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(Reuters) — UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) said the electronic prescribing for its pharmacy services is now fully functional, with claims submission and payment transmission also available after cyber attack on its tech unit Change Healthcare (NASDAQ:CHNG) impacted services.

TORONTO — As the federal government pushes to reduce bank fees, a report from consultancy North Economics figures Canadians are overpaying by billions of dollars a year.

Authorities say the crew of what is considered the world’s largest cruise ship rescued 14 people clinging to a small boat adrift on the ocean

Fort McKay First Nation and Suncor Energy announced Thursday they’re partnering on a prospective oilsands lease development on the northeast corner of reserve lands.

Equitable Advisors, a national wealth management business that includes thousands of financial professionals, is welcoming a California-based advisor back into its platform. The firm announced that Michael Shieh, who most recently managed $181 million in client assets at Cetera Investment Advisors, is returning to its network.

In your profession, RIA custodians remain an invaluable partner. They assume the massive responsibility of maintaining the assets and holdings of your RIA firm. They can be federal or state-chartered banks, trust companies, broker-dealers, etc. But regardless of what type of entity they are, RIA custodians must be independent, and prevent RIAs from abusing or misusing client funds. 

By Max A. Cherney and Arsheeya Bajwa

reports claimed. These include all 3,691 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)-protected ticketed monuments/museums including Taj Mahal in Agra, Red Fort and Qutab Minar in Delhi, Sun Temple in Konark, Ellora caves and Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh. Check list here Free entry to these monuments will be provided to all women visitors from India and across the world.

By Sinead Cruise and Yadarisa Shabong

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday indicated that interest rate cuts may not be too far off if inflation signals cooperate.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged lower for the first time in five weeks, a welcome shift for home shoppers this spring homebuying season

A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts

Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday asserted that everything is going well between the Mahayuti Alliance in the state and discussion is still underway on two or three seats that will be resolved soon. Addressing a press conference here today, Fadnavis said whenever it comes to ticket distribution for the Lok Sabha, it is based on the ground reality only. «Everything is going well between the three parties of our alliance. Discussion is still going on two or three seats on which there was a deadlock but that too will be resolved soon. There is no dispute of any kind between us. There should not be any speculation about the seats before the announcement because it seems incorrect. Whatever decision will be taken will come before you in a day or two,» he said.

Like kids waiting for Santa Claus, floating-rate mortgagors have waited months for the Bank of Canada to deliver savings. Instead, the central bank delivered another lump of coal March 6 — no interest rate cut and little hope of cuts for months.

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Cairo on Thursday, but will continue with Gaza ceasefire talks until an agreement is reached with Israel, the Palestinian group said in a statement, with a Hamas official blaming Israel for the lack of progress. «Hamas's delegation left Cairo this morning for consultation with the leadership of the movement, with negotiations and efforts continuing to stop the aggression, return the displaced and bring in relief aid to our people,» the Hamas statement said.

gender traps? By earmarking March 8 as day to celebrate women and being woman, could we — women included — be entrenching biases so ingrained in our patriocratic societies that we fail to see how, say, in marriages, men bragging about their wives being the ones ‘solely to be credited’ for their beautiful homes is a backhanded compliment that’s a mere room away from the grating adage of the woman’s place being in the kitchen? Ascribing the married woman as the lord and master (sic) of the household is proscribing her role, whether in business, ownership of wealth, decision-making, interests…. Most (arranged) marriages come retrofitted with a ‘Napoleon strategy’, referring to a short man seeking out shorter men to appear relatively tall. In the case of choosing a son’s wife, a careful selection is made from the ‘bridal catalogue’ in which the woman is less qualified, comes from a less wealthy household (the ‘ghar jamai’ holding a special fear in the patriocratic universe), is less voluble, is less tall….

By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi

Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address Thursday for the U.S. military to help establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast, increasing the flow of humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory during the Israel-Hamas war, according to administration officials. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the announcement, said the operation will not require that American troops be on the ground to build the pier that is intended to allow more shipments of food, medicine and other essential items.

Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, who was released from the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday after his acquittal in an alleged Maoist links case, said it's a «wonder that he could come out alive» despite suffering the «brutal» jail life. Saibaba (54) said he was targeted for working for the rights of tribals in central and eastern parts of the country and called his arrest an «afterthought». The Bombay High Court on Tuesday set aside the life sentence of Saibaba, noting that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. «There was every chance that I would not have come out alive,» Saibaba told media persons. He had earlier refused to talk to the press saying, «My health is very bad. I can't talk. I will have to first take medical treatment, and then only I will be able to speak.»