Bitcoin traded near $68,000 on Tuesday as U.S. spot ETFs pulled in $458 million, according to data curated by SoSoValue, marking one of the quarter’s strongest inflow days despite the ongoing conflict with Iran. The inflows suggest institutional investors are treating bitcoin’s recent volatility stemming from the war as contained rather than systemic. Singapore-based trading…
PM Modi with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on 23 May 2016. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sharply criticised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for its silence over the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling it an ‘abdication’ rather than neutrality.In an opinion piece published in…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. MongoDB — Shares plunged 23% in extended trading. MongoDB said it sees first-quarter adjusted earnings per share of between $1.15 and $1.19 and revenue of between $659 million and $664 million. Analysts polled by LSEG expected earnings of $1.21 per share and $662 million in revenue…
NEW DELHI: While Russia remained the largest supplier of crude to India in Feb, Saudi Arabia narrowed the gap and emerged as a close second, with supplies from the West Asian country rising by 30% to over 1 million barrels a day (mbd), compared to 7.7 lakh barrels in Jan this year.According to data shared…
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development included a provision temporarily barring the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency in its bipartisan bill to boost housing in the U.S. The “21st Century ROAD to Housing Act,” introduced Monday by Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren, respectively the…
NEW DELHI: The home ministry Friday constituted two more empowered committees for Bengal to fast-track processing of citizenship requests received under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. This takes the number of empowered committees functional in the state to four.CAA provides for grant of citizenship to immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh belonging to their six…
President Donald Trump (L), and JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon. Reuters JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Monday that while President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking $5 billion in damages for shuttering his accounts was without merit, he sympathized with the president’s anger over the episode. Trump is accusing JPMorgan and others of closing his accounts…
Qatar’s state-owned energy giant, QatarEnergy, announced on Monday that it had suspended liquefied natural gas (LNG) production following Iranian drone attacks on two of its key processing facilities. The halt affects operations at Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world’s largest LNG complex, and Mesaieed Industrial City, both critical hubs for the Gulf state’s gas output.Qatar’s…
After dipping over the weekend as the U.S. began strikes against Iran, bitcoin BTC$69,180.48 shot higher on Monday, at one point nearing $70,000 before pulling back to the current $69,000. While any rally in bitcoin is welcome by the bulls, today’s move comes after a relentless months-long slide that has halved the price and weighed…
NEW DELHI: Over 2,000 people, including 1,600 students, were evacuated on Monday after a major oleum gas leak from a chemical unit in Maharashtra’s Palghar district left dense white fumes hanging over a five-kilometre radius, officials confirmed.The leak, which occurred around 2pm at Bhageria Industries Ltd in the Boisar MIDC industrial area.Palghar district collector Dr…
