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Investing.com-- The dollar hit a six-month high against a basket of currencies on Thursday, while U.S. Treasury yields hit multi-year peaks after the Federal Reserve warned that U.S. interest rates will remain higher for longer.

Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Thursday after falling by the most in a month in the previous session on U.S. interest rate hike expectations, and ahead of a steer from other central banks on their rate outlooks. Brent futures for November delivery fell 44 cents, or 0.5%, to $89.18 a barrel by 0010 GMT.

US Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept the benchmark interest rates unchanged, in line with the street estimates. The Fed Chair Jerome Powell-led Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously voted to leave the Fed funds rate at a 22-year high of 5.25% to 5.5% after the two-day meeting held on September 19 and 20.

UN Security Council meeting on Moscow's invasion of his country when Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia objected to him taking the floor at the start of the meeting, according to Reuters reports. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama responded with a gibe at Moscow, which has long said the invasion does not amount to war but was a mere "special military operation". "I want to assure our Russian colleagues and everyone here that this is not a special operation by the Albanian presidency," Rama, known for a piercing sense of humor, said to muted laughter across the room, Reuters reported.

Investing.com-- Oil prices fell in Asian trade on Thursday as the Federal Reserve’s warning on higher U.S. interest rates saw investors lock-in more recent profits, although expectations of tight supply still presented a positive outlook for crude. 

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk

A new entrant to the world of 401(k) lawsuits is trying what appears to be a novel tactic: Contacting plan sponsors out of the blue and implying that they should settle.

debt by India Inc hit a record high in the last financial year as a recovery in economic growth and surging interest rates abroad prompted companies to flock to the local market to raise capital. Resource mobilisation in the private placement market was at ₹8.83 lakh crore in FY23, the highest on record, provisional data in the Reserve Bank of India's latest Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy showed. In 2021-22, funds raised through private placement were at ₹6.32 lakh crore, the data showed.

By Lucy Craymer

Amazon has unveiled a slew of gadgets and an update to its popular voice assistant Alexa, infusing it with more generative AI features amid the heated AI race among tech companies

Gambling regulators have fined the online sports betting company PointsBet $25,000, citing violations of New Jersey sports betting laws

A new exhibition is opening in London to chart for the first time the contributions Black British culture made to U.K. fashion and design history and to celebrate Black designers who haven't received public recognition

Negotiations between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios resume Wednesday, the latest attempt to bring an end to pickets that have brought film and television productions to a halt

Canadians are expected to pass on as much as $1 trillion in inheritances over the next decade, though you may have a better chance of being on the receiving end depending on which province you live in, new research suggests.

The prime minister and his cabinet have joined a production line of academic theorists about the nature of corporate competition in the grocery business. They want tougher competition legislation to give more powers to Ottawa’s competition enforcers to tackle and even break up the supermarket chains.

Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner recently grabbed headlines as they enjoyed a night out in New York City at Via Carota. This outing occurred shortly after news emerged of Sophie Turner's separation from her husband, Joe Jonas. On September 5, Joe Jonas, one of the Jonas Brothers singers, filed for divorce, citing an irretrievable breakdown in their marriage. He mentioned that their two children have been residing with him in various U.S. locations, emphasizing the importance of shared parental responsibility. It was also revealed that there was some form of prenuptial agreement between the couple. It's worth noting that Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas had a brief romance that lasted from July to October 2008, ending with a rather abrupt phone call breakup. Swift made a public reference to this breakup on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2008. Several songs on her album «Fearless,» such as «Forever & Always,» are believed to be about her relationship with Jonas. She recently released a Taylor's Version of the vault track «Mr. Perfectly Fine,» which also sparked interest. When these two former flames, Sophie Turner and Taylor Swift, were seen together on September 19, social media lit up with reactions. Numerous references were made to «Mr. Perfectly Fine.» Fans also couldn't help but share thoughts on this development.

Lena Headey's series, 'Beacon 23,' will air on MGM+ in November. It was initially set to air on Spectrum and later on AMC.

Kane Brown is coming up with ‘In The Air Tour’ and has unveiled 29 tour dates for 2024. The tour kicks off on March 28 at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia, and ends on September 14 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, with five stadium shows, including a return to Fenway Park in Boston. Notably, Brown previously made history at Fenway Park as the first Black artist to sell out a headlining show there.Brown's In The Air Tour features openers like Tyler Hubbard, Jon Pardi, Chris Young, Bailey Zimmerman, Cole Swindell, Parmalee, LOCASH, and RaeLynn on different dates. Earlier this year, Brown completed the international leg of his Drunk or Dreaming Tour, covering cities like Sydney, London, Amsterdam and Berlin. He also received the international award at the ACM Honors celebration in Nashville. Having recently achieved his 10th Country Airplay No. 1 hit with «Bury Me in Georgia,» Brown is set to release his new single, «I Can Feel It,» on September 21. The song samples Phil Collins' drum solo from his 1981 Billboard Hot 100 hit «In The Air Tonight.» Collaborating with Brown on the songwriting are Phil Collins, Gabe Foust, and Jaxson Free.

ChatGPT can now generate images — and they are shockingly detailed. On Wednesday, OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and folded the technology into ChatGPT, its popular online chatbot.

animated comedy called Krapopolis. Created by Dan Harmon, known for Rick & Morty and Community, the show was originally planned to premiere last year but faced delays. Despite the setbacks, Fox has greenlit two more seasons, indicating their confidence in its potential as a new animated comedy hit.

global manufacturing over the past five years, with its exports to the US surging by $23 billion, a 44% increase from 2018 to 2022, while China experienced a 10% decline in exports to the US during this period, according to a BCG study on global manufacturing shifts. The study, titled 'Harnessing the Tectonic Shifts in Global Manufacturing', said the shifts in manufacturing and sourcing occurred in a range of industries as global companies have had to rethink their manufacturing and sourcing strategies due to trade wars, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions and supply bottlenecks. And as companies reconfigured strategies, India became one of the preferred manufacturing spots. Semiconductor and material shipments from India to the US surged by 143% over the past five years, albeit from a modest starting point, while China saw a 29% decrease in these exports.