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SoundHound AI trades at $7, down from highs over $24, with a $3.12B market cap. Revenue rose 45% in Q2, but the stock's valuation at 15x sales raises questions about the growth narrative.
LEIGH wrote the Christian pop single during treatment for severe Lyme disease. The track drops September 4 on all major streaming platforms.
Crypto card spending hit $759M in July, with USDC and USDT funding 84% of transactions. Operators report rising everyday use in groceries and ride-hailing across multiple markets.
Grasim expects ₹2 lakh crore consolidated revenue in FY27, double the level five years ago. UltraTech hits 200 MT capacity, Birla Opus secures 10% paint market share, renewables unit targets 20 GW.
YouTube's crackdown on public crypto chart livestreams pushes creators behind paywalls, reshaping retail traders' access to live market data. MartyParty pivots to paid memberships.
An opinion piece argues that Indian parties fail to replace losing leaders, unlike Thatcher's ouster. This political inertia may affect market sentiment as voters seek change and parties resist.
ZK International received $20M in AWA tokens yet has not sold them. Cash stands at $83K. Illiquid tokens and outstanding receivables heighten going concern risk.
Ruth Olinger, 70, pays $10,400 a year in daycare for her 7-year-old grandson. Her Social Security is $1,500 a month. She says she'll work until she dies.
A Cleveland Fed survey of 25,000 households shows return expectations explain more crypto ownership than demographics. An experiment found past Bitcoin gains boosted purchases by 2.5 percentage points.
Young traders under 30 now make up 43% of Indian equity derivatives participants, but 89% of them incurred losses, according to a SEBI study. Traders with small portfolios bore the heaviest losses.
Bitcoin's 22% weekly gain left most altcoins behind. With the Altcoin Season Index at 33, five tokens outside the top 10 have catalysts that could close the gap.
India may tie higher diesel volumes to Bangladesh to progress on $7.3B in stalled LoC projects, as Dhaka faces an acute power shortage and diplomatic ties remain strained.
KPMG's Parizad Sirwalla explains that inherited agricultural land may qualify for long-term capital gains exemption under Sections 54F or 54B of the new Income-tax Act, subject to conditions.
The weekend price hike on AI servers highlights cost pressures ahead of Nvidia's fiscal Q2 report Wednesday, with Q2 GDP, core PCE, and Jackson Hole also on tap.
A veteran journalist's insider account of China's media and diplomacy offers investors a lens on trade, manufacturing, and supply-chain risk across Asia.
India's central government halted Starlink's state-level agreements, demanding the satellite firm first obtain a telecom license amid security reviews. Four states had signed MoUs.
TRUMP memecoin surged 80% after rumors of a new Trump crypto project on Robinhood Chain, liquidating $30M in shorts. Unconfirmed trigger leaves rally fragile.
A month after Sun Pharma recalled 11 eye drops, a reporter bought some from local chemists. Experts say the system needs real-time alerts and stronger enforcement.
Spending on pinball parts, cassette decks, and BMX bikes is pulling consumer dollars from the same pool that funds iPhone upgrades. The trend shows up across a dozen hobby categories and has implications for Apple's hardware revenue that services growth cannot offset.
Residents at a Swindon council block say maggots crawling from under the floor and flies at the entrance have made daily life unsafe, especially for a mother with epilepsy.
Treasury yield volatility is driving sharp swings in the dollar index, with Bitcoin moving in the opposite direction as traders struggle to price the Fed's next move before September's meeting.
Thalles de Souza escaped violence in Rio, attended community college, and earned a full-ride scholarship to Yale. His story of resilience.
Over a four-hour lunch, Errol Musk defends a harsh upbringing, attacks Starmer and Minton Beddoes, and explains why he paid for Tommy Robinson's Russia trip.
FSSAI suspended Marche Retail's license for 30 days and barred SDP Industries from selling ghee after inspections uncovered contamination and hygiene failures.
FLY91 plans to raise ₹150 crore from existing and new investors, as the regional airline with 90% load factor expands its network and management team.
From Brazil to South Korea, 97% of Brazilian day traders and 75% of South Korean retail futures traders lost money, mirroring India's 91% F&O loss rate, SEBI said.
A second industry lawsuit challenges Illinois' 0.2% digital asset tax as brokers face a Jan. 1 registration deadline. The outcome hinges on injunction or repeal.
An attacker seized governance control of Term Labs, draining $8.5M from four USDC vaults and the Ethereum Meta Vault without breaking any code.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pushed senators to support the CLARITY Act ahead of a Sept. 15 cloture vote; the outcome will determine whether the Senate begins debate on the crypto market-structure bill.
Tesla's December options price a 37% rally and 31% crash at near-identical probabilities. At 336x earnings, the stock is priced for discontinuous outcomes, not earnings growth.