The Pound Sterling (GBP) has fallen back below the round-level resistance of 1.3100 as uncertainty ahead of the United Kingdom’s inflation...
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EUR/USD retreats from earlier YTD peaks around 1.1275 on Tuesday. While the continuation of the upside momentum appears favoured in the very near term...
The Kremlin meant business when it threatened to seize the Russian operations of foreign companies in retaliation for sanctions linked to its war in Ukraine. Danish beer company Carlsberg and French food and drinks giant Danone saw Russia assuming “temporary management” of their stakes in local operations...
Back in March, Twitter owner Elon Musk said there was a chance the company would report positive cashflow in the next quarter. A month later, Musk suggested most advertisers who’d fled the site had returned. But June has come and gone, and Twitter still has cashflow issues...
Microsoft and Sony have signed a 10-year binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the Xbox maker’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The announcement tweeted yesterday (July 16) by Xbox chief Phil Spencer indicates the Japanese company is no longer fighting the $69 billion takeover.Read more...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the sugar substitute aspartame to be “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” but it is not recommending any changes to its consumption levels. For decades, the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of the non-sugar sweetener has been 40 mg per kg of body weight...
When the PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced that they were merging on June 6, that was a bit premature. They hadn’t actually signed a deal to do so—and they still haven’t.Read more...
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 17, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets...
Lawmakers appear to have largely ignored pleas from organizations linked to Polygon, NEAR and Cardano about the kill-switch, according to a final version of the text seen by CoinDesk...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched its review of the latest bitcoin exchange-traded-fund (ETF) applications...