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Gold and silver prices Today on 26-03-2024: Check latest rates in your city The attention of the market is currently centered on the upcoming release of the U.S. Core Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index data [PCE], scheduled for Friday. Market response to this data might be delayed until next week due to the Good Friday holiday.

Arvind Kejriwal shared his second order from jail. Part of the Francis Scott Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after being hit by a cargo ship — sending cars and people plummeting into the river. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed six people in Pakistan after ramming his explosive-laden car into a vehicle.

Baltimore has been suspended until further notice and we'll need to clear that channel before the ship traffic can resume," he told reporters at White House. "It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge...The people of Baltimore can count on us." The US President also said that the federal agencies are assisting with search and rescue efforts around the Francis Scott Key Bridge. "Officials at the scene estimate eight people were unaccounted for.

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Canada will tighten its scrutiny of foreign investments in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and space technology as the government expands its power to stall and block deals for national security reasons.

BlackRock Inc. chief executive Larry Fink warned of a looming “retirement crisis” and called on baby boomers to help younger generations save enough for their own futures.

Canada must tackle weak productivity to inoculate the economy against factors that will drive future inflation, such as the pullback from globalization, said Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada.

UNSC resolution on Monday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, made possible by US abstention, sends out a clear message: Israel is overdoing retribution. Escalation of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza will not lead to peace or security in the region. Through the resolution and its framing process, the world sent out a clear message that violence does not lead to peace and security, but to endless cycles of violence and humanitarian disaster.

Mumbai has displaced Beijing as Asia's city with the largest number of billionaires, according to Hurun Global Rich List 2024. This ticker-tape news comes as Indian stock markets powered ahead on a robust post-Covid recovery, while China is struggling to raise economic growth. The reordering is unlikely to be permanent, because India's market capitalisation-to-GDP ratio is in overvalued territory, while it is undervalued in China.

Federal prosecutors have charged KuCoin and founders Chnu Gan and Ke Tang with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiring to violate the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to maintain an adequate AML programme.Founded in 2017, KuCoin is one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges, with more than 30 million customers and daily trading volumes in the billions of dollars.Despite soliciting business from US customers and being aware of their AML obligations in the country, Gan, Tang and KuCoin "willfully chose to flout" its requirements, says a newly unsealed indictment.The company did not require customers to provide any identifying information until July 2023 when it finally rolled out a KYC programme after being told about a federal criminal investigation into its activities, say authorities. Even then, the KYC programme only applied to new customers.KuCoin also never filed any required suspicious activity reports, never registered with the CFTC as a futures commission merchant, and, through at least the end of 2023, never registered with FinCEN as a money transmitting business.In fact, says the indictment, Gan, Tang and KuCoin "affirmatively attempted to conceal the existence of KuCoin’s US customers" in order to make it appear as if the exchange was exempt from US AML and KYC requirements.

The Bank of Canada is warning that waning productivity growth in the country is an “emergency” that can force higher interest rates and limit rising wages for Canadians.

Bitcoin enthusiasts appear to be shrugging off last week's outflows from US exchange-traded funds, with the largest cryptocurrency briefly climbing back above $70,000 again. Most digital assets were higher Monday, with Bitcoin gaining as much as 5.8% to $70,014. That's the first time the token has been above $70,000 in more than a week. Ether was up around 5%, while Solana and Dogecoin were both more than 4% higher.

American Civil War, 'The Dead Don't Hurt' narrates the story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. It revolves around Vivienne Le Coudy (Krieps), who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen. After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she travels with him to his home near Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outbreak of the Civil War separates them and Olsen decides to fight for the Union.

In Fink's 2024 annual letter to investors, he noted that Blackrock's private markets strategies garnered $14bn of net inflows for the firm in 2023, which were driven partly by infrastructure.  Infrastructure was described as the «fastest-growing» segment of private markets due to high debt burdens for global governments and the heightened demand brought about by the energy transition. The CEO said funding for infrastructure projects cannot come from the government alone, given the high debt levels across the world. The US government has issued $11.1trn of new debt since the star...

Elon Musk's Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company to test its device in humans. Reuters reported last month that FDA inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Neuralink last June, less than a month after the startup said it was cleared to test its brain implants in humans.

At 1:27 am (ET), a container ship named the Dali was sailing down the Patapsco River when it struck a pylon of the bridge, crumpling almost the entire structure into the water. There was no indication of terrorism, police said, as per a Reuters report.

The Nifty 50 index lost 0.42% to 22,004 but ended above 22,000 for the fourteenth session out of 17 this month. The BSE Sensex shed 0.50% to close at 72,470.

Former President Donald Trump is urging Republican leaders in Michigan to target Black voters in the swing state

U.S. stocks drifted lower at the start of what will be a shortened trading week

Egg prices are at near-historic highs in many parts of the world as Easter and Passover approach

Visa and MasterCard announced a settlement with U.S. merchants related to swipe fees, a development that could potentially save consumers tens of billions of dollars