Over the past two months, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) have each shed more than 30% of their market values. Despite the recent losses, among cryptocurrency investors, the question of whether or not to go all-in on Bitcoin or Ethereum is a serious one. Ethereum's 409% surge in 2021 certainly helps to attract heavy attention to the platform.
England legend Maggie Alphonsi tipped Red Roses star Ellie Kildunne to crowned Women’s Six Nations Player of the Championship ahead of this weekend’s Grand Slam decider against France.
Anglo American's London-listed shares spiked in late UK trade on Wednesday, hours before the miner announced a $39 billion bid by rival BHP Group, raising questions from some lawyers, investors and commentators about possible leaks. Shares in Anglo rose by around 2.8% between 1500 GMT and the market close at 1530 GMT in London on Wednesday. The late bounce before the bid proposal was revealed, which if successful would forge the world's biggest copper miner, contrasted with modest share price gains of between 0.2-0.5% at Anglo's peers Rio Tinto, Glencore and Antofagasta in the 35 minutes before the London market closed.
Kansas' governor is blocking an attempt by Republican legislators to give the state's National Guard a “border mission" of helping Texas in its partisan fight with the Biden administration over illegal immigration. Top Republicans in the Kansas House were considering Thursday whether their chamber can muster the two-thirds majority necessary to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of immigration provisions in the next state budget. Kelly on Wednesday vetoed a budget provision that would have directed her administration to confer with Texas' Republican governor, Greg Abbott, and send Kansas National Guard personnel or equipment to the border.
Horse owner Amr Zedan says he's looking ahead to the Preakness after a judge denied his request to allow Bob Baffert-trained Muth into Kentucky Derby.
Party wants to fully nationalise train network within five years of coming to power, in ‘biggest rail reform for a generation’
Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript April 24, 2024 Virtu Financial, Inc. beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $0.76, expectations were $0.59. VIRT isn’t one of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds at the end of the third quarter (see the details here). Operator: Ladies and gentlemen thank you for […]
Classic films will screen over a three-day period at participating cinema chains
In early May, sandwiched between the NewFronts and the traditional broadcast (and now streaming) upfronts, a new showcase for pitches to major advertisers will make its debut. Billed as The Way Upfronts, the series of virtual presentations slated for May 7 and 8 is a hybrid of the annual springtime spectacles of ad-supported television and …
The Kansas City Royals placed right-hander Alec Marsh on the injured list Thursday after he took a 91 mph liner off his pitching elbow the previous night against the Blue Jays, putting what had been a breakout season for him on hold. Marsh had not allowed a run when Toronto's Addison Barger drilled a fastball at him with one out in the fifth inning Wednesday night. The ball ricocheted off Marsh's elbow, closer to the forearm, so hard that it left an indentation of the laces.
"We will do everything in our power to retry this case, and remain steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault." "Because of laws like the New York Child Victims Act, predators continue to be exposed even without a criminal conviction."
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Two of the UFC's most promising flyweights, Tatsuro Taira and Joshua Van will collide in Newark.
Britain’s John Pawson likes to test the boundaries, and tells India Block how his new furniture collection with Denmark’s Dinesen does just that
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will host reality-television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian at the White House on Thursday to discuss criminal justice reform, after President Joe Biden granted clemency to more people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. On Wednesday, Biden granted clemency to 16 people, pardoning 11 of them and commuting the sentences of the other five. Four of the pardon recipients will join Thursday's event, said a White House official, who did not wish to be named.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor years, Harvey Weinstein’s New York City sex crimes conviction signified a landmark legal victory for the #MeToo movement. But the victory that solidified a global reckoning against alleged sexual predators was thrown out the window on Thursday morning, when the state’s highest court overturned the disgraced producer’s conviction.And legal experts say that while the bombshell decision is a significant victory for Weinstein—and pave
Keffiyehs, patterned scarves emotively synonymous with Palestinian nationalism and resistance, are all over Europe again. At the billionaire-epicentre that was the pre-opening of the Venice Biennale Arte last week, the Israel-Gaza war was an unavoidable point of contention. Flyers for organised protests spread on Instagram, while attendees despaired at the fact La Biennale does not recognise Palestine as a nation state, and therefore could not take part in the international art exhibition.
With rising costs in the hospitality world and £1,000-a-night luxury hotel rooms no longer a slack-jaw-inducing outlier, finding a stay for a snip is trickier than ever. But there are still ways and means.
Returning from a tropical holiday should come with a suntan and sense of relaxation – not a tropical disease. However, the number of British travellers catching malaria abroad is rising, and scientists are warning it could get worse.
The Labour leader said employees at UK-based rail manufacturing firms were ‘staring down the barrel of devastating job losses’.
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