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The XRP price has dipped by 0.5% in the past 24 hours, as cryptocurrency and financial markets continue to be undermined by rising bond yields and wider economic instability.

archery on Friday when the Indian men's and women's teams surpassed expectations to clinch a silver and bronze respectively, their first medals since 2010, at the Asian Games here on Friday. Battling injuries, the recurve team of Ankita Bhakat, Simranjeet Kaur and Bhajan Kaur defied odds to clinch a bronze medal in the morning session. The fifth-seeded women's trio dropped just one set to down their Vietnamese rivals 6-2 (56-52, 55-56, 57-50, 51-48) and secure their first-ever Asian Games medal in the Olympic-discipline category since Guangzhou 2010.

Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger is laying off 12% of its workforce, reported Bloomberg on Thursday.

Before 2015, Alberta had, by far, the lowest federal-provincial combined top marginal tax rate in Canada at 39 per cent. This comparative advantage contributed greatly to large amounts of investment and people going into Alberta.

Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike controversy, head writers of 'The Drew Barrymore Show' have decided not to return. Chelsea White, Cristina Kinon, and Liz Koe, who have been with the show since its debut season in 2020, have rejected offers to work with Barrymore once again. The aftermath of the strike has led to interviews being conducted for new writers to join the show.

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Google has agreed to change its user data practices to end a German antitrust investigation aimed at curbing its data-driven market power, the German cartel office said on Thursday. The German antitrust watchdog in January issued a charge sheet known as a statement of objections to Google over its data processing terms, saying that users were not given sufficient choice as to whether and to what extent they agree to the far-reaching processing of their data across the company's services.

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.

During an October 2 hearing regarding the approval of its reorganization plan, the bankrupt crypto lender, Celsius Network, informed a judge of its intention to initiate repayments to its customers by the end of the year.

Embattled crypto lender Celsius Network has told a judge it plans to start paying back its customers by year’s end, amid an Oct. 2 hearing seeking approval for its reorganization plan.

Late-night talk shows are returning after a five-month absence brought on by the Hollywood writers strike

₹100 crore into the project. Portions of Akshay Kumar-starrer Ram Setu were shot on the premises of the facility, Tewary added.

As the final words are spoken by the 'chair' and the meeting 'adjourned', a collective sigh of relief reverberates through the room or video conferencing palace. It signals the end of an often time-consuming and sometimes meandering discourse. The pleasures of the end of meetings are manifold.

Mohali: The government will take a call by the year end on whether Mohali-based Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) will be developed further as a research and development facility or a commercial fab will be set up at the facility, according to a senior official. “The request for proposals for modernizing SCL has been issued only last week, but the government wants to move swiftly. Within a quarter, a call will be taken on which direction it will go, either R&D fab or a commercial fab," the official said, asking not to be named.

Europe ended a weeks-long work stoppage in Germany including a hunger strike after reaching a pay deal at the weekend, labour representatives said. Edwin Atema, head of the Road Transport Due Diligence Foundation, which monitors and addresses violations of work standards in Europe, said Saturday that the striking truckers had seen their demands met. «All claims and charges against the Graefenhausen drivers are withdrawn, money has been paid and the strike is over,» he said on X, formerly known as Twitter, referring to the location in western Germany where some 80 drivers had set up a protest encampment. Atema, who led the negotiations on the labour side, said the drivers had been previously «invisible» in European road transport supply chains but achieved «fundamental changes» with their industrial action. «Not invisible anymore, but invincible,» he said. The truckers — mostly from Uzbekistan and Georgia, with a handful also from Tajikistan, Ukraine and Turkey — work for several Polish trucking companies owned by the Mazur Group. They said they were not being regularly paid their salaries — at a daily rate of about 80 euros ($85) — and were charged hefty amounts to even take the jobs in the first place while having to work extremely long hours. Believing their Polish employers would not respond to their growing desperation amid the 10-week strike, some of the drivers stopped eating last month. They were demanding a total of 500,000 euros in what they said were unpaid wages.

continue as the chairman of Larsen & Toubro Employee Trust (LTET), the company's largest stakeholder. Naik had played a key role in the trust's formation in 2003, in what analysts describe as a bid to prevent the company's hostile takeover.

music with his solo debut ‘Seven’ and follow-up song ‘3D’. But the Golden Maknae is in no mood to sit back and rest on his laurels! In a recent interview, BTS’s Jungkook confirmed that he will be back… this time with a solo album before 2023 ends. In an interview with the digital radio platform Audacy, the ‘Seven’ hitmaker confirmed that a solo album is in the works. When asked what was next for him this year, he replied, “My solo album… My solo album is on its way.” However, this is far from the first time, the Golden Maknae has hinted at a solo album. Recently, while appearing on fellow BTS member Suga’s talk show ‘Suchwita’ the singer said he will come with a solo album on November 2023. As the news of his solo album broke out on X (formerly Twitter), several ARMYs went wild with joy. One ecstatic fan wrote, “Jungkook's cute lil excited dance after saying his solo album is on its way!” Another commented, “Can't wait bby, ik it'll be a masterpiece!” Another predicted that Jungkook’s solo album may get over one billion streams on first day! “Do y'all think Seven and 3D are gonna be added to Jungkook's solo album?? If so then if Jungkook releases his album after seven reaches 1B streams, then his album will have 1B streams in its first day literally,” reads the comment.

Sela Tunnel, which will enable «all-weather» connectivity to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, is complete and it is likely to be inaugurated by the year-end, BRO officials said on Saturday. Final touches are being provided to the tunnel, along with installation of safety measures inside it, they added. The Sela Tunnel has been excavated below the 4,200-metre (13,800 ft) Sela Pass, which is often closed due to snowfall and landslides.

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Peter Fitzgerald (pictured) has managed the Aviva Investors Multi-Strategy (AIMS) Target Return fund since its launch in 2014.

Investors were also watching developments in Washington to see whether U.S. lawmakers could avert a government shutdown. The recent move in Treasury yields to 16-year highs has loomed over the stock market, which has pulled back after the Federal Reserve last week signaled a hawkish long-term outlook for interest rates. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield pausing at around 4.6% was bringing «relief,» said Matt Stucky, senior portfolio manager at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. «Markets in general the last few days have been really, really choppy,» Stucky said. «A little bit of a counter trend rally is to be expected after three or four pretty sharply negative days.» The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 116.07 points, or 0.35%, to 33,666.34, the S&P 500 gained 25.19 points, or 0.59%, to 4,299.70 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 108.43 points, or 0.83%, to 13,201.28. Among S&P 500 sectors, the communication services group gained 1.2%, while materials rose 1%.