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Investing.com-- Japan consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose as expected in February, rising well above the Bank of Japan’s annual target rate and giving more credence to the central bank’s recent policy shift. 

Golden Visa program, aimed at addressing the pressure on the country's property market. Investors seeking residency rights will now need to invest a minimum of €800,000 ($873,280) in popular areas like Athens, Thessaloniki, Mykonos, Santorini, and other islands with a population exceeding 3,100 inhabitants, according to a statement from the Finance Ministry. This adjustment follows a previous doubling of the required investment amount in popular areas, raising it to €500,000 in August. Additionally, in other parts of the country, the minimum investment threshold will rise to €400,000 from €250,000. Investors are limited to purchasing a single property with a minimum surface area of 120 square meters (1291.7 square feet), which cannot be utilized for short-term rental purposes. Effective from March 31, the revised investment thresholds aim to bolster the supply of long-term rental housing and mitigate the impact of the Golden Visa program on housing costs, as per the ministry's statement.

CAIRO (Reuters) — Egypt raised prices on a wide range of fuel products on Friday, the official gazette said, pressing ahead with a promise it made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) more than a year ago as part of a $3 billion financial support agreement.

Mint in the week gone by. The Election Commission of India has released a new set of data based on political declarations on electoral bonds. Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy has gifted his four-month-old grandson Ekagrah Rohan Murthy shares of the company worth ₹240 crore.

As the Dogecoin price consolidates near $0.15, not far below the recent multi-year highs it hit earlier this month, members of the Dogecoin community are targeting a new ICO called Sponge (SPONGE) in search of 1000% gains.

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If a company pays its employees more money, will that improve its stock price performance? Investing minds want to know!

LPL has expanded its ranks yet again as it drafts another advisor from Osaic. LPL Financial announced the addition of Nolan Venable, an experienced financial advisor and enrolled agent, to its network.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's arrest poses leadership question before the Aam Aadmi Party. Even as senior minister Atishi maintained that Kejriwal will continue to be the CM, unease within the party was evident. Pointing out that Kejriwal has not been convicted, Atishi said the fight will go on.

Sharon Stone shared harrowing experience of hosting the Saturday Night Live program for the first time, where she had to face death threats and that people were getting beaten up and handcuffed during the event, according to her statements at the Fly On The Wall podcast hosted by Dana Carvey and David Spade, as per a report in Fox News. During the podcast, the renowned actress talked about the experience around hosting the show for the first time in 1992 and expressed her gratitude towards executive producer Lorne Michaels who practically 'saved' her life during the Saturday Night Live event which was stormed by protestors.

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Investing.com — Nike reported Thursday better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results as improved margins and strength in its North America segment boosted performance.    

Investing.com-- The S&P 500 closed at record highs Thursday, as rally in stocks continued, a day after the Federal Reserve continued to signal three rate cuts for this year.  

won a restraining order from a state judge in June 2020. Enbridge moved the case into federal court in December 2021, a year and a half later. Nessel asked U.S.

Signs of progress in the Bank of Canada’s inflation fight are “very encouraging” to monetary policymakers, a deputy governor at the central bank says, but that’s not the only thing officials are looking at when gauging their interest rate path.

The Bank of Canada’s governing council seems to be growing in confidence that the central bank will be able to lower its benchmark interest rate sometime this year, but newly released documents show there’s concern among monetary policymakers about risks to their outlook.

Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that they still expect to cut their key interest rate three times in 2024, fueling a rally on Wall Street, despite signs that inflation remained elevated at the start of the year.

Reddit soared in its Wall Street debut as investors pushed the valued of the company close to US$9 billion seconds after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

It’s almost impossible for an artificial intelligence (AI) startup to build anything as good as ChatGPT, but a company called Inflection was getting there. Last year the Palo Alto, California-based firm raised $1.3 billion in a single fund-raising round to turn its chatbot Pi into a personal assistant for everything. It built up a phenomenal cache of computing power, gaining access to thousands of coveted graphics-processing unit chips from Nvidia and was on track to surpass OpenAI’s free version of ChatGPT with a model it had built, remarkably, from scratch.