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Crude oil prices rose to multi-year highs, levels last seen in 2014, after the Houthi Group in Yemen attacked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that raised the concerns of potential supply disruptions. Tight supply was another factor supporting the o...

• January 18, 2022 12:35 PM GMT
• Suhita Poddar

Highlights The much-anticipated implementation of Ethereum’s EIP-1559 upgrade was finally implemented on 17 January, thereby bringing facilities of a partial network fee burning mechanism on the Polygon network. However, following the suc...

• January 18, 2022 10:59 AM GMT
• Manu Shankar

Leading Anglo-Australian mining business Rio Tinto Group is currently under the watch of investors after it released its fourth-quarter production results on 17 January 2022. Its CEO Jakob Stausholm said that the year 2021 saw a strong demand for t...

• January 18, 2022 10:57 AM GMT
• Rishika Raina

Highlights The UK government has decided to freeze the annual licence fees for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the next two years. The licence fees freeze is expected to provide some relief to consumers amid rising inflation in the U...

• January 18, 2022 10:50 AM GMT
• Sreenivas D Ajankar

That the value of any crypto asset can change drastically in the blink of an eye is what most investors are now aware of. That a large crypto exchange can be a just-another Ponzi scheme is what many of us may have forgotten. ‘Bitcoin Widow&r...

• January 18, 2022 04:06 AM EST
• Ankit Sethi

EasyFi (EZ) crypto is a permissionless money markets protocol that operates on multi-blockchain network. Operating on Ethereum, Polygon, and Binance Smart Chain blockchain EZ crypto accelerates the liquidity deployment at a faster speed and is also...

• January 18, 2022 08:39 AM GMT
• Manu Shankar

Highlights  The global unemployment levels could remain above the 2019 pre-Covid levels until 2023 as per International Labour Organization. In the United Kingdom, the outlook is slightly better as many industries across the country are wi...

• January 18, 2022 07:41 AM GMT
• Sreenivas D Ajankar

The price of Paribus (PBX) cryptocurrency has catapulted 40 per cent, and it was trading at US$ 0.02755 per token at the time of writing. The surge in the price of this cryptocurrency has left enthusiasts wondering about the digital asset. Let's ...

• January 18, 2022 02:31 AM EST
• Raza Naqvi

The number of shoppers in the UK rose by 1.5 per cent, in the week to 15 January, compared to the week before, according to data and shopping analytics firm Springboard. This rise in numbers was due to UK shoppers returning to high streets. As per...

• January 18, 2022 07:04 AM GMT
• Suhita Poddar

Penny stocks are becoming highly popular among investors due to their potential of generating high returns. Even though these high returns are accompanied by a higher risk quotient, the risk can be mitigated by considering gold penny stocks. Gold i...

• January 18, 2022 06:50 AM GMT
• Rishika Raina

Highlights Singapore’s Central Bank has issued guidelines to limit activities of crypto players for marketing or promoting their services to retail investors. To protect interests of the general public and shield them from extreme price f...

• January 18, 2022 04:59 AM GMT
• Jasmine Anand

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the world to come together to tackle problems posed by cryptocurrencies. Modi called for a “global effort” while speaking at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) virtual Davos Agenda conference on M...

• January 17, 2022 10:30 PM GMT
• Ashish

UK Market News: The UK’s benchmark index, FTSE 100 has strengthened in Monday’s trading session. The blue-chip index is up by 0.77% and is up above the 7,600 level for the first time since January 2020, taking cues from the positive inves...

• January 17, 2022 02:53 PM GMT
• Sreenivas D Ajankar

Pharma and biotech-focused companies have seen huge investments after the onset of the pandemic. The UK received record levels of investment into its life sciences sector in 2021, with VC (Venture Capital) and PE (Private Equity) investment into th...

• January 17, 2022 02:34 PM GMT
• Suhita Poddar

Fetch.ai is (FET) a decentralized platform, which aims to connect the Internet of Things (IoT) to enable secure sharing and transactions based on global data. The Cambridge-based project is built on a throughput shard ledger that offers smart contr...

• January 17, 2022 02:27 PM GMT
• Manu Shankar

The Alternative Investment Market (AIM), a submarket and a specialised unit of the London Stock Exchange, provides a platform for smaller companies and startups to increase their reach and raise capital from the public market. Over the years, investo...

• January 17, 2022 02:03 PM GMT
• Sreenivas D Ajankar

A recent report by Oxfam has stated that the world’s 10 richest people have seen their fortune increase by more than double from US$700 billion to US$1.5 trillion (£1.01 trillion), since the start of the pandemic due to various factors ...

• January 17, 2022 01:52 PM GMT
• Priya Bhandari

Highlights  The number of UK households facing ‘fuel stress’ will rise by 3 times to around 6.3 million once Ofgem’s new energy price cap comes into effect later this year, as per a think tank’s research. The new en...

• January 17, 2022 01:32 PM GMT
• Suhita Poddar

Founded by Bram Cohen, the Bittorent (BTT) crypto is dubbed as a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) platform that allows the users to seamlessly share files through the BitTorrent protocol. While the traditional file storage is considered to be highly cent...

• January 17, 2022 01:18 PM GMT
• Manu Shankar