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Total nonfarm payrolls published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics today (6 December) came in above market expectations, with economists polled by Reuters expecting that figure to stand at 200,000. The employment data for November marked a significant increase from the upwardly-revised figure of 36,000 for October. US economy expands by 2.8% in Q3 Meanwhile, the unemployment rate increased from 4.1% in October to 4.2% last month, higher than a year ago, when the jobless rate was 3.7%, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The largest increase in nonfarm payroll...

ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. Here is what will likely happen next for TikTok. TikTok and its parent ByteDance sued in federal court to block a US law passed in April that would force ByteDance to divest of TikTok. It argued that the law would harm free speech.

Harris Financial Group managing director Jamie Cox analyzes post-Thanksgiving markets, retail and jobs sectors and the bitcoin rally.

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net worth of its billionaires nearly tripling to $905.6 billion in 10 years as of 2024. India now ranks third globally in total billionaire wealth, behind the United States and China, a UBS report highlighted. Rising sharply from $637.1 billion in 2023, this remarkable 42% growth rate in Indian billionaires’ wealth outpaces the global average and reflects India’s rapid economic transformation, propelled by family-led businesses and structural reforms propelled by the country’s government.

Liam Payne fell from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, his girlfriend Kate Cassidy has returned to the United States after the singer's tragic death. Kate's friends claimed she is leading a very different lifestyle than the one she enjoyed with Liam Payne, reports The Mirror. Liam Payne paid up to $35K a month for girlfriend Kate Cassidy’s expenses, sources told The Mirror. The singer was giving Cassidy, a 25-year-old social media influencer, $10,000 a month for living expenses and also generously allowed her to use his credit card for clothing and other expenses which regularly totaled around $25,000 a month, they added. ALSO READ: Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies at 31 in Argentina hotel fall

Prince Harry has no plans to return to the UK. At a recent conference, the Duke of Sussex revealed that he was perfectly content living in America. In a conversation with Andrew Sorkin at The New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday, Harry stated he has no wish to relocate to his motherland. He said that his life in the US was what his late mother, Princess Diana, would have wanted. Harry shared that his family has found a level of freedom and privacy in California that would have been impossible in the UK due to security concerns. His security arrangements were reduced after stepping down as a working royal, prompting him to take legal action over changes to his police protection when visiting Britain.

bank said that most of the Group's listed entities have leverage (Net Debt-to-EBITDA ) less than 5X with the exception of Adani Green Energy. Of the 11 listed Adani Group companies, Adani Green Energy, Adani Energy Solutions and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) have US dollar bonds outstanding. Among the non listed entities is Adani Energy Mumbai (AEML).

Data reveals a clear preference among these women for Western partners. In South Korea, 28% of international marriages in 2023 involved American men, followed by 18% with Chinese men. Marriages to men from other Western countries, including France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, accounted for approximately 17%. A similar trend appears in Japan, where American men were the top choice among foreign grooms for Japanese women. Japanese men seeking foreign brides, however, primarily choose women from China and the Philippines.

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A Montreal entrepreneur was allegedly told to repay a drug debt or see a hit ordered on his mom by Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, according to a recent indictment filed by the U.S. prosecutors.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Here are two particularly scary forecasts for investors: Goldman Sachs thinks the S&P 500 will make just 3% a year over the next 10 years, as Big Tech dominance eventually falters. Bank of America expects 0%-1% a year for a decade, a catastrophic investment prospect.

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, crossed the $100,000 mark for the first time on Thursday, December 5. The surge is fuelled by expectations of a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment under President-elect Donald Trump. Trump embraced digital assets during his campaign, promising to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet” and to accumulate a national stockpile of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s surge past the $100,000 milestone has attracted global attention, with many linking the rally to geopolitical shifts and influential endorsements, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent pro-crypto comments. At a recent investment conference, Putin criticized the vulnerabilities of holding state reserves in foreign currencies, especially in light of Western nations freezing $300 billion of Russia's reserves after the Ukraine war. He argued that these reserves could easily be confiscated for political reasons and emphasized the need for alternatives, including cryptocurrencies. «Why accumulate reserves if they can be lost so easily?» he questioned, advocating for investments in domestic infrastructure, science, and technology.

Hiring in the United States likely rebounded last month from a dismal October, when hurricanes and strikes reduced job growth to its lowest level in nearly four years

The UN trade and development agency UNCTAD said global exchanges of goods and services are expected to reach a record level of nearly $33 trillion in 2024. «This $1 trillion increase, reflecting 3.3 percent annual growth, highlights resilience in global trade despite persistent challenges,» the UN agency said in a statement.

Neuralink brain technology company was found to have «objectionable conditions or practices» by the Food and Drug Administration, which cited the company and urged it to address the problems. FDA inspectors identified the issues at Neuralink's animal testing facilities in California in June 2023, several weeks after the agency had given the company the green light for a small study of its brain implant in humans, according to the letter to Congress dated November 29. The agency was responding to concerns raised by Earl Blumenauer, a House Democrat from Oregon who has focused on animal welfare.

clean technology funding in recent months, as efforts to boost domestic green manufacturing help attract investors. Deals worth about $2.4 billion were completed in the third quarter, more than four times the value of those in China and the second-highest total globally behind the US, data compiled by BloombergNEF show. The momentum is being driven by India’s push to build out local clean energy capacity to limit reliance on China, and the prospects of becoming an exporter of the technologies, said Raj Pai, founding partner of GEF Capital Partners, a climate-focused private equity fund.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday in Manhattan, with both UnitedHealth and rival CVS Health removing photos of their leadership teams from their websites after the shooting. UnitedHealthcare, part of UnitedHealth Group, is the biggest U.S. insurer. CVS operates Aetna, another top insurer. Thompson was killed in an attack police called targeted as he was about to enter the Hilton hotel for the company's annual investor conference. The gunman, whose crime was recorded on video, is at large and the New York City Police Department said there was no known motive for the murder.

Trump has named two entrepreneurs to a task force that aims for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. government, which spent $6.8 trillion in the most recent fiscal year. Musk has set a target of $2 trillion in savings, though he has not said whether that would come in a single year or over a longer period. The two chairs of the Department of Government Efficiency have called for firing thousands of federal workers, slashing regulations and eliminating programs whose authorization has expired, such as veterans' healthcare.

Asian equities tracked a drop in US shares ahead of jobs data that may help shape the direction of the Federal Reserve’s policy path later this month. Equities in Japan, Australia and futures in Hong Kong all fell, taking cues from the downbeat mood on Wall Street. The S&P 500 dropped 0.2% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 slipped 0.3%, their first declines in five sessions.