November has turned out to be the best month of the year so far for the Nifty, with the index gaining 5.5% so far ahead of Thursday's monthly F&O expiry.

　　Former Citibank Analyst's Unfair Dismissal Claim Rejected 　　Employee Lied About Food Expenses　　A former Citibank analyst, Szabolcs Fekete, has lost his claim of unfair dismissal after a tribunal discovered he had lied about buying food for his partner and charging it to his employer. 　　Fekete, who was a senior analyst, claimed he had been both wrongfully and unfairly dismissed by Citibank....

　　California's New Law: Turning Parking Lots into Affordable Housing 　　Introduction　　In an effort to combat the ongoing homeless crisis, California has enacted a new law that allows religious institutions and nonprofit colleges to convert their parking lots and other properties into low-income housing. 　　The Law's Provisions　　The law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, rezones land owned by religious institutions and nonprofit colleges...

The growth in revenues largely came from its existing merchants and payment processing stack Wibmo, as new merchant signups continued to be paused for the Indian entity after a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) order.

08:57 AM EDT, 09/13/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Energy stocks were advancing premarket Friday with the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) 0.4% higher recently. The United States Oil Fund (USO) was up 0.9% and the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) was 1.3% higher. Front-month US West Texas Intermediate crude oil was up 1.1% at $69.75 per barrel at the...

08:52 AM EDT, 09/13/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were advancing pre-bell Friday, with the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) adding 0.1% and the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) up 0.4% recently. Centessa Pharmaceuticals ( CNTA ) shares were up more than 6% after the company priced an underwritten public offering of about 15.3 million American depositary shares...

08:31 AM EDT, 09/13/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( SPY ) was up 0.2% and the actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) was 0.1% higher in Friday's premarket activity, as investors await August import and export prices bulletin followed by September consumer sentiment report for clues on interest rate cut. US...

08:55 AM EDT, 09/13/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Financial stocks were advancing premarket Friday, with the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) up 0.3%. The Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) was 0.7% higher and its bearish counterpart Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (FAZ) was 0.5% lower. SelectQuote ( SLQT ) shares were down more than 21% even after...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - Japanese technology investor SoftBank dropped plans of producing an artificial intelligence chip with Intel ( INTC ) to compete with Nvidia ( NVDA ), the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The partnership did not materialize after the U.S. chipmaker struggled to meet SoftBank's requirements, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter. SoftBank has...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group ( LNVGF ) reported a 20% rise in its quarterly revenue on Thursday, as the global personal computer market showed signs of recovery after a two-year slump. For the three months ending in June, the company's revenue rose to $15.4 billion, above the average estimate of $14.1 billion expected by analysts polled by LSEG....

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Japanese actor Ryoma Takeuchi believes that video game fans will find a special connection to the new television series Like a Dragon: Yakuza. The series, based on the popular video game Yakuza: Like a Dragon, begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Oct. 24. It was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con last month. The Sega video...

(Reuters) - Japanese technology investor SoftBank dropped plans of producing an artificial intelligence chip with Intel ( INTC ) to compete with Nvidia ( NVDA ), the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The partnership did not materialize after the U.S. chipmaker struggled to meet SoftBank's requirements, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter. SoftBank has blamed Intel...

Twitter handle of the Government of Uttar Pradesh (@UPGovt) and Twitter handle operated by the information department (@InfoUPFactCheck) were hacked for a brief period. Both the accounts have now been restored.

West Bengal recorded the highest number of recorded cases against fake news on social media in 2021, accounting for about one-fourth of the total such cases across the country, according to NCRB data.

Facebook-parent Meta said it will be activating its Elections Operations Center to watch out for potential abuses that could emerge across the platform related to state elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s followers on Twitter were surprised to find a strange tweet from the leader on Sunday. The tweet asked for donations in cryptocurrencies. The tweet along with a few others was deleted after the hacked account was restored.Many celebrities, actors, politicians and artists have fallen victim to cyber-attacks. Here are some public figures whose accounts on social media platforms were hacked.

05:57 PM EDT, 08/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Douglas Richard Rippel, 10% Owner, Director, on August 26, 2024, sold 2,864 shares in Firstcash Holdings ( FCFS ) for $343,709. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Rippel has control over a total of 4,747,467 shares of the company, with 4,308 shares held directly and 4,743,159 controlled indirectly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/840489/000084048924000115/xslF345X05/wk-form4_1724881877.xml...

05:52 PM EDT, 08/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- North American Construction ( NOA ) said late Wednesday that subsidiary MacKellar Group received a $375 million five-year contract from an existing client in Queensland, Australia. The deal will transition the hired fleet currently under contract as a dry rental to a fully maintained fleet, according to North American Construction ( NOA )....

05:50 PM EDT, 08/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Day One Biopharmaceuticals ( DAWN ) filed a shelf registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission covering the potential sale of up to about 12.1 million shares by some shareholders from time to time. The statement covers about 10.6 million shares held by certain selling stockholders and around 1.5 million shares...

05:58 PM EDT, 08/28/2024 (MT Newswires) -- BCB Bancorp ( BCBP ) said late Wednesday that it completed the private placement of $40 million in fixed-to-floating rate subordinated notes due 2034 to institutional investors. The notes initially bear a fixed rate of 9.25% for the first five years and will reset quarterly thereafter to the then current three-month Secured Overnight...

Traditional markets in the US are closed on Monday for Memorial Day, but a big flow of economic data will follow during the rest of the week ahead. Trade war fears returned to the markets late last week with Donald Trump stirring the pot again, threatening phone makers and the European Union. This resulted in a slide in tech stocks...

Bitcoin’s current rally may only be warming up, with market watchers predicting a potential surge to $162,000 by mid-June, largely driven by short-term holders approaching a critical profit threshold. According to Axel Adler Jr., Bitcoin’s Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL) for those who’ve held the cryptocurrency for a maximum of three months sits at 27%. The Short-Term Holder Catalyst In a...

In a dramatic twist befitting the man known as the “10U God of War,” crypto trader James Wynn has exited his headline-grabbing $1.25 billion Bitcoin long with a cool $25 million profit. The crypto whale had wagered his capital on BTC hitting $121,000 this week, leveraging 40x on Hyperliquid. From $87M Highs to a $25M Exit At one point, the...

Following the Friday price slip and the calm weekend, bitcoins price has recovered to roughly $110,000 after US President Trump paused the tariffs against the EU, which were supposed to start from June 1. The altcoins have turned green as well, and HYPE continues to lead the larger caps following yet another new all-time high at almost $40 today. BTC...