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Paychex is partnering with SoFi to offer employees access to personal finance tools like loan refinancing and debt management through its digital benefits marketplace. Employees cover the cost of the tools via payroll deduction, which means the employer gets to offer the tools at no cost. This move helps even small businesses stay competitive in … Read more - Chevron defeats Exxon in dispute over…
Chevron has prevailed against Exxon Mobil in a dispute over Hess Corporation’s offshore oil assets in the South American nation of Guyana, Exxon CEO Darren Woods told CNBC’s Becky Quick on Friday. The ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce in favor of Chevron clears a path for the oil major to complete its $53 … Read more - Offshore Company Tax in UAE: 2025…
Understanding Offshore Companies in the UAE Offshore companies in the UAE are independent legal entities with rights similar to natural persons. Historically, their tax treatment has been a gray area, creating uncertainty for businesses. However, the UAE’s Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has recently clarified the tax obligations for these entities, bringing much-needed transparency. Key Updates … Read more - Lucid shares rise after the company…
Lucid Group share (NYSE: LCID) is trading sharply higher today after the company announced a partnership with autonomous tech company Nuro, Inc., and Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) to launch a next-generation premium global robotaxi program, exclusively for the Uber platform. This strategic collaboration aims to deploy 20,000 or more Lucid vehicles, specifically the new Lucid … Read more - MDP Partners With BPC To Boost…
MDP, continues to solidify its position as a trusted payments powerhouse across the Middle East and Africa by partnering with BPC to build built a next-generation third-party processing center using BPC’s SmartVista platform. MDP-A long-standing leader in Africa’s card issuing and processing industry in partnership with BPC, global payment solutions provider, has leveraged the latter’s … Read more
Inside the First Stargate AI Data
The sheer scale of this one of many AI factories of the near future tell us a lot about AI direction, and adds meat to the bones of Jensens speech in Taipei this week.Trucks carrying concrete and electrical wiring plod over red clay, weaving in between cranes and excavators. Two symmetrical buildings stand in a massive plot of land where thousands of people in brightly colored vests work day and night to construct six more near-identical structures that will make up the first site for the Stargate Project.
Trump signs stablecoin bill into law
President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony for the GENIUS Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed the stablecoin bill into law, marking a major win for crypto interests in Washington.
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“We feel obliged to offer our house to this couple to live in while they deal with this horrible experience.” - £10,000 invested in Santander shares 5…
Image source: Getty Images It has been a fantastic five years for Banco Santander (LSE:BNC) shareholders. The Spanish bank stock is up 216% over this time, turning every £10,000 invested back then into £31,600. On top of that, there has been a steady flow of rising dividends since they resumed in 2021 (payouts were paused … Read more - £15k invested in these dividend shares…
Image source: Getty Images Investing in a broad range of stocks can be a great way to target a long-term second income. History shows that holding dividend shares spanning different sectors and geographies can reduce risk and provide a stable return over time. Here are two high-yield dividend stocks that could help diversify an investor’s … Read more - £262 to invest a month? Here’s…
Image source: Getty Images According to Hargreaves Lansdown, the average UK employee has £262 left at the end of the month to save and invest. That may not seem like enough money to target a £1m Stocks and Shares ISA. But the mathematical ‘miracle’ of compounding — where investment profits generate their own gains, accelerating … Read more - £5k in savings? Here’s how that…
Image source: Getty Images Earning a second income doesn’t mean having to get a second job. In fact, by leveraging dividend opportunities in the stock market, investors can get some extra income in their pockets passively. And for those with £5,000 sitting in the bank, kick-starting this process today could eventually lead to a £255 … Read more - 1 year on from the CrowdStrike…
Image source: Getty Images On 19 July 2024 – a year ago tomorrow – the world experienced a huge IT outage. The culprit was cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), whose software update sent IT systems globally into meltdown. At the time, the outage sent CrowdStrike’s share price into meltdown too. But how has the S&P … Read more
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Private banks report a sharp increase in bad loans and provisions in Q1FY26 due to agriculture and small-ticket loan stress | Photo Credit: ROY CHOWDHURY A Large- and mid-sized private banks reported a sharp hike in slippages or bad loans and provisions in Q1FY26, due to stress emanating from agriculture loans and unsecured small ticket
£262 to invest a month? Here’s…
Image source: Getty Images According to Hargreaves Lansdown, the average UK employee has £262 left at the end of the month to save and invest. That may not seem like enough money to target a £1m Stocks and Shares ISA. But the mathematical ‘miracle’ of compounding — where investment profits generate their own gains, accelerating
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Image source: Getty Images Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be excellent ways to target long-term returns. They allow individuals to diversify their portfolios for risk management, while keeping the door open for substantial wealth creation. I’ve been loading my own Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) with ETFs recently. The following three have allowed me to spread risk,
Where Have All The Mining Speculators…
Speculation with real outcomes: why junior mining stocks will become the next arena for global risk capital There’s an air of FOMO in global stock markets right now. Indices are breaking into new all-time highs. House prices keep going higher. Everything’s melting up! So, what should you do if you hold some cash and are
Raymond James Financial Has Weak Outlook…
North American Construction Group Ltd. (NYSE:NOA – Free Report) (TSE:NOA) – Equities research analysts at Raymond James Financial cut their Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for North American Construction Group in a report released on Thursday, July 17th. Raymond James Financial analyst F. Bastien now forecasts that the oil and gas company will
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Headwinds hit the British Pound as this week’s inflation numbers took a surprise jump in June and newly released labour data showed a steep climb in unemployment rates. Now the Bank of England is facing a tough decision on what to do next. The Office for National Statistics revealed that in June the annual inflation
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If you’d like to listen to this week’s Bass Bites, click on the player below: Global week in review A good start to the Q2 US earnings reporting season supported global stocks last week, despite a firm US inflation report and ongoing tariff threats from President Trump. US tariff levels inch above market expectations
Banks turn more circumspect on corporate…
Lenders don’t want to chase business growth at the cost of net interest margin (NIM), which is already under pressure due to the ongoing transmission of the 100 basis points repo rate cut to loans even as deposits rates are getting re-set lower with a lag | Photo Credit: iStockphoto Banks’ have turned more circumspect
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Inside the Atlassian fallout between Mike…
Tech bro woes: Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes in 2020. Pic via Getty Images They were once the country’s most famous, and inseparable, ‘tech bros’. But tensions at work that not even a counsellor could solve – and wives who ‘couldn’t stand each other’ – led to one of the biggest break-ups in Australian