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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. has bought 1.2 million barrels of oil to help replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after selling the largest amount ever from the stockpile last year, the U.S. Energy Department said on Monday.

One of the most controversial numbers in financial planning, 4%, is back — but the “rule” that follows it less so.

JP Morgan strategists are telling clients to sell bonds and stocks and move into commodities, specifically oil.

Tokenized secure note issuer Ondo Finance and Web3 cross-chain platform Axelar came together Monday, November 13th to unveil Ondo Bridge, a cross-chain mechanism designed to facilitate easy transfers of Ondo tokens across blockchains.

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Crypto security analytics firm SlowMist has uncovered a new phishing scam in China that uses a fake Skype video app to target crypto users.

RBL Bank is gearing up to sell credit card loans exceeding ₹800 crore and an MSME loan portfolio of ₹300 crore, potentially marked as non-performing assets (NPAs) due to missed payments. While no formal bid document has been released, the bank is assessing investor interest in this retail credit card and small business loan portfolios. «Although the bank has not given out a formal bid document, it is testing waters and gauging investor interest in the portfolio of retail credit card loans,» said one source.

With health care costs skyrocketing over the past several years, it’s no surprise employers and employees are turning their attention to health savings accounts.

In a bid to circumvent traditional financial oversight, Hamas has increasingly turned to crypto for fund transfers, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.

NEW DELHI : India’s top banks are looking to hire aggressively from the batch of 2024 in engineering, business and graduate colleges to complement hiring from the market, augment digital initiatives and compensate for losses in front-line sales staff. According to bankers and executives at some of the large engineering and management colleges, compensation could range from ₹8 lakh to ₹40 lakh, depending on the roles on offer.

NEW DELHI : Finnish telecom gear manufacturer Nokia is expecting the next wave of 5G site deployment to stem from increasing broadband reach, fixed wireless access, as well as a surge in 5G smartphone use. This comes as telecom firms plan to cut capital expenditure on 5G sites for the short term, having successfully launched the fastest 5G network globally within a year, starting October 2022. “There will be some moderation in 5G rollout.

government plans to increase the procurement of millets threefold to 2 million tonnes in this financial year, from 0.73 in 2022-23, to replace some quantities of wheat and rice from the public distribution system (PDS), said a senior official. The purchase at the minimum support price will give a boost to the cultivation of coarse grains which are eco-friendly, climate resistant and powerhouse of nutrients, the official said, adding that the strategy will play a significant role in crop diversification and enhancing nutrition in dietary patterns. The government also plans to procure six minor millets, such as kodo, kudki and kangni, in several states at the minimum support price of another pricier millet, ragi, to encourage cultivation of the minor millets.

A mere 14% of American voters currently believe that their financial situation has improved since President Joe Biden took office, raising concerns about the potential repercussions for his re-election prospects. A recent poll reveals that approximately 70% of voters perceive the president’s economic policies as either detrimental to the U.S. economy or having no impact at all, with 33% expressing the view that these policies have “hurt the economy significantly.” In contrast, only 26% of respondents believe that Biden’s policies have been beneficial.

The Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday, November 15th, to discuss “illicit activity in digital assets,” including money laundering, terrorist financing, and the role of law enforcement in crypto crime.

PTI reported. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS-2023) bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 11, along with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS-2023) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA-2023) bills.

Muthoot Finance Ltd. But so far in this financial year, Muthoot has lost some of its spark with sequentially declining gold loan assets under management (AUM) growth and contracting net interest margin (NIM). The challenge for Muthoot is to maintain its loan growth and margin expansion simultaneously.

UBS’s issuance of $3.5 billion in Additional Tier 1 bonds last week attracted strong demand, providing support to a market which is still recovering from the effects of the complete write-down of Credit Suisse’s AT1 bonds in March, analysts said. “The AT1 bond market is recovering and credit spreads are almost at the same level they were before the Credit Suisse event," said ABN Amro analyst Marta Ferro Teixeira.

For those wondering if now is a good time to retire, here’s some encouraging news: The 4% rule is back. Thanks to higher interest rates and bond yields, it is likely safe for new retirees to spend 4% of their nest eggs in their first year of retirement and then to adjust that amount for inflation in subsequent years, according to a new analysis from Morningstar released Monday. Though 4% had long been the gospel of retirement math, retirees in recent years were warned that starting at that spending rate raised the risk of running out of money.

Royce Mendes, head of macro strategy at Desjardins Group, talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about why the U.S. economy is doing better than Canada‘s. He discusses the factors affecting both economies, why they’re performing differently and more.

Retirement is the pinnacle of most Canadians’ financial plans. But the financial industry’s emphasis on investing means there can be a tendency to overlook alternative strategies that can make retirees better off when they stop working. Here’s a look at some of them.

David Cameron's return to government, but his appointment is one that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes will signal to wavering supporters that the Conservatives are not lurching to the right to win an election expected next year. As well as firing his interior minister, Suella Braverman, after she published an unauthorised article criticising the police's handling of protests, Sunak has used a wider reshuffle to bring back the prime minister who campaigned to remain in the European Union in a referendum on membership he called in 2016. It's a risky strategy — while welcomed by centrist lawmakers, the party's right senses the end of their increased dominance, built during the wars over EU membership, with one fearing the appointment amounted to a "Brexit surrender". «He has appointed the man who led the 'remain' campaign and who has got huge problems over his association with Greensill,» said a Conservative lawmaker on the right of the party, referring to Cameron's lobbying work for a now-collapsed supply chain finance firm. «Is he spoiling for a fight with Conservatives?» The decision to fire Braverman removes from the cabinet one of the most prominent supporters of leaving the EU and means even more of Sunak's top ministers supported remaining in the bloc in 2016. Out of the 29 cabinet roles, at least 16 backed remaining in the EU, compared with 10 who supported leaving. Sunak backed Brexit.