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A Liberal plan to crackdown on predatory lending could instead lead to a rise in crime and put vulnerable Canadians further at risk, a new warning from police and lenders argues.

More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care

The Bank of Canada is expecting the housing market will “rebound” this year amid expectations for interest rate cuts sometime in 2024.

A 2022 Citi report predicted that the Metaverse economy could be worth up to $13 trillion by 2030. While the buzz has since subsided, the BIS says that if the metaverse does succeed there will be important implications for the digital economy that will see new demands on payment services, "for instance that they be fast, programmable and cross-border". Metaverse promotors such as Meta have talked up the role of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. However, the BIS paper argues for the importance of competition, interoperability, consumer protection and data privacy. With this in mind, CBDCs and interlinked domestic fast payment systems could prove better options.

CoinDesk’s CEO Kevin Worth has stepped down as part of a major restructuring effort led by the crypto exchange Bullish, which recently acquired the media outlet.

A significantly large part of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim budget speech last week was devoted to outlining the performance of the incumbent government. With general elections only months away, this was expected. And like a political speech, her delivery on 1 February highlighted an increase in the per capita income of Indians by more than 50% over the last decade, along with the government’s claim of about 250 million Indians having moved out of multidimensional poverty during the same period.

Bob Iger has plenty to worry about these days. Nelson Peltz should no longer be one of them. Disney’s fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday afternoon were notable for two reasons that have nothing to do with the actual numbers.

For several months, I have pushed back against the market expectation that the US Federal Reserve’s cycle of interest-rate cuts would start as early as March. Last fortnight, I said that June was much more probable.

In recent times, shoppers have been displaying new behaviours. A phenomenon called ‘bracketing’ is on the rise. This term describes a tendency of a consumer to buy multiple versions of a product, such as different sizes of a shirt, with the intent of sending back the ones they don’t want to keep.

Ontario Provincial Police have upgraded the charges against a 25-year-old man to first degree murder after his friend was reported missing and later found dead earlier last month.On Jan., 21, Gabriel Dicecco, from the Township of Adjala-Tosorontio, was arrested and charged under the Criminal Code for obstructing a peace officer and indignity to a dead body.On Thursday, police added a new charge of first degree murder.The charges are in connection to the death of William Schernhammer, 24, from Alliston, Ont.Police say Schernhammer’s body was found in the area west of Barrie off the 25th Sideroad on Jan. 21., just west of Barrie, Ont.Schernhammer was reported missing to OPP officers in Nottawasaga after he did not return home on Jan 12.He was last seen alive on Jan.

Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the toxic towers of fire that forced them from their homes last February when officials decided to blow open five tank cars filled with vinyl chloride they worried might...

Ambitious online news site The Messenger has abruptly shut down after only eight months in operation

Morgan Stanley analysts are turning bullish on major US banks on expectations that pending regulatory changes for higher capital levels will be less onerous than the current proposal, opening the door for an increase in buybacks.

The S&P 500 (SPX) added 1.1% last week as bulls continue to close in on the new big target – 5000. The old record high of 4818 is now acting as support with the index in a bull mode as long as it keeps closing above this level on a daily basis.

₹1.10 trillion, was now controlled by the state. How are these two events connected? Finance Commissions and their work might seem remote from the concerns of most citizens, but in fact they are highly contentious. Most of the controversy centres around how taxes are shared with states, and how certain types of taxes, such as surcharges and cesses, are kept out of the shareable tax pool.

₹6.25 per ordinary share of ₹1, each for FY 23-24. The FMCG giant has fixed February 8 as the record date for the purpose of determining eligible shareholders for the dividend. The announced dividend will be paid to the eligible shareholders between February 26 and February 28.

BENGALURU : Byju’s, Dunzo and a bunch of other startups are in a standoff with some vendors, mostly over charges of delayed payments likely arising from mounting financial constraints within the ecosystem. These companies on their part deny the charges, in several instances accusing the vendors of straying from the terms of their contracts, or citing contractual disagreements for non-payments. Vendors, lawyers and industry observers pointed to an increase in cases of defaults or delayed payments last year as several startups struggled to raise capital.

₹5,335 crore for the quarter ending in December, beating market estimates. This marks a notable rise from the ₹5,006 crore reported in the corresponding period of the previous year. Sequentially, net profit grew 13 percent from ₹4,927 crore in the September quarter.

₹6,985.9 crore from ₹7,990 crore posted during the year-ago period. The average revenue per user (ARPU) of the company rose 7.4% year-on-year to ₹145 during the period under review from ₹135 in Q3FY23. The company said that this is the 10th successive quarter of 4G subscriber additions and ARPU improvement.

Airtel added the maximum number of 4G/5G subscribers in November with 3.98 million users joining its network, followed by Reliance Jio with 3.45 million. Beleaguered Vodafone Idea added 0.96 million 4G subscribers, even as it continued to lose overall wireless subscribers, data shared by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said Monday. At the end of November 30, Reliance Jio commanded the leadership position in wireless broadband space with 455.82 million subscribers followed by Bharti Airtel with 255.07 million and Vodafone Idea at 126.63 million.

Investing.com — U.S. futures traded largely unchanged Monday at the start of a busy week that includes a Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting, the widely-watched monthly payrolls report, as well as earnings from a number of mega-cap tech stocks.