbie also broke the record of the biggest-ever opening for a film by a woman director, besting Captain Marvel (2019), directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, at $153 million.

wholesale prices at the factory level have been falling for 10 months now. This means that there is a slowdown in demand, both domestically as well as internationally. In July, China’s goods exports in US dollar terms fell by 14.5% from July 2022.

free trade agreement (FTA). While the geo-political environment is favourable for the deal, dubbed as the mother of all FTAs that India is negotiating, it will be a difficult trick to pull off. The EU is India’s second-largest export market after the US, but the share of the continent in India’s overall goods exports has been declining in the past two decades.

Samsonite, the world's biggest luggage maker, said the Indian travel industry has been insulated from the overall slowdown in discretionary spends. This was helped by consumers vacationing quarterly instead of just once or twice a year post the pandemic.

Intel is terminating a $5.4 billion agreement to acquire Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor after China failed to sign off on the deal amid deteriorating US-China relations