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Canadian regulators should rethink capital requirements imposed on the country’s largest financial institutions if banks in the United States and Europe are not forced to follow through with the strict final stages of the international risk management regime put in place following the 2008 financial crisis, the head of Canada’s largest bank says.

Hotel bookings are up across the nation for travel to the line of totality for the solar eclipse.

Bitcoin investors facing pronounced swings in Asia may be grappling with the fallout of automated trading protocols reacting to flows data for US exchange-traded funds holding the cryptocurrency. Daily figures on the level of demand for these spot-Bitcoin ETFs propagate across the crypto market in Asian hours following the close of US share trading. On Tuesday, the digital asset embarked on its worst drop in a month in the Asian morning as the flows numbers pointed to investors pulling money out.

Between December 2023 and March 2024, UK investors have added £6.6bn to North American equity funds, which is more than the combined £6.3bn invested since the data study began nine years ago. North American equity funds attracted £1.7bn of new capital in March, bringing the total for the first quarter of the year to a record £5.7bn, which is more than triple the previous best quarter (£1.7bn in Q4 2020). Edward Glyn, head of global markets at Calastone, said: «The US earnings recession is over. Profits are once again on the up and that seems to be the main catalyst driving fund inflow...

Gold set another record above $2,300 an ounce on the likelihood the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year and sustained demand from central banks.

Bitcoin ETF in his portfolio. As per the affidavit, the three-time member of parliament Shashi Tharoor holds a Bitcoin ETF worth Rs 5,11,314.

In a speech at Stanford University on Wednesday (3 April), Powell addressed the rise in consumer price inflation from 3.1% in January to 3.2% in February, saying it was too soon to tell whether the February figures were «more than just a bump». Fed officials 'highly attentive' to inflation despite recent progress He explained that February's data would not «materially change the overall picture», which he said is one of «solid growth, a strong but rebalancing labour market, and inflation moving down to 2% on a sometimes bumpy path». «We do not expect that it will be appropriate to ...

Bitcoin dropped the most in almost two weeks, weighed down by cooling demand for dedicated US exchange-traded funds and ebbing bets on looser Federal Reserve monetary policy. The digital asset fell as much as 7.4%, the biggest intraday decline since March 19, and traded around $65,400 at 10:09 am in New York. Tokens earlier favored by the meme crowd such as Pepe and dogwifhat also slumped, sending a gauge of smaller digital assets sharply lower. The crypto declines came as equities markets in Europe and the US also dropped.

United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond production, but they joined forces Wednesday to keep supporting the Kimberley Process, which aims to eliminate the trade in "blood diamonds" that helped fuel devastating conflicts in Africa. At a U.N. General Assembly meeting, its 193 member nations adopted a resolution by consensus recognizing that the Kimberley Process, which certifies rough diamond exports, «contributes to the prevention of conflicts fueled by diamonds» and helps the Security Council implement sanctions on the trade in conflict diamonds.

Chakri Lokapriya, Managing Partner, RSB LLP, says among T&D companies, Skipper is one of the largest companies globally and in India, they are present not just in manufacturing but also in EPC. The stock has valuations on its side. Demand has been weak for the last two years for well-known reasons. Now the cycle is picking up; Second is JTL Infra, again a bet on the manufacturing theme. They are doing capacity expansion to meet demand and valuations are on its side. These are the bets largely revolving around manufacturing and capex themes.” There are two moving parts, especially when it comes to the commodity construct. A) The rip-roaring ride that we are seeing in metals and B) the uptick in crude that the market is sort of ignoring. What do you make of the move in metals so far? Chakri Lokapriya: If you look at what is happening in metals both domestically and globally, the US data has come out stronger than expected.

SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said on Wednesday it will invest around $3.87 billion to build an advanced packaging plant and research and development facility for AI products in the U.S. state of Indiana. The new plant will include an advanced chip production line to mass-produce next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, currently used in graphic processing units that train artificial intelligence systems, the Nvidia supplier said in a statement.

BSE Midcap index also hit its fresh all-time high of 40,973.14, rising nearly 1 per cent. The Smallcap index also rose 1 per cent to hit its intraday high of 46,015.16. The all-time high of the BSE Smallcap index is 46821.39 which it hit on February 7 this year.

₹931.50. In the past 1 day, the Mentha oil rate on MCX has decline 0.18% from ₹938.00 to ₹931.50.Mentha oil is an essential oil obtained from a mint plant and India is one of the leading producers and exporters of mentha oil. Mentha oil is used in food, pharma, soaps, and other skincare/personal care products.

Stock market today: On account of weak global market sentiments ahead of the US Fed chairman Jerome Powell's speech on Wednesday, the Indian stock market remained range-bound throughout the Wednesday session. Out of three frontline indices, The Nifty 50 index and the BSE Sensex ended lower whereas the Bank Nifty ended in the green territory on the previous session. However, the broad market indices continued outperforming the key benchmark indices as the small-call and the mid-cap indices gained over 0.50 percent.

Lincoln Financial Group is beefing up its shelf of retirement plan offerings with two new solutions, one for businesses and the other for not-for-profit organizations.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun murder plot. “We have made clear to the Government of India that we want to see them conduct a full investigation, and we continue to look forward to the results of that investigation…," Miller said. The Biden administration earlier stated that the US is working with India to hold accountable those behind a plot to kill Pannun.

Donald Trump has had a recent conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to the New York Times, citing information from two individuals briefed on the matter. Reuters reported that the newspaper reported that it was unclear what Trump and the prince, known as MBS, discussed and whether this was their first conversation since Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021, left office.

Sensex fell 27.09 points, or 0.04%, to close at 73,876.82, while the Nifty 50 settled 18.65 points, or 0.08%, lower at 22,434.65. Also Read: Buy or sell: Vaishali Parekh recommends three stocks to buy today — April 4 “Markets are trading with caution ahead of the RBI policy meeting and key macro data to be released in the US and Europe. We expect the market to consolidate over the next few days until the events unfold," said Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.

Sensex fell 27.09 points to close at 73,876.82, while the Nifty 50 settled 18.65 points, or 0.08%, lower at 22,434.65. Nifty 50 formed a small positive candle on the daily chart with a gap-down opening and an upper shadow. “Technically this pattern indicates broader range movement in the market near all-time highs.

avian influenza. This announcement follows the recent revelation by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) of avian flu outbreaks in specific dairy cow herds in Texas just a week ago. Human cases of the H5N1 subtype avian influenza, commonly known as H5N1 bird flu, are rare, and the CDC noted that this is only the second reported case in the U.S.

Day trading stocks: Following weak global market cues on doubts over the US Fed rate cut, the Indian stock market remained choppy on the entire Wednesday session. The Nifty 50 index corrected 18 points and ended at the 22,434 level, the BSE Sensex lost 27 points and ended at the 73,876 mark whereas the Bank Nifty index added 78 points and closed at the 47,624 level. However, the broad market indices rose more than 0.5 percent even as the advance-decline ratio remained positive at 2.75:1.