Apple’s market valuation is set to surpass the $3tn mark again as shares in the US tech giant hit a fresh record in pre-market trading on Friday. Shares in the company rose about 1 per cent to $191.74 in pre-market trading in New York. Its market value has rebounded 45 per cent this year, adding
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More than a dozen Republicans have declared that they are running for president in 2024, in an increasingly crowded field of contenders vying for their party’s nomination for the White House. Here is a rundown of the leading Republican hopefuls, along with several long-shot candidates. Donald Trump Former US president Trump, 77, is the frontrunner
In the eighth, concluding part of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, Count Alexei Vronsky, lover of the novel’s tragic heroine, joins thousands of Russian volunteers fighting in the Balkans for the liberation of fellow Slavs from Ottoman rule. “He’s taking a squadron at his own expense!” exclaims one character. Tolstoy, a pacifist, depicts Vronsky’s behaviour
Film director Shawn Levy was hard at work in London on Deadpool 3 with his close friend Ryan Reynolds when news broke this week that the Hollywood actor and entrepreneur had made yet another splashy investment. Reynolds and other investors, including AC Milan owners RedBird Capital Partners, had taken a 24 per cent stake in
I arrive a quarter of an hour early at the Tick Tock Diner to discover that Chris Christie is already there. “You can find him at the back,” says a waitress. It is hard to think of a more atmospheric setting to meet the former governor of New Jersey, who is running for the second
The explosion of views from this modern waterfront condominium on Norway’s island of Tromsøya is a feast for the eyes: the ocean, fjords, the iconic church known as the Arctic Cathedral and majestic mountains. Yet, despite the feeling of being enveloped by awe-inspiring beauty, the harborfront setting in old town Tromsø is at the city
South Korea’s government is taking steps to protect cryptocurrency investors from implosions like Do Kwon’s Terra ecosystem tokens by passing a new crypto bill. The parliament of South Korea on June 30 passed the Virtual Asset User Protection legislation. The bill is designed to regulate unfair trade practices and protect crypto investors, the local news
Bitcoin (BTC) spiked through $31,000 on June 30 as a nearly $6 billion open interest expiry loomed. Options expiry precedes day of BTC price triggers Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting local highs of $31,268 on Bitstamp before returning lower. BTC price performance improved into a key quarterly options expiry event,
The Polkadot Decoded 2023 conference just wrapped up and this year more than 100 speakers and 100 blockchain projects were in attendance. The beauty of crypto bear markets is they catalyze a realignment of perspectives and objectives. All the hidden leverage is gone and most of the speculation is gone. SBF is gone. Do Kwon
Lawyers and conservative activists are warning of a wave of legal challenges to US companies’ diversity initiatives following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action in university admission programmes. Opponents of affirmative action fought for years in the courts to end its use in college admissions. Now that they have won that battle, thanks to
Since the 2008 crisis, the UK has failed to recover the strong productivity growth rates experienced in previous decades. This is partly because its major cities punch below their weight. While London has productivity levels akin to Paris, England’s other major conurbations of Manchester and Birmingham lag behind their continental peers of Hamburg and Milan.
It is a coveted status. Just one in 50 people entering the accounting profession make partner, joining an elite and lucrative club whose members get to carve up their firm’s profits among themselves. So why are the 860 partners of BDO USA giving it all up? The firm, the sixth-largest in the US, is switching
Rumours of the demise of Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko were swirling just over a month ago, when he cut short an appearance in Moscow and was reportedly rushed to hospital. His statesmanship had been roundly derided since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year — in which Belarus served as a launch pad — and
Investment bankers’ advisory fees have plunged to the lowest level in almost a decade as the industry suffers from a wave of job cuts because of a prolonged slowdown in deal activity. Fees for completed mergers and acquisitions globally plummeted 35 per cent in the first half of the year to $12.8bn compared with 2022,
What Is a Gap? -When a stock ends the day at a certain level and then starts at a new level even though no trades took place. -Gaps are usually from one day to the next. -The reason is that something within the company or industry can change: earnings report, etc. -Weekly charts can also
Base, a new layer 2 application-focused protocol by Coinbase has just one criteria left to fulfil before being ready for mainnet launch. On June 29, the team said the Optimism-powered, Ethereum-secured network has been subject to six months of rigorous security audits — both internally and externally — its second-last criteria required for launch. “With
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David Jones takes us through all the steps of opening a trade in Trading 212. He also shows us where we can set a stop loss and take profit order to manage risk and returns when trading gold, oil, Forex and indices. Test and practice your strategies in real market conditions with virtual money. Learn
While many investors in the West may look to crypto to speculate the next biggest trend, blockchain technology is actually solving “real-world problems” in Africa such as hyperinflation and “corruption,” executives told Cointelegraph. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Chris Maurice, founder and CEO of Yellow Card — Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchange — said crypto in Africa “is
Glencore chief executive Gary Nagle struck out at European investors for placing ESG above financial returns as he defended a proposal by the Swiss commodity trader to list a spin-off of its coal business in New York. As part of its advances to take over Teck Resources, the London-listed mining group has proposed combining its
A plan to provide about twice the current number of training places for doctors and nurses in England by the end of the decade has been unveiled by the NHS, as it attempts to tackle a staffing crisis amid record waiting lists for treatment. Under the first long-term staffing strategy by the NHS for 20