The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, amid the ongoing reports of lead poisoning in young children, announced several additional steps to address concerns about elevated lead levels in various cinnamon products. The agency also recommended recall of certain ground cinnamon products sold by a number of brands at six different retail chains that were found...
South Korea’s National Police Agency has officially requested assistance from the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in bringing back Kwon Do-hyeong, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, to South Korea, according to a local news agency on March 7. After Terra co-founder Do Kwon won an extradition appeal in a Montenegro court denying his extradition to...
A day ahead of the release the more closely watched monthly jobs report, the Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing first-time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits came in unchanged from an upwardly revised level in the week ended March 2nd. The Labor Department said initial jobless claims came in at 217,000, unchanged from...
The MEXC exchange denies any accusations that it has arbitrarily confiscated customer money. According to a Coin Telegraph report, several MEXC users have recently complained on social media of random “clawbacks” or centralized withdrawal freezes and liquidations of funds. User “Al Gore Rhythms” had $33,658 deducted from his spot account. When he pressed customer service about the...
Labor productivity in the U.S. saw an unrevised jump in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday. The Labor Department said labor productivity shot up by 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter, unchanged from the previous estimate. Economists had expected the surge in productivity to be...
Ethereum NFT card game Cross The Ages is releasing a new card collection in collaboration with Ubisoft and the Watch Dogs gaming franchise. On April 3, the public can purchase cards featuring Watch Dogs characters in the continent of Artellium, a new map collection in Cross The Ages. Cross The Ages announced the launch on...
The Commerce Department released a report on Thursday showing the U.S. trade deficit widened in the month of January amid a jump in the value of imports. The report said the trade deficit increased to $67.4 billion in January from a revised $64.2 billion in December. Economists had expected the trade deficit to widen to...
President Bukele expressed his thoughts on X (formerly Twitter), responding to critics who had condemned his pro-Bitcoin vision during the BTC price decline. Still waiting… https://t.co/FkKs2rRP1Q pic. .com/X6UyAsoTIz — Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 4, 2024 President Bukele, who reiterated his Bitcoin vision during the last election campaign, was re-elected last month after a landslide victory....
Indian shares hit fresh record highs on Wednesday, with private sector banking stocks and financials leading the surge. The 30-share BSE Sensex hit a record high of 74,151 before ending the session up 408.86 points, or 0.55 percent, at 74,085.99. The broader NSE Nifty index claimed 22,497 before closing up 117.75 points, or 0.53 percent,...
Egypt\'s central bank decided to raise its interest rate by 600 basis points and to allow the currency exchange rate to be determined by market forces at an emergency meeting on Wednesday, citing high inflation. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Egypt lifted the overnight deposit rate to 27.25 percent and the...