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GBP/EUR hit a one-year high at 1.1696 after UK politics stabilised. This week's UK CPI and eurozone PMI will decide if sterling holds or reverses.
Andy Burnham's plan to lift 140,000 small shops out of business rates would cost £880m a year, hitting large retailers. The autumn budget will decide who pays.
Pilbara Minerals missed spodumene production guidance by 5% in Q4. The miss challenges the consensus view of relentless Australian supply growth. Next quarter's results in October will be key.
Two former IRS officers lay out ten changes to India's 1962 Customs Act: delete baggage rules, fix gold duty, simplify tariffs, and make adjudication faceless. The draft's fate now sits with the revenue department.
The dollar fell to a two-week low after a soft US jobs report reduced Fed hike bets. Traders are now focused on Wednesday's CPI for the next direction.
MegaRouter's API routes requests across 200+ LLMs with 40-90% cost savings and supports USDT/USDC settlement. The CoinGape award puts it at the cross-section of AI compute and Web3 payments.
Next's reported bid for Harvey Nichols would give the retailer a luxury foothold and could spark further department store consolidation.
The MMDA will show Alex Eala's Wimbledon Round of 16 match free at PhilSports Arena. Gates open 5:30 p.m., match at 8:30 p.m. Monday.
The province disbursed P44.05 million to 881 couples married 50+ years. With 500 more applications pending, the program's verification process and budget implications are worth tracking.
A direct HTTP request bypasses the client-side block on the winning rook move in TryHackMe's Fool's Mate chess challenge. The backend accepted the move when the frontend did not.
Bank of Maharashtra's credit rose 27% to ₹3.06 lakh crore, corporate loans crossed ₹1 lakh crore. Deposits rose 13%. CASA ratio slipped to 49%. NIM data due with full results.
Constellation Institutional Markets re-enters the pension risk transfer market, offering group annuity contracts to plan sponsors looking to offload liabilities.
Glenmark's generic Olanzapine injection, matching Zyprexa, enters a $25.4M US market. The launch targets hospital contracts and expands the company's injectables pipeline.
Nomura says the 10-15% drop in grid-equipment stocks overshot fundamentals. Hitachi Energy, GE Vernova, Siemens rose 5-6%. Order backlogs and grid spending remain intact.
Santos leads energy sector higher as Brent holds $72. Vault Minerals jumps 13% on $5.6bn bid. Gold producer Greatland beats guidance. Commodity stocks dominate.
SARS classifies crypto as intangible assets under new July 1 draft. Trading, staking, and swaps are taxable. Public comments accepted until August 31.
A weak seed phrase generation flaw has enabled attackers to steal $5M from crypto wallets. Hundreds of incidents in late May. Self-custodial wallets using defective random number generators are vulnerable.
Binance users in France lost spot and margin trading July 1 after the exchange missed MiCA approval. Withdrawals remain open, but active trading requires moving funds to a regulated platform.
Binance halted France crypto trading after MiCA license failure. Users face withdrawal-only mode as $1.6B left the exchange. BNB rose 6% to $583.
Vedanta's Oil & Gas, Iron & Steel, and Power subsidiaries fell up to 8% after Q1 business updates, while Aluminium rose. The moves offer early clues for the company’s planned de-merger.
Groq founder Jonathan Ross said his early management failures cost the AI chip startup three to four years of progress. He stepped down as CEO in 2022.
Brent crude fell 2.1% to $71.80 after Iran signaled nuclear talks and US inventories built. The drop cushioned import-heavy Asian bourses; semiconductor stocks pulled back 1.5%.
Dubai hits 50 VASP licenses. Taiwan passes a crypto law. India warns banks off crypto. Russia readies the digital ruble. Asia's regulatory map splits.
Senate staff are merging two versions of the CLARITY Act after the July 4 target slipped. Trump's $1.4B crypto disclosure is pushing ethics debate. The August 7 Senate deadline is next.
China launched a nuclear-capable ICBM into the South Pacific after Australia and Fiji signed a defence pact. Japan protested. The yen saw modest safe-haven buying.
DAC clears ₹52,000 crore in defence procurement, lifting HAL, BEL, and Zen Tech. Motilal Oswal picks three stocks to buy on the order pipeline.
India warns Meta over child sexual abuse ads on Instagram, adding to WhatsApp username dispute. With 480M+ users, regulatory pressure could weigh on Meta's largest market. Alpha Score 65.
AMD Ventures invests in Japanese self-driving startup Turing, which will use AMD accelerators for commercial launch, reducing Nvidia dependency. AMD Alpha Score 49.
China launched its first Pacific ICBM in 44 years. Crypto markets barely flinched. The test adds to tail risk that could alter mining supply chains and cross-border flows.
Marzetti holds market-leading positions in frozen breads and dressings with no debt. Recent poor performance raises questions about its growth trajectory. The next earnings report will be key.