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Currently, the tokenised assets sector is mainly made up of traditional assets like US treasuries and money market funds. However, the supply side is still in its infancy, with the total value of tokenised assets (excluding stablecoins) standing at just $5 billion in early 2024.However, the paper argues that growing industry digitisation and the specific features of real-world trade finance assets, make it an ideal category to originate tokens.Currently, trade finance assets are underinvested due to lack of familiarity, pricing inconsistency and operational intensity.

Walgreens has shared a rather disturbing announcement, claiming that due to many of their US stores currently struggling, they have taken a call to close down some of them. According to ABC News, one out of four Walgreens stores in the US are underperforming amid stiff contest from competing retail chains like Target.

COVID-19 is still lingering around. There are new variants, new vaccines and a summer uptick in infections that has been reported across the US. The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has noted that cases are on the rise across 39 states. The good news is that the hospitalization rate due to the new variant is low. The US too is focusing on a treating particularly vulnerable groups rather than the entire population. It is important to remain vigilant and take basic precautions. Here are all the details of this emerging threat.

Dexter: Original Sin, Sarah Michelle Gellar will play Dexter Morgan's new boss at the Miami Metro Police Department.

wax statue of Abraham Lincoln simply melted down due to this heat that somehow made Lincoln slump into his chair, pictures and video of which instantaneously started pouring in on social media, while netizens claiming that this was the perfect visual depiction of the heatwave rampaging across the country, says a USA Today report.

FBI is on the lookout for Ruja Ignatova who is popularly known as the cryptoqueen. She has been on the FBI’s most wanted list since 2022 for fraud and money laundering. Bulgaria has also announced its decision to prosecute her in absentia. Her whereabouts are not known. This appears to be a case out of a crime thriller. According to the investigation agencies, she is known to change her appearances and move about in various cities across the world. It has been reported that she disappeared in 2017.

premiere date for the fourth season of its espionage series 'Slow Horses.' The new season will debut on September 4 with a two-episode release.

Bitcoin mining has become as cost-intensive as ever since the halving, with the asset’s “hashprice” at its lowest levels ever over the past two months, according to Hashrate Index data.

The Sealana (SEAL) community is buzzing with excitement as the presale enters the final countdown before the highly anticipated airdrop.

Nate Silver has predicted that Donald Trump is easily winning the upcoming US presidential elections in November 2024. His predictions are different from the various national surveys which have predicted a close competition between the two candidates. He has predicted that Trump will win by a large margin in the electoral college votes. In the event that neither of the candidates are able to secure the bare minimum votes of the electoral college, Trump will have an upper hand in the US Congress which will then elect the new president. He made these comments writing on the Silver Bulletin which is his Substack account. He added that though he is a supporter of Biden, all data reveals that Trump is on his way back to the Whitehouse.

The Chosen" Season 4 were met with unexpected news during the livestream of episode 7 on YouTube last Sunday. Series creator Dallas Jenkins announced a delay in the release date for the highly anticipated finale episode, shifting its premiere to accommodate scheduling conflicts.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, a box office success, will be available on Max starting July 4. The film continues the Monsterverse saga with Godzilla and Kong teaming up against a new threat.

Over the past decade, ETFs have seen a level of growth virtually unmatched by all other typical investment vehicles within the US, including mutual funds – and that’s been largely due to adoption among financial advisors and end-investors in the retail sector, according to a new report by Cerulli.

What would be the nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas has won approval from a federal commission

nuclear arsenal has emerged as a concern for many stakeholders and has threatened global peace. There is also an increasing cost associated with building, maintaining and expanding this weaponry. A report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAR) noted that countries spent £72.2 billion on their nuclear arsenal in 2023. This indicated a rise in spending to the tune of £18.1 billion or an increase of 34% as compared to 2022. This amount indicates that around £ 198 million was spent every day, £ 8.2 million a hour, £137,000 a minute and £2288 a second.

The US Supreme Court curbed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to press complaints before in-house judges, saying defendants have a constitutional right to make their case to a federal jury when the agency is seeking financial penalties.

The S&P 500 is up over 15 percent so far in 2024 after last year’s 24.5 percent return. The VIX, aka the ‘fear index,’ is bumping along at record lows. And even the gold bugs are feeling chipper with the yellow metal up over 12 precent year-to-date.  

situation on Boeing's Starliner brings back the memory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) “successful failure" mission that stunned everyone 54 years ago.Marred by an explosion on a spacecraft, three astronauts were left "swinging around the moon", over 2,05,000 miles away from Earth. The year was 1970, the mission was Apollo 13 and the US' third attempt to land on the Moon, near the crater Fra Mauro, had turned into a survival challenge for the crew.‘Houston, We’ve Had a Problem’ – the phrase that has now become famous was radioed from Apollo 13 to Mission Control upon a catastrophic explosion that dramatically changed the mission.

The United States Supreme Court dealt the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a massive blow regarding securities law enforcement Thursday in a new ruling that sees the federal regulator stripped of its controversial appointment of in-house judges during fraud proceedings.

Laffer Tengler Investments CEO and CIO Nancy Tengler explains why she's recommending investing in equities over bonds for the long term.

Millions of American shoppers are contending with common drugstore items like toothpaste being locked behind Plexiglass these days