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Speaking during an interview on Orbis' UK retail leadership transition, recently appointed Orbis head of UK retail investments Matthew Spencer outlined that the business will look to build on its regional success with IFAs by growing its wholesale proposition. «What we are currently thinking is that we resonated with the IFAs, but how do we have the same sort of traction in the more wholesale space?» Spencer said. Orbis Investments' focus is set to ramp up on the discretionary fund management (DFM) and managed portfolio service (MPS) space. Orbis Investments names head of UK retail...

Speaking during an interview on Orbis' UK retail leadership transition, recently appointed Orbis head of UK retail investments Matthew Spencer outlined that the business will look to build on its regional success with IFAs by growing its wholesale proposition. «What we are currently thinking is that we resonated with the IFAs, but how do we have the same sort of traction in the more wholesale space?» Spencer said. Orbis Investments' focus is set to ramp up on the discretionary fund management (DFM) and managed portfolio service (MPS) space. Orbis Investments names head of UK retail...

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BEIJING — China's latest export controls has rattled insiders of the critical minerals industry, and some are concerned that Beijing will leverage its global supply chain dominance in unprecedented ways.

The actor, in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, offered a glimpse into what fans can expect from these new installments, highlighting the connection between the prequel and the forthcoming sequel. Hall expressed his enthusiasm about the new scripts, stating, «The scripts they've executed are fantastic. I can't wait, like as a fan, to watch it, and as an actor, to spend time seeing real footage of things that I've sort of tried to imagine for myself when I imagine what Dexter's early days [were like], now I'm going to have this technicolor version of his memories to refer to. And I think it will help inform my experience of whatever comes next in the other series”, as quoted in a report by Movieweb.

Kenya’s new finance minister says some of the proposed taxes that led to weeks of deadly protests earlier this year will be reintroduced through a tax amendment bill as the country struggles to find revenue to pay off debts

Ipca Laboratories is gearing up to make a strong return to the US generics business, with regulatory issues over its manufacturing facilities now behind, and integration of Unichem. The Mumbai-based drug maker is aiming for consolidated US revenue of $200 million (₹1,675 crore) in the next 12-18 months, managing director Ajit Kumar Jain told ET in an interview. The US business of Unichem clocked around $120 million revenue in FY24. While Ipca doesn't give a separate break up of its US revenue, it is quite small. «The US...we were there, but because of regulatory issues it took us some time to get those (regulatory) clearances; now all our plants have cleared,» Jain said.

Lily Collins, star of the hit Netflix series Emily in Paris, has recently cast doubt on the potential for a fifth season of the popular romantic comedy. During an interview on Vanity Fair’s Still Watching podcast, Collins, who plays the lead role of Emily Cooper, expressed uncertainty about the future of the series created by Darren Star. Her comments have left fans questioning the prospects for the show’s continuation. Collins remarked, “We don’t even know what the endgame is when we start a season, because we don’t know where the season’s going to finish”, as per a report by Coming Soon. This uncertainty reveals the challenges in predicting the show’s trajectory, with decisions about future seasons still up in the air.

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LONDON — British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch was acquitted of fraud charges in June in a landmark trial over allegations made by Hewlett Packard that he had artificially inflated the value of his company when he sold it to the U.S. enterprise tech giant for $11.7 billion in 2011.

Coca-Cola has been a mainstay of many rituals for many years, particularly in indigenous communities. As the world's most devoted soft drink consumers, people in Mexico think the beverage uplifts people's spirits and aids in healing. Some people even think it can help resolve domestic strife. Doctors have warned of a catastrophic health crisis facing a state in Mexico that consumes more coke than any other place in the world. In Chiapas, finding a bottle of Coke is considerably simpler than finding a bottle of water, and the price is the same. The town's population is gradually dying from Coca-Cola addiction. The main town of Chiapas, San Cristobal de las Casas, has a high prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, six-month-old babies drink coke instead of milk, and some residents offer prayers to empty bottles on shrines. Also Read: Did Taylor Swift endorse Donald Trump? Is it AI-generated?

Jayme, who first developed a fear of water at the age of five, began discussing his experiences aboard the RMS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 following an iceberg collision. According to the teenager, he has finally made peace with his Titanic death. He became fixated on the ship that hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 when he was just five years old. His mother claims he was terrified of deep water since he was a small child and that he was able to remember her childhood bike while watching her from a window in heaven. A few years later, he cried out that he was going down during a terrifying death dream. Jamey's mother said that he was always very happy and joyful; he enjoyed everything that he did and had a great attention span for learning things; he was an easy kid, in an interview with LMN for the show The Ghost Inside My Child. Also Read :You can watch free TV on Google TV Freeplay; here's how you can do it

JD Vance made a controversial comparison between Kamala Harris and Jeffrey Epstein, in a recent Fox News Sunday interview. Vance criticized Harris' campaign and suggested that internal polling from the Donald Trump campaign indicated Harris was not making significant progress with voters. He argued that voters did not believe Harris could effectively address inflation issues in the U.S. This led him to make a provocative statement: he compared the idea of giving Harris control over inflation policy to giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy. Vance claimed that the American people were too smart to support Harris as a fresh start, as per the reports of Yahoo news. During the interview with Shannon Bream, who maintained a neutral demeanor, Vance also expressed skepticism about the impact of recent polling data. He seemed particularly frustrated by a new ABC/Washington Post/Ipsos poll, which showed Harris leading Trump both nationally and in key swing states. According to the poll, Harris was ahead of Trump by 4 points nationally and by 6 points among likely voters. This was the first poll in this election cycle indicating Harris' lead over Trump beyond the margin of error. Also Read: Where is Melania Trump? She is absent from the 2024 campaign; here's what she is doing

Deposit growth is the Indian banking sector’s biggest challenge as customers choose from an increasingly diverse range of investment alternatives, according to Shalini Warrier, retail business head at Federal Bank Ltd. “There is no silver bullet for this,” Warrier said on Bloomberg TV Monday. When “fixed deposit rates don’t go up as much as customers would like them, they look for alternates.” Deposit growth has lagged strong demand for credit in India for several quarters now, prompting top officials to weigh in. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Shaktikanta Das, governor at the Reserve Bank of India, has urged banks to innovate in order to increase their deposits as household savings shift to investment products.

Elon Musk could help. Beauchamp, an 82-year-old retiree, saw a video late last year of Musk endorsing a radical investment opportunity that promised rapid returns. He contacted the company behind the pitch and opened an account for $248. Through a series of transactions over several weeks, Beauchamp drained his retirement account, ultimately investing more than $690,000. Then the money vanished — lost to digital scammers on the forefront of a new criminal enterprise powered by artificial intelligence.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which account for roughly a third of all US container imports, had their third-strongest month ever in July, just shy of an all-time high reached in May 2021. Back then, a wave of inbound consumer goods caused supply bottlenecks on land and a queue of cargo ships waiting for a berth offshore was getting longer by the day. Demand now is driven by retailers and other importers that are stocking up ahead of US tariffs on Chinese goods and a possible strike by a large group of American dockworkers — adding to the usual frenzy of pre-holiday ordering that occurs this time of year.

H100 graphic processing units (GPUs) procured by Hiranandani Group’s Mumbai-headquartered Yotta Data Services from American chip maker Nvidia are used by companies abroad and only the rest are used by Indian companies, said Yotta Data Services chief executive Sunil Gupta. He told ET that this was because of a more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem in the West that leads to heightened demand for GPUs. By November the company plans to deploy an additional 8,000 GPUs, he said. “Last November we placed an order for 16,384 H100 GPUs. From a medium to long-term scale, 16,384 may not be enough for India. We deployed the first phase of 4,096 chips. By March-April, we had got all the chips. Around seven to eight weeks back, we commissioned all of them,” Gupta told ET in an interview on August 13.

Solomon Baek in the critically acclaimed series, takes a moment to reflect on his connection with his character. Based on Min Jin Lee's novel, Pachinko is a multigenerational saga that spans over six decades, chronicling the lives of the Baek family from their emigration from Korea to Japan in the 1930s to the family's struggles and triumphs in the 1980s. As Solomon embarks on a new chapter in his life, Jin Ha revisits his earlier thoughts on how deeply intertwined his own experiences are with those of his character, as per a report by Movieweb.

Inox Wind reported a profit in the April-June period, the first quarter it has done so since the three months to December 2018. «We are just at the cusp of a massive breakout,» Devansh Jain, executive director, InoxGFL Group, said in an interview. The company, a fully integrated wind energy player, has a record 2.9GW order book. The stock market has lapped up the turnaround story. The Noida-based company has seen its stock surge over 11 times from the low of ₹19 in December 2018 to ₹212 on August 16, 2024. In the past year, it has jumped 331% while the Sensex is up 22%, lifting its market capitalisation to nearly ₹28,000 crore.

Manu Bhaker, who made history as the first Indian to win two medals at a single Olympic Games since independence, also carries a tattoo that reads "Still I Rise." Interestingly, she discovered this phrase on Pinterest following her disappointing pistol malfunction at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. In an interview with the Times of India, Manu revealed, «I don't know whose words these are, but now they are mine.» This phrase is inspired by Maya Angelou’s iconic poem, «Still I Rise,». The lines, «You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may tread me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise,» have been a beacon of hope and strength for countless individuals worldwide. After Tokyo, where Manu faced harsh criticism and even lost her spot in the national squad for the 10m air pistol event, Manu felt the need for a constant reminder to stay resilient. In January 2022, she decided to get the words «Still I Rise» inked on the back of her neck—a place where the tattoo would be symbolic.