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Comedian Bill Maher has issued a warning to Americans who admire Canada’s “woke” policies on immigration, unemployment and health care: Simply, don’t.

UnitedHealth Group trounced first-quarter expectations even as costs from a cyberattack to its Change Healthcare business ate into its performance

Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav on Tuesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will be defeated in the upcoming polls over its «failure in governance,» adding that it is unable to provide employment to the youth. Dimple Yadav, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the Mainpuri seat, filed her nomination papers today. «The people of the nation are ready to defeat the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections. Today, the nation is in debt of Rs. 1.5 lakh crores. The government does not have revenue. They are not able to provide employment to the youth. So there are a lot of issues this time,» Dimple Yadav told ANI.

The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, saying the world appears headed for a “soft landing” — reining in inflation without much economic pain and producing steady if modest growth

Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., says inflation has risen 19.4% since Joe Biden took office on 'Cavuto: Coast to Coast.'

Bitcoin Depot, the largest Bitcoin ATM operator in the United States, has reported robust revenues despite the highly volatile nature of cryptocurrency prices.

In this latest Bitcoin price prediction, the cryptocurrency is trading at $62,900, a slight decrease of around 0.65%. Recent developments, including the conditional approval of Bitcoin and Ether ETFs in Hong Kong and escalating Middle East tensions, influence market dynamics.

UN Security Council to make it legitimate, representative, responsive and effective is through the expansion of the its membership in both the permanent and non-permanent categories. India has been at the forefront, especially leading the Global South, demanding reforms in the United Nations and seeking a place as a permanent member of the 15-member UN Security Council. «India is in favour of the expansion of UN Security Council membership in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, as this is the only way to achieve genuine reform of the Security Council and make it legitimate, representative, responsive and effective,» Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, India's permanent representative at the UN, said in her remarks in the General Assembly at the sixth round of the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN) on Security Council reform late on Monday. «In a nutshell, we need a reformed Security Council that better reflects the geographical and developmental diversity of the United Nations today. A Security Council where voices of developing countries and unrepresented regions, including Africa, Latin America and the vast majority of Asia and Pacific, also find their due place at the horseshoe table,» she said.

The cost of betting on further dollar gains in the options market rose to the highest since November as the US economy’s resilience drives demand for the currency.

Any further weakness in the US stock market could be exacerbated as investors sell their large long futures position, according to Citigroup Inc. strategists.

Ibotta, the digital marketing company backed by Walmart, said on Tuesday it was looking to raise about $551 million in an upsized initial public offering in the United States. The company and some of its existing shareholders plan to sell a combined 6.56 million shares, nearly one million more than its previous offering after some selling investors decided to offer more stock.

The benchmark index for emerging-market equities erased its 2024 advance and the gauge for currencies posted a new low for the year amid signals that global monetary easing will be delayed and China’s economic recovery remains weak.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is deploying a massive government database—the Consolidated Audit Trail, or CAT—that monitors in real time the identity, transactions and investment portfolio of everyone who invests in the stock market. As SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce describes it, by allowing the commission to “watch investors’ every move in real time," CAT will make it easier to investigate insider trading or market manipulation. But as a lawsuit being filed Tuesday in Texas federal court makes clear, CAT crosses a constitutional red line.

Rahul Singh, CIO-Equities, Tata Mutual Fund, says: “So far, we are not seeing any green shoots of recovery in the FMCG space. My own sense is that if the urban economy continues to outpace rural economy, because there are a lot of interlinkages in the way the economies work, sooner or later the rural economy will recover but not necessarily due to agricultural income or monsoons, but purely because of the amount of capex and construction activity which we are undergoing and which is likely to continue post elections.” The main point which is in the mind of the market right now and that there will be either delayed cuts in the US or even Chetan Ahya of Morgan Stanley this morning has put out a note saying no rate cuts this year in India. So, the whole narrative around some rate cut in the second half of this year, seems to have been challenged and as a result, yields have rallied. What is your own hypothesis? Rahul Singh: There are two factors at work in the market. One obviously is the rate cut and whether that gets delayed and by how much and whether we have a rate cut this year or not – those discussions have started again and this is not the first time that there is a flip-flop in terms of the consensus view on the rate cuts, so I am not entirely surprised.

Shares have skidded in Europe and Asia following a slump on Wall Street after a report showed American shoppers spent more at retailers last month than expected

The pilots union at American Airlines says there's been a significant spike in safety and maintenance issues at the airline

Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it possible for artists to use them freely

President Joe Biden will begin three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his childhood hometown of Scranton

The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation’s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme Court

Asian shares have skidded following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the U.S. bond market cranked up pressure on stocks