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LNG) are expected to soften by the end of the decade as new supply comes online, the CEO of French energy firm TotalEnergies said in Qatar on Tuesday. LNG supplies are expected to increase by around 100 million tonnes per year, or around 20%, by 2030, particularly from new projects in Qatar and the United States, Patrick Pouyanne told reporters at a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of Qatar's giant North Field LNG facility. Global LNG prices surged to a record in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, as Europe sought to replace Russian pipeline gas supplies. «It is better for everyone to have more supply in the market to stabilise the price than having a tense market like today.

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Amidst a turbulent landscape for the world of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin price finds itself at the centre of various discussions. Trading at $27,593, it recorded a nearly 1.5% dip on Tuesday. As the month unfolds and the market leans into the positive momentum termed as "Uptober", challenges still loom on the horizon. 

The Heat Will Kill You First", a new book, America would have seen “the Hurricane Katrina of extreme heat". It is not just the United States, where 100m people are under heat-advisory notices, that is suffering. There is currently a spate of such heatwaves around the world.

Squadron Energy, the private renewable generation group controlled by the billionaire Forrest family, has recorded its first sales but slumped to a $220 million loss after the $4.2 billion purchase of CWP Renewables.

leasing across 9 cities increased by 33% Y-o-Y and touched 15.8 mn. sq.

Asian currencies. However, likely intervention by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) helped the local unit stay away from lifetime lows. The rupee was at 83.20 against the U.S.

Groww Nifty Total Market Index Fund is open for subscription and Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund and Baroda BNP Paribas Small Cap Fund will open for subscription later this week. Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund is an open-ended equity scheme that will invest across large cap, mid cap, small cap stocks. The new fund offer or NFO of the scheme will open for subscription on October 4 and it will close on October 18.

Computershare, the provider of share registry and employee share plan services, is selling its troublesome mortgage services business in the US to asset manager Rithm Capital for $US720 million ($1.13 billion).

electoral bond is a bearer banking instrument to be used for funding eligible political parties. An eligible political party is the one registered under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951) and secured not less than one per cent of the votes polled in the last General Election to the House of the People or the Legislative Assembly.

Also read: World Cup: Disney Star scores record sponsors, advertisers Notably, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had planned a grand opening ceremony at the Narendra Modi Stadium on 4 October, a day before the tournament's opening match at the same venue. (Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) The planned ceremony was supposed to feature renowned Bollywood stars such as Ranveer Singh, Arijit Singh, Tamannaah Bhatia, Shreyas Ghoshal, and Asha Bhosle.

rupee ended 15 paise higher at 83.04 a dollar. Indian financial markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday.

Bloomberg survey and 27.4% notched in August. It suggests that policymakers have a case to increase the benchmark policy rate at the next meeting due on October 30. Record interest rates cooled prices for three straight months from June and prompted the central bank to hold fire in the last meeting.

Also read: New Jersey's Akshardham Temple: Ten facts about world's largest Hindu temple beyond India's borders It will also help in establishing a connection between the members of the Indian diaspora, particularly the youth, to connect with and take pride in Maa Bharati, he said. “We were amazed and awed by the beauty of this temple and its universal message of peace, harmony, and becoming a better human being," the British prime minister said in his message ahead of the temple’s inauguration on October 8.

Donald Trump attacked New York's attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former president of generating more than $100 million by lying about his real estate empire. Attorney General Letitia James is seeking at least $250 million in fines, a permanent ban against Trump and his sons Donald Jr and Eric from running businesses in New York and a five-year commercial real estate ban against Trump and the Trump Organization. Testimony in the Manhattan courtroom began following opening statements, with Donald Bender, a partner at Mazars USA and longtime accountant for Trump's businesses, as the state's first witness. Trump told reporters before the trial began that the case was a «scam,» a «sham» and a political vendetta by James, and during a lunch break called the Democrat «a corrupt person, a terrible person. Driving people out of New York.» He was equally unsparing of the judge, Arthur Engoron, calling him a partisan Democrat who is using the case to interfere with the 2024 presidential election, where Trump holds a big lead for the Republican nomination. «This is a judge that should be disbarred,» Trump told reporters.

death toll from Bangladesh's worst dengue outbreak on record has topped 1,000 this year, official data showed, with hospitals struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely-populated country. At least 1,017 people have died so far in 2023 and nearly 209,000 infected, the data showed, making this the deadliest year since the first recorded epidemic in 2000. The current death toll is nearly four times more than the whole of last year, when Bangladesh recorded 281 dengue-related deaths. Hospitals are struggling to find space for the large number of patients suffering high fever, joint pain and vomiting while there is a shortage of intravenous fluids, health officials said. «I don't know how my son was infected… suddenly he became feverish.

corporate executives have triggered sharp sell-offs in shares of these companies. On Friday, Navin Fluorine, a chemical company plummeted by as much as 15%, marking its most significant single-day decline in eight years, following the sudden resignation of its CEO.

The cryptocurrency sector has increasingly become a prime target for hackers in recent years.

Ruturaj Gaikwad on Monday said he will lean on his own leadership style as he prepares to lead the Indian men's team in its maiden Asian Games cricket campaign. India will be favourites for another gold medal here after the women's team had clinched the ultimate prize a few days ago. Gaikwad and Co.

The federal government has joined 21 former rail workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used a vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train

cash consequently recedes from the public sphere. But triple-sponsored payment digitalisation is not always a silver bullet. So, despite UPI — which was nurtured by RBI, catalysed by demonetisation, and last-miled by global ecommerce platforms and Big Tech — advancing at a scorching pace to record 10.59 billion transactions, aggregating ₹15.7 trillion in August, cash-in-circulation (CIC) continues to grow.