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(Bloomberg) — Copper is headed for its biggest weekly drop since 2022 and iron ore continued to slide toward $100 a tonne after a Chinese policy meeting failed to signal further stimulus to bolster demand for the metal.Most read articles on BloombergGold futures fell about 5% in London this week amid a broader sell-off that also hit aluminum, tin and nickel. Gold futures also fell on Friday due to a shift away from risk assets and a stronger U.S. dollar.”We’re seeing some bullish positioning being unwound and some marginal short selling coming in,” said Michael Widmer, head of metals research…
Last Update: 19 July 2024 17:42 ISTUnited States of America (USA)Zuckerberg’s comments came as several Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, endorsed Trump in the presidential election. (File image)Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the immediate reaction after former President Trump was shot was “amazing” and moving, helping to explain the platform’s appeal to voters.Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has refused to endorse either Donald Trump or Joe Biden and said the company has no plans to get involved in the upcoming US presidential election in any way, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.In an interview with the magazine…
Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich listened to the verdict inside a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Friday. CNN — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, was convicted of espionage in a Russian court and sentenced to 16 years in prison in a case that the U.S. government, Gershkovich’s newspaper and supporters have denounced as a false verdict. The Yekaterinburg court announced the guilty verdict and sentence shortly after 3 p.m. local time (8 a.m. Eastern Time) on Friday. Russia’s state news…
Caitlin Clark set a WNBA single-game record with 24 points and 19 assists, but the Indiana Fever lost 101-93 to the Dallas Wings in their final game before the Olympic break. In a chaotic second half, Dallas’ Arike Ogunbowale hit a 3-pointer with 44.6 seconds left to give the Wings a 97-93 lead that proved decisive. Clark turned the game over on the ensuing drive (his fifth of the game), giving Dallas time to wait for Ogunbowale to make a free throw.Dallas led by 16 before Indiana caught up behind Clark and Aaliyah Boston (28 points, eight rebounds). Six Wings…
Want to change up your hair but not ready to dye your entire head yet? Then Moneypeace Hair Treatment is for you. This trendy coloring technique is all the rage online, and it allows you to incorporate all your coloring experiments into just a few strands of hair. Interested? Here’s all the information you need to know. What is the Money Peace Hair Trend? “Money piece hair is a hairstyle that features a prominent bright color, mainly around the face,” explains stylist Charlie Ray Hamill of Blue Tit Portobello. “The brightness is the ‘money piece,’ and it’s usually a blonde…
A Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign companies and luxury hotels in China on Friday had little impact on the country’s key infrastructure, from airlines to banks, according to industry sources and social media posts.As of 6pm local time, there were no reports of infrastructure failures in mainland China, but disruptions were reported at many airports across the Asia-Pacific region, from Hong Kong to Australia. Beijing and Shanghai international airports were operating normally, according to their websites.At the same time, a Windows error causing computers to blue screen became a hot topic on Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo…
(Bloomberg) — A mistake in updating a widely used cybersecurity program took down Microsoft Corp.’s systems, disrupting computer systems for businesses and public services around the world.Most read articles on BloombergCrowdStrike Holdings CEO George Kurtz posted on X on Friday that the outage had been identified and a “fix has been deployed,” adding that it wasn’t a cyberattack. Microsoft has also reported apparently unrelated issues with its Azure cloud service, further complicating matters.Microsoft cloud software outages: Live updatesOutages on this scale that hit airlines, banks and healthcare systems are rarer than most, and the cascading failures highlight the fragility of…
Although we’ve officially said goodbye to Amazon Prime Day the discounts on popular products at Amazon aren’t all gone. Our team of shopping experts is keeping up with any remaining deals still happening, along with continued deals on headphones, laptops, monitors, TVs, and home and kitchen appliances.We are also continuing to scour thousands of Amazon and anti-Prime Day sales so you don’t have to, finding you the best products for the best prices, including deals that are under $100 and even $10 or less.And CNET shopping experts are taking care to update the list of Prime deals with in-stock products that weren’t simply marked up and then back down again but…
Thousands of people rallied on Friday against a planned Pakistani military operation to flush out militants along the Afghan border, sparking a gunfight that left at least one protester dead, officials and witnesses said.More than 10,000 people waving white flags and calling for peace gathered at a rally in Bannu, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on Monday rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a military post, killing eight Pakistani soldiers. “Military operations have been going on for 20 years but peace has not been established,” protester Jamaluddin Wazir told AFP. “Military operations can never…
President Joe Biden, who is currently suffering from COVID-19, is facing growing pressure from Democrats to withdraw from the US presidential election, with leading figures including Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer calling for the 81-year-old to withdraw.Biden has made multiple attempts to gain the trust of party members but has so far failed, and if reports are to be believed, the 81-year-old is set to make a “big announcement” about his presidential bid on Friday evening.”People close to senior Democratic Party officials said Thursday that it appears to be a question of when Biden will withdraw from the…