Software Financial News

The UN trade and development agency UNCTAD said global exchanges of goods and services are expected to reach a record level of nearly $33 trillion in 2024. «This $1 trillion increase, reflecting 3.3 percent annual growth, highlights resilience in global trade despite persistent challenges,» the UN agency said in a statement.

Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit and Chitrakoot districts early Friday, police said. In Pilibhit, a car with 11 people crashed into a tree in an area under the Neoria Police Station, resulting in the death of five passengers, a senior police officer said. «Some people from Khatima in Uttarakhand had come here to attend a wedding. They were on their way back in a Maruti Ertiga car with 11 people onboard. The car apparently lost control and crashed into a tree along the road,» Superintendent of Police (Pilibhit) Avinash Kumar Pandey told PTI Videos. «Doctors have informed us that three people were brought dead to the hospital while two succumbed during treatment — a total of five casualties,» he said.

BJP MLA Kalidas Kolambkar will take oath as the pro-tem Speaker of the Maharashtra legislative assembly on Friday, a day before the special three-day session of the Lower House of the state legislature begins. Talking to PTI this morning, Kolambkar, a nine-time MLA, confirmed that he will take oath as the pro-tem speaker at 1 pm at the Raj Bhavan. Governor C P Radhakrishnan will administer the oath to him, he said. Kolambkar currently represents the Wadala assembly constituency in Mumbai.

Mitchell Starc dismissed India opening batsman Yashaswi Jaiswal fell for a golden duck on the very first ball of the second test between India and Australia in Adelaide Oval. Jaiswal missed the flick on the first ball and was caught LBW in front of stumps. This comes after the last match exchange of words between the two. In the first test match in Perth Jaiswal had sledged Starc saying that «You're bowling too slow.». India secured a commanding victory in the first Test against Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth, defeating the hosts by a record 295 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal's stellar 161 in the second innings, the highest score by an Indian opener on Australian soil, was a key highlight. However, an unusual exchange between Jaiswal and Mitchell Starc on Day 2 also caught attention.

The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded in Delhi was 183, categorised as 'moderate' as of 7 am on Friday, according to the data of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). As per data of the CPCB, the AQI at ChandChowk stands at 183 as of 7 am, 183 at ITO, 168 at Okhla Phase 2, 159 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, 195 at Patparganj, 115 at Aya Nagar, 124 at Lodhi Road, 137 at IGI Airport (T3) and 212 at Punjabi Bagh.

Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will announce its bi-monthly policy decisions on Friday at 10:00 am, after a three-day meeting that began on December 4. For the first time in over 30 months, the MPC is expected to focus more on slowing economic growth. The RBI has kept its policy rate at 6.5% for the last ten meetings, maintaining a cautious stance on inflation, especially due to persistent high food prices, while remaining optimistic about growth prospects, thanks to favourable monsoons and hopes of a revival in capital expenditure.However, it shifted its stance from withdrawal of accommodation to neutral in the last meeting.

Shantanu Naidu, widely known as Ratan Tata’s trusted associate, has introduced Jaipur to his silent reading initiative, «Bookies.» The community, designed for individuals to gather at public locations and read in silence, launched in Jaipur with an event planned for Sunday, December 8.

The Australian transaction reports and analysis centre (AUSTRAC) said its findings showed cryptocurrency was increasingly being exploited for money laundering, scams and money mule activities. AUSTRAC's taskforce will ensure digital currency exchanges that provide crypto ATM services have robust practices in place to minimise the risk of their machines being used to move money associated with scams or fraud, the government agency said.

Jensen Huang, chairman and CEO of the Silicon Valley chip titan, met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during a visit to Hanoi, where the two agreed to open an artificial intelligence research and development centre. «The data of Vietnam is a national and its natural resource. The AI of Vietnam should be processed here, built here, operated here, for the people and industry of Vietnam,» Huang said.

CTO Werner Vogels. According to him, in an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements, harnessing 'technology for good' has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavour. «From clean energy innovations unlocking new avenues for sustainable development to AI-powered tools tipping the scales in the fight against disinformation, we are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways,» he said.

Trump has named two entrepreneurs to a task force that aims for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. government, which spent $6.8 trillion in the most recent fiscal year. Musk has set a target of $2 trillion in savings, though he has not said whether that would come in a single year or over a longer period. The two chairs of the Department of Government Efficiency have called for firing thousands of federal workers, slashing regulations and eliminating programs whose authorization has expired, such as veterans' healthcare.

Mahaparinirvan Divas. The schools and banks in India's richest state will remain inoperable today i.e. Friday (December 6). But what is Mahaparinirvan Divas? Here's all you need to know about it:

Macron also emphasised his responsibility to ensure the continuity of the state, the proper functioning of institutions, and the protection of the French people. The remarks by the French President came while he addressed the nation on Thursday from the Elysee Palace.

As the public holidays are announced by the two state governments, will you be able to visit your local bank branch to do any banking transactions today.

«The march has entered its 297th day and the indefinite hunger strike at the Khanauri border has entered its 11th day. At 1 pm, a 'jatha' of 101 farmers will move towards Delhi from the Shambhu Border...» Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher told ANI. As many as 34 farmers were detained who were going from zero point to Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida, to hold a protest without taking permission, police officials said on Thursday.

Authorities said they were surveying for signs of damage. The closest city to the epicenter, Ferndale, has a population of about 1,300 people; the quake was also felt more than 200 miles to the south in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Sacramento Valley to the east. The National Weather Service briefly issued a tsunami warning in coastal counties in Northern California and southern Oregon, telling residents to head inland or for high ground, but it canceled the alert about an hour after the quake occurred.

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, is the 10th-richest person in the United States, worth $127 billion. In theory, when he dies, his estate should pay 40% of his net worth to the government in taxes. But Huang, 61, is not only an engineering genius and Silicon Valley icon whose company, the world's second-most valuable, makes the chips that power much artificial intelligence. He is also the beneficiary of a series of tax dodges that will enable him to pass on much of his fortune tax free, according to securities and tax filings reviewed by The New York Times. The savings for his family are on a pace to be roughly $8 billion. It likely ranks among the largest tax dodges in the United States.

Los Angeles Times owner has revealed that the newspaper will have «bias meter» attached with articles on website from next year, as per a report. The «bias meter» will include comments and multiple viewpoints, The Hollywood Reporter reported. Meanwhile, AI search startup Perplexity said on Thursday it was adding more than a dozen new media partners, including the Los Angeles Times and The Independent, to its program where it shares a portion of ad revenue with the publishers, Reuters reported. In its first set of partners from regions including Japan, Spain and Latin America, Perplexity said companies such as Prisa Media and Newspicks will now be part of the publishers' program, joining existing partners like TIME, Der Spiegel and Fortune.

The 7.0-magnitude quake was recorded at a depth of just 10 kilometers (six miles), almost 100 kilometers west-southwest of Ferndale, according to the United States Geological Survey. At least 5.3 million people in California were under a tsunami warning after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a yellow alert, which predicts localized but minimal damage. More than 1.3 million people lived close enough to the quake that they could have felt it, the USGS estimated. «Based on preliminary earthquake parameters… hazardous tsunami are possible for coasts located within 300 KM of the earthquake epicenter,» said a warning issued by the National Weather Service's Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.

babies dog names; according to a name consultant, this is a compliment. Baby name consultant Colleen Slagen claims that a growing trend in baby naming is the use of dog names as human baby names, as quoted in a report by The NY Post. In a TikTok video, Slagen revealed that one of the most frequent insults she encounters in direct messages or comments is that a name is a dog's name, not a human one. She mentioned that certain trends spring to mind when she considers dog names. The first is cutesy nickname names, which are also very popular with infants at the moment. Charlie, Daisy, Sophie, Ruby, Sadie, and Archie, for instance. Leo, Max, Chloe, and Luna are examples of short and sweet names.

«We write on behalf of Mr. Combs to request that the Court direct the MDC to provide Mr. Combs with the laptop prepared for him by the government, and allow him to use that laptop on his unit, consistent with the way other inmates on his unit are permitted to use their laptops,» Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer wrote the letter to the US District Judge. Combs' lawyer said that his client needs the laptop to access the documents. The lawyer also claimed that the government allowed a laptop for the accused rapper but MDC authority is yet to provide the device to the musician.