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Investing.com — Oil prices rose slightly in Asian trade on Thursday as markets weighed signs of a bigger-than-expected draw in U.S. inventories and tighter supplies against fears of rising interest rates. 

Investing.com — Most Asian currencies fell on Thursday, while the dollar held recent gains as the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June meeting showed that policymakers supported more rate hikes this year.

The Brazilian Central Bank has uploaded a large collection of central bank digital currency (CBDC)-related documents to GitHub – as the nation edges closer to a digital real rollout.

Dust, the building block for many things in our universe – planets in particular, has puzzled astronomers for several decades. As dust from dying stars spreads through space, it carries essential elements to help give birth to the next generation of stars and their planets. But, where the dust comes from? A recent discovery by researchers has made major strides in confirming the source of dust in early galaxies.

Barbie," directed by Greta Gerwig. Vietnam recently announced its decision to bar the film's commercial release due to a disputed depiction of China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, known as the «nine-dash line.» The Philippines, along with Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia, has its own territorial claims in the South China Sea and strongly rejects China's assertion of sovereignty over the entire region. Senator Francis Tolentino, vice chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, stated that if the invalidated nine-dash line was indeed portrayed in the movie, it would denigrate Philippine sovereignty.

Meta's decision to block access to news content on their social platforms as part of a temporary test. Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government's decision at a news conference.

NEW DELHI : India has initiated talks with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to address concerns over the rules of origin and trade imbalance. The move is part of ongoing efforts to renegotiate the trade agreement following a significant increase in the trade deficit with the 10-member block. In FY23 alone, the trade gap ballooned by 70% to reach $43 billion, according to a government official familiar with the matter.

One of the last bastions of industry where carbon emissions go largely unregulated may be about to fall. Shipping—which consumes about 5% of the world’s oil and emits about 3% of its greenhouse gases—is edging toward a net-zero target. The International Maritime Organization, the United Nations body that oversees the industry, is meeting in London this week to strengthen measures to reduce its carbon footprint over the coming decades.

As the crypto market returns to form this year, so too has demand for liquid staking – especially in the Solana ecosystem. 

Nord Summer launch event today. At the eevnt, the company also launched two new phones - OnePlus Nord 3 and OnePlus Nord CE 3 5G. The all-new wireless earbuds are offered in two colour options - Deep Grey and Triple Blue.

PTI. The house was torched following the personnal foiled the attempts of rioters to loot firearms from the police armory., said officials. As per details, the incident took place at Samaram on Tuesday night after a 27-year-old man, identified as Ronaldo, was killed in a clash when a 700-800-strong mob tried to storm the camp of the 3rd IRB at Wangbal, 4 km away, to loot firearms from the police armory.

PKH Ventures IPO: Issue subscribed 65% on Day 3; check details The company announced in a statement to the stock exchanges that it had decided to cancel the IPO in accordance with a board resolution adopted on July 4 after consulting with IDBI Capital Markets and Securities Ltd due lack of subscription from QIB. As per the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP), the company's promoter, Pravin Kumar Agarwal, offered to sell up to 98,31,461 shares as part of the IPO, in addition to a fresh offering of up to o 1,82,58,427 shares. Currently, 63.69% of the company is owned by Pravin Kumar Agarwal.

Quebecor said on Wednesday it will pull its ads from Facebook and Instagram, following Meta Platforms' decision to stop access to news on both the social media platforms in Canada over a law requiring payments to local news publishers. The "Online News Act", or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April last year laid out rules to force companies such as Meta and Alphabet-owned Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content.

On Tuesday, Yogi Adityanath, chief minister, Uttar Pradesh, expressed that the state has witnessed significant progress in the field of basic education over the last six years. He highlighted the successful revival of numerous schools that were previously on the brink of closure. In a ceremony held at the Yogiraj Baba Gambhirnath Auditorium, he inaugurated the ‘Sampark Smartshala-Smart Block’ programme. The collaborative effort between the basic education department and the Sampark Foundation aims to enhance educational facilities, according to an official statement.

While Twitter is juggling its recently imposed restrictions, which are asserted to be temporary measures, users have already started scrambling the internet for alternatives as they face issues with the microblogging platform.

GST authorities have identified about 17,000 non-existent GSTINs and cancelled over 4,900 registrations in the ongoing pan-India drive against fake registration, a senior tax official said on Wednesday. Currently, there are 1.40 crore businesses registered under Goods and Services Tax, nearly double the number of businesses registered in indirect tax regime pre-GST rollout.Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) member Shashank Priya said in the drive against fake registration, till July 4, over 69,600 GST Identification Numbers (GSTINs) have been selected for physical verification by field tax officers.

«All these flows have really supported and whenever you have these strong flows, you also need some very strong supply of paper and the block deals from whether it is promoters or the private equity investors give you that window,» says V Jayasankar, Kotak Investment.First up, we have, of course, seen the June number for block deals being at the highest level over the last three to four years, the question is how long do you see this supply and these block deals really continuing in the market?I would say the block deals have been quite prevalent for the last 18 months, so even if you look at calendar 22, we had about $14 billion of blocks, so the last transactions that happened in the previous year where Max Healthcare sell down by KKR and CPPIB have been selling down in Kotak. We are involved in both of these transactions and the first one is about $1.5 billion in two tranches.

" I think it is less to do with the Chinese domestic economy. Eventually, I think that has to find its own path because we need to understand it has a base of 15 to 18 trillion, depends on what estimates you take," says Anurag Singh, Managing Partner, Ansid Capital.Do tell us, as far as Chinese curbs go on these metals, on gallium and germanium, it seems like a tit-for-tat move because it came close on the heels of America deciding that it is not going to pass on advanced technology to China as easily as it did in the past. Technology that would help develop artificial intelligence for one. But as far as Chinese curbs go on these two metals, how much could it actually hurt a Chinese economy that's struggling to find its feet after the pandemic? I think it is less to do with the Chinese domestic economy.

Victorian households and businesses would pay higher prices for electricity if Brookfield is allowed to take over Origin Energy because there would be less competition in supply, the competition watchdog has been told.

UBS’ New Zealand desk had nabbed the mandate to sell Auckland Council’s 7 per cent holding in Auckland International Airport, beating rival banks who have been positioning for the trade for several months.

Manipur's Thoubal district on Tuesday, leading to a clash with the security forces in which a 27-year-old man was killed and an Assam Riles jawan shot at, officials said. The mob tried to storm the camp of 3rd IRB batallion in the Khangabok area to loot arms and ammunition, they said. Soon, a clash with the forces broke out.