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Elon Musk for weighing in on Italian court rulings that have stymied the government’s plans to process some asylum-seekers in Albania. The US billionaire had said Rome judges blocking a government anti-immigration initiative should be sent packing. With the election in the US, where immigration was a hot-button issue, done, Musk criticised Italian judges for going against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's move to deport illegal immigrants. Meloni planned to detain up to 30,000 migrants in Albanian facilities.

For Indian consumers, gold is not just an asset but a cultural staple, deeply ingrained in weddings, festivals, and as a safeguard against economic uncertainty. With gold prices trending lower, those who have weddings lined up in their families are keenly observing this opportunity. «Enquiries at stores have increased due to price fall. We are expecting higher footfalls for upcoming wedding seasons,» said Suvankar Sen, MD & CEO, Senco Gold and Diamonds.

United Nations and other international organizations are bracing for four more years of Donald Trump, who famously tweeted before becoming president the first time that the 193-member UN was «just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.» In his first term, Trump suspended funding for the U.N. health and family planning agencies, withdrew from its cultural organisation and top human rights body, and jacked up tariffs on China and even longtime U.S. allies by flaunting the World Trade Organization's rulebook. The United States is the biggest single donor to the United Nations, paying 22% of its regular budget. Trump's take this time on the world body began taking shape this week with his choice of Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York for US ambassador to the UN. Stefanik, the fourth-ranking House member, called last month for a «complete reassessment» of US funding for the United Nations and urged a halt to support for its agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA. President Joe Biden paused the funding after UNRWA fired several staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump has styled himself a master dealmaker who can leverage his warm relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, cool tensions between the world’s biggest nuclear powers and realign global politics. But that can-do image is at odds with the two leaders’ records and the new geopolitical reality.

Laurence Balanco of CLSA says Nifty has completed this topping pattern that had formed between August and October – the classic head and shoulders reversal – and that still gives a downside target around 22,800. The midcap sector has also rolled over from the rounding topping pattern that we have had for the past six months and not yet met the minimum downside targets. There is no evidence of slowing in downside momentum and the relative underperformance continues. Be patient and wait for those opportunities to develop. Balanco also says that while we have been down for roughly a quarter, the consolidation can take another quarter. So, this is a process of three to six months which will give us a platform for a resumption of the longer-term uptrend. Let us understand the way the world is getting divided. There is an emerging market basket which is moving lower and then there is a developed market basket which is moving higher. I am mainly talking about the US market here. Do you think there is a sizable disconnect between what the developed markets are doing versus where emerging markets are moving? Could that extend for another quarter or so? Laurence Balanco: It is quite interesting.

Allan Lichtman, often dubbed the «Nostradamus» of US Presidential Polls, has blamed disinformation and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk for his incorrect prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would win the US elections. Lichtman, who has correctly predicted nine out of 10 election results, is renowned for accurately forecasting nine of the last ten US elections. But things took a U-turn last week when the historian and political scientist's prediction that Kamala Harris would win the US Presidential elections turned out to be wrong with Republican Donald Trump returning to the White House. Now, speaking to News Nation, Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, provided a deeper explanation for his incorrect forecast and pointed to conservative media platforms and Elon Musk, who pored millions into Donald Trump's campaign, as a factor in his inaccurate prediction. ALSO READ: 'Your body, our choice': Deadly 'MATGA' Movement emerges in US. All about women's new trend after Trump's victory

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crypto frenzy in the global markets are lapping Indian shores. Average daily trading volumes in half a dozen major exchanges have surged 3 times in less than a week despite crippling taxes and a shadow ban by most banks. Investors who were sitting on losses for close to 18 months are suddenly in the money. Prices of some of the zombie coins, along with other cryptocurrencies, are tailing Bitcoin which touched a new high. And, more local investors are booking profits than chipping in fresh money — as is borne out by the squeeze in the premium in USDT, the stable coin that serves as a go-between when cryptocurrencies are sold to generate rupees.

rupee slipped 1 paisa to an all-time low of 84.40 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday, weighed down by unabated foreign fund outflows and strong dollar demand from investors. Forex traders said the downward pressure on the USD/INR pair is largely driven by persistent inflation and significant foreign outflows. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 84.40 against the greenback, registering a fall of 1 paisa over its previous close.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration intends to bolster its military support to Ukraine

silver December futures contracts were trading at Rs 88,032/kg, down by 0.1.31% or Rs 1,165. In this week so far, Gold prices have fallen by Rs 3,400/10 grams while silver prices fell by Rs 3,200/kg in the same period.

Jai Bala, Chief Market Technician, Cashthechao.com, says he expects the Nifty to hit somewhere to about 21,300 by the end of the year and the banking index to hit somewhere close to 42,000 with an intermediate pause at about 49,000 and 47,000. The Dollar index will be about 109 for the end of the year. The 10-year yields for the US would be about 5.5% by the end of the year. By 2026, the 10-year yields will hit about 800 bps. That is the medium to long-term forecast for the global markets and the macros. Bala also says retail investors should raise as much cash as possible as they can get in and get out of the market much faster than the institutions. Is there any ray of hope for the markets and what can really provide a sigh of relief at this juncture? Jai Bala: I had spoken to you around the time when China's stimulus was on and at that time I had mentioned that the Nifty was likely to drop to somewhere close to 21,300 and when people are focusing on China's stimulus, we should have been focusing on the India correction which is about to set on. I have been holding the view from the 1st of October that this decline is likely to take the market to somewhere close to the June 4th low. So, we are set for further decline to come through, although there could be a counter trend bounce along and the market has just printed the 200-day moving average and so we could see a slight relief. But the markets are still on sell on rise.

Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, with users migrating to alternatives like Bluesky, CNN reported. More than 115,000 US users deactivated their X accounts the day after the election, and this figure only includes those who deactivated through the website, excluding mobile app users, CNN reported citing a report of digital intelligence platform Similarweb. This shift follows Musk's influential role in the US presidential election. Bluesky's user base has doubled in 90 days, reaching 15 million after gaining 1 million new sign-ups in a single week.

The world's biggest cryptocurrency has become one of the most eye-catching movers in the week since the election and on Wednesday touched record highs. It was last up 5.49% at $93,158, marking a 32% rise since the Nov. 5 election.

Federal Reserve easing. Cryptocurrency bitcoin also shot to a fresh record high of $93,480 overnight, and was rising back towards that level early in Asia's day. Trump has vowed to make the United States «the crypto capital of the planet».