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Manulife Investment Management is buying most of billionaire Michael Hintze’s CQS in a bid to expand the Canadian investment firm’s specialized fixed-income investment strategies.

The buy-everything wave that just swept across global markets has bypassed Bitcoin, which is down about 3% since a soft US inflation print rolled across trading screens and stirred a bout of wider risk taking.

Toyota Motor is taking America’s bestselling sedan and making it exclusively a hybrid. When the next-generation Camry hits dealership lots in the spring, the popular midsize-car model will only be available with this technology, marking a major shift by Toyota in moving beyond the traditional gas-engine vehicle. Toyota, which unveiled the new, redesigned Camry on Tuesday night in Malibu, Calif., said the hybrid-only model is part of a broader strategy to give buyers more choices in green vehicles.

Canada’s central bank will have to cut interest rates faster and further than markets expect to get ahead of a wave of mortgage maturities that threaten a fifth of the country’s discretionary income, according to economist David Rosenberg.

China is in the midst of a breakneck expansion of its copper industry that’s reshaping global flows of the essential metal for the world’s energy transition. The smelter build-up will be a key talking point for hundreds of copper-industry executives descending this week on China’s commodity hub of Shanghai for Asia Copper Week. Miners and smelters will negotiate key annual ore-supply contracts, and attendees will take the latest temperature of Chinese demand. Despite the financial toll of the pandemic and China’s property crisis, the nation’s metals consumption has been relatively strong in 2023.

European Union reached a deal early Wednesday on a law to place methane emissions limits on Europe's oil and gas imports from 2030, pressuring international suppliers to clamp down on leaks of the potent greenhouse gas. After all-night talks, negotiators from EU member states and the European Parliament agreed to a law which from 2030 will require importers of crude oil, gas and coal into Europe to prove those fuels meet a methane intensity limit. The law will now be put to the European Parliament and EU countries for final approval.

mitigation target are projected to be only 2% below those levels, shows a new UN synthesis report on countries' collective climate actions released on Tuesday. It highlights that peaking of global emissions will, however, occur within this decade. The synthesis report, released ahead of the upcoming UN climate conference (CO) in Dubai, also shows that while emissions will not increase after 2030, compared to 2019 levels, they are still «not demonstrating rapid downward trend» — a necessity of this decade to limit warming below the 'danger' level. Limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century is considered safe to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, including more frequent and severe droughts, heat waves and rainfall. The rise in earth's global average surface temperature, however, has already reached around 1.1 degrees C, higher than the pre-industrial average (1850-1900), and 2023 is already on track to be the warmest year on record.

MUMBAI : Early-stage investors are increasingly backing CXOs who left established startups to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, relying on their wealth of experience to steer business in challenging times. On Monday, Farid Ahsan, the co-founder of Sharechat who quit six months ago, said he has launched General Autonomy, a startup to help automate factories.

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A massive leak of documents has exposed how accounting giant PwC’s Cyprus arm scrambled to help Russian oligarchs facing the threat of sanctions in March last year, moving assets out of their names in the first days of the Ukraine invasion.

Stocks are leaping after a report on U.S. inflation sent waves of relief through Wall Street

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Security firm SlowMist has issued a warning about a wave of crypto thefts orchestrated by fake journalists. 

Humane has unveiled its much-anticipated artificial intelligence-based gadget - Ai Pin. Humane is a San Francisco-based startup founded by former Apple executives Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. Chaudhri was part of Apple for nearly 20 years and led the design of the iPhone's home screen, while Bongiorno was a software development lead for several of the company's products, including iPhone, iPad and Mac, Bloomberg reported.

That’s because the container shipping industry, cast as the Grinch that spoiled Christmas over the past two years with record-high freight rates and slow deliveries, is returning to its pre-pandemic place in the corporate world: perennial underachiever Charlie Brown. The biggest carriers posted net income totaling $364 billion in 2021 and 2022, according to figures compiled by industry veteran John McCown, after a decade of scant profits. They’ll likely drift back into the red this quarter as the rates they charge fall below costs and look to stay there for the foreseeable future. Booms-turned-busts have been more abrupt and sensational, but rarely has an established industry so tied to the global economy lurched from historic profits to below break-even levels more directly than the shipping lines that move 80% of the world’s merchandise trade have this year.

A small group of startups have embarked on this quest, pursuing their own variations on this theme — different lasers, different techniques to set off the fusion reactions, different elements to fuse together. «There has been rapid growth,» said Andrew Holland, CEO of the Fusion Industry Association, a trade group lobbying for policies to speed the development of fusion. Private enterprise promises quick innovation, but it was a breakthrough achieved by a big, costly and ponderous government-run project that spurred this wave of attention to laser fusion. Last December, after years of trying, the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported that it had finally lived up to its middle name: ignition. For the first time anywhere, a laser-induced burst of fusion produced more energy than that supplied by the incoming lasers. «We're really excited by the NIF results,» said Kramer Akli, who manages the internal fusion energy sciences program at the U.S.

Amazon Games, in the Nov. 13 email. The company began informing employees Monday morning that their roles had been eliminated, in the second cut to the division this year.

Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana have welcomed their sixth child to the “Ramsay brigade.”The 57-year-old TV star announced the birth of his son, Jesse James Ramsay, on Saturday. Ramsay shared three photos to Instagram featuring Tana, 49, in a hospital bed as she holds their couple’s newest baby.“What an amazing birthday present please welcome Jesse James Ramsay, 7lbs 10oz whopper!!” Ramsay wrote.

Already in early August, see here, we warned that per the Elliott Wave Principle (EWP) a major top could be forming for the S&P 500. We followed up on our forecast regularly, with the market throwing the obligatory and occasional curve ball. But by the end of October, the index had lost 11%. Three weeks ago, see here, we found a reversal was likely and:

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.

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