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RBC chief executive Dave McKay made some of his most forceful comments yet on the importance of the federal government approving the bank’s $13.5-billion takeover of HSBC Canada as the deal attracts rising opposition.

Cathie Wood is about to notch her best month ever as her holdings of innovative technology stocks roared back from steep losses in the midst of declining Treasury yields in November.

Most online casinos require 24-48 hours to approve withdrawal requests. That said, there are also gambling sites that offer instant payouts, meaning you’ll receive your winnings in minutes, not days.

Meta Platforms' advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month, breaches EU consumer laws, Europe's largest consumer group said on Thursday as it took its grievance to consumer protection authorities. The joint complaint from the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and 18 of its members to the network of consumer protection authorities (CPC) came two days after advocacy group NOYB filed a complaint with the Austrian privacy watchdog, saying Meta's new service amounted to paying a fee to ensure privacy.

Binance, an official said Thursday, as part of a crackdown on online trading platforms operating in the country without licences. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that Binance was not registered in the Philippines and therefore not authorised to sell or offer securities in the country.

The Bitcoin network’s replace-by-fee (RBF) policy enables users to replace pending (unconfirmed) transactions with new ones with higher transaction costs. 

Popular cryptocurrency wallet Trust Wallet has alerted users about an ongoing issue with the Bitcoin (BTC) node that may result in transaction delays and missing transaction history. 

The incident occurred at Burhwal junction of Barabanki district in Uttar Pradesh on November 29, Times of India reported. Passengers had to face a lot of hassle as there was no water, food or power supply inside the train. They staged a protest, and came onto the rail track blocking the movement of an express train. It involved the Saharsa — New Delhi Special Fare Chhath Puja Special (04021) and the Barauni-Lucknow Junction Express (15203).

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cryptocurrency companies from the broader US economy if they fail to block and report illicit money flows, deputy treasury secretary Wally Adeyemo warned the industry on Wednesday. Speaking at an event hosted by the Blockchain Association, Adeyemo said that crypto companies need to do more to curtail the flow of illicit finance, and that the lack of action across the sector presents a risk to the US.

TikTok, Snap and Discord will testify on online child sexual exploitation at a January 31 US Senate hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Wednesday. Senator Dick Durbin, the panel's Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican Lindsey Graham said Discord and X had initially balked at participating and refused to accept a subpoena. «Now that all five companies are cooperating, we look forward to hearing from their CEOs,» they said in a statement.

Canada’s government says it has reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country’s news industry

Several stores where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 are suing the city for about $1.5 million

Cigna (NYSE:CI) and Humana (NYSE:HUM) are in talks to combine in a stock-and-cash deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday afternoon citing people familiar with the matter. A deal to merge could be finalized by the end of the year, it was added.

DOGE-1, a Dogecoin-funded SpaceX moon mission, has received a key regulatory approval from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Zomato is once again facing the ire of the netizens as on the student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi took to social to say how the online firm has gone back on its words regarding the placement. Hrithik Talwar, who is a research intern in IIT-Delhi wote on X(earlier Twitter) “Zomato came to the campus, offered 1.6 cr salary, got the hype, and left." He also shared a screenshot of the notification in which it was updated that the application withdrawal and urged all the applicants to withdraw their application as Zomato had withdrawan the offer stating the company's constraints.

Natural History Museum in London. The Bennu asteroid which is thought to be 4.6 billion years old, dates back to the dawn of the solar system. A sample of rock and dust retrieved from the asteroid Bennu contains water and carbon molecules, both building blocks for life as we know it, NASA chief Bill Nelson had said in October.

Charlie Munger may come across as a sidekick to the legendary Warren Buffett who built Berkshire Hathaway's enormous empire worth $785 billion simply by buying and holding stocks for the long term. But in reality, Munger was picked by the 'God of Stocks' as his second-in-command for being smarter and wiser than him. The 64-year-old partnership between the dynamic duo shows many unusual traits — the two titans never had an argument and would sometimes make decisions without consulting each other. The mutual trust and respect never faded between the 'Jai and Veeru' of Wall Street. While Munger, who passed away today at the age of 99, lived in Los Angeles, his best friend and partner-in-crime Buffett lived 1,600 miles away in Omaha. «The two men speak a few times every month on the phone, and they likely meet less than 3 to 4 times a year,» NRI investor Mohnish Pabrai wrote in his book 'The Dhandho Investor'.

Uttarakhand tunnel rescue mission came up for discussion during the meeting of the Union Cabinet on Tuesday night, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was «very emotional», Union minister Anurag Thakur said on Wednesday. Briefing reporters on the decisions taken by the Union Cabinet, Thakur said there was «whole of government» approach and every effort was made to save every life.

The collective sigh of relief that swept India was almost palpable as news broke of the rescue of 41 workers who got trapped in a tunnel blocked by a cave-in on 12 November while it was being bored. Swings of hope and despair ended in jubilation as the last obstacle was cleared and a horizontal passage finally opened to the chamber where they survived on piped supplies and a national pledge to extract them safely.