k Dam blast in eastern Ukraine leaves 10 soldiers dead By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:35:43 GMT At least 10 Ukrainian soldiers died in the Donetsk region after the Kurakhovo Reservoir dam was blown up, TASS reported, citing Russian security forces. The blast flooded nearby areas, trapping soldi... Full Article
k Contract That Made India Top Options Market Has Last Trading Day By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:46:15 GMT Full Article
k Vietnam weighs new tech law that risks irking U.S. under Trump By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:35:48 GMT HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam is mulling data consent and foreign transfer rules for the technology sector that critics say threaten to stifle innovation and widen the trade imbalance with America, at a time when the incoming U.S. president is expected to strike out at trade rivals. Vietnam, which… Full Article
k Trump says he will nominate anti-‘woke’ showman for defense secretary By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:46:19 GMT Pete Hegseth, a 44-year old NATO-skeptic, is perhaps Trump's most surprising pick as he fills out his cabinet ahead of the 20 January inauguration Full Article
k Thailand Eyes Congestion Fee to Cut Bangkok Pollution, Traffic By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:57:15 GMT Full Article
k Re-Appearing Dark Fleet Vessel Underlines Zombie Ship Challenge By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:57:21 GMT Full Article
k EV maker VinFast gets $3.5bn from parent and founder to break even in 2026 By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:46:12 GMT HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam's Vingroup has said it is willing to sell off assets to fund VinFast, its electric vehicle arm, as a backstop to ensure the Nasdaq-listed startup breaks even by 2026. The country's biggest conglomerate said it would lend up to $1.4 billion to VinFast and that founder… Full Article
k South Korean Stocks Set for One-Year Low on Trump Policy Concern By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:07:43 GMT Full Article
k Kadokawa warned over unfair payment practices By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:57:02 GMT In a joint statement issued Tuesday, Kadokawa and its subsidiary pledged to pay the outstanding amounts once calculations are complete. Full Article
k Rakuten Sells Mizuho 15% of Credit Card Arm for Over $1 Billion By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:08:04 GMT Full Article
k Bitcoin price today: down to $87k as Trump rally cools, Doge falls from 3-yr high By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:52:46 GMT Investing.com-- Bitcoin fell from record highs on Wednesday, retreating as optimism over a Donald Trump presidency now appeared to be cooling, with focus turning to upcoming U.S. inflation data for more cues. Major meme token Dogecoin also retreated on Wednesday after a stellar run-up to… Full Article
k Korea Zinc pulls $1.8 bln share sale, turns sights to board fight By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:56:57 GMT Korea Zinc said on Wednesday it has decided to withdraw its plan to issue new shares worth $1.8 billion after the proposal sparked an investigation by the financial watchdog and a sell-off in the company's stock. Full Article
k Should You Buy This Millionaire-Maker Stock Instead of Palantir Technologies? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:57:09 GMT There may not be a hotter stock on Wall Street right now than Palantir Technologies. The company's artificial intelligence (AI) software is revving its growth engine, and there is a wide-open market opportunity in both government and the private sector. The stock is up approximately 800% since the… Full Article
k EPP will ‘need some time’ before making Séjourné decision By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:07:40 GMT Donec et orci aliquet nisl suscipit molestie sed sit amet tortor. Duis vel urna ac mi sollicitudin lacinia mollis sit amet lorem. Sed finibus erat nec libero scelerisque fringilla. Morbi at orci sed urna vulputate vulputate. Nulla facilisi. Donec et orci aliquet nisl suscipit molestie sed sit amet… Full Article
k Turkish VC That Earned 20-Fold Return Raises $250 Million Fund As Bek Ventures By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:45 GMT Full Article
k The Trump Administration Will Shake Up Options Markets. How to Profit By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:07:46 GMT Full Article
k Big business is better than you think (rooftops) By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:35 GMT We characterize optimal product market policy in an unequal economy in which firm ownership is concentrated and markups increase with firm market shares. We study the problem of a utilitarian regulator who designs revenue-neutral interventions in the product market. We show that optimal policy… Full Article
k Countrywide air raid alert issued in Ukraine By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:08:08 GMT Ukrainian authorities activated air raid alerts throughout the entirety of the country on Wednesday, with the president's chief of staff warning of a missile attack on the capital city, AFP report... Full Article
k Wall Street expected to rake in end-of-year bonuses By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:07:49 GMT The $20 Secret Santa limit applies to everyone except your friends who work in finance. Wall Street bankers are about to cash substantially bigger bonus checks at the end of this year, according to a report released yesterday by Johnson Associates. Coming after two consecutive years of lower… Full Article
k Likely future German coalition divided on energy, climate By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:08:24 GMT Germany's conservative CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, is expected to win the snap election on 23 February according to the latest polls but remains at odds on energy and climate policy with its most likely coalition partner: Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD). Merz's Union is currently leading… Full Article
k RWE Plans €1.5 Billion Buyback as US Politics Cloud Investments By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:03:27 GMT Full Article
k Swedish Fintech Klarna Files for Widely Anticipated IPO in US By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:19:01 GMT Full Article
k US seeks to recover crypto linked to Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged China bribe By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:32 GMT This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the… Full Article
k Here are the best Black Friday deals you can already get By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:07:49 GMT Can’t wait until Black Friday to start your holiday shop or score a killer deal on a gadget you’ve been eyeing? You may not have to. Although Black Friday isn’t until November 29th, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target have begun rolling out their holiday discounts, many of which are available elsewhere.… Full Article
k Sweden’s social services likely to soon have more powers to tackle gang recruitment By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:39 GMT The Swedish government has proposed to give social services a greater role in preventing young people from joining criminal gangs by changing the confidentiality rules between public services. Before the summer, the Swedish government presented a new Social Services Act, which, among other things,… Full Article
k Polish parliament debates making Christmas Eve a public holiday By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:43 GMT Chances of the bill being passed this year are not high. Full Article
k China vows to tackle 'risks at source' after devastating Zhuhai attack By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:37 GMT HONG KONG/WASHINGTON -- China has vowed to strengthen security after a hit-and-run attack in the southern city of Zhuhai killed 35 people, shocking the nation and highlighting what some experts see as an alarming pattern. On Tuesday evening, authorities revealed the scope of the devastation left… Full Article
k Early Black Friday apparel sales are live — shop the 15 best sales from Patagonia, Carhartt, Ugg and more By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:45 GMT Shopping for clothing is one of my favorite past times — and with all the early Black Friday apparel sales happening now, it's starting to feel like Christmas morning! Apparel and shoes are seeing some of the biggest markdowns with popular brands like Lululemon, Nike, Adidas, Patagonia and more… Full Article
k Just Eat Takeaway sells US unit Grubhub for $650 mln By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:18 GMT Europe's biggest meal delivery firm Just Eat Takeaway said on Wednesday it struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million. Full Article
k Bulgarian president supports net zero carbon target in Baku By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:49 GMT Bulgarian President Rumen Radev spoke about the threat of climate change at the COP29 climate summit in Baku on Tuesday, where he backed a net zero target, admitting that just 10 years ago, he would have thought the goal was incompatible with competitiveness. The UN summit in Baku runs from 11 to… Full Article
k Romanian election candidates use fake accounts to smear opponents By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:54 GMT Fake social media accounts are being used in Romania's ongoing presidential and parliamentary election campaigns to artificially boost the popularity of certain candidates and promote content targeting their opponents, according to an analysis by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI). The SRI… Full Article
k Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Trims Nintendo Stake Again By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:33 GMT Full Article
k Grubhub reportedly in talks to be acquired by Marc Lore’s Wonder startup By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:16 GMT The European company had acquired Grubhub in 2020 in an all-stock deal for $7.8 billion, creating the world’s largest food delivery company outside China at the time. A deal for Grubhub could be finalized imminently, assuming the talks do not fall apart, the report said, adding that Grubhub is… Full Article
k Asia-Pacific markets fall after Wall Street postelection rally fizzles By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:30 GMT Asia-Pacific stock markets were trading mostly lower Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as the U.S. post election rally stalled overnight. Asian traders assessed corporate goods data out of Japan, which showed year-on-year producer price growth, or wholesale inflation, in October reached… Full Article
k Just Eat Takeaway sells US unit Grubhub for $650 million By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:42 GMT In This Article: (Reuters) - Europe's biggest meal delivery firm Just Eat Takeaway said on Wednesday it struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million. (Reporting by Michal Aleksandrowicz; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman) Full Article
k Why investors should stick with stocks despite warnings of a ‘lost decade’ ahead By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:55 GMT Full Article
k Interval Funds Are Hot. Do Investors Understand the Risks? By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:07 GMT Full Article
k Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:13 GMT Humphreys's product dramatically reduces the price and increases the portability of the life-affirming treatment. Read more: Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards Full Article
k Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 bln By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:28 GMT Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. Full Article
k Musk, Ramaswamy Picked for US Government Efficiency Effort By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:11 GMT Full Article
k Elon Musk wades into Italian political drama over Albanian migrant deal By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:39 GMT In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about new polls showing growing support for Czechia's populist Motorists party, billionaire Elon Musk slamming Italian judges in row with Meloni, and so much more. Full Article
k JPL Workforce Update By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:20 GMT JPL statement issued on Nov. 12, 2024: While we have taken various measures to meet our current FY’25 budget allocation, we have reached the difficult decision to reduce the JPL workforce through layoffs. This reduction affects approximately 325 of our colleagues, an impact of about 5% of our… Full Article
k Bitcoin pushes past $90K amid meteoric 24-hour rally By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:30 GMT Full Article
k Mizuho Financial Group to buy 15% of Rakuten Card for $1 billion By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:37 GMT In This Article: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mizuho Financial Group will take a 15% stake in Rakuten Group subsidiary Rakuten Card for 165 billion yen ($1.06 billion) in a further deepening of the two companies' strategic alliance, they said on Wednesday. The share transfer is planned for Dec. 1,… Full Article
k FTSE 100 Live: Pound Sinks Further to Lowest Level Since August By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:02:02 GMT Full Article
k Indian Fund Teams Up With UK and Norway to Boost Struggling Power Grid with $300 Million Injection By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:23:52 GMT Full Article
k Shopify stock skyrockets ahead of the holiday season By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:00 GMT Full Article
k Markets Everywhere Are Getting Rattled by Trump’s US Agenda By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Donald Trump’s election victory has catapulted US stocks to fresh records and pushed the dollar to a two-year high. It’s anything but good news for the rest of the world. Most Read from Bloomberg Equities excluding the US are tumbling, with an MSCI gauge at its lowest in three months. An index of… Full Article
k A look at Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, which Alibaba claims to match GPT-4o's coding capabilities and is small enough to run on a MacBook Pro M2 with 64GB of RAM By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:20 GMT Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 12th November 2024 There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well… Full Article
k German lithium plant hopes to turbo-charge Europe’s EV makers By biztoc.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:01:46 GMT Vulcan Energy says its new plant west of Frankfurt, now in its pilot phase, plans to soon produce lithium for batteries used by auto manufacturers including Volkswagen, Renault and Stellantis. Full Article