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Key valuation gauges remain short of the capitulation seen at past cycle lows, as inflation risks keep the pressure on digital assets.

Бывший принц Эндрю Маунтбеттен-Виндзор цепляется за свою большую коллекцию из десятков плюшевых мишек, поскольку им не нашлось места в новом поместье.

Netanyahu is trying to blame the entire world for October 7, but he became trapped in a deadly whirlwind of media reports exposing just what he was trying to conceal. What we saw this week provides a glimpse of what to expect in the election campaign as authoritarianism gains pace

Trump conducting deliberate deception always has to be considered, but he is clear that he would rather put a stop to Iran's nuclear project than get involved in a prolonged military campaign. The key question remains what, if anything, was agreed with Netanyahu should negotiations fail

Quelques jours après le passage du puissant cyclone Gezani, la reprise s'organise progressivement à Toamasina. Les autorités annoncent la réouverture de l'aéroport international d'Ambalamanasy-Toamasina ainsi que le rétablissement graduel du trafic routier sur la Route nationale 2 (RN2), axe stratégique reliant Antananarivo à la capitale économique de l'Est. L'aéroport international d'Ambalamanasy a officiellement rouvert ses portes à la suite des importants travaux de remise en état menés (…) - Société

Vandaag in Dagkoers: wat we tot nu toe weten van de hack bij Odido, Adyen gaat hard onderuit op de beurs en Europese leiders bespreken concurrentiepositie tijdens hun ‘heidag’.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on Thursday that it was finalizing the sale of Danube Logistics, the operator of the Giurgiulesti port (GIFP) in the Republic of Moldova, to the state-owned Compania Nationala Administratia Porturilor Maritime SA Constanta.

• FO backs Muscat dialogue, says Islamabad ‘ready to take part in any form of diplomacy’ on Iran • Confirms PM Shehbaz, FM Dar will attend ‘Board of Peace’ meeting in Washington next week • Pakistan ‘will stand by Muslim bloc to raise collective voice for Palestinians’ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to move towards direct negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme. “Whilst we stand ready to participate in any format of dialogue and diplomacy on Iran, we encourage the relevant parties to have as direct a negotiation framework as possible,” Foreign Office spokesman Tahir Andrabi said at the weekly media briefing. The indirect Iran-US talks took place in Muscat on Feb 6 amid heightened regional tensions, including an expanded US military presence and warnings from President Donald Trump of severe consequences if no deal is reached. The session was mediated by Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who shuttled between the two sides. Both sides described the discussions as a “...

Bitcoin open interest falls to $34 billion as investor demand dries up and traders’ concerns shift to worrying US macroeconomic data. Is TradFi exiting BTC? Key takeaways: BTC open interest falls to $34 billion, but stable BTC-denominated volume suggests leverage demand remains unchanged. Weak US jobs data and Bitcoin options skew indicate a bearish shift, even as gold and stocks show relative strength. Read more

Главный редактор российского пропагандистского медиахолдинга RT и рупор Кремля Маргарита Симоньян вышла на публику без парика, показав выбритую голову и последствия борьбы с онкологией.

Bitcoin has seen record realized losses in one of the cryptocurrency’s largest-ever capitulation events as short-term holders sold at steep losses amid its decline. Bitcoin has posted $2.3 billion in realized losses in what one analyst says is one of the largest capitulation events in history, rivaling its crash in 2021. Bitcoin’s (BTC) seven-day average realized net losses hit $2.3 billion, analyst IT Tech said in a note on CryptoQuant on Thursday, which it called “one of the largest capitulation events in BTC history, rivaling the 2021 crash, 2022 Luna/FTX collapse, and mid-2024 correction.” “This puts us in the top 3-5 loss events ever recorded,” IT Tech added. “Only a handful of moments in Bitcoin's history have seen this level of capitulation.” Read more

Al Green is running against Christian Menefee in the Democratic Party primary elections next month, with Texas one of the first states to vote. The pro-crypto political action committee (PAC) Protect Progress will reportedly spend $1.5 million opposing Texas representative Al Green in the upcoming Democratic Party primary over his past opposition to crypto. “As a member of the Financial Services Committee, Representative Al Green has decided to try and stop American innovation in its tracks,” Protect Progress, an affiliate of the major crypto PAC Fairshake, told The Hill on Thursday. Green, a Democrat who has represented Texas's 9th congressional district in the House since 2005, opposed the stablecoin regulating GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act, two crypto-focused bills that the House passed last year. Read more

RAWALPINDI: The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench has curtailed the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) suo motu power to amend deemed tax assessments, ruling that Section 122(5A) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, cannot be used for “roving or fishing inquiries” or speculative revenue recovery. In an income tax reference, titled Commissioner Inland Revenue versus Sajid Hussain Gondal and others, Justice Mirza Viqas Rauf and Justice Jawad Hassan laid down guidance on the scope and limits of amendment powers under Section 122, bringing long-awaited doctrinal clarity to a provision frequently invoked by tax authorities. The reference application, filed under Section 133 of the ordinance, challenged an order of the Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue (ATIR), which had set aside an amendment made to a taxpayer’s deemed assessment for tax year 2019. The tribunal had earlier ruled that the FBR’s use of Section 122(5A) in the case was unlawful. The taxpayer, Sajid Hussain Gondal, had filed an income tax return f...

ISLAMABAD: While launching a subsidised scheme for households to replace old fans with efficient ones, Power Minister Sardar Awais Leghari said on Thursday the government was considering ‘debt restructuring’ of the energy sector to bring down consumer-end tariffs for improved grid consumption and lower circular debt. The minister acknowledged that the high electricity tariffs had been pushing the consumers away from the grid and solar penetration had created a serious challenge to the grid. Therefore, the government was considering restructuring of the power sector debt, besides taking measures for curtailing peak demand. Over the past few months, the government has taken up the restructuring of power sector debt with multilateral lenders, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, including a $30bn Chinese debt for longer duration. A circular debt of Rs1.6 trillion and a Rs1.225tr recent financing with local commercial banks are also on the agenda. Pakistan’s repeated direct requests to Chinese...

Российский диктатор Владимир Путин мог обнаружить таинственные "новые угрозы" своему режиму изнутри собственных сил, что побудило его подписать указ, который фактически предоставил российской армии контроль над национальной гвардией страны, Росгвардией.

CFTC chair Mike Selig launched the Innovation Advisory Committee in January, nominating 12 members as charter members before expanding the final list to 35 on Thursday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has added a slew of crypto executives, including those from Coinbase and Ripple, to its Innovation Advisory Committee, who will shape how the regulator crafts policy. CFTC chair Mike Selig said on Thursday that the 35 members of the committee will “ensure the CFTC’s decisions reflect market realities” and enable it to “develop clear rules of the road for the Golden Age of American Financial Markets.” The committee launched in January, replacing the Technology Advisory Committee, which drew on the advice of tech leaders to dissect how new technologies were impacting the derivatives markets more broadly. Read more

Procesul de negociere privind ieșirea din războiul ruso-ucrainean pare să fi devenit un scop în sine. În timp ce Ucraina își consumă resursele, Vladimir Putin câștigă timp, Donald Trump urmărește mize politice și financiare, iar Europa înaintează prin proceduri birocratice lente.

The CFTC has brought in leading crypto executives to its advisory panel as lawmakers weigh how new rules should govern digital-asset markets.

Бывший глава Офиса президента Украины Андрей Ермак сам позвонил и предложил привлечь его в команду адвокатов по делу о дисквалификации МОК спортсмена Владислава Гераскевича.