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Kerala HC ordered forfeiture of ₹6.87 lakh interest on excess child PPF deposits. The ₹1.5 lakh annual cap covers your own account plus your child's, not each account separately.

Financial freedom for women is about decision-making skills, not income, an Economic Times report argues. The first investment is knowledge, not stocks.

Citigroup's Jane Fraser backs the CLARITY Act and wants limits on stablecoin yield rewards. A Senate procedural vote next month will test the compromise.

Markets now price roughly 100 bps of additional cuts ahead. The wider question is how quickly the Fed follows suit and whether the peso's carry premium holds.

AMLM ended June with $50K cash; the LOI to sell Piscau-North for $6M in stock and $5.5M financing could reshape its balance sheet. CEO: 'transformational'.

Conifex Timber burned negative $6.3M EBITDA in Q2, cut sawmill output 60%, and warned of going-concern risk as liquidity fell to $1.3M and net working capital turned negative.

Anthropic CFO holds early IPO talks. Silver Lake circles Workday in a buyout that sent shares up 18%. Apple opens a Houston plant. A trade court upholds Trump's de minimis rule removal.

IF Metall suspends its strike against Tesla on Aug. 19 after the buyout of union members; it accused the carmaker of 'systematic strikebreaking.'

Apple's technical setup shows consolidation near key support, with traders eyeing a breakout above $200. The next catalyst is earnings in late July.

KFC and La Vieille Ferme's 'Chicken Wine' brand launch a Coq au Vin pop-up in Shoreditch over the August bank holiday weekend. Tickets are £15.

HashKey Exchange completed a live insurance premium transaction using Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin HKDAP with YF Life, testing a route that could cut settlement time from days to near real time.

Chainalysis counted $154B in illicit crypto inflows for 2025, up 162% from 2024. Stablecoins were 84% of volume; the 343% DeFi figure isn't in the report.